Published for Colorado Queensmen fans — October 2026
By Toxlay Sports Editorial Team · Last updated October 24, 2026
🏐 Colorado Queensmen Fans — Your Crown Is Waiting!
A brand-new crown in the West. The Colorado Queensmen arrived in the spring as the state’s first women’s semi-pro VLA team, took the floor at the VLA Cup, and started building something Denver has never had before. Wear the crown and ride with the Queensmen.
The Club
The Colorado Queensmen are Denver’s new women’s volleyball story — a club with two names and one crown. The Volleyball League of America lists the team as the Colorado Kingswomen on its official team page, in the West Division as a Tier 2 side based in Denver, Colorado; the club itself brands as the COLORADO QUEENSMEN, plays under the handle @queensmen_vla, and bills itself as Colorado’s first women’s semi-pro VLA team. The Queensmen launched in May 2026, played the 2026 VLA Cup, and run open gyms at the Front Range Volleyball Club — the first steps of a program being built in public, from the ground up. The look is already distinctive: a sleeveless jersey carrying “COLORADO QUEENSMEN” arched in gold and black across the chest, a crowned-queen and trident logo, a white VLA patch on the right chest, and black bottoms, with a white set and a black set in rotation and the libero wearing the opposite color. One honest note up front, because this guide will not invent what the club has not published: the club has never published a numbered women’s roster, so this guide names its stars without numbers rather than inventing any. Searching for a Colorado Queensmen jersey, the latest Queensmen roster or Queensmen schedule news? Start with the question Denver asks every winter: when do the Queensmen play?
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Last Season (2026): A Crown Appears
Most VLA women’s clubs arrive with a history. The Queensmen arrived with a promise. In May 2026 the club launched publicly as Colorado’s first women’s semi-pro VLA team — a first for a state with deep volleyball roots but no women’s semi-pro side of its own — and within weeks the new program was on the league’s biggest stage, playing the 2026 VLA Cup. There are no documented results to recount from that debut, and this guide will not dress any up: no Queensmen fixture, score or placing from the Cup run is published anywhere, and the league’s own team page still carries the placeholder line that the roster is coming soon. What is documented is the build itself. The club opened its doors at the Front Range Volleyball Club, running open gyms and gathering the first Queensmen core — the named members whose photos and tags form the first roster this club has ever had, even without numbers attached. A debut season with no box scores and no published roster is not much of a story on paper. In Denver, it is the beginning of one: the first women’s semi-pro team the state has ever had, taking its first steps in front of everybody.
Best Players Right Now (The Named Core)
Lindsey Jin — The face of the crown. Jin is the most visible name in the Queensmen’s first core, the featured shirt in this guide, and the player whose presence runs through the club’s launch-season photos. Whatever the Queensmen become, the first chapter has her name on it.
Jamie Bredahl — A founding name in the Queensmen core. Bredahl appears across the club’s launch-season photos and tags as one of the players building the program from day one — the kind of early believer every new club needs before it has anything else.
Elle Duis Krause, Libero — The back-row anchor in the opposite color. Krause is the Queensmen’s documented libero, and the kit tells her story at a glance: where her teammates wear one set, the libero wears the other — the contrasting shirt that marks the player holding the whole defense together.
Drew Fuhr — Another named member of the launch-season core, pictured and tagged among the first Queensmen as the Denver program took shape.
Celeste Barker — A named member of the first Queensmen group, part of the core that carried the club from its May launch to the VLA Cup floor.
Tori Mac — A named member of the launch-season squad, one of the early Queensmen faces in the club’s first photos.
Desi — A named member of the first Queensmen core, pictured among the players building Colorado’s first women’s semi-pro side.
Jinnie Jin — A named member of the launch-season group, part of the Denver core taking the Queensmen from open gyms to league play.
Renata Lechien — A named member of the first Queensmen squad, one of the players behind the club’s debut season.
Dee Prece — A named member of the launch-season core, pictured with the first Queensmen as the program found its feet.
Enkhy — A named member of the first Queensmen group, completing a launch-season core that is small, new, and entirely Denver’s own.
Star Spotlight: Stories You Should Know
Colorado’s first. Plenty of states have women’s volleyball traditions. Until this spring, Colorado did not have a women’s semi-pro VLA team at all. The Queensmen’s launch in May 2026 changed that in a single announcement: the club’s own billing calls it Colorado’s first women’s semi-pro VLA team, and nothing in the record contradicts it. Every Queensmen story starts with that first — the first team, the first Cup trip, the first core of players willing to build something from nothing.
