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• Team sport


  A sport in which two teams hit a large ball over a high net using their hands, played on a rectangular court
• Large inflated ball


  A large, usually inflated ball used to play volleyball
• Volleyball, popular team sport played by hitting an inflated ball back and forth over a high net
• Philippine volleyball players invented the set and spike
• More than 800 million people in the world play volleyball at least once a week, according to information from the Westlake High School physical education department
• This competitive sport burns 364 calories per hour for a 200-pound person
• William G. Morgan, The game of volleyball, originally called "mintonette", after the invention of basketball by only 4 years


  1895
• Morgan, a graduate of the Springfield College of the YMCA, designed the game to be a combination of basketball, baseball, tennis and handball
• The first volleyball net, borrowed from tennis, was only 6'6" high (though you need to remember that the average American was shorter in the 19th century)
• A special ball was designed for the sportintroduced in asia, specifically india

  1900
• The Physical Director of the YMCA, Elwood S. Brown, first introduced volleyball to the Philippines that year

  1910
• In 1916, in the Philippines, an offensive style of passing the ball in a high trajectory to be struck by another player (the set and spike) were introduced
• The Filipinos developed the "bomba" or kill, and called the hitter a "bomberino"
• Volleyball was added to school and college physical education and intramural programs
• The game was changed from 21 to 15 points

  1917
• Three hits per side and back row attack rules were instituted

  1920
• The first YMCA national championships were held in Brooklyn, NY. 27 teams from 11 states were represented

  1922
• It became clear that tournaments and rules were needed, the United States Volleyball Association (USVBA, now USA Volleyball) was formed. The first U.S. Open was staged, as the field was open to non-YMCA squads

  1928
• The first two-man beach game was played

  1930
• The approval and recognition of national volleyball referees

  1934
• In the 1940s, the forearm pass was introduced to the game (as a desperation play). Most balls were played with overhand pass
• The Federation Internationale De Volley-Ball (FIVB) was founded in Paris

  1947
• The first two-man beach tournament was held

  1948
• The first World Championships were held in Prage, Czechoslovakia

  1949
• Volleyball was played by over 50 million people each year in over 60 countries

  1951
• In the 1960's, new techniques added to the game included - the soft spike (dink), forearm pass (bump), blocking across the net, and defensive diving and rolling
• Volleyball was introduced to the Olympic Games in Tokyo

  1964
• National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) made volleyball their fifteenth competitive sport

  1968
• The Executive Committee of the NCAA proposed addition of volleyball to its program

  1969
• The World Championships in Mexico were telecast in Japan

  1974
• The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) was formed

  1983
• The Women's Professional Volleyball Association (WPVA) was formed

  1986
• The FIVB added a Beach Volleyball World Championship Series

  1987
• The FIVB Sports Aid Program was created

  1989
• The World League was created

  1990
• Volleyball World Wide, the first internet site on the sport of volleyball, was created

  1994
• The sport of Volleyball was 100 years old!

  1995
• 1. 2-person beach volleyball was added to the Olympics

  1996
• William Morgan invented volleyball in 1895 at the Holyoke, Massachusetts, YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) where he served as Director of Physical Education
• Alfred Halsted, a spectator commented that the game involved much "volleying" and game was renamed Volleyball