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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 .
The United States women's national volleyball team participates in international volleyball competitions and friendly games, and is governed by USA Volleyball.Their last head coach was three-time Olympic gold medalist and retired dominant beach volleyball player Karch Kiraly.
May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings, as noted above, won beach volleyball gold medals in 2004, 2008 and 2012. The other is Karch Kiraly, who won gold with the United States men's indoor team in 1984 and 1988 and in beach volleyball in 1996. Kiraly is the only player of either gender to win medals in both indoor and beach volleyball. [15]
Team USA volleyball star TJ DeFalco has made his mark on the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 27-year-old was still in high school when he first joined the U.S. national team in 2015. He previously ...
Andrea Carrie "Annie" Drews (born December 25, 1993) is an American professional volleyball player for the United States women's national volleyball team.Drews was elected as the Most Valuable Player of the 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League in Nanjing, China, where Team USA won the gold medal and the Best Opposite of the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup where the U.S. finished ...
Jordan Quinn Larson (born October 16, 1986) is an American professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for the United States women's national volleyball team. A four-time Olympian, Larson earned the USA its first-ever gold in women's volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She also has two silver medals from the 2012 and 2024 ...
Kathryn Rose Plummer Boden (born October 16, 1998) is an American professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for the United States women's national volleyball team and the Turkish club Eczacıbaşı Dynavit.
9-man (also nine-man, nineman, 9man) is a volleyball team sport utilizing nine players per side and a slightly larger court (10 by 20 meters). Historically, the sport was played by Chinese immigrants to the US, who predominantly hailed from Toisan ( Taishan ) city in Guangdong province of China. [ 1 ]