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U South Dakota is a volleyball club based in Vermillion, SD, ranked as high as #96 nationally by VolleyLens. It fields 2 teams in the 2025-26 season. VolleyLens has tracked the club from the 2025-26 season through 2025-26 across 3 team-seasons.
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Written from this club's match results and rankings, and updated whenever they are. Nothing here is estimated.
U South Dakota is a club volleyball program based in Vermillion, SD, competing in the Great Plains region. In 2025-26 it fielded 3 teams across both programs — two women's teams and one men's team.
Its women's program ranks #96 nationally and #1 of 2 in SD for 2025-26, on a Club Score of 978. That places it in the Emerging tier, the band VolleyLens assigns from Club Score.
Across the season its teams played 17 matches and won 9 of them, a 53% win rate. Its strongest team, U South Dakota A, is #246 nationally and #1 in SD, at 1,506 Elo on a 9-7 record.
Teams averaged 9 matches each over the season. The club entered two events between 23 January and 28 February, a season of about 1 month.
Those events were held in two states, with two of two outside SD. Destinations included IA and NA. 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.
#96 nationally · Club Score 978
Every season and division VolleyLens has ranked for U South Dakota. Pick one to focus this page on it.
| Season | Division | Rank | Club Score | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Women's | #96 | 978 | 2 |
| 2025-26 | Men's | #316 | 821 | 1 |
Every team U South Dakota 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% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U South Dakota A | Women's | all | 1506 (Competitive) | 9-7 | 56% |
| U South Dakota B | Women's | all | 1480 (Developing) | 0-1 | 0% |
Where U South Dakota 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNI Spring Panther Invitational / U Northern Iowa-W (Regional) | Cedar Falls, IA | #83 of 134 | 2-2 | U South Dakota A — UNI Spring Panther Invitational / U Northern Iowa-W: 2-2 |
| WVC Women's Regular Season / WVC (Competitive) | Various, NA | #8 of 134 | 7-6 | U South Dakota A — WVC Women's Regular Season / WVC: 7-5; U South Dakota B — WVC Women's Regular Season / WVC: 0-1 |