Another Pro Team Joins Minnesota’s Sports Lineup

Minnesotans love sports, the state is home to several pro teams, from the NFL to the PWHL. Whatever sporting event you are looking to watch, you will likely find it somewhere in the state, and starting in 2027, fans will have a brand new pro team to cheer for.

Founded in 2020 as a network of youth clubs around the United States, League One Volleyball is a women's volleyball organization known as LOVB, pronounced Love. The organization now includes more than twenty thousand athletes and coaches across twenty-eight states, and it has become one of the fastest growing youth to pro pipelines in the country.

A New Chapter for Volleyball in Minnesota

Using that pipeline of talent from their youth organizations, LOVB Pro is the professional league side of the operation. They just wrapped their first season between January and April of this year with teams in Atlanta, Houston, Madison in Wisconsin, Salt Lake City, Austin, and Omaha.

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The league uses a clean and simple naming format. Teams are branded as “LOVB [City or Region]” with no mascots and no nicknames. Starting in 2027, Minnesota fans will be able to cheer for LOVB Minnesota, the state's first and only professional women's volleyball team.

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Minnesota’s Deep Volleyball Roots

LOVB says that Minnesota ranks number four nationally in girls high school volleyball participation and that yearly championships in the state regularly draw sellout crowds. Minnesota already has a strong presence in the LOVB community. Tori Dixon, a Burnsville native, and Alexis Hart, both Gopher All Americans, are connected to the league. Two time Olympic medalist Jordan Thompson is from Minneapolis, and LOVB Madison outside hitter Mariena Hayden hails from Belle Plaine.

All of this makes Minnesota a natural home for the next chapter of professional volleyball, and the buzz is only going to grow as 2027 approaches.