Another 90 piece at the court of Massimo Eccheli: Taylor Averill will be part of the central department of MINT Vero Volley Monza for the 2024/2025 season. Born in Portland (Oregon) on 5 March 1992, Averill is ready to live a new experience in the Italian championship, after the seasons played with Padova (2015-2017) and Milan (2017/18). Currently involved with the American national team, of which he has been a member continuously since 2014, “Sunny” (this is his nickname) in the USA jersey can boast a gold medal at the 2023 World Cup in Japan and a silver at the 2023 VNL, in addition to ‘Gold in the North American Championship again in 2023 and Bronze at the 2018 Italy-Bulgaria World Championship.
The career of the new middle blocker of Monza starts from the Bay to Bay Volleyball Club during his school years at Branham High School. In 2011 he enrolled at UC Irvine University (California), while in 2012 he moved to the University of Hawaii where he was moved from the role of opposite spiker to center. Here he achieved his best results at university level, earning his first call-up to the senior national team with the Stars and Stripes with which he won a silver medal at the Pan American Cup played in Tijuana, Mexico. In the 2015/16 season his first job outside the USA, called by Pallavolo Padova; he remained in Veneto for two seasons, before moving to Lombardy to wear the colors of Powervolley Milan. In the 2018/19 championship he moved to France, to Chaumont: at the end of the season he stopped playing due to physical problems. He returns to the field for the 2020/21 season wearing the Cannes shirt, still in the French top division, with which he won the Championship. In the following season, Averill’s career continued in Poland, with AZS Olsztyn, where he remained for two years, before moving, again in the Polish top division, to Projekt Warszawa with which, in the 2023/24 season, he won the CEV Challenge Cup beating MINT Vero Volley Monza in the final.
