Czechia 🇨🇿 vs. USA 🇺🇸 - Highlights | Week 2 | Women's VNL 2026

Find out the first service coming up from Pasig City in the Philippines. It's Chekia serving USA. The ball up from Ogbogu and hammered cross-court by Avery Skinner and I will apologize to Chekia Ogbogu. Ogbogu back in the game now to serve. Take an overhand by Milenkovic, go through the middle. That's what the Luwano established with Gretke already two points in the game. The middle blocker for USA. Again, Chekia not a great pass but Branschuska bails them out. Helena Grozer, a tough serve by her. Skinner takes it and Thompson with a wicked angle on the cut shot. USA wants a side out here. Polker sends it all the way across for Eggleston and she finds the corner and loves the set from Polter. Boy, they've gotten better in the last few years. It's their second year in the VNL. The middle attack from Chekia doesn't quite go down. Sammody back over. Another chance. That's better through the middle. Perfect job by Rodriguez. That sets the table for Eggleston. My goodness. Gretke, the pride of Riverside, Illinois. Sends her serve over. Causes the Cheks difficulty. Grozer tries to bail them out. Here's the middle attack from Ogbogu. Nice pickup from Diganova. Branschuska shut down Ogbogu. Gretke puts the ball in play. It's a hard name at speed. Yeah. Respectively already back off again. Here's Gdabowska serving. That's Skinner. And Sammody gets shut down by the block of Koulosiani. I think you're lined up and then it's just somewhere else. Same area. Grozer takes this one well. Branschuska. Again, a monster block from Ogbogu and Skinner. No pass for Chekia, but they've got their work cut out and they can't get by Ogbogu. Here's Poulter, USA serving for the set. Branschuska. That's how it ends. Just the way it was dominated with the blocking of USA and Ogbogu. Wow. Center in all of those. Let's see if she actually got this one. Maybe Skinner. Hard to tell from the angle. And I do think too, sometimes the stat sheets don't tell you the entirety of the story and just how well a player is performing because Ogbogu just had a lights out set. But if you just look at the numbers, I mean, she's the third highest scorer as a middle. Very impressive. But the amount of- Who knows how long that's going to be away. Here's Jordan Poulter, USA in white. Chekia in red. And right off the nut, it's an ace for Poulter. Early in set number two, Chekia with the veteran Grozer. That's Skinner. Here's Thompson and she's sort of your get out of jail free card, Jordan Thompson. Branschuska had a dynamite season in Germany in the Bundesliga, helped her win the championship. And she couldn't reach that one as USA comes right back through the middle. Jordan Thompson takes it. Thankful for reaching. USA, good coverage. Rettke's going to do the setting. And there's a great set from your middle blocker. See, Dana Rettke says, we can set. Chekia trying to hunt down the US here in the second set. Rettke on the slide play, checks on it, but it's a giveaway by the setter. And that'll be knocked down by Poulter. USA on it again. Skinner popped back up. Grozer pushes it over. USA scrambling again. Rettke's out. It's back in the play. Here's the middle attack on Rettke. She caught a hand on it. Poulter blocks that one. Branschuska off hands. Eggleston waiting for it. Here's Thompson. Here you go. Your get out of jail free card again. Rettke serves a good one on Yelorova. Yelorova decides to do the setting. Grozer couldn't get it by Skinner. Thompson, chance for Chekia. Grozer, USA all over, but then they give it away. They're going to get another chance. Thompson, this time she scores. And Chekia just giving USA too many opportunities. What we're going to do is try and serve outside of the passer's body. She goes short this time. Graboska bump sets it all the way across for Grozer. Off of Poulter. Poulter sets it up for Skinner. Pushed over on one. USA comes again with Skinner. This time it'll score. Eight serving 14. Skinner the target of Bogu. Couldn't get it down. And then Kova couldn't get a swing on it. And the address keep giving USA chances and Bogu will make you pay for the middle. Let's see if Eggleston is the target on that far side. No, it's Skinner on this side. Just hammering it down the line. A good serve from Kaina Torres. USA not scared yet though. It'll be a while. That's a good serve though. Some good things happening for Chekia as Eggleston rips one down the line. Here's Skinner back on the floor for USA. Graboska. Off the block. That'll do it. Set number two. USA really strong, really clinical. The challenge now is for Ormasova who played in the Turkish league last year to get something done. USA receiving. They're leading in the match but they're down in the set. A poor pass. Graboska. Another take from Eggleston. Here's Skinner. My goodness, does she crush that? I mean, she just makes it look so easy and she is able to keep her body open and at the last second. Let's see if Grosje gets targeted again. This time it's the outside hitter. Chekia gets to come again. And is there a touch? No touch on the swing from Ormasova. Nice discipline from her. She's a good blocker. Six foot two, leader 88. Jump back. Grosje's gonna step in to set this. Ormasova. Nice take from Skinner. Thompson down the line. My goodness. Target practice for her. That is how it seems sometimes, doesn't it? This was just such a nice pickup as well in the shadow. Dominican Republic comes to mind. Borg-Polter back in play. Swing from the right side. Ormasova is blocked. Chekia recycles and that's going to fall. Grozer and Nikoninova collide. They're sort of making their own luck though, aren't they? You've got to be good to be lucky, certainly. And how about that good play on Bogu? Let's see if Chekia can build something here with Gulosiani. This is almost an overpass. What a save by Polter. And what a rip by number 12, Jordan Thompson. An opposite for a setter and a setter for an opposite. Keeping a setter in the backcourt and then you have three players frontcourt to swing. And Donna Torres with an ace. So I mean sort of the assumption is that you generally see quite a shift that setters are the smaller players. Tanchuska trying to get back on the offensive part of the score sheet. That one is from Sandy and that's got USA full value here to wrap this up in a sweep. We'll have two more games to play in week two against Italy, world number one, and Serbia. That serve is an ace. Off the bench to serve, Maddie Kubik-Banks out of Des Moines, Iowa. Tanchuska, Banks has got it. Diana Torres sets up Rettke, USA trying to win it here, but they can't on that point. She starts her movement, USA players going to move. Right side, Samedi, that's going to win it for Team USA. Stephanie Samedi gets the final point and it's an impressive, really impressive start to finish win for the Americans. They take it three cents to none and they improve to five and one in the VNL in 2026.