Volume 5, Number 1
Feb. 23, 2007
www.usavolleyball.org
USAV ANNOUNCES WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM TRYOUT ROSTER
USA Volleyball has announced a tentative roster of 110 athletes who will participate in the U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team tryouts Feb. 23-25 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. MORE

• NORCECA ranks the U.S. Women Third MORE
• Get to know the U.S. Women's Training Team MORE
U.S. MEN'S TRAINING TEAM TOURS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
The U.S. Men’s Volleyball Training Team is playing four scrimmages at schools around Southern California on Saturdays from Feb. 10-March 3. MORE

• Meet Brian Zodrow of the U.S. Men's Training Team MORE
• View statistics from the first two scrimmages (at Canyon) (at Mater Dei)
DALHAUSSER AND ROGERS FALL TO BRAZILIANS
Marcio Araujo and Fabio Magalhaes won their first international match of the year on Feb. 18 by defeating Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers in the Brazil vs. United States Challenge Series match on Ipanema. MORE

• Walsh, Wacholder to face Brazilian women MORE
• AVP headed to Louisville MORE
USAV TO INTRODUCE JUNIOR NEWSLETTERS
USA Volleyball is introducing two new electronic newsletters just for junior volleyball players and their parents and coaches. There will be one newsletter for girls and one for boys. The newsletters will have high performance news, features and photos of club, junior or high school teams and players and stories and photos BY club, junior or high school teams and players. Please, SEND US YOUR CONTENT! We want these newsletters to be a fun benefit for our junior players and their supporters. E-mail story ideas, stories or photos for the girls junior newsletter to Bill Kauffman at bill.kauffman@usav.org. E-mail story ideas, stories or photos for the boys junior newsletter to B.J. Evans at BJ.Evans@USAV.org. If you would like to receive a junior newsletter, please e-mail your name and e-mail address to Bill Kauffman for the girls newsleter and to B.J. Evans for the boys newsletter.

• Girls Invitational MORE
• Link to Juniors Home Page MORE
USA VOLLEYBALL BOARD VOTES TO RESTRUCTURE
The USA Volleyball (USAV) Board of Directors unanimously approved a motion to restructure itself at its winter meeting held Jan. 12-14 in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Board’s size will be reduced from its current number of 30 voting members to 15 voting members and one non-voting, at-large member. The Executive Committee structure will be eliminated. The new Board will be seated at the conclusion of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. MORE
USAV NAMES YOUTH AND JUNIOR STAFFS FOR FIVB WORLDs
USA Volleyball has announced the coaching staffs for its High Performance teams competing at FIVB World Championships this summer. Andy Banachowski (UCLA), Shelton Collier (Wingate), Andy Read (Long Beach State) and Tino Reyes (Hawai'i) have been selected as head coaches of the youth and junior teams this summer. MORE

• CAP 1 Tour of Spain MORE
• USAV HP players recognized MORE
NORCECA COMMISSION MEETINGS BEGIN FEB. 24
The North, Central American and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA) annual commissions meetings are set to begin on Feb. 24 and run through March 2. The meetings will be held at the organization's headquarters in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. MORE

COACH EDUCATION SCHEDULE
Registration is now open for the following 2007 courses:

  • March 10-20: CAP I and Tour of Spain

  • March 31-April 1: Lansing, Mich., CAP I & II Courses and VCAP Conditioning Clinic

  • June 1-3: Parma, Ohio, CAP Level I &/or IMPACT or CAP Level II &/or IMPACT Instructor Training


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    NAMES AND NOTES
    James Stuck, who was injured in Iraq five days before Christmas in 2005 while serving in the U.S. Army, was recently featured in a USA Today article as he becomes a resident-athlete training for the U.S. National Sitting Volleyball Team in Edmond, Okla. To read the article, click here...The USA Volleyball Coaching Accreditation Program (CAP) has announced 10 new cadre, along with an on-line CAP testing system. For more information, click here...Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.), Kristen Fenton (Marysville, Mich.) and Allison Anderson (Moraga, Calif.) represented the U.S. Women's Volleyball National Training Team during an autograph signing session Feb. 10 at Colorado College as part of National Girls and Women in Sports Day festivities. To read the story, click here... Tickets are on sale at the Ohio State Athletics Ticket Office in the Jerome Schottenstein Center for the 2007 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship to be held May 3 and 5 in St. John Arena. MORE...The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) has announced the First Annual AVCA High School Senior All-America Teams for girls’ volleyball. To view the list, click here... Sitting volleyball player Katie Holloway of the U.S. National Team also plays basketball for Cal State Northridge. To read about her, click here... The Volleyball Hall of Fame was profiled in a recent issue of Business West On-Line Journal, a publication serving western Massachusetts. To read the full story, click here...To read a profile of former USA Volleyball Junior National Team member Kawika Shoji, click here... After the 30th FIVB World Congress approved the FIVB’s $3 million tsunami relief package last October, FIVB President Dr. Ruben Acosta, the Asian Volleyball Confederation President and head of the task force Mr. Jizhong Wei and Mondo Rubber have all of them confirmed the final details of the project and the schedule for construction. A total of 18 new schools will be funded by the FIVB, distributed across the tsunami-hit regions according to the priorities fixed by the FIVB’s tsunami task force. The majority of the schools will be built in Indonesia (8), with 5 planned for Thailand, 4 for Sri Lanka and 1 for the Maldives. To learn more click here... Pepperdine sits atop the most recent CSTV/AVCA Division I-II Men's Top 15 Coaches Poll... Juniata leads the most recent CSTV/AVCA Division III Men's Top 15 Coaches Poll.

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