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Five-One: Six-player offensive system where a single designated setter sets regardless of court position. The player is responsible for the second touch on every reception of serve, and ideally every defensive play. Four Step Approach: The sequence of steps a hitter takes to meet a ball. Consisting of four steps.
Micah Christenson. Micah Makanamaikalani Christenson ( / ˈkrɪstʃənsən / KRISS-chən-sən; May 8, 1993) [ 1] is an American professional volleyball player who plays as a setter for Zenit Kazan and the U.S. national team. He was a bronze medalist at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, Paris 2024 and the 2018 World Championship; the 2014 World League ...
Olympic. 1964. In volleyball, spiking is the offensive play where a player swings the ball with their palm sharply downwards over the net and into the opposing court, making it difficult for the opposing team to recover the ball. The mechanism of spiking is unique to volleyball, but its counterparts in other sports include slam dunking in ...
The short center spot is a position that was previously called the 'sweeper'. This position was put into fruition in Canada some years ago, and the object of the short center is to strike the ball into the net as much as he can so that the nettie can give a nice, high, clean lift to his team to strike back to the opposing side.
Yūki Ishikawa. Yūki Ishikawa (石川祐希, Ishikawa Yūki, born 11 December 1995) is a Japanese professional volleyball player. He currently plays as an outside hitter and team captain of Japan men's national volleyball team. At club-level, he plays for Sir Safety Perugia at the Italian Volleyball League . Recognized as one of the greatest ...
Read all of the athletes' entries here. Volleyball star Matt Anderson, 37, has set, spiked, and jumped in courts over the world, playing on foreign pro teams for more than a decade. However ...
Taylor Sander. Taylor Lee Sander (born March 17, 1992) is an American professional beach volleyball player and former indoor volleyball player. As a member of the U.S. national team, he won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2018 World Championship. The 2014 World League and the 2015 World Cup winner.
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with more goals at the end of the game wins the match. Each team is made up of six field players and one goalkeeper.