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Women’s Team Named Sitting Team of the Year
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team won both of its major international tournaments and posted an 18-1 record, earning it the Sitting Team of the Year for 2011. Read More
Holloway, USAV Women’s Sitting Athlete of the Year
Katie Holloway (Lake Stevens, Wash.) has been named the USA Volleyball Sitting Women’s Athlete of the Year for 2011. Read More
Holloway Inspires on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team player Katie Holloway will make her reality TV debut on Sunday (Oct. 9) on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The show will air at 8 p.m. ET (check local listings). Read More
U.S. Women’s Sitting Reigns Supreme, is Finals Bound
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team is headed to the Para Panamerican Zonal Championship final after defeating Colombia, 25-0, 25-0, 25-1 on Friday in the semifinals in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Read More
U.S. Women’s Sitting Team Perfect in Brazil
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team remained undefeated Thursday at the Para Panamerican Zonal Championships, winning in straight sets over Colombia, 25-0, 25-2, 25-3 and Brazil, 25-17, 25-20, 25-15. Read More
U.S. Sitting Off to Brazil for Zonal Championship
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team will compete in the Para Panamerican Tournament Sept. 28- Oct. 1 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for high-level international competition in preparation for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. Read More
Three U.S. Sitting Team Members Named ‘Best’
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team traveled back to the United States from the ECVD Continental Cup with more than just gold medals. Three players earned four individual all-tournament awards for their unmatchable performances in Yevatoriya, Ukraine. Read More
U.S. Sitting Team Wins Gold at Continental Cup
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team captured the ECVD Continental Cup gold medal on Saturday after defeating host Ukraine 25-20, 25-23, 25-22 in Yevatoriya, Ukraine. Read More
U.S. Sitting Beats Slovenia, Gold-Ward Bound
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team will play host Ukraine for the gold medal at the ECVD Continental Cup after downing Slovenia, 25-20, 25-15, 25-11 on Friday in the semifinal match held in Yevatoriya, Ukraine. Read More
U.S. Women’s Sitting Team Rides 6-0 Record to Semis
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team remained undefeated after its dominating win on Thursday over Great Britain 25-9, 25-13, 25-15 at the ECVD Continental Cup in Yevpatoriya, Ukraine. Read More
U.S. Sitting Team Sweeps Netherlands
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team defeated Netherlands, 25-19, 26-24, 25-18 on Wednesday at the ECVD Continental Cup in Yevpatoriya, Ukraine. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Improves to 4-0 at Cup
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team has amassed a 4-0 record after two days at the ECVD Continental Cup in Yevpatoriya, Ukraine. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Wins Two Matches
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team got off to a good start on Monday at the ECVD Continental Cup with victories over Russia and Ukraine in Yevpatoriya, Ukraine. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Prepares for Continental Cup
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team is preparing to venture to Yevpatoriya and Crimea, Ukraine to compete at the ECVD (European Committee Volleyball for Disabled) Continental Cup on Sept. 5-11. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Wins Second Friendly Match
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball team proved once again to be too strong for Canada as it defeated its North American neighbor, 25-13, 25-3, 25-16 and, in a bonus fourth set, 25-10 on Saturday. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Wins Friendly Match
The U.S. Women’s Sitting National Team defeated Canada on Friday, 25-14, 25-15, 25-10, 25-10, in the first of two friendly matches being played at the end of a weeklong training camp at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) in Edmond. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Ends Shanghai Series with Win
In the last match of the three-match series, the U.S. Women’s Sitting National Team won another close contest over the Shanghai club team, 20-25, 25-22, 25-23, 25-23 on Saturday at the Shanghai Disabled Persons’ Sport Center. Read More
U.S. Women's Sitting Team is 1-1 in Shanghai
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball National Team defeated the Shanghai Women’s Sitting Team, 16-25, 17-25, 25-10, 25-11, 17-15 on Thursday at the Shanghai Disabled Persons’ Sport Center in Shanghai, China. Read More
U.S. Women’s Sitting Team Almost Tastes Gold
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team will compete in three matches against the Shanghai club team from June 9-11 at the Shanghai Disabled Persons’ Sport Training Center in China. Read More
