USA Volleyball Rotations

	Volume 5, Number 9 June 18, 2007 www.usavolleyball.org

U.S. MEN MAKE QUICK WORK OF ITALY

Showing better composure and consistency than on Friday, it took the U.S. Men’s National Volleyball Team just one hour, 27 minutes to defeat a primarily rookie Italian squad 3-0 (25-19, 30-28, 25-23) for an FIVB World League victory on Saturday in front of 3,720 at the Convocation Center at Chicago State University. MORE • U.S. Men Defeat Young Italians; Increase Pool Lead More • World League Brings World Class Volleyball to Chicago More • World League Information MORE

U.S. WOMEN START SEASON AT PAN AM CUP

		The U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team officially starts its 2007 campaign at the 12-team Sixth Annual Pan American Cup June 21-29 at Colima, Mexico. The competition venue will be the Polideportivo Universitario de Villa de Alvarez. The United States is grouped into Pool A during the Pan American Cup preliminary round with Argentina, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Trinidad & Tobago. MORE • Women's National Team Press Kit MORE • Sydney Anderson Added to U.S. Women’s Team MORE

USAV NOMINATES BEACH TEAMS FOR PAN AMERICAN GAMES

USA Volleyball has announced the nominees for the beach volleyball teams that will represent the United States at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. MORE • U.S. Beach Teams Say 'Bonjour' to First Grand Slam of '07 More • Beach Junior Tour Wraps Up Second Stop in Seattle More

MINNEAPOLIS PREPARES FOR 2007 GIRLS' JUNIOR OLYMPICS

		The city of Minneapolis, Minn. prepares to welcome over 8,500 club volleyball players to the Minneapolis Convention Center for the 2007 Junior Olympic Girls’ Volleyball Championship. The event will be held June 29-July 8, drawing athletes, families, spectators and college coaches from around the nation. By the end of the 10-day event, 19 champions will be crowned, and the city’s hotels, restaurants and shopping centers will have all scored big. MORE

U.S. MEN'S SITTING TEAM PLAYS IN SARAJEVO OPEN

The U.S. Men’s Sitting Volleyball Team recently returned from the Sarajevo Open, an eight-team tournament held in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina from May 25-27. With nine members of the squad returning from the 2006 World Championships Team that finished ninth in Roermond, The Netherlands, the team finished the tournament in eighth place. MORE • 2007 National Paralympic Academy Produces Enthusiasm, Motivation and Potential MORE

ATLANTA TO HOST 2008 ADULT OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

		The 2008 USA Open Volleyball Championships will be held May 24-31 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Ga. USA Volleyball has earmarked the Gate City of the South as host city for major events on three other occasions: 2003 and 2006 USA Junior Olympic Girls’ Volleyball Championship, and the upcoming 2007 USA Junior Olympic Boys’ Volleyball Championship. MORE. • Friend and Foe: Amilcar Piancentini Remembered at Open More • Read About Slamwich in the Columbus Telegram More

2007 FIVB WOMEN'S JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GROUPS SET

The 2007 FIVB World Women’s Junior Volleyball Championships (U-20) held its drawing of lots today during a press conference in the host country of Thailand. The World Championships will be held July 20-27 at Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. MORE • FIVB Announces Pools for Men's Junior World Championships MORE • USA Grouped with China, Tunisia and Turkey in FIVB Girls’ Youth World Championships MORE

USAV ANNOUNCES TWO JUNIOR A2 TEAMS

		USA Volleyball will field two U.S. Women’s Junior National A2 Teams this summer with the squads traveling to different places for competition. MORE • All Announced 2007 HP Team and Camp Rosters MORE

ATTEND THE BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES IN STYLE

	Have you dreamed of watching the Olympic Games in person - getting a chance to see history in the making at arguably one of the most important societal events in our time? USA Volleyball, in conjunction with Jet Set Sports and CoSport, will conduct an auction for a 2008 Olympic Games package that will host two people in Beijing for five days and four nights. MORE

USAV INTRODUCES TWO JUNIOR NEWSLETTERS

USA Volleyball debuted two new electronic newsletters in March 2007 just for junior volleyball players and their parents and coaches. The newsletters, one each for boys and girls, contain information on high performance news, features and photos of club, junior or high school teams and players. Please, SEND US YOUR CONTENT! MORE • Sign Up for Free Newsletter MORE • View Junior Newsletters: Girls' Edition Archive - Boys' Edition

COACH EDUCATION SCHEDULE

If you were CAP certified in June of 2003 or earlier and have not taken steps to keep your CAP accreditation status current eatch four-year period, your certification may have lapsed! MORE

Not IMPACT Certified yet?! Minneapolis and Atlanta clinics upcoming.

Are you coaching a team at Girls' or Boys' JOs? Register to attend a CAP Course while there! Register now for Girls' Junior Olympic Clinic in Minneapolis and Boys' Junior Olympic Clinic in Atlanta.

CAP Schedule MORE

New CAP Certification Policy MORE

NAMES AND NOTES

The U.S. Olympic Committee's spring coaching e-newsletter features and interview with U.S. Men's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon. Click here to read the article... USA Volleyball has four summer interns. Read about them here... The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) and USA Volleyball will host a meeting for men's coaches at the Convention Center in Atlanta during the Boy's Junior Olympics. The meeting will be held in the Scout Room from 6-8 p.m. on Saturday, July 7. Doug Beal, CEO and Jeff Mosher, Coordinator of Men's Programs will be there representing USAV; Kathy DeBoer, Executive Director, will be there representing the AVCA. Click here for more information... Volleyball player Demetria "Dee" Sance-Padgitt, a member of the 2000 U.S. Women's Olympic Volleyball Team, will be inducted as a member of the eighth class of the University of Texas Women's Athletics Hall of Honor. Both the UT Women's Hall of Honor and UT Men's Longhorn Hall of Honor will hold their induction ceremonies the weekend of Friday-Sunday, Nov. 9-11. Click here for more information... Volleyball player Anita Moss, who represented the United States at the 1982 USOC National Sports Festival in Indianapolis, and the 1983 World University Games, will enter the Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame officially on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the Colorado Springs World Arena. Click here for more information... The NCAA National Championship volleyball teams from UC Irvine (men) and Nebraska (women) visited President George Bush at the White House on Monday, June 18. Click here to see the UC Irvine photo. Click here to see the Nebraska photo. Click here to read a transcript of the President's speech to the teams... An annual South Bay summer 4-man and 4-woman volleyball tournament has been renamed in honor of LMU's Kim Blankinship. Blankinship, who starred for LMU volleyball from 1993-1996, died in October from heart failure at the age of 31. The Kim Blankinship Memorial Volleyball Tournament will be held Saturday, June 30th at Knob Hill in Redondo Beach, Calif. Click here for more information.

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