2025 LOVB Pro season
The 2025 LOVB Pro season was the inaugural season of the women's volleyball league LOVB Pro. Six teams competed over 14 weeks, including 12 weeks of regular season play, one mid-season tournament, and a one-weekend LOVB Finals.
Teams
LOVB Pro's inaugural season did not include a draft; however, it was announced in December 2024 that six rookies were signed to play with one of the six teams. Three other rookies have joined the league during the league since January 2025. Pittsburgh Panthers alum Rachel Fairbanks was signed by LOVB Atlanta in January. UT Arlington Mavericks alum Paige Reagor joined LOVB Madison in February, after a brief stint at German Bundesliga team Schwarz-Weiss Erfurt. Stanford Cardinals alum Sami Francis joined LOVB Omaha in March.| Team | Head Coach | Founding Athlete | LOVB 6 Player | Location | Venue | Capacity | Colors |
| LOVB Atlanta | Paulo Coco | Kelsey Cook | Onye Ofoegbu | College Park, Georgia | Gateway Center Arena | 3,500 | |
| LOVB Austin | Chris McGown | Carli Lloyd Chiaka Ogbogu Logan Eggleston | Madisen Skinner | Austin, Texas | H-E-B Center Strahan Arena | 8,700 10,000 | |
| LOVB Houston | Massimo Barbolini | Micha Hancock Jordan Thompson | Jess Mruzik | Rosenberg, Texas | Fort Bend Epicenter | 10,000 | |
| LOVB Madison | Matt Fuerbringer | Lauren Carlini | Sarah Franklin | Madison, Wisconsin | Wisconsin Field House Alliant Energy Center | 7,540 7,432 | |
| LOVB Omaha | Suzie Fritz | Jordan Larson Justine Wong-Orantes | Lexi Rodriguez | Omaha, Nebraska | Liberty First Credit Union Arena Baxter Arena | 4,600 7,898 | |
| LOVB Salt Lake | Tamari Miyashiro | Haleigh Washington Jordyn Poulter | Sophie Fischer | Salt Lake City, Utah | Lifetime Activities Center Maverik Center | 5,000 12,500 |
Regular season
Schedule format
- Each team played 16 regular games - 3 games each with 4 of the opponent teams, and 4 games with the remaining one opponent.
- Four games were played each week:
- * One weekday head-to-head match between two teams at one LOVB city.
- * One weekend three-match series between four teams at one LOVB city, with a single match on Friday and a double-header on Saturday.
- Each LOVB city hosted a total of 8 regular season matches.
- All 6 LOVB Pro teams qualified for the season-ending LOVB finals, with the top-2 ranked teams in the final regular season standings earning byes into the semifinals, while the remaining 4 teams played in the quarterfinals.
Standings
Matches in the LOVB Classic did not count toward the regular season standings or tiebreakers.Standings procedure
The ranking of teams in the LOVB regular season standings were determined as follows:- Each team will be ranked by their match win percentage.
- If two teams are tied, the following tie-breakers will be applied in this order:
- Head-to-Head win ratio
- H2H set ratio
- H2H point ratio
- Total set ratio against all opponents
- Total point ratio against all opponents
- If more than two teams are tied, the following tie-breakers will be applied:
- Win ratio, only including games played between tied teams
- Set ratio, only including games played between tied teams
- Point ratio, only including games played between tied teams
- If one team is eliminated from the multiple-team H2H tie, the tie-breaking process will revert to the top of the multiple-team H2H process, or to the top of the two-team H2H process if only two teams remain.
Head-to-Head
When reading across the table, a team would win the H2H tie-breaker based on values in boldface font, while they would lose the tie-breaker based on values in italicized font.LOVB Classic
The inaugural mid-season LOVB Classic tournament was held at Kansas City, Missouri on Valentine's Day weekend, February 14-16, 2025. It was announced that the top three teams would be awarded with a cash prize of $100,000, $40,000, and $20,000, respectively.Teams were seeded for the LOVB Classic based on league standings after Week 5.
- In Friday's quarterfinals, #3 Houston defeated #6 Madison, and #5 Austin upset #4 Salt Lake.
- Saturday's semifinals featured another upset win, with #3 Houston defeating #2 Omaha in the first match. In the second semifinal, #1 seed Atlanta defeated #5 Austin and advanced to the final.
- Sunday started with the 5th place match where #4 Salt Lake won against #6 Madison. In the 3rd place match, #5 Austin prevailed over #2 Omaha to win a $20,000 prize. The final match was another upset, with #3 Houston defeating #1 seed Atlanta. Atlanta took second place, and won $40,000. Houston won the inaugural LOVB Classic title along with the $100,000 prize.
Bracket
All-Tournament Team
All-tournament team was announced after LOVB Classic's final match.| Position | Player | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP |  color box|5b9af92025 LOVB FinalsThe 2025 LOVB finals were held at KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky on April 10-13, 2025. LOVB Austin won the championship match in a 3-set sweep of LOVB Omaha, with Logan Eggleston and Madisen Skinner leading the scoring for Austin with 22 and 21 points, respectively. Austin also had a 16–3 advantage in blocks. Both Austin and Omaha reached the championship after "reverse sweep" semifinal wins, with Austin coming back from a 2-set deficit to beat top-seed LOVB Atlanta and Omaha doing the same against #2 seed LOVB Houston. Austin's reverse sweep in the semis was its second of the Finals tournament, as they also came back from 0–2 down to top #4 seed LOVB Salt Lake in the quarterfinals; Omaha defeated #3 seed LOVB Madison in 4 sets in the quarters.BracketFinal standing
AwardsWeekly awardsSave for one week during the regular season, two players were awarded with LOVB Players of the Week. The exception was for the LOVB Classic in Week 6, where in addition to an All-Tournament team, one player was awarded the tournament's Most Valuable Player.Season awardsThe following awards were announced by LOVB Pro on April 9, 2025:
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