U.S. Sitting Team Captain Improving After Accident
U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team Captain Kendra Lancaster (Westfield, Ind.) is recovering from injuries she suffered in a head-on car accident in Morgan County, Ind., on Saturday. Read More
USA Volleyball Foundation Creates Web Site
The USA Volleyball Foundation has developed a new Web site to offer volleyball fans and corporations the opportunity to pledge money to ‘grow the game’ in all areas. Read More
U.S. Sitting Team Notes - Viva Las Vegas
For U.S. Women Sitting Volleyball Team member Michelle Gerlosky, last week was exciting in more ways than one. Read More
U.S. Sitting Team Finishes with Fourth Victory
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team completed its four-match exhibition series with a Shanghai club team with a 3-1 (25-19, 23-25, 25-21, 25-14) victory on Sunday morning at the Colorado Convention Center. Read More
Shanghai Sitting Team Gets Tough on U.S. Women
After the U.S. Women’s Sitting Team swept Shanghai, 25-20, 25-15, 25-16 in the morning – even winning two bonus sets 25-16, 15-6 – the United States was surprised to find itself in an evening battle, which it won 3-2 (15-25, 30-28, 22-25, 25-21, 17-15). Read More
Women's Sitting Team Feels Good After Win
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team is feeling pretty good after taking a 3-1 (25-18, 21-25, 25-12, 25-16) victory over a club team from Shanghai, China on Friday at the Denver Convention Center. Read More
Women's Sitting Teams to Cross in Denver
The only team in recent history that the U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team has not been able to beat is China, and this weekend the two teams will meet on the courts in Denver in hopes for high-level competition over revenge. Read More
Liberos Named USAV Sitting Athletes of the Year
Liberos Kari Miller and Ed O’Neil have been named the USA Volleyball Sitting Volleyball Athletes of the Year for 2010. Read More
USA Volleyball Names its Teams of the Year
Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers comprise the Beach Team of the Year. The U.S. Women’s National Team has been named the Indoor Team of the Year. The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team has been named the U.S. Sitting Team of the Year. Read More
USA Volleyball Enjoys Broad Success in August
USA Volleyball athletes and teams have once again captured the fancy of volleyball enthusiasts and media across the country and around the world with success on the courts in August 2010. Read More
Holloway, Miller Earn Sitting Worlds Tourney Honors
Along with their silver medals, two members of the U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team earned “best player” honors at the 2010 Sitting Volleyball World Championships on July 11-18 in Edmond, Okla. Read More
Sitting Worlds Notes: What's Next for U.S. Teams?
What’s next for the U.S. Women’s and Men’s Sitting Volleyball Teams after the 2010 World Championships? Read More
Women's Sitting Team Takes Silver at Worlds
After driving through the 2010 Sitting Volleyball World Championships with relative ease, the U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball ran into a roadblock called China in the gold medal match. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Qualifies for 2012 Paralympics
It’s one goal down and a gold medal match to go for the U.S. Women’s Sitting Team, which qualified for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London on Saturday as it defeated Netherlands, 3-1 (25-12, 23-25, 25-20, 25-18) on Saturday. Read More
Laforest Takes Long Way to Sitting Team Practice
U.S. Men's Sitting Team player Edgar Laforest travels from San Juan, Puerto Rico to compete for the team. Read More
U.S. Women's Sitting Team Advances to Semis
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team took another step toward its goal of qualifying for the 2012 Parlaympic Games in London with its 25-13, 25-19, 25-19 sweep of Russia on Friday at the 2010 Sitting Volleyball World Championships. Read More
Stuck is Poster Boy for U.S. Men's Sitting Team
U.S. Men’s Sitting Team player James Stuck of New Kensington, Pa., still isn’t sure how a poster of him ended up in a major motion picture. He didn’t even know the poster existed. Read More
U.S. Women's Sitting Team Undefeated in Pool
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team, ranked No. 3, made sure that its points added up to victory as it swept Netherlands, 25-16, 25-11, 25-12 to win Pool B with an undefeated 5-0 record. Read More
McWilliams' Children Give Her Their Support
U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team player Gina McWilliams from The Colony, Texas, is the senior member of the women's team and the only one raising children while trying to compete. Read More
U.S. Sitting Teams Have Undefeated Day
The U.S. Men’s Sitting Volleyball Team won its first match of the 2010 Sitting Volleyball World Championships while the U.S. Women picked up two more victories on Tuesday at the University of Central Oklahoma. Read More
Sweeps Go Both Ways for U.S. Sitting Teams
Two sweeps went two different directions for the U.S. Men’s and Women’s Sitting Volleyball Teams on Monday at the 2010 Sitting Volleyball World Championships at the University of Central Oklahoma. Read More
