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The Conference USA Volleyball Tournament has arrived in El Paso and will be played at Memorial Gym on the UTEP campus beginning Friday. Eight of the league's 10 teams will compete for an automatic ...
The U.S. women’s volleyball team had a bad enough start in its Olympic title defense. The Americans lost the first two sets to China on Monday in a pool play format where total points and sets ...
As the birthplace of volleyball, the United States founded the first association to regulate the sport. The United States Volleyball Association was formed in 1927, and was the founding member of FIVB in 1947. [1] However, by the time of volleyball's international growth in the 1940s, the U.S. was no longer a major power.
The United States men's national volleyball team has won three gold medals at the 1984, 1988, and 2008 Olympic Games, the 1986 FIVB World Championship, the 1985 and 2015 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup, and the 2014 FIVB World League.
United States libero Erik Shoji (22) celebrates after winning the men's volleyball bronze medal match against Italy during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at South Paris Arena 1.
Before 2014, the United States women's national volleyball team had achieved second place six times in major competitions (1967 World Women's Volleyball Championship, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, 2002 World Women's Volleyball Championship, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 2011 World Cup, 2012 London Olympic Games) but had never reached the top.
The Paris Games are the first for Hughes. Cheng was eliminated in the Round of 16 at the Tokyo Games in 2021 while playing with Sarah Sponcil. USA's April Ross and Alix Klineman won gold in Tokyo .
USA Volleyball (USAV) is a non-profit organization which is recognized as the national governing body of volleyball in the United States by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC). [1] It is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and was founded by the YMCA of the USA.