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U.S. Sitting Women's Team Prepared for Paralympics
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team will be looking to improve on its 2004 bronze medal finish when it begins play at the 2008 Paralympic Games, starting Saturday, Sept. 6 in Beijing. Read More
U.S. Sitting Women's Volleyball Team Opens Paralympics with Victory
The U.S. Sitting Women’s Volleyball Team opened the 2008 Paralympic Games by sweeping Lithuania, 25-15, 25-18, 25-9, on Sunday at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium in Beijing. Read More
China Hands U.S. Sitting Women First Paralympic Loss
The U.S. Sitting Women’s Volleyball Team suffered its first setback of the 2008 Paralympic Games on Tuesday, falling to top-ranked China, 25-14, 25-21, 25-19 in Beijing. Read More
U.S. Women's Sitting Team Advances to Semifinals
In a repeat of the 2004 Paralympic semifinals for women’s sitting volleyball, the United States will play Netherlands in Friday’s semifinals and China will face Slovenia. Read More
U.S. Sitting Women to Play for Paralympic Gold
The U.S. Sitting Women’s Volleyball Team advanced to Sunday’s Paralympic gold medal match after defeating Netherlands, 3-2 (19-25, 25-23, 28-26, 25-27, 15-10), on Friday. Read More
U.S. Sitting Women Secure Paralympic Silver Medal
The U.S. Sitting Women’s Volleyball Team won the silver medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games on Sunday after falling to defending champion China in the final match, 25-14, 25-19, 25-15. Read More
UCO Offers Chance to Welcome Home U.S. Sitting Women
Five members of the U.S. Sitting Volleyball Team will be welcomed home for the 2008 Paralympic Games. Read More
U.S. Women's Sitting Team Claims Bronze Medal at Intercontinental Cup
The U.S. Women's Sitting Volleyball Team defeated Ukraine on Tuesday to win the bronze medal at the World Organization Volleyball for Disabled (WOVD) Intercontinental Cup in Ismailia, Egypt. Read More
Men's Sitting Team for Parapan Ams is Announced
USA Volleyball and U.S. Paralympics, a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee, announced today the nominees for the men's sitting volleyball team that will represent the U.S. at the 2007 Parapan American Games, Aug. 12-19 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read More
U.S. Sitting Teams to Play Canada in Denver
The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Sitting Volleyball Teams will face their counterparts from Canada on March 20-21 in matches that will be played as part of the Colorado Crossroads tournament. Read More
U.S. Sitting Teams Open Season with Victories
The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Sitting Volleyball Teams won their first international matches of the season on Friday when they each played Canada as part of the Colorado Crossroads Tournament at the Colorado Convention Center. Read More
U.S. Sitting Teams Go Undefeated Against Canada
The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Sitting Teams both concluded the Parapan American Zonal Championships on Saturday at the McGill University Athletic Complex in Montreal with 4-0 records against the teams from Canada. Read More
Hamiter to Coach, Direct Sitting Volleyball Program
USA Volleyball is proud to announce that Bill Hamiter has been named its head coach and high performance director for the U.S. Sitting Volleyball Teams, which are based at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) in Edmond. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Looking for Success at Eurocup
The U.S. Women's Sitting Volleyball Team hopes to gain several things from the 2009 Women's Eurocup, including international experience, practice with implementing new systems, and most importantly, a medal. Read More
U.S. Women's Sitting Team is 1-1 at Eurocup
The U.S. Women's Sitting Volleyball Team has gone 1-1 in its first two matches of the 2009 Eurocup Sitting Volleyball Championship in Roermond, Netherlands. Read More
U.S. Women's Sitting Team Sweeps Finland
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball team bounced back from Monday’s loss with an impressive 3-0 win over Finland (25-21, 25-13, 25-18) on Tuesday at the 2009 Eurocup Sitting Volleyball Championship in Roermond, Netherlands. Read More
U.S. Women's Sitting team to play in final
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team picked up two important wins over Slovenia and Russia on Wednesday at the Eurocup in Roermond, Netherlands and will play host Netherlands in the tournament final on Thursday. Read More
UCO Holds A2 Camp for Sitting Volleyball Paralympic Hopefuls
The U.S. Sitting Volleyball program held its first A2 development camp on Aug. 10-14 at the University of Central Oklahoma, an Olympic and Paralympic training site. Read More
U.S. to Host 2010 Sitting World Championships
USA Volleyball, the University of Central Oklahoma and U.S. Paralympics will join forces to host the World Organization Volleyball Disabled (WOVD) 2010 Sitting World Championships on July 11-18 in the UCO Hamilton Field House in Edmond, Okla. Read More
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Brenda Maymon is the captain of the U.S. Sitting Women's Volleyball Team, which is competing at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.
Latest Brenda Maymon's Paralympic Report, Sept. 15, 2008
It's over...it was a long time coming, but it's finally over. It's not fun knowing that you have to wait another four years to have another experience like this. It's hard to believe… Read MoreRelated Blog Posts
Brenda Maymon's Paralympic Report - Sept. 5, 2008
For the past year or so, our team has been hearing the slogan for the Paralympic Games – “Amazing Awaits.” When we arrived in Beijing on August 1st, we quickly knew that amazing no longer awaits. Besides the hospitality from all the volunteers at the airport and here at the… Read More
Brenda Maymon's Paralympic Report - Sept. 7, 2008
Since the last time I wrote, we have had a pretty exciting last couple days. It started with our last practice before the start of the real games. It was at our competition venue and we pretty much worked on the basics to get use to our environment.
The following day was Opening… Read More
Brenda Maymon's Paralympic Report, Sept. 10, 2008
My experience here has been a life-changing one. I have learned so much about my opponents, my team, my coaches, my family, and most of all - myself. I have been a co-captain on this team since June 2007 and in May 2008, I was chosen to be a solo captain. The Paralympics is my first official… Read More
Brenda Maymon's Paralympic Report, Sept. 11, 2008
We played Latvia yesterday and strolled right into the medal rounds with a great victory. Everyone was able to play yesterday and we dominated. We stayed to watch the Netherlands vs. Slovenia to see who we would match up against. It was a great match and definitely a nail-biter. The Netherlands took… Read More
Brenda Maymon's Paralympic Report fo …
Our team is in unchartered water after our win against the Netherlands 2 days ago. It was the first time Team USA has won against them in official competition. It felt great – I’m sure it felt very similar to winning a gold medal. We worked hard for that win and we deserved it. We… Read More
Brenda Maymon's Paralympic Report, Sept. 15, 2008
It's over...it was a long time coming, but it's finally over. It's not fun knowing that you have to wait another four years to have another experience like this. It's hard to believe that we've been here for 2 1/2 weeks already and in a few days we will be packing our stuff up… Read More
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