41. Adelaide Home To AIS/Australian Beach Volleyball Program Australia has a proud and successful olympic history in beach volleyball. At the sport’s olympic debut in Atlanta in 1996 Australia picked up a bronze medal http://www.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/2005/ascmedia/20050701.asp

Sports Directory sports contacts Calendar of Events sports events, conferences NSO Online information for NSOs You are here Home About ASC Media releases 1 July 2005 Adelaide home to AIS/Australian beach volleyball program The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and Volleyball Australia (AVF) today announced that Adelaide will be the home of the AIS/Australian Beach Volleyball program. The South Australian Sports Institute (SASI) will be a key partner in delivering the program. It will lend considerable expertise, facilities and support in the form of vital sports science and sports medicine assistance. The defining moment for the sport though in this country was at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Playing before huge crowds at the Bondi Beach venue, Australian pair Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst won an historic gold medal. AIS Director Professor Peter Fricker said the decision to start a beach volleyball program was a logical progression, considering previous Olympic success and the rising level of public interest and talented athletes in Australia. Volleyball Australia General Manager Andrew Scotford said the establishment of the program in Adelaide heralded a new and exciting era for the sport in Australia.

42. Kerri Walsh - Volleyball 2000 olympic Games olympic Games in Athens, Greece. It was the first Women s Beach volleyball Gold Medal for the United States in US olympic history. http://www.kerriwalsh.com/biography.asp

43. USA Volleyball Announces Nominees For 2004 USOC Awards By USA volleyball Published 02/3/2005 volleyball Unrated as the USA pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in olympic volleyball history. http://www.e-sports.com/articles/349/1/USA-Volleyball-Announces-Nominees-for-200

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44. Welcome To AVCA - The American Volleyball Coaches Association Beach volleyball olympic gold medalists Misty May and Kerri Walsh, as the USA pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in olympic volleyball history. http://www.avca.org/newsletter/USAVNominees2-9-05.asp

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45. Welcome To AVCA - The American Volleyball Coaches Association Youth volleyball League Names Two Sports Legends to Board of Directors in the US He has trained some of the most successful players in olympic history, http://www.avca.org/newsletter/usyvl1-12-05.asp

DIVISION I WOMEN DIVISION II WOMEN DIVISION III WOMEN MEN ... TWO-YEAR Click Above Tab for * Job Line * Open Dates * Clinics * Seminars * Summer Camps * Employer Search Coaching Transactions Red Tabs = Members Only Youth Volleyball League Names Two Sports Legends to Board of Directors Hawthorne, Calif. Former Los Angeles Lakers and NBA star Kurt Rambis of Manhattan Beach and pro beach volleyball legend Jim Menges of Santa Monica, Calif., were named on Dec. 15, 2004, in a unanimous vote to the Board of Directors of the United States Youth Volleyball League (USYVL), the nation’s largest grassroots, youth volleyball league established in 1997 and serving more than 30,000 youth participants between the ages of 8 and 14 years. The USYVL operates community-based youth volleyball leagues in more than 70 locations throughout the U.S. to provide boys and girls with the opportunity to learn and play volleyball in a “fun, safe and supervised environment.” Rambis enjoyed a successful, 13-year NBA career that included four World Championships in 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988. He was promoted in the Los Angeles Lakers’ organization in September 2004 to the position of vice president of business and basketball integration after serving as an assistant coach for the past three seasons. He serves as an advisor to team owner, Dr. Jerry Buss, and consults on all business development matters concerning the NBA’s Lakers, as well as the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks. He previously served as an assistant general manager and the team’s interim head coach for part of the 1998-99 season. Rambis became aware of the USYVL when his children participated in the league and developed an immediate love for the sport of volleyball.

