COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 9, 2026) – Many new faces are on the U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Group roster for the 2026 NORCECA Pan American Cup, Sept. 11-18, in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. That is the twenty third version of the Girls’s Pan Am Cup, and the U.S. has gained the occasion seven occasions, most just lately in 2019.
All 14 gamers on the roster are making their 2026 nationwide workforce debut, with seven of them enjoying with the senior workforce for the primary time. Setters Rachel Fairbanks and Ella Powell each competed on the Volleyball Nations League in 2025, and Powell, Sami Francis and Elena Oglivie had been all on the 2025 NORCECA Closing 6 workforce. In 2024, Claire Hoffman performed within the Pan Am Cup, and Eva Hudson and Jess Mruzik had been on the Closing Six workforce.
Caitie Baird, Lauren Briseño, Natalie Foster, Toyosi Onabanjo, Onye Ofoegbu, Temi Thomas-Ailara and Callie Scharzenbach are showing on a senior nationwide workforce rster for the primary time. Briseño performed for the U.S. Girls’s U21 Nationwide Group on the 2023 U21 Pan Am Cup.
Head coach Erik Sullivan will lead the squad in Mexico, assisted by Brandon Taliaferro and Paula Weisoff.
2026 Girls’s Pan American Cup Roster
No., Title (Pos., Peak, Hometown, Faculty)
3 Toyosi Onabanjo (MB, 6-1, Houston, Texas, Kansas)
5 Lauren Briseño (L, 5-7, San Antonio, Texas, Baylor)
7 Ella Powell (S, 6-0, Fayetteville, Ark., Washington)
9 Jess Mruzik (OH, 6-1, Livonia, Mich., Michigan/Penn State)
11 Natalie Foster (MB, 6-4, Mattawan, Mich., Wichita State/SMU)
12 Temi Thomas-Ailara (OPP, 6-2, Glenwood, Sick., Northwestern/Wisconsin)
13 Onye Ofoegbu (MB, 6-3, Cerritos, Calif., UC Irvine/Oregon)
19 Elena Oglivie (L, 5-10, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
20 Rachel Fairbanks (S, 6-0, Tustin, Calif., Pitt)
21 Claire Hoffman (OH, 6-2, Nice Hill, Oreg., Washington)
25 Callie Scharzenbach (OH, 6-5, Kearney, Mo., Nebraska/Lengthy Seashore State)
30 Eva Hudson (OH, 6-1, Ft. Wayne, Ind., Purdue/Kentucky)
77 Sami Francis (OPP, 6-6, San Diego, Calif., Stanford)
99 Caitie Baird (OH, 6-3, Indianapolis, Ind., Stanford)
Schedule
All occasions PT
Sept. 11: USA vs. Cuba, 5 p.m.
Sept. 12: USA vs. Mexico, 7 p.m.
Sept. 13: USA vs. Costa Rico, 3 p.m.
Sept. 15: USA vs. Guatemala, 1 p.m.
Sept.16: Quarterfinals and Classification
Sept. 17: Semifinals
Sept. 18: Finals
