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Dakota Thunder Volleyball Club is a volleyball club based in ND, ranked as high as #3478 nationally by VolleyLens. It fields 4 teams in the 2025-26 season. VolleyLens has tracked the club from the 2025-26 season through 2025-26 across 4 team-seasons.
4 teams · Ages 14, 16, 18
Written from this club's match results and rankings, and updated whenever they are. Nothing here is estimated.
Dakota Thunder Volleyball Club is a club volleyball program based in ND, competing in the North Country region. In 2025-26 it fielded four girls teams aged 14 to 18.
Its girls program ranks #3,478 nationally and #26 of 41 in ND for 2025-26, on a Club Score of 1,131. That places it in the Emerging tier, the band VolleyLens assigns from Club Score.
Across the season its teams played 34 matches and won 8 of them, a 27% win rate. Its strongest team, Dakota Thunder 16-Purple, is #3,126 nationally and #122 in ND, at 1,514 Elo on a 4-4 record.
Teams averaged 9 matches each over the season. The club entered four events between 21 March and 26 April, a season of about 1 month.
Those events were held in one state. Travel is described here in trips and destinations rather than cost, because event locations carry no distances.
Everything below — teams, statistics and rankings — is for this season and program. Pick another from Season History.
#3478 nationally · Club Score 1131
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| Season | Division | Rank | Club Score | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Girls | #3478 | 1131 | 4 |
Every team Dakota Thunder Volleyball Club fielded in the 2025-26 season, with its age group, national rank and win-loss record. Elo rating measures strength from results: it rises faster for beating strong opponents than for beating weak ones, so a team that plays up is not punished for losing.
| Team | Program | Age | Elo | Record | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dakota Thunder 16-Purple | Girls | 16 | 1514 (Competitive) | 4-4-1 | 44% |
| Dakota Thunder 16-Grey | Girls | 16 | 1368 (Emerging) | 2-6-1 | 22% |
| Dakota Thunder 18-Purple | Girls | 18 | 1294 (Emerging) | 2-5-2 | 22% |
| Dakota Thunder 14-Purple | Girls | 14 | 1247 (Emerging) | 0-7 | 0% |
Where Dakota Thunder Volleyball Club competed in the 2025-26 season: every tournament its teams played, the host city, how strong the event was, and what each team's record was there. It shows how far the club travels and the level of competition it takes on.
Elite, Premier, Competitive and Regional rate the strength of each event's field, from where it ranks nationally against every other tournament that season. An Elite event draws hundreds of teams from across the country; a Regional one is a local weekend.
| Tournament | Location | National Rank | Record | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Smash • Sunday (Regional) | Bismarck, ND | #1621 of 3,214 | 5-8 | Dakota Thunder 16-Grey — 15-16 Girls: 1-3; Dakota Thunder 16-Purple — 15-16 Girls: 3-2; Dakota Thunder 18-Purple — 17-18 Girls: 1-3 |
| Spring Smash • Saturday (Regional) | Bismarck, ND | #1533 of 3,214 | 0-4 | Dakota Thunder 14-Purple — 13-14 Girls: 0-4 |
| Landon's Light • Sunday (Regional) | West Fargo, ND | #1944 of 3,214 | 3-7 | Dakota Thunder 16-Purple — 16 Girls: 1-2; Dakota Thunder 18-Purple — 18 Girls: 1-2; Dakota Thunder 16-Grey — 16 Girls: 1-3 |
| Landon's Light • Saturday (Regional) | West Fargo, ND | #1152 of 3,214 | 0-3 | Dakota Thunder 14-Purple — 14 Girls: 0-3 |