The main trouble of this roster of USA is that it is for the most part a mix of:
1)players who have never amounted to the very top of world volleyball but who have nevertheless been in the rotation for many years and have played on the international scene for some time now, and so can't be called inexperienced (Bartch, Gibbermeyer, Dixon, Drews, Murphy)
2)aging world-class players (Larson, Akinradewo, Hill)
3)untested players (Wong-Orantes, Benson)