Volleyball Destination

Hand Passing the Serve…Good or Bad?
Long ago in volleyball history, using your hands to make first contact after the serve was voodoo bad. However, these days the rules have changed and using your hands is…

Malauulu resigns as MSU volleyball coach (Billings Gazette)
BOZEMAN - Miya Malauulu resigned her position as Montana State’s head volleyball coach Wednesday after a 1-27 season, saying she wanted to pursue another career.

UVa.-Wise volleyball swept from NAIA tournament (Bristol Herald Courier)
COLUMBIA, Mo. The University of Virginia s College at Wise s volleyball team was swept out of the NAIA national volleyball tournament on Thursday afternoon.

Cougars will open volleyball tourney vs. Ole Miss (Deseret Morning News)
The BYU women’s volleyball team opens NCAA tournament first-round play tonight against the University of Mississippi.

Sports Drinks - Better than Water?
You know the summer is here when you are always thirsty. I know one of my personal faults is I do not drink enough water. Or perhaps…

Washburn volleyball team goes for national title (The Kansas City Star)
Nearly the entire season, the Washburn volleyball team looked like a team that would be in the position it is in now.

Volleyball Coaching Outline
Follow the link to pages that contain a series of outlines that I use to instruct our incoming freshmen who want to play volleyball. I developed These outlines after…

Making Setters More Aggressive!
Do you have setters on your volleyball team that just aren’t as aggressive during the game as you would like? This problem plagues teams all over the country. …

Final round of Brazilian beach volleyball circuit kicks off in Recife (Eastday.com)
Recife, the capital city of Brazil’s state of Pernambuco, will hold the last round of the Brazilian Beach Volleyball Circuit from Friday to Sunday. The competition will not only decide who are the 2007 champions, but also define who will receive awards like best player of the year.

Russia beat Egypt to stay unbeaten in volleyball World Cup (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Athens Olympic bronze medallists Russia whipped African champions Egypt here on Monday to remain undefeated with seven straight wins in the men’s World Cup volleyball tournament.

International Volleyball in the United States!
If you have never been to a World League match then you have never really seen top-performance indoor volleyball. Luckily, those of you that can get to Chicago on…

Stanley Was a Centerpiece of Volleyball Team s Success (Guilford Courier)
The North Haven volleyball team recently put forth its best season in recent memory and one athlete who was right in the middle of the Indians success both literally and figuratively is senior Jennifer Stanley.

Volleyball player receives Wichita Eagle All Metro Award (The Derby Daily Reporter)
Michelle Grantham Derby volleyball player Joanna McFarland has been recognized as an All Metro player by the Wichita Eagle. McFarland was one of seven volleyball players in the area to be honored with this award.

Often Good Players Get Overlooked
One of a volleyball coach’s hardest problems, bench morale will be eternally linked to satisfying players’ desire for playing time Good players will often sit the bench, especially on really good…

Huskers Host NCAA First, Second Volleyball Rounds (KETV 7 Omaha)
The Nebraska volleyball team will spend the opening weekend of the postseason at home, as the NU Coliseum was chosen as one of 16 sites for NCAA first and second-round play this weekend.

VOLLEYBALL / NorCal final next for Sacred Heart Cathedral (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Sacred Heart Cathedral volleyball team will have a chance to win its first NorCal title since 2004. Behind the dominating play of middle hitter Gabrielle Jolly, the second-seeded Irish cruised to a 3-0 victory over third-seed Bishop O’Dowd, 25-15, 25-20,…

Sports Drinks - Better than Water?
You know the summer is here when you are always thirsty. I know one of my personal faults is I do not drink enough water. Or perhaps…

Often Good Players Get Overlooked
One of a volleyball coach’s hardest problems, bench morale will be eternally linked to satisfying players’ desire for playing time Good players will often sit the bench, especially on really good…

Volleyball: Russia down Spain in men’s World Cup (Channel NewsAsia)
FUKUOKA, Japan : Athens Olympic bronze medallists Russia avenged their loss in the continental championship final by beating European champions Spain in the men’s World Cup volleyball tournament on Sunday.

