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Let's Hear it for the Girls: 2011 Gatorade High School Female Athletes of the Year
by anngaff
posted July 15, 2011 at 3:52pm

LOS ANGELES (July 12, 2011) - Some of the biggest names in high school and professional sports convened in Los Angeles Tuesday night as Gatorade honored the top prep male and female athletes with the ninth annual Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year a...more

Sykora recovers from injury as USA teammates play overseas
by yostk321
posted May 24, 2011 at 1:33am

USA Volleyball librero Stacy Sykora was released from a Brazilian hospital following injuries sustained in an April bus accident while playing in the national women's professional volleyball league. She feels much better and is working out again in a re...more

1899 - Volleyball - The New Game for Girls
by LostCentury
posted May 7, 2011 at 3:39pm

April 23, 1899, Sunday - The San Francisco Call “Volley ball is the game par excellence for girls and young women. It is a new game and meets all the requirements for exercise and physical culture.” So said Miss Walker, instructor in physical tr...more

Follow these four principles to make your team lucky!
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted March 16, 2011 at 7:32pm

source Today’s post is written by Randall Kreider, the Head Volleyball Coach at Elizabethtown College. I asked Randall to give me some info so that he could toot his own horn about his team, but he wouldn’t…but I will! His regionally ranked t...more

UAE women win Excellence Shield
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted March 14, 2011 at 5:54pm

By Yasir Abbasher, Senior Reporter from Gulf News A UAE player (in green) attempts to spike the ball as a Bahraini player tries to block it during the volleyball final at the GCC Women’s Games in Abu Dhabi. Image Credit: Abdel-Krim Kallouche/Gulf News...more

No sand v-ball in San Diego
by Title IX Blog
posted March 10, 2011 at 3:43pm

Bucking national trends that show further increases in the number of women attending college, San Diego State University has seen its numbers of enrolled female undergraduates drop in the past few years. The decrease (to just under 57 percent of the total...more

Since her days as a player, CU volleyball coach Liz Kritza has put Girls First
by anngaff
posted February 1, 2011 at 10:51pm

This article is part of our National Girls & Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) celebration. For NGWSD, Girls First will be taking the girls in the program to a Tulane women's basketball game, pairing the event with a meal and a mini-clinic, as is customary fo...more

USA women's volleyball players in team offseason
by yostk321
posted January 14, 2011 at 10:09pm

Most of the players of USA Women's National Volleyball team are playing professionally for clubs all across the globe, including Danielle Scott-Arrunda, who is just returning to play after giving birth. The national team is also holding open tryouts on ...more

USA Women's Volleyball up's and down's
by yostk321
posted December 21, 2010 at 6:22pm

This past fall, the USA Women's Volleyball Team lost to Brazil in the Worlds. However, they still went on to the world championship, where they lost the semifinals to Russia and lost the Bronze game to Japan. Stacy Sykora and Logan Tom both received h...more

Basketball, volleyball, coaching, streaks, and some other things
by After Atalanta
posted December 20, 2010 at 1:15pm

Because Mechelle Voepel so adroitly wrote about the connection between Penn State's volleyball championship this weekend and UConn's streak-tying win over Ohio State yesterday, I thought I would attempt to talk about multiple, somewhat related, things in ...more

Congrats, Penn State!
by After Atalanta
posted December 19, 2010 at 3:46pm

Just finished watching the Penn State volleyball team win their fourth consecutive NCAA championship. I only caught the last set. The second one looked close and interesting.Sports Center came on right afterwards. The story has yet to be mentioned and we'...more

Penn State wins fourth consecutive NCAA Championship to crowd of 14,032
by anngaff
posted December 18, 2010 at 11:58pm

Katie Slay had one kill and it was the only one she needed: the winning kill. The six-foot-six freshman from North Carolina leaped into the air, her eyes wide, as her team leaped toward her to celebrate. Once she landed, she burst into tears in joy. "T...more

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