If you Google David Lee’s name, your first few links will be for an NBA player. If you go to Wikipedia.com and enter David Lee’s name, you will find profiles on American, Irish and Singaporean football players, a physicist, a sound mixer, a DJ and even an “information architect.” But no volleyball player is listed. So who the heck is David Lee? MORE

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The U.S. Women’s National Indoor Volleyball Team is hosting the world’s top-ranked Brazil squad in Colorado Springs three times during the month of June as part of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Exhibition for Volleyball series, and two of those contests are nearing sellouts. MORE

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The U.S. women’s beach volleyball team of Tyra Turner and Rachel Wacholder have reached the fourth round of the SWATCH FIVB World Tour event in Stare Jablonki , Poland, while their compatriots, Jen Boss and April Ross, remain alive in the consolation bracket. MORE

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The 2008 USA Open Volleyball Championships for adults concluded May 31 in Atlanta with 547 teams competing for various championship medals and bragging rights until next year. RESULTS

• USA National A2 Red Wins Women's Open MORE

The USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships are about three weeks away and final preparations are being made for the 19 titles to be contested in Dallas June 26-July 5. Qualified teams can be found on USA Volleyball's Girls' Junior Olympic page, along with other tournament details. MORE

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USA Volleyball will conduct its High Performance Championships July 23-27 at Tucson, Ariz. For the second year in a row, the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships will combine both the boys' and girls' events into one concurrent tournament format. Titles up for grabs for girls include Girls’ International Junior, Girls’ International Youth, Girls’ National Youth and Girls’ National Select. Championships to be contested for boys include the Boys’ International Youth and Boys’ National Select. MORE

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USA Volleyball and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have partnered to deliver a new Web site, http://volleyball.teamusa.org. Initially, the site will provide up-to-date news and stories relating to indoor and beach volleyball national team news. Content will expand over the summer to include USA Volleyball programs at all levels. The Web site launched May 30 as part of the overall USOC Web site www.teamusa.org that incorporates information from all National Governing Bodies within the USOC. MORE

It is time for the National Championships!

Register Soon for the CAP I, II, and Volleyball Conditioning (VCAP) at the Junior Olympic Girls’ Volleyball Championships. Dallas will host the course at the convention center and will run a three-day AM/PM Wave Format so participating Championship coaches may attend. MORE

Register Soon for the CAP I and possible Volleyball Conditioning Clinic (VCAP) at the Junior Boys’ Volleyball Championships. Sandy UT will be hosting the course that will run in a three-day AM/PM Wave Format so participating Championship coaches may attend. MORE

Click here for information on the 2008 Schedule of Courses and clinics.

STILL need that IMPACT Certification?!
Join one of the remaining scheduled on-line IMPACT Clinic Webinars open for registration!
LAST CHANCE for Girls Championship Coaches will be a one-day five hour on-line Webinar Clinic on SUNDAY, June 22 from 1-6 p.m. MT
LAST CHANCE for Boys Championship Coaches will be a one-day, five-hour online Webinar Clinic on SUNDAY, June 29 from 1-6 p.m. MT

Dartfish and USA Volleyball are delivering 30-minute webinars that will demonstrate how easy it is to break down video into points of a volleyball match, then how to search efficiently and quickly for parts of the match that you would like to review with your coaches and players. The seminar also covers how to improve the skills of your players through visual instruction techniques. MORE

USA Volleyball announced Feb. 1 that it has launched an interactive video web component on its web site called “USA Volleyball Video Channel” and accessed at http://www.usavolleyball.org/video/default.aspx.

Essentially, the functionality allows users to upload volleyball-related video for USA Volleyball to review and post either directly “as-is” or in post-production format coming video segments similar to a television show or newscast.

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The YMCA of the USA inducted four new members into its Hall of Fame on May 24. To find out who was inducted, click here...The International Olympic Committee announced on June 4 that Chicago made the cut as one of four city finalists to host the 2016 Olympic Games. For more details, click here...Rita Crockett, a U.S. Women's National Team Olympian, has been selected for induction into the University of Houston Athletic Hall of Fame. For more info, click here...Mercyhurst College announced on May 29 that it has dropped men's volleyball as a varsity sport. Click here for the story...The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) has announced that Mark McCloskey has announced his resignation as the organization's senior director of recruitment and events. For details, click here...AVCA has added three new state high school volleyball associations into its affiliated partner program. For details, click here...MaxPreps, Inc. has been named the AVCA's Grant Burger Media Award winner for 2007-2008. For details on all the award finalists, click here...Polish volleyball player Agata Mróz died on June 4 at the age of 26. Mróz, who was suffering from leukemia, was considered one of the best Polish Women players of her generation...To read the latest issue of FIVB's World Volley News, click here...Debbie Landreth Brown is featured in a new book entitled "Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games". For the press release, click here...Dr. Steven Snodgrass has a authored a health and fitness article relating to the Achilles tendon...The 55th USA Latvian Volleyball Championships were held May 24-25 at the Loyoa University Gentile Center in Evanston, Ill., with 13 volleyball participating. In the women's division final, Kalamazoo defeated Minneapolis (25-18; 25-20). Pamela Nora (Minneapolis) was named the best spiker and Inta Grinvalds (Kalamazoo) was named MWP. In the men's division nine teams competed. In the semifinals Chicago beat Canada I (21-12; 23-21) and Los Angeles "RIGA" won over Cleveland (21-13; 21-17). In the finals Chicago defeated LA "RIGA" (25-21; 25-15). Canada I got the bronze by defeating Cleveland (25-19). Charlie Weldre (Chicago) was named the best spiker and Arturs Kulans (Chicago) was named MWP.