Published for Southeast Storm fans — October 2026
By Toxlay Sports Editorial Team · Last updated October 24, 2026
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Central Cup champions in the teal and orange. The Southeast Storm rolled into Spooky Nook in 2024 as SKEVA Storm and came home with the Central Cup — and the lightning-bolt jersey has been the Central Division’s warning sign ever since. Wear the teal and ride with the Storm.
The Club
The Southeast Storm women are Louisville, Kentucky’s side in the Volleyball League of America — the Central Division club that plays in Tier 2 and carries one of the sharpest looks in the women’s game. In their title season the Storm played as SKEVA Storm, and the name still explains the kit: a light teal, sky-blue short-sleeve jersey carrying an orange “SKEVA STORM” wordmark with a lightning-bolt mark across the chest, a small white sleeve logo, no front number, and one large orange number on the back with no surname — worn with black shorts and leggings, while the libero flips the whole thing into a black short-sleeve shirt with the same orange chest logo and a large orange back number. The league’s own team page publishes the Storm roster with full jersey numbers — the 2024 set this guide is built on — and the club’s channels run at @storm_vla. And the Storm announced themselves with silverware: in 2024 they won the Central Cup at Spooky Nook Sports Champion Mill, the league’s own carousel calling them the SKEVA Storm Women’s 2024 Central Cup Champions. Searching for a Southeast Storm jersey, the latest Storm roster or Storm schedule news? Start with the question Louisville asks every winter: when do the Storm play?
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Last Season: The Documented Story — A Central Cup Title
The Storm women’s published story starts with a trophy. Playing as SKEVA Storm, the club won the 2024 Central Cup at Spooky Nook Sports Champion Mill in Hamilton, Ohio — the league’s own March 18, 2024 carousel celebrates them as the SKEVA Storm Women’s 2024 Central Cup Champions, photographed in the light teal kit with the orange lightning wordmark. That same season is the one the league’s official team page preserves as its published 2024 roster: eleven entries, every one of them numbered, from two 6’1”-plus middles to a pair of setters and two liberos sharing the back row. The years after the title run quieter in the public record. The club’s 2025 season is documented by a season retrospective posted in March 2026, and the league page lists a 2025 North Division Cup on March 29, 2025 in Madison, Wisconsin — listed as an event only, with no result published and none claimed here. No 2026 Storm participation has been published. So the league-published 2024 set remains the latest official word on who wears the teal — and the Central Cup remains the standard the next Storm squad will be measured against.
Best Players Right Now (The League-Published 2024 Roster)
Jamie Guptill, Middle Blocker (#20) — The center of this team and the face of the Storm. At 6’2” Guptill is the tallest documented presence in the Storm middle, the first name on the league-published roster’s net corps and the featured shirt in this guide.
Lexi Mckeown, Outside Hitter (#7) — The 5’11” pin in the teal 7. Mckeown gives Louisville a tall left-side attacker who can score over Central Division blocks — the kind of outside every opponent has to plan for first.
Ashley Hood, Libero (#11) — The back-row anchor in the black kit. At 5’6” Hood is the lone black shirt in the Storm team photo — the first one opponents notice, and the one holding the whole defense together.
Katelyn Cosgrove, Setter (#12) — The 5’9” setter running the offense in the teal 12. Cosgrove feeds the tallest front line in the Storm’s title season — the engine behind the Central Cup run.
Karlee Lursen, Outside Hitter (#13) — The 5’7” pin in the teal 13. Lursen’s number comes from the Storm roster exactly as the league printed it — a separate listing from any other club’s roster, and this guide keeps the two apart.
Brianna Geurts, Middle Blocker (#6) — A 6’1” middle who makes the Storm’s net corps two deep in six-footers. Between Guptill and Geurts, the lightning jersey is one of the tallest looks in the Central Division.
Holly Elwanger, Setter (#1) — The 5’7” setter in the teal 1, spelled Elwanger on the league page. Two true setters is real depth on the VLA’s tournament circuit, where three-match days reward the team that can change its offense without changing its system.
Cheyenne Mahnke, Libero (#2) — The second libero on the published roster at 5’6”. Two liberos means the Storm never had to change its defensive identity mid-tournament — the black shirt just kept coming.
Maggie Dunbar (#54) — The 54 shirt on the league-published roster, listed with name and number only — no position printed on the page, and this guide prints none for her.
Julia Dailey, Outside Hitter — The 5’9” pin on the league-published roster. One honest note: the league page lists Dailey twice, under two different numbers, an apparent quirk in the site’s data — so this guide names her as a rostered outside hitter and assigns her no single number rather than guessing which listing is right.
Star Spotlight: Stories You Should Know
The Central Cup title. Some clubs spend years chasing their first trophy. The Storm won theirs in the season the league put numbers on: as SKEVA Storm they took the 2024 Central Cup at Spooky Nook Champion Mill, and the league’s own carousel still carries the celebration — teal jerseys, orange lightning, champions. Every Storm story starts there, because it is the one result nobody can take away.