Zamudio leads 2007 All-Region Volleyball Team (The Yuma Sun)
Yuma High’s Maggie Zamudio is the 2007 The Sun/Yuma Rotary Club Volleyball Player of the Year. Maggie Zamudio could always hit the ball hard - even if she didn’t, by her own admission, move her feet or go after the ball as a freshman.

Stepping up to the Overhead Serve
Isn’t it funny that one of the most simple things to do in volleyball starts out with so much worry for so many players. The overhand serve is one…

Volleyball season over for Lumberjacks (Arizona Daily Sun)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite a career-high 35 kills from Kim Babcock, a tightly-contested, five-game volleyball match eventually went the way of the higher seed as third-seeded Eastern Washington defeated sixth-seeded NAU in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Tournament. The Eagles won by scores of 32-30, 28-30, 28-30, 30-18 and 15-11.

Often Good Players Get Overlooked
One of a volleyball coach’s hardest problems, bench morale will be eternally linked to satisfying players’ desire for playing time Good players will often sit the bench, especially on really good…

Sports Drinks - Better than Water?
You know the summer is here when you are always thirsty. I know one of my personal faults is I do not drink enough water. Or perhaps…

SIU volleyball falls to Creighton (The Southern Illinoisan)
Springfield, Mo. - Probably fitting Southern Illinois volleyball coach Brenda Winkeler had her fingernails pained green for Friday’s Missouri Valley Conference first round match.

Lions bounced out of volleyball playoffs (Santa Maria Times)
Valley Christian Academy volleyball coach Chris Sallee didn’t buy the scouting report. It said Saddleback Valley Christian wasn’t quite as strong as they were last year, said Sallee. I didn’t think that was true.

International Volleyball in the United States!
If you have never been to a World League match then you have never really seen top-performance indoor volleyball. Luckily, those of you that can get to Chicago on…

2007 All-County volleyball team (Clanton Advertiser)
The Clanton Advertiser’s All-County volleyball team is Jemison’s Caroline Blaylock, Isabella’s Carissa Eiland, Jemison’s Alexis Gothard, Isabella’s Jessica Gore, Chilton County High’s Tylita Harrell and Thorsby’s Michelle Hendrix.

Stepping up to the Overhead Serve
Isn’t it funny that one of the most simple things to do in volleyball starts out with so much worry for so many players. The overhand serve is one…

Sports Drinks - Better than Water?
You know the summer is here when you are always thirsty. I know one of my personal faults is I do not drink enough water. Or perhaps…

Her last sideout: Colberg leaves a legacy of winning and learning as Sacramento State’s volleyball coach (The Sacramento Bee)
Those who know Debby Colberg well say she’d make a great poker player. For all the thoughts and emotions churning inside, the longtime Sacramento State volleyball coach maintains a cool, calm demeanor.

State colleges: Utah, BYU volleyball play today (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Brigham Young University plays New Mexico today at noon, while Utah and TCU meet at 5 p.m. to open the quarterfinals of the Mountain West Conference volleyball championship at Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas.

Australia in tough World Cup volleyball win over Tunisia (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Asian champions Australia fought a tough battle against African silver medallists Tunisia before triumphing 3-1 at the men’s World Cup volleyball on Thursday.

US downs Bulgaria at volleyball Men’s World Cup (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Riley Salmon scored 23 points Thursday as the United States downed Bulgaria in five sets at the volleyball Men’s World Cup.

BYU women face Lobos at volleyball tourney (Deseret Morning News)
The BYU women’s volleyball team puts its seven-match winning streak on the line as the third-seeded Cougars face No. 6 seed New Mexico in today’s first of four quarterfinal contests of the Mountain West Conference Championships.