US Quadball refreshes national team roster after World Cup gold run

Amanda Dallas stepped down as US Quadball’s United States national team manager, and Hanna Reese took over in a summer roster shake-up that went well beyond one staff move. The update also pushed Kasye Bevers up from the US National Team Developmental Academy to the senior USNT, added Ally Manzella and Emma Vasquez to the standing roster, and brought in a fresh wave of developmental players as the program kept turning over its pool after the 2023 World Cup gold run.

That gold run still frames every decision. The United States beat Germany 140*-50 in Richmond, Virginia, to win the 2023 IQA World Cup, and the latest changes show a program trying to stay at that level without freezing the roster in place. US Quadball’s system is built around that tension: the USNTDA was created in April 2019 by Dallas, Michael “Yada” Parada and Ethan Sturm to build future national-team talent, and it is used in training camps, friendlies and select international competition even though it cannot play official IQA events.

Dallas’s exit from the manager role closes one chapter and opens another. She helped build the national-team structure as a board member, editorial director, US National Team manager and USNTDA coach before later becoming co-commissioner of Major League Quadball. Reese brings a different but equally relevant profile, with deep Carolina ties and a resume that runs through the Charlotte Royals, the club she co-founded before it became the Charlotte Aviators and joined MLQ officially in 2023. For a program that lives on travel logistics, communication and annual evaluation cycles, that background fits the job.

The player movement was just as active. Along with Bevers’ promotion, the USNTDA added Lauren Smith, Shane McConaghie, Ryan Mehio, Riley Usami, David Avila, Shakthi Kodeswaran, Neil Peterson, Janessa Duce, Alyssa Villalba and Jason Wu. The update also said some athletes stepped down entirely and others were released, a reminder that even in a world-champion program, spots are earned and re-earned.

The churn is not random. US Quadball’s high-performance model has leaned harder into year-long evaluation, club form and college pipelines, with athletes arriving from programs such as Boom Train and a steady stream of college squads. Another round of evaluation is still ahead after the MLQ season, which means this summer’s list is a snapshot, not a finish line, in the succession plan behind the gold medal.