The U.S. Men’s National Team swept Thailand 3-0 (25-23, 25-14, 25-22) on Sunday to open the 2025 World ParaVolley World Cup at the Turnstone Center.
The U.S. (1-0) will play two pool play matches on Monday: 8 a.m. vs. Canada and 5 p.m. vs. Italy (0-1).
Pool A includes the U.S., Canada, Kazakhstan, Italy, Poland, France and Thailand. Pool B has Egypt, Brazil, Japan, Croatia, the Netherlands, India and Australia. All matches will be streamed live on the Turnstone YouTube channel.
“We have not in recent years ever played Thailand,” U.S. head coach Greg Walker said. “The one thing we knew was that their head coach has built multiple countries’ programs and is now working with Thailand. He unfortunately can’t be here, but we knew that they were tremendously improved. We knew they were going