Volleyball Destination

Ozark volleyball duo choose colleges (The Springfield News-Leader)
Ozark seniors Jaimie McCallister and Holly Reynolds signed national letters of intent today to continue their volleyball careers. McCallister will join the Evangel Lady Crusaders, and Reynolds will head to Jefferson College (Hillsboro). “I’ve been interested in Evangel since June. I was really excited. I got to meet all the girls,” McCallister said. “Knowing everybody, a great coach and being …

Volleyball Lakers outlast CBA in five-game battle (Cnylink)
With a stirring comeback and a lot of patience, the Skanetaeles girls volleyball team fought past Christian Brothers Academy in five games last Tuesday night to highlight the

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. …

Arizona State hires volleyball coach (East Valley Tribune)
Jason Watson has been named women’s volleyball coach at Arizona State, the school announced Tuesday.

Mitsubishi Top Ten Tuesday (#18): No. 1 Bears, No. 3 Birds split volleyball doubleheader (universitysport.ca)
OTTAWA (CIS) - The much-anticipated men’s volleyball showdown between the No. 1-ranked Alberta Golden Bears and No. 3 UBC Thunderbirds lived up to its billing this past weekend with the Canada West rivals splitting the two-match series in Vancouver.

Watson resigns as BYU head women’s volleyball coach (Provo Daily Herald)
BYU Athletics Director Tom Holmoe today announced that women’s volleyball head coach Jason Watson has resigned his position at BYU to accept the vacant women’s volleyball head-coaching position at Arizona State.

Choo Choo Volleyball Club Claims Three Tournament Championships (The Chattanoogan)
The Choo Choo City volleyball Club 18’s, 15 Power and 15 Club all three won their tournament this weekend in Knoxville. The 18’s won their second straight tournament, losing only two games the entire day.

UNH Volleyball Player Looses Battle With Cancer (The New Hampshire)
When Holly Young came to the University of New Hampshire in 2004, she was poised to become one of the Wildcat’s best young athletes. A life-long competitor, Young was armed with a tremendous vertical leap, a thunderous kill and a confident serve. In 2003, after she led her Coastal Volleyball Club team to the Bay State Games Championship and received All-Scholastic awards from The Boston …

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: Marsascala & Hibs consolidate their lead (Maltamedia.com Daily News)
In the volleyball league, Marsascala and Hibs consolidated their lead at at the top of the men s and ladies senior league tables respectively.

Wyoming hires volleyball coach (Billings Gazette)
LARAMIE, Wyo. - Carrie Yerty has been named the head volleyball coach at the University of Wyoming.

Crosby volleyball coach has grown (Baytown Sun)
In the four years that Stephanie Cone has been the head coach of the Crosby volleyball team, she has grown as a person and the Lady Cougars have grown as a program.

MTSU volleyball to be honored for historical season at tonight s game (Daily News Journal)
MTSU will honor its volleyball team tonight during halftime of the women s basketball game for its accomplishments during the 2007 season. The Blue Raiders stormed through the regular season posting a 35-3 record clinching the Sun Belt Conference regular season and tournament titles.

Volleyball Hawks swept in tri-match (Kingston Daily Freeman)
CHICOPEE, Mass. - SUNY New Paltz men’s volleyball team lost 3-1 to Newbury and 3-2 to Elms in a tri-match at Elms. The Hawks lost by game scores of 31-29, 25-30, 30-27, 30-23 to Newbury and 30-26, 30-28, 27-30, 24-30, 15-13 to the host team.

UH: Rainbow Wahine volleyball banquet tomorrow (Honolulu Advertiser)
The University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball banquet will be held tomorrow, in the DeRussy Room at the Hale Koa Hotel (2055 Kalia Road). No-host cocktails begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by a buffet dinner at 6:30 p.m., and the program.

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 player leaves MSU for GVSU (The Grand Rapids Press)
Whitney Tremain said she had a feeling after her first year of volleyball at Michigan State that things might not go the way she had hoped they would.

Volleyball earns a pair of CVU.com awards, Faucette claims Freshman of the Year honor (Texas Longhorns)
AUSTIN, Texas — A pair of Texas All-Americans have added two more awards to their decorated season of honors as freshman outside hitter Juliann Faucette was named the College Volleyball Update (CVU.com) 2007 Freshman of the Year, while senior setter Michelle Moriarty garnered honorable mention Setter of the Year honors.

Kenya: Volleyball - Angry Kioni Says Team Will Be Overhauled (AllAfrica.com)
The national women’s volleyball team will be overhauled and new young talented players from high school recruited while the technical bench will be reviewed as Kenya retreat to the drawing board to build a new squad for future competitions.

BYU volleyball Provo’s hottest ticket (Deseret Morning News)
If it’s a winter semester weekend at BYU, then it’s time to start scrambling for a seat at the next BYU men’s volleyball match, which has become the hottest ticket in town.

What to Do With a Bad Setter
In a perfect world, volleyball players play on teams where everyone loves to play on the same team and with each other. However, often this is not the case. Once…

Volleyball loses classic (The Cooperstown Crier)
The Cooperstown girls volleyball team played what head coach Rich Jantzi described as the team s best match of the year in a 3-1 home loss to Mt. Markham Tuesday night.

Volleyball coach files federal suit over gender discrimination (Naples Daily News)
Florida Gulf Coast University is facing a federal sex discrimination and defamation lawsuit from the winningest coach in its history. The attorneys for suspended volleyball coach Jaye Flood filed a lawsuit Friday morning in the Fort Myers U.S. District Court claiming FGCU retaliated against Flood and defamed her for speaking out against gender inequity in the athletics department.

Carrie Yerty hired as UW women’s volleyball coach (KIFI Idaho Falls)
Associated Press - January 23, 2008 10:25 AM ET LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - The University of Wyoming has hired a new coach for the women’s volleyball team.

NCAA track star to train with U.S. volleyball (Sports Illustrated)
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas’ Destinee Hooker, the two-time defending NCAA high jump champion, will skip track this season to train with the U.S. women’s national volleyball team before the Olympics.

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…

Teens, Girls & Coaching
Recently, my girls left a team because they were miserable. Despite having some great skills and pretty good team work, the coach would absolutely berate these young athletes to…

NCAA track star to train with U.S. volleyball (Sports Illustrated)
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas’ Destinee Hooker, the two-time defending NCAA high jump champion, will skip track this season to train with the U.S. women’s national volleyball team before the Olympics.