USA Volleyball Rotations Newsletter - July 14, 2006

 

		Volume 4, Number 13 July 14, 2006 www.usavolleyball.org U.S. MEN OPEN WORLD LEAGUE AGAINST POLAND After a five-year absence, the U.S. Men's National Team returns to play in the FIVB World League this weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a lot of excitement and a little apprehension. Team USA goes into its matches against Poland on Friday and Saturday (July 14 and 15 at 7 p.m. MDT both days) at the "E" Center ranked fifth in the world and ready to see if it can live up to the ranking in one of the toughest and most grueling competitions in men's volleyball. Both matches will be televised live on CSTV. MORE • Latest Info on World League MORE • Spotlight on Men's National Team Sponsors in Anaheim MORE Ah Mow-Santos Earns Pan Am Cup Best Setter Award Robyn Ah Mow-Santos, starting setter for the U.S. womens national volleyball team, was named the Pan American Cup Best Setter following conclusion of the event on July 7. According to the final bulletin with the official tournament statistics, Ah Mow-Santos turned in 117 running sets and 451 still sets with just two faults in 570 total attempts. The U.S. hit .337 as a team for the tournament with 361 kills on 823 attempts. MORE • Data Project Stats at Pan Am Cup MORE Wacholder/Youngs and Lambert/Metzger Win in Atlanta Second-seeds Rachel Wacholder and Elaine Youngs upset top-seeds Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh 21-16, 19-21, 15-12 to take home the championship title at the 2006 AVP Atlanta Open, their second title of the season. On the men's side, second-seeds Mike Lambert and Stein Metzger also won their second title of the season with a 21-17, 18-21, 15-13 victory over No. 6 seeds Dax Holdren and Sean Scott. MORE • AVP Women's Preview of Birmingham Tour Stop MORE • AVP Men's Preview of Birmingham Tour Stop MORE USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championship The event saw 756 teams competing for 18 titles. Over 3,500 matches were played over the span of eight days. MORE • Full USA JO Girls' Volleyball Results MORE • Full 2006 USA JO Girls' Invitatonal Results MORE USA Junior Olympic Boys' Volleyball Championship This years event at Minneapolis featured 388 teams competing from coast-to-coast in five "Open" Divisions and seven "National Club" Divisions. MORE • Full USA JO Boys' Volleyball Results MORE NORCECA Girls' Youth Continental Championship Preview The 2006 NORCECA (North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation) Girls Youth Continental Championship (U-18) will be contested July 25-30 at Gainesville, Fla. All matches are scheduled for competition at the Stephen C. OConnell Center (12,000) on the campus of the University of Florida.MORE • USA High Performance Championship Preview MORE • High Performance Camps in Full Cycle MORE Junior Beach Tour Slides Into Seattle The great Northwest hosted the USAV Junior Beach Tour on July 10 as players headed to Alki Beach, in Seattle, Wash. Forty-eight teams turned out for the girls-only event. • Junior Beach Players Jazz up Chicago MORE Education News Hurry! Only ONE more CAP Course scheduled for this Summer! Register now to join USA Volleyball and the Chesapeake Region for a CAP I & II and Volleyball Conditioning Clinic on August 4-6 at the University of Maryland.MORE Names and Notes World Championships on October 31, nearly half a million tickets will go on sale to the general public for the month-long World Championships held in various locations throughout Japan. Twelve gymnasiums in 10 host cities will stage the 208 matches, 104 in both the women's and men's championships. Both the U.S. men's and women's national teams are qualified for the event. For more information the World Championship or for tickets, click here...American Volleyball Coaches Association Executive Director Kathy DeBoer announced the hiring of three core staff members to the organization, rounding out the new team with the Associations move to Lexington. Jason Jones has been hired as the director of marketing & education, Rick Capone has been named the editor of AVCA publications and e-services and Will Engle was chosen as the manager of media relations and membership support. Engle began his tenure with the AVCA on July 11; Jones is set to begin work on July 24, while Capones starting date is August 15. For more information, click here...University of Washington setter Courtney Thompson was one of five female athletes competing for an ESPY Award in the favorite Female College Athlete category. University of Texas softball pitcher Cat Osterman won the title as announced at the ESPY Awards at Los Angeles on July 12. Other nominees included LSUs Seimone Augustus (baskeball), Southern Cals Virginia Powell (track and field) and Portlands Christine Sinclair (soccer)...Gatorade High School Volleyball Player of the Year Megan Hodge, who graduated from Riverside High School (Durham, N.C.) this past spring, was one of five prep athletes up for the female Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year Award. Hodge lost on the bid as basketball player Tina Charles of Christ the King Regional High School (Queens, N.Y) earned the honor on July 12...Almost 10,000 Native athletes from the United States and Canada participated in the North American Indigenous Games last week in Denver. The competitions included volleyball, basketball, wrestling, lacrosse and several other activities...The Gay Games VII starts July 15 in Chicago. Almost 12,000 athletes from across the world will compete in 30 different sporting events, including volleyball...For college coaching transactions, click here. FEATURED PRODUCT: MESH SHORTS AND CROWN T-SHIRTS Visit the USA Volleyball online store today for official licensed merchandise! Due to popular demand, we've added athletic mesh shorts in navy and light blue colors. You can also get this new "Crown" T-shirt to update your volleyball collection. Contact us at rotations@usav.org All content copyright ©2006 USA Volleyball. All rights reserved. If you would like to remove your e-mail address from our list, please click here. If you would like to add your e-mail address to our list, please click here. To view past issues of Rotations please click here.