46. Traditions Purduesports.com - Purdue University Official Athletic Site For the third time in olympic history, Purdue basketball was represented. Also, current assistant volleyball coach Ruth Lawanson culminated a fouryear http://purduesports.collegesports.com/trads/pur-olympians.html

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47. Beach Volleyball Beach volleyball will be staged at the olympic Beach volleyball Centre, For the first time in the olympic history of the sport, games will take place http://www.eurotravelling.net/athens2004/sport/beach_volleyball.htm

Olympic Games Paralympic Games History Tickets ... Home Beach Volleyball “A YMCA physical education teacher, William G. Morgan, in his attempt to find an indoor team game with a minimal risk of injury, invented the sport of Volleyball in 1895, at the YMCA branch of Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA. Its initial name was "Maidonet". Within a short period of time, however, and after an exhibition game took place, it was renamed to Volleyball. Description The aim of both Volleyball and Beach Volleyball games is to pass the ball over the net so that it hits the ground on the opponent's court, while preventing the opposing team from doing the same. There are two Volleyball disciplines: Volleyball and Beach Volleyball. Volleyball competitions are held in indoor courts, by two teams of twelve, each with six players in the game and six on reserve. The competition area for each team measures 9 x 9 metres. Beach volleyball competitions are held in sandy courts, by two teams of two players each. The competition area for each team measures 8 x 8 metres. ATHENS 2004 Volleyball During the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, the Volleyball competition will take place at the Peace and Friendship Stadium at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex, which has a total capacity of 14,000 seats. The competition programme will span over 16 days, from 14 to 29 August 2004. Men's and women's matches will be held every other day, beginning in the morning and ending at night. 288 athletes from different countries will participate at the Athens Olympic Games (12 men's and 12 women's teams of 12 players each).

48. Volleyball During the ATHENS 2004 olympic Games, the volleyball competition will take place For the first time in the olympic history of the sport, games will take http://www.eurotravelling.net/athens2004/sport/volleyball.htm

Olympic Games Paralympic Games History Tickets ... Home Volleyball “A YMCA physical education teacher, William G. Morgan, in his attempt to find an indoor team game with a minimal risk of injury, invented the sport of Volleyball in 1895, at the YMCA branch of Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA. Its initial name was "Maidonet". Within a short period of time, however, and after an exhibition game took place, it was renamed to Volleyball. Description The aim of both Volleyball and Beach Volleyball games is to pass the ball over the net so that it hits the ground on the opponent's court, while preventing the opposing team from doing the same. There are two Volleyball disciplines: Volleyball and Beach Volleyball. Volleyball competitions are held in indoor courts, by two teams of twelve, each with six players in the game and six on reserve. The competition area for each team measures 9 x 9 metres. Beach volleyball competitions are held in sandy courts, by two teams of two players each. The competition area for each team measures 8 x 8 metres. ATHENS 2004 Volleyball During the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, the Volleyball competition will take place at the Peace and Friendship Stadium at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex, which has a total capacity of 14,000 seats. The competition programme will span over 16 days, from 14 to 29 August 2004. Men's and women's matches will be held every other day, beginning in the morning and ending at night. 288 athletes from different countries will participate at the Athens Olympic Games (12 men's and 12 women's teams of 12 players each).

49. Athens Olympics:: Volleyball China embraced its first volleyball olympic title in 20 years after beating Also, for the first time in olympic history, matches will be played in the http://www.livingroom.org.au/olympics/archives/cat_volleyball.html

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50. Athens Olympics :: NZ Rowers Set For Biggest Night In Their Olympic History volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling. Athens olympic News Read more at NZ rowers set for biggest night in their olympic history http://www.livingroom.org.au/olympics/archives/nz_rowers_set_for_biggest_night_i

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51. History Of Volleyball history Of volleyball. In 1995, the sport of volleyball celebrated its 100th birthday! In 1964, volleyball was introduced to the olympic Games in Tokyo. http://www.tkohl.com/history.htm

