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Culture clash: beach volleyball in Muslim world (Boston Herald)
DOHA, Qatar - When Salim Al-Nabit and his friends went to see beach volleyball for the first time, they left their wives home. Al-Nabit said he would watch the bikini-clad women, but he certainly wouldn't...

No. 8 Volleyball advances with 3-0 win over SFA (Texas Longhorns)
AUSTIN, Texas -- The seventh-seeded Texas volleyball team advanced to the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three seasons and the 19th time overall with a three-game sweep – 30-16, 30-19, 30-21 – of Stephen F. Austin on Saturday evening at Gregory Gym.

No. 5 Women’s Volleyball Advances To NCAA Seattle Regional (GoPSUsports.com)
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.; December 2, 2006 – The third-seeded Penn State women’s volleyball team swept Hofstra (30-20, 30-12, 30-19) Saturday night in the second round of the NCAA Championship at Rec Hall. The Nittany Lions improve to 31-2 and advance to the NCAA Seattle Regional Semifinal against Big Ten-foe Purdue next Friday at Bank of America Arena in Seattle, Wash. The other Regional semifinal

Pandas volleyball; #2 Calgary outlasts #3 Alberta (universitysport.ca)
(December 2, 2006) In the end, the University of Alberta Pandas volleyball team fell just short, losing to their provincial rivals the University of Calgary Dinos in five sets (3-2), Saturday afternoon at the U of A's Main Gym.

Brazil, Poland win to go through to world volleyball champs final (AFP via Yahoo! News)
All-conquering Brazil has lived up to their pre-tournament promise when they powered past Serbia and Montenegro to set up the final against Poland in the men's world volleyball championships.

Asian Games: Volleyball results from 15th Asian Games (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News)
_ Volleyball results from the 15th Asian Games on Saturday:

Beach volleyball bikinis shake up Asian Games in Qatar (CNN.com)
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- When Salim Al-Nabit and his friends went to see beach volleyball for the first time, they left their wives home.

Campolindo girls win state volleyball title (Contra Costa Times)
It ended with a K.C. Eames kill and the Campolindo High School girls volleyball team rushed onto the court and into history. The Cougars dispatched Laguna Beach 25-21, 15-25, 22-25, 25-22, 15-10 in the California Interscholastic Federation Division III state championship on Saturday, becoming the first East Bay team to ever win a state girls volleyball title.

Lebanon volleyball star signs with WOU (Lebanon Express)
Lebanon High School volleyball player Jorden Burrows has signed a National Letter of Intent with Western Oregon University, announced WOU coach Joe Houck.

Nebraska thrashes Northern Iowa in volleyball (Lincoln Journal Star)
A day after an uneven performance in the first round of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament, the Huskers stormed through an overmatched Northern Iowa squad.


Volleyball Commentary

The Finer Points on Passing
Learn some of the finer points of passing from one of the best Libero's in the world, Team USA's, Eric Sullivan. Eric Sullivan was the first Libero on the...

Steps to Developing that Ideal Volleyball Player
It is our responsibility as coaches to not only make our players aware of the mental skills needed to succeed in competition, but also to teach them how to develop...

Ten Tips for Coaching Survival
I have made so many coaching mistakes. However, I hope that I am now avoiding many of the errors that I made when I was younger. Here are some of...

The International 4-2
Where to start??? A “4-2” is an offensive system. In an offensive systems, the first number refers to the number of hitters and the second number referes to the...

How Important are Coaches?
From the forums, "My daughter has started her 9th season of volleyball, including both school and club ball. She encountered a coach this year that took every ounce of...

Injury prevention - Landing Techniques
One of the worse things that can happen to a player is to hurt themselves. In our sport of volleyball, injuries are seldom minor and will take you out...

Step-by-Steps Approach to Spiking; The Secret to Fooling Your Opponents.
An effective team has several different methods of attacks in their arsenal. The three basic attacks are; the dink, the off-speed spike and the hard-driven spike. The dink...

Keep up On Passing
Is your season over? Are you playing next year? Maybe you will be playing in clubs this winter? Whatever the case, one of the best things you can do...


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