Two names, one crown. Look the club up two ways and you will find two names: the league page says Kingswomen, the shirt says Queensmen. Both are the same Denver team — the league’s listing on one side, the club’s own brand on the other — and the shirt settles the argument in gold and black, with the crowned-queen and trident mark above the arched wordmark. When the roster finally publishes, the name on the front will already be decided.
The libero in the opposite color. Scan any Queensmen team photo and one shirt stands out by design: where the group wears one set, the libero wears the other. That is Elle Duis Krause, the documented libero — the contrasting shirt in a brand-new team photo, and the player holding the first Queensmen defense together while the program is still learning to walk.
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This Season (2027): The Crown’s First Full Year
The VLA women’s game changes shape in January 2027: the league’s new Women’s Tier 1 — a 12-team top flight with promotion and relegation — debuts, and the 2027 season opens on January 9, 2027. For the Queensmen, everything about that season is still to be written. The club’s tier placement has not been published, no roster has been published, and no fixtures have been published — the league’s team page still says the team is awaiting confirmation for future events. What is certain is the direction of travel: a club that went from launch to the VLA Cup floor inside its first months now gets its first full season, with open gyms at the Front Range Volleyball Club as the pipeline and a named core already in place. January is not a date to circle for a single match. It is the month Colorado’s first women’s semi-pro team starts to look like a program.
Mark Your Calendar: The Road Ahead
Circle the road ahead, Queensmen fans — the next chapter is a build, not a single night — then relive the launch-season moments that put the crown on the map:
- January 9, 2027 — the 2027 VLA season opens: League play resumes and the Women’s Tier 1 debuts league-wide. The Queensmen’s fixtures and tier placement land when the club and league publish them.
- Open gyms — Front Range Volleyball Club: The club’s open gyms are the on-ramp for the next Queensmen core. Watch the club’s channels for the next dates.
- Relive it — May 2026, the launch: The Queensmen announce themselves as Colorado’s first women’s semi-pro VLA team — the month Denver’s women’s game got its own club.
- Relive it — 2026, the VLA Cup: The brand-new program takes the floor at the league’s biggest weekend in its very first season.
- Relive it — 2026, the first core: The launch-season photos and tags that named the first Queensmen — the foundation everything after this is built on.
Biggest Rivalries — The Wars
Honesty first: no Queensmen rivalry is documented yet. No head-to-head, no score and no meeting with any opponent is on record, so this section does not pretend otherwise. What follows is the road ahead — the tests waiting for a brand-new West Division club, not rivalries already earned:
1. The West Division road. The Queensmen share the West with the division’s established programs — the clubs whose photos, rosters and results already fill the league’s West pages. Until the Queensmen meet them on a published fixture, the division itself is the opponent: every West weekend is a measuring stick for a program in its first full year.
2. The VLA Cup field. The Queensmen have already stood on the Cup floor once, in their launch season. The next Cup is where a debut becomes a record: a second trip, with a published roster behind it, turns a first appearance into a program.
3. The Tier 1 chase. January 2027 brings a 12-team top flight with promotion and relegation, and the Queensmen’s place in that structure is unpublished. The chase itself is the rivalry for now — every Tier 2 result in the new season is a step toward a top-flight berth nobody has handed them.
4. The home crowd at Front Range. The least glamorous test and the most important one: turning open gyms into a roster, a roster into a crowd, and a crowd into a home floor. The Queensmen’s first real rivalry may turn out to be obscurity — and the cure is every Denver fan who shows up.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When do the Colorado Queensmen play next?
The 2027 VLA season opens on January 9, 2027, with the new Women’s Tier 1 debuting league-wide. The Queensmen’s fixtures and tier placement have not been published yet; the club runs open gyms at the Front Range Volleyball Club, with dates announced on the club’s channels.
Where are the Colorado Queensmen based?
In Denver, Colorado. The league lists the team as the Colorado Kingswomen, in the West Division as a Tier 2 side, while the club brands itself as the Colorado Queensmen and runs open gyms at the Front Range Volleyball Club.
Who are the Colorado Queensmen’s star players?
Lindsey Jin, Jamie Bredahl and libero Elle Duis Krause lead the club’s first named core, alongside Drew Fuhr, Celeste Barker and the rest of the launch-season group. The club has never published a numbered roster, so this guide names its stars without numbers rather than inventing any.
Where can I buy Colorado Queensmen fan gear?
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Sources: Volleyball League of America (usavla.com), the Colorado Queensmen’s official club channels and announcements — schedules and rosters checked October 2026.
Long live the Queens — Colorado’s crown is just getting started.