U.S. Sitting Teams Go 1-1 on Worlds' First Day
The U.S. Women’s and Men’s Sitting Volleyball Team had mixed results on their first day of pool play at the 2012 World Championships at the University of Central Oklahoma. Read More
Paralympics are Goal for Women's Sitting Team
Medals are nice, but a slot in the 2012 Paralympic Games in London is the primary goal for the U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team, which will compete at the 2010 World Championships. Read More
Sitting Volleyball Worlds Less than One Week Away
In less than one week, the U.S. Women’s and Men’s Sitting Volleyball Teams will be working for 2010 Paralympic qualification when they compete at the 2010 Sitting Volleyball World Championships on July 10-18 at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). Read More
Women's Sitting Team Wins World Cup; Men Beat Algeria
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team won the WOVD World Cup in Port Said, Egypt, after defeating Netherlands, 3-1, in the gold medal match on Thursday. The U.S. Men's Sitting Team swept Algeria. Read More
Women's Sitting Team in Final; Men to Play Algeria
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team has advanced to the final of the WOVD (World Organization for Volleyball Disabled) World Cup in Port Said, Egypt, after sweeping Russia in the semifinal on Wednesday. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Reaches Semifinals
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team improved its record to 4-0 on Tuesday with a 25-9, 25-8, 25-5 victory over host Egypt at the WOVD (World Organization for Volleyball Disabled) World Cup in Port Said. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Wins 2 More; Men are 1-2
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team won two matches without dropping a set on Monday while the U.S. Men’s Team fell to top-ranked Iran at the WOVD (World Organization for Volleyball Disabled) World Cup in Port Said, Egypt. Read More
U.S. Sitting Teams Pick Up Wins in Egypt
The U.S Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team defeated Netherlands in a five-set battle while the U.S. Men went 1-1 on Sunday, the first day of the WOVD World Cup in Port Said, Egypt. Read More
Sitting Teams in Egypt for World Cup
The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Sitting Volleyball Teams are in Egypt for the WOVD World Cup on March 20-26 in Port Said. Read More
U.S. Women Win Parapan Am Championship
The U.S. Sitting Women’s Team won the Parapan American Championship with its second straight victory over Brazil, 25-15, 25-14, 25-18 on Monday. Read More
U.S. Sitting Teams Advance to Championship Matches
The U.S. Men's and Women's Sitting Volleyball Teams will both play Brazil in Monday's gold medal matches following a busy day of play on Sunday. Read More
U.S. Sitting Teams Win First Matches
The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Sitting Volleyball Teams opened the 2010 Parapan American Championships on Saturday with victories over Canada and Brazil respectively at the Colorado Convention Center. Read More
Sitting Teams Begin Road to London in Denver
The 2010 Winter Paralympics begin March 12 in Vancouver, but in Denver this weekend, there are Summer Paralympic hopefuls beginning their march toward the London Games in 2012. Read More
USAV Names 2009 Athletes, Teams of the Year
As 2009 draws to a close, USA Volleyball has announced its players and teams of the year. Read More
University of Central Oklahoma Announced as Olympic and Paralympic Training Site
The USOC announced the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Okla., as an official U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training site for volleyball, archery and Paralympic sports. Read More
Women's Sitting Team Wins Eurocup
The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball team shocked the host Netherlands in the gold medal match of the Eurocup, sweeping the Dutch, 25-16, 25-7, 25-12. 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
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 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
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
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
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
U.S. Sitting Teams Sweep Canada for Second Day
The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Sitting Volleyball Teams took two more matches from their Canadian hosts at the Parapan American Zonal Championship on Friday at the McGill University Athletic Complex in Montreal. Read More
Sitting Teams Open Tournament with Wins
The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Sitting Volleyball Teams both opened the Parapan American Zonal Championship on Thursday with victories over host Canada at the McGill University Athletic Complex in Montreal. Read More
U.S. Sitting Teams to Play Canada this Weekend
The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Sitting Volleyball Teams will be in Montreal this week to take on their Canadian counterparts at the Parapan American Zonal Championship. Read More
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