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The International Volleyball Hall of Fame (IVHF) was founded to honor extraordinary players, coaches, officials, and leaders who have made significant contributions to the game of volleyball. The Hall of Fame is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan at the local YMCA. [1]
He managed the club and helped it become "the largest and most successful volleyball club in the world," according to the International Volleyball Hall of Fame (IVHF). [4] In 1973, he also was a co-founder of the Italian Volleyball League, which he later served as president of for eight years. [1]
Volero Zürich is a Swiss volleyball club based in Zürich. It has many teams (men's, women's and youth volleyball) with the women's team being the most successful and currently playing in the National League A. Since the mid 2000s, the club has also frequently participated in European competitions, most notably the CEV Women's Champions League.
This is a list of schools who field women's volleyball teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. As of the 2024 season, 346 of the 364 Division I member institutions sponsor women's volleyball. [a] Conference affiliations and venues represent those for the 2025 NCAA women's volleyball ...
Donald Suxho (born February 21, 1976) is an Albanian-American professional volleyball player and a player for the U.S. Olympic Team.As a setter, he participated in the 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece as well as the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Adam Johnson (born January 31, 1965) is an American former professional beach volleyball player. In total, he won 44 beach volleyball tournaments, and won about $1,700,000 in prizes in his career. [1] [2] 16 of his tournament wins were with volleyball legend Karch Kiraly as his partner. [1]
William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1]
Ivan Vyacheslavovich Zaytsev (Italian: [ˈiːvan ˈdzaittsef,-ev]; Russian: Иван Вячеславович Зайцев, IPA: [ɪˈvan vʲɪtɕɪˈslavəvʲɪdʑ ˈzajtsɨf]; born 2 October 1988), nicknamed lo Zar ('the Tsar'), is an Italian professional volleyball player of Russian origin, former captain of Italy men's national volleyball ...