History Of Volleyball In 1995, the sport of Volleyball celebrated its 100th birthday! The sport originated in the United States, and is now just achieving the type of popularity in the U.S. that it has received on a global basis, where it ranks behind only soccer among participation sports. Today there are more than 46 million Americans who play volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play Volleyball at least once a week. In (only two years after the invention of basketball), William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass. (only minutes from the birthplace of basketball), decided to blend elements of tennis, baseball, basketball, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball. He created the game of "mintonette". Morgan used the bladder of a basketball to provide a lighter ball with a more lively bounce. He borrowed the net from tennis, and raised it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor, just above the height of an average man's head. During a demonstration game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more descriptive name for the sport. On

52. Grain Of Truth - Why Are Olympic Beach Volleyballers Playing On Belgian Sand? By When I watch olympic beach volleyball, I can t stop staring at the silica week when Athens played host to the first nighttime match in olympic history? http://slate.msn.com/id/2105504

placeAd(1,'slate.news/slate') Print E-mail Discuss Newsletters ... About Us Search Slate Advanced Search placeAd(3,'slate.homepage/slate') placeAd(6,'slate.homepage/slate'); five-ring circus Scenes from the Summer Games. Grain of Truth Why are Olympic beach volleyballers playing on Belgian sand? By Felix Gillette Posted Monday, Aug. 23, 2004, at 9:27 AM PT Listen to this story on NPR's Day to Day Check out those fine grains! When I watch Olympic beach volleyball, I can't stop staring at the silica implants. Not silicone implants, mind you. I'm not ogling fake boobs. I'm ogling fake sand. During a recent telecast, NBC commentator Chris Marlowe sized up the seductive playing surface. "Beautiful white sand," he drooled, "pure as can be." But this sand isn't pure at all. The Olympics are in a country with some of the world's most gorgeous beaches, yet somehow beach volleyball is being contested on sand that is a) not from Greece and b) not even from a beach. In the first week of competition, NBC's disoriented announcers claimed that the inside of the Olympic courts had been filled with Dutch (or possibly Norwegian) sand while Greek sand covered the sidelines. But this rosy picture of a multinational beach—Greece with a light dusting of Holland on top—was far from accurate. On the eve of the tournament, Olympic officials covered every inch of the Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre with 1,700 tons of sand harvested from a mine in Mol, Belgium

53. Modern Olympic History - Olympics - Sports - Webindia123.com Sante Gaiardoni of Italy became the only cyclist in olympic history to win both the time Judo and volleyball were introduced to the olympic Events. http://www.webindia123.com/sports/olymp/olymp1.htm

Yellow Pages E-Mail E-Cards Matrimonial ... Athens 2004 Modern History of Olympics 1956 Melbourne, Australia Venue Melbourne, Australia Opening Date 22 November 1956 Nations Athletes Events Winner USSR with 98 points Medals Gold Silver Bronze USSR USA Australia Medal Emblem The 1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne were the first Olympics to be held in the southern hemisphere. For the first and only time, due to the stringent animal quarantine laws, the equestrian events was detached from the main Games and held at Stockholm, Sweden almost five months before the start of the actual Games. Laszlo Papp of Hungary became the first boxer to win three gold medals. The U.S. basketball team put on the most dominant performance in Olympic history by scoring more than twice as much as their opponents and winning each of their games by at least 30 points. In weightlifting, ties are broken by awarding the higher place to the athlete with the lower body weight. For the first time in the Olympics, athletes entered en masse - a symbol of global unity - at the closing ceremony. 1960 Rome, Italy

54. Website Of Humanistic Olympics Studies Center China in the olympic history(4). Author Time20055-5 11501 The women s volleyball team, which had captured the world title on five occasions in http://www.c2008.org/rendanews/english_te.asp?id=1558

55. INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS volleyball volleyball history volleyball made its olympic Games debut in Tokyo in 1964, with the Soviet Union winning the men s gold medal and the http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=VO&sportCode=

56. INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS volleyball BEACH volleyball history Beach volleyball made its olympic debut in 1996 at Atlanta. The gold medal winners of the Sydney 2000 olympic http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=BV&sportCode=

