Volleyball Destination

Playing volleyball with Sohail Khan (rediff.com)
Reader Sachin Gala bumps into the actor in Goa.

Mama Mia! Pedlow courting Italy; Barrie native and teammate earn trip to under-21 world beach volleyball championship (Barrie Examiner)
Sam Pedlow has come along way since his first competitive beach volleyball experience. He’s gone from wearing track pants and playing in the snow at a tournament in Midland, to representing his country at the under-21 world beach volleyball championship this September in Modena, Italy.

Volleyball wins 9th consecutive title (Penn State Collegian)
The No. 7 Penn State men’s volleyball team won it’s ninth consecutive EIVA title Saturday night. Penn State defeated St. Francis 3-0 (30-28, 30-16, 30-27) in front of one of their largest crowds this season and will now move on to the NCAA Championships to be held in Columbus, Ohio later this week.

Valhalla students play volleyball to help hospital (The Journal News)
VALHALLA - More than 300 Valhalla Middle School kids spent yesterday afternoon spiking, digging and, most importantly, serving a good cause with a charity volleyball tournament to benefit the Ronald McDonald Family Room at the Westchester Medical Center’s Maria Ferrari Children’s Hospital.

Middle School Volleyball: Hounds struggle with Warriors (The Sentinel)
The Shippensburg Area Middle School volleyball team dropped a pair of matches to Gettysburg on Thursday. The Lady Hounds varsity squad fell 2-0, while the JVs won their first game before dropping the next two.

Pro volleyball player returns home May 10 (Glendale Star)
With apologies to Thomas Wolfe about not being able to go home, Glendale native and volleyball professional Jennifer Snyder can count the days before arriving here.

Creating You Own Drills
Once you practice with a team long enough, you get to the point that they flat line. Your practices become so routine that they run through them like robots. You…

Unbeaten Wildcats serving notice in volleyball (The York Dispatch)
No one gave the Dallastown boys’ volleyball team much of a chance coming into this season. Tradition-rich programs such as Spring Grove, Northeastern and Central earned top-10 rankings in the preseason Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association polls.

Kenya: Volleyball - GSU Bow Out of Africa Clubs Show At Semi-Final Stage (AllAfrica.com)
General Service Unit let their only chance for continental glory slip through their fingers when they surrendered a 2-1 set lead to lose 3-2 to El Guish of Egypt in the semi- final of the men’s Africa volleyball club championship in Niamey, Niger yesterday.

Find the Right Volleyball Camp
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of volleyball camps in every town of every state. It would be great if each camp was equal but until then follow…

3 Ways to Get to Camp this Summer
How many of you coaches have all of your players going to summer camp this year? I woud guess that for many of you it is a difficult task…

Volleyball Roundup: Knights 3d Highlights Active Weekend (Des Plaines Journal)
Maine South decided to take a major volleyball junket, Maine West improved towards its goal of becoming competitive, Elk Grove and Prospect had strong finishes at invites, as did Rolling Meadows, and Maine East did some minor damage at another meet.

Extra volleyball taking its toll on Pirates (North Side Journal)
Extended play is just killing the Pattonville boys volleyball team right now.

Spike the Ball!!!!
Can you get up and hit the big boomer? After serving the monster jump-serve, this is one of the most intimidating skills facing new volleyball players. They see…

No. 7 Men s Volleyball Begins EIVA Championship Play (GoPSUsports.com)
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., April 25, 2007 The seventh-ranked and top-seeded Penn State men s volleyball team (20-7) begins play in the EIVA Championship with a semifinal contest versus fourth-seed Princeton (12-9) on Thursday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. The other semifinal match, slated for 4:30 p.m., features second-seed Saint Francis and third-seed George Mason.

Volley Hooligans
I don’t know how many of us in America have heard about the drama that has swept across Greece these last two weeks. It seems that a couple weeks…

Sibling rivalry highlights volleyball schedule (Gainesville Sun)
Florida’s volleyball schedule will have an exciting flavor in 2007, including a pair of trips out West and a former Gator returning to the O’Connell Center to coach against her younger sister.

Middle School Volleyball: Hounds struggle with Warriors (The Sentinel)
The Shippensburg Area Middle School volleyball team dropped a pair of matches to Gettysburg on Thursday. The Lady Hounds varsity squad fell 2-0, while the JVs won their first game before dropping the next two.

Make Conditioning Training Painless
If you want to be the best volleyball player on the court, you have to spend some time do the grunt work of condition training. You know the line-drills,…

MU volleyball team adds three players (Columbia Missourian)
The Missouri volleyball team announced the signing of three new players.

Kenya: Volleyball - GSU Through to Quarter-Final (AllAfrica.com)
General Service Unit won their third straight match to qualify for the quarterfinals of the Africa men’s volleyball club championships in Niamey, Niger.

Engle and Jennings just miss semifinals at Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championships (Texas Longhorns)
SAN DIEGO — The University of Texas’ beach volleyball pair of freshman Ashley Engle and junior Alyson Jennings played their way to a three-way tie in pool play at the POWERade Collegiate Beach Nationals, but a tiebreaker prevented the duo from advancing to the championship semifinals.

Al Nasr clinch volleyball title for fifth year on the trot (Gulf News)
Dubai: The Al Nasr volleyball team clinched the league title for the fifth successive season after defeating Al Jazira 3-2 in their last league match held at the Al Jazira indoor sports hall in Abu Dhabi.

Middle School Volleyball: Hounds struggle with Warriors (The Sentinel)
The Shippensburg Area Middle School volleyball team dropped a pair of matches to Gettysburg on Thursday. The Lady Hounds varsity squad fell 2-0, while the JVs won their first game before dropping the next two.

How You Can Get to Summer Camp
How many of you coaches have all of your players going to summer camp this year? I woud guess that for many of you it is a difficult task…

Volleyball team is bound for China (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
FORT WORTH — The MAC Gators, an Arlington-Mansfield volleyball team, are bound for the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai, China.

Love and Volleyball (The Signal)
Words don’t seem to describe how much Steven Kempler loves volleyball. Kempler himself can hardly describe how much he loves the sport. Even his coach, Zach Ambrose, can barely explain how much Kempler loves volleyball. So, to say Kempler loves volleyball would be an understatement.

Spike the Ball!!!!
Can you get up and hit the big boomer? After serving the monster jump-serve, this is one of the most intimidating skills facing new volleyball players. They see…