The wall. Read the heights on the league-published roster and the Storm’s identity explains itself: Guptill at 6’2” and Geurts at 6’1” across the middle, with Mckeown at 5’11” on the pin. This is a team built to end rallies at the net, and the teal jersey with the lightning bolt carries one of the biggest blocks in the Central Division.
The libero in black. Scan any Storm team photo and one shirt stands out: black among the teal. That is Ashley Hood, the libero — 5’6” of back-row range wearing the black alternate kit with the orange 11. On a roster famous for its height, the smallest player on the floor is the one who keeps the tallest team in the division in system.
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This Season (2027): The Road Back Opens in January
The VLA’s 2027 season opens in January 2027, and the women’s game changes shape around the Storm: a new Women’s Tier 1 — a 12-team top flight — debuts league-wide, with promotion and relegation live from day one and the top Tier 2 finisher earning the way up. The Storm’s documented home is Tier 2 in the Central Division, and their tier placement for 2027 has not been published — which makes the target simple to state: be the Tier 2 side standing at the end, and earn the way back to the top table the Central Cup side once topped. The league calendar already carries the season’s big weekends — the VLA Cup on May 8–10, 2027 in Las Vegas among them — with the Storm’s entry still to be confirmed. Until a new numbered roster appears, the league-published 2024 set remains the Storm spine: Guptill and the wall in the middle, Mckeown on the pin, Hood in black behind them. A team with a Central Cup on its record does not need a new identity. It needs a new season. January brings one.
Mark Your Calendar: The Road Ahead
Circle the road ahead, Storm fans — a new season and a cup weekend in Las Vegas — then relive the weekends that made this team’s name:
- January 2027 — the 2027 VLA season opens: League play resumes and the Women’s Tier 1 debuts league-wide. The Storm’s own fixtures and tier placement will be confirmed when the league publishes its schedule.
- May 8–10, 2027 — VLA Cup, Las Vegas, NV: The league’s cup weekend on the 2027 calendar. The Storm’s entry is still to be published — the date is the one to circle.
- Relive it — March 18, 2024, the Central Cup title: SKEVA Storm crowned Women’s 2024 Central Cup Champions at Spooky Nook Champion Mill — the trophy this program is still measured by.
- Relive it — March 29, 2025, the North Division Cup listing: The league page lists the Storm for the 2025 North Division Cup in Madison, Wisconsin. Listed as an event only — no result was published, and none is claimed here.
- Relive it — the 2025 season retrospective: The club’s documented 2025 campaign, recapped in highlight reels posted in March 2026 — the most recent Storm footage on the public record.
Biggest Rivalries — The Wars
1. Sun City Team IX — the division benchmark. No honest Storm rivalry can be built on results, because none are published — so start with the standard instead. Team IX are the women’s division’s standard-bearers, the No. 1 seed in the published Women’s Championship pool and the Women’s Champions. The Storm’s road back to the top of their own game runs through the team that owns the division’s biggest stage.
2. Ohio Valley Unicorns — the Central neighbors. The Central Division’s other big name, and the hosts at Spooky Nook Champion Mill — the very floor where the Storm won their Central Cup. Two Central programs, one famous gym, and a shared division: the first documented meeting between them will matter precisely because the Cup already connects them.
3. Steel City Surge — the other early flag. The Surge joined the women’s division in fall 2023, the same era the Storm were building toward their Cup — two young programs growing side by side toward the same cups. No published result separates them yet, which is exactly why the first documented meeting will matter: somebody gets to be the division’s next story, and both clubs know it.
4. The Central Division field — the road ahead. The rest of the division the Storm must climb through: the Championship-pool names — Phoenix Ascension, DC Dynasty and 630 Breeze — and the Central contenders around them. Framed honestly, these are the teams on the road ahead, not settled rivalries — the Storm’s next chapter is a climb, and the division is the mountain.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When do the Southeast Storm women play next?
VLA league play resumes in January 2027, when the new Women’s Tier 1 debuts league-wide. The VLA Cup follows on May 8–10, 2027 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the league calendar. The Storm’s own fixture list had not been published as of October 2026 — watch usavla.com and @storm_vla for the schedule drop.
Where are Southeast Storm based?
In Louisville, Kentucky. The Storm women are the Volleyball League of America side listed on the league’s official team page, playing in the VLA’s Central Division as a Tier 2 team, and they won the 2024 Central Cup as SKEVA Storm at Spooky Nook Champion Mill in Hamilton, Ohio.
Who are the Southeast Storm women’s star players?
Middle blocker Jamie Guptill (#20), a 6’2” presence at the net; outside hitter Lexi Mckeown (#7), 5’11” on the pin; and libero Ashley Hood (#11), who wears the black alternate kit. All three numbers come from the league-published 2024 roster on the VLA’s official Southeast Storm team page.
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Sources: Volleyball League of America (usavla.com), Southeast Storm club announcements (Instagram @storm_vla) — schedules and rosters checked October 2026.
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