57. 15th Asian Games - Doha - 2006 volleyball. history. In 1892, at a YMCA in the US state of Massachusetts, Dr Naismith hung up volleyball made its olympic Games debut in Tokyo in 1964, http://www.doha-2006.com/en/asian_games_2006/sports/volleyball_history.htm

58. LSSC Volleyball - History history Of volleyball. In 1995, the sport of volleyball is 100 years old! In 1964, volleyball was introduced to the olympic Games in Tokyo. http://public.logicacmg.com/~volleyball/history.html

LSSC Volleyball Club - History (Found on the Internet, written by someone called Tom Jack) History Of Volleyball In 1995, the sport of Volleyball is 100 years old! The sport originated in the United States, and is now just achieving the type of popularity in the U.S. that it has received on a global basis, where it ranks behind only soccer among participation sports. Today there are more than 46 million Americans who play volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play Volleyball at least once a week. In 1895, William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass., decided to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball. He created the game of Volleyball (at that time called mintonette). Morgan borrowed the net from tennis, and raised it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor, just above the average man's head. During a demonstration game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more descriptive name for the sport. On July 7, 1896 at Springfield College the first game of "volleyball" was played.

59. Beach Volleyball Champions Return With New Partners - Athens Olympics 2004 - ABC Three olympic beach volleyball champions will take to the court today to try to win lights for the first time in the brief olympic history of the sport. http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200408/s1176459.htm

Skip navigation ABC Home Radio Television ... News Athens Olympics 2004. ABC Sport. Home Features Program Results ... Galleries Search this site Print Email Australian golden girl Kerri Pottharst has a new partner for Athens (file photo) (AFP) Beach volleyball champions return with new partners Posted: Saturday, August 14, 2004 . 05:52:52 (AEST) Three Olympic beach volleyball champions will take to the court today to try to win another gold medal but each has found a different partner since Sydney. Australian Natalie Cook, who teamed up with Kerri Pottharst for a hometown victory at Bondi Beach in the 2000 Games, will try to triumph again with new partner Nicole Sanderson. They should have an easy victory over Bulgarian sisters Lina and Petia Yanchulova today, the first day of the preliminary competition. Pottharst, who briefly retired from the sport in 2003 but has now teamed up with Summer Lochowicz, plays in the first women's match of the Athens Games. The duo face China's Tian Jia and Wang Fei. Dain Blanton, who teamed up with Eric Fonoimoana to upset the Brazilian favourites for the gold in Sydney, is the top-ranked American with new team mate Jeff Nygaard.

60. ABC Online News - Sports: Indoor Volleyball volleyball is a relatively modern sport, its history mirroring that of the modern It was fitting that Japan should host the first olympic volleyball http://www.abc.net.au/news/olympics/sports/indoor-volleyball.htm

LISTEN: WMP Real Select a Topic from the list below Click "Refresh" or "Reload" on your browser for the latest edition. Top Stories Breaking Stories World Business ... Local News SPECIALS Olympics Swim Trials Athletes Sports ... Coverage RELATED ABC SITES Lateline Four Corners 7.30 Report Foreign Correspondent Landline Australian Story Stateline AM ... Correspondents' Report INTERACTIVE Forums Contact Us News Mail HELP Hearing Audio Viewing Video ABC ONLINE Home Other Areas of Interest: Subject Arts Science Children Youth Education Rural Local Shop OLYMPICS : Sports Indoor Volleyball Indoor volleyball is one of the fastest and most spectacular sports on the Olympic program and in Sydney, rule changes are likely to make it even more so. Responding to the challenge of its sandy cousin beach volleyball, which was introduced to Olympic competition in Atlanta in 1996, the indoor version of the sport has undergone a number of reforms. Two of these reforms have been dramatic, a change to the scoring system and the introduction of an entire new position, a libero. Traditionally, a team has only been able to score a point on its own serve. But the latest rule changes mean a point will be at stake in every rally.

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