Lang Ping, Team USA volleyball coach, left China for 'normal life' (Dallas Morning News)
BEIJING ? China's revered daughter, Jenny Lang Ping, returned to much fanfare this week. At Beijing International Airport, photographers elbowed for position and reporters craned their necks for the first glimpse of Lang Ping as she deplaned with the Olympic volleyball team she coaches....more...May-Treanor, Walsh still sandblasting volleyball foes (USA Today)
It's not that complicated how Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor became the best women's beach volleyball team in the world and the heavy favorites to defend their 2004 Olympic title later this month in Beijing.Eight years ago, May-Treanor asked Walsh to be her partner.Walsh said yes."You take the two best women to play the sport and put them together and, well, it doesn't exactly stink," Karch ......more... Festus teen becomes Green team's golden girl (Jefferson County Journal)
It was a terrific - and then some - summer for Amie Held of Festus. Held played on the CYC Volleyball Club's 13-U team that swept through the recent USA Volleyball Junior Olympics in Dallas. Held's CYC Green team went 11-0 to win the National Division title in the Junior Olympics. Seeded 10th in the Junior Olympics, the St. Louis CYC team knocked off defending champ Hawaii Jammers and three ......more... Herd picked to finish 5th in C-USA volleyball (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
HUNTINGTON -- Marshall University volleyball is replacing two all-conference players who led the Thundering Herd to last season's regular-season title and was picked for a fifth-place finish in a preseason poll of coaches. ...more... A Chinese coach for US Olympic volleyball team (New Kerala)
Beijing, Aug 6 : It could not have been more ironical. A US team accompanied by a Chinese coach for the Olympic Games here....more... Volleyball players chosen for teams and camps (Midlothian Exchange)
Featured Photo: Ben Morrison, Darren Kilby and Christian Johnston at the USA Volleyball High Performance International Championships held in Tucson, Ariz., July 17-27....more... Strong Isle flavor for U.S. volleyball (Honolulu Advertiser)
Technique, talent, strategy and surf might be overrated, former University of Hawai'i All-American Maja Gustin says. The real reason a third of this year's U.S. Olympic women's volleyball team can trace its roots to Hawai'i is much simpler....more... Idolized in China, 'Iron Hammer' Lang now coaches U.S. team (Orange County Register)
Jenny Lang Ping led China's volleyball team to gold in a historic 1984 match....more... 2008 Summer Olympic Games Preview - Volleyball (Miami Herald)
The Capital Indoor Stadium, with a seating capacity of 18,000, will be the main venue for volleyball at the Beijing Games.Olympic...more... |