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Troy Richard Tanner (born October 31, 1963) is an American former volleyball player and Olympic gold medalist. He was a member of the United States men's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul .
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.
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. [ 1 ] It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964 .
Aug. 13—MATTOON — Lake Land College will be holding open tryouts for the Laker volleyball team on Wednesday, Aug. 16 and Friday, Aug. 25. Both sessions will be held in the Laker Field House ...
The FEU Lady Tamaraws volleyball program is the women's collegiate varsity volleyball team of the Far ... with these teams battling in the championship for 15 seasons ...
The second league is the Volleyball League Of America (VLA) founded in 2019 and has 8 men's Tier 1 teams, 32 men's Tier 2 teams and 8 women's teams spread across the United States. [ 6 ] Professional leagues saw a resurgence in the 2020s, starting with Athletes Unlimited Volleyball (AUV) in 2021. [ 7 ]
The Philippines women's national under-19 volleyball team represents the Philippines in women's under-18/19 volleyball events. It is controlled and managed by the Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF), which is a member of the Asian volleyball body Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) and the international volleyball body government the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB).
The Nebraska Cornhuskers women's beach volleyball team began play in the spring of 2013 as the school's twenty-second intercollegiate sport. In 2016, the NCAA began sponsoring a beach volleyball tournament (previously the sport was run by the AVCA ), but Nebraska did not attempt to qualify.