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Elaine Youngs (born February 14, 1970, in Orange, California) is an American former professional volleyball player who competed both indoors and on the beach. [1]Youngs attended UCLA, where as a freshman she started on a team that went undefeated through the regular season.
Volleyball has been part of every Summer Youth Olympics. Indoor volleyball was played at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics . At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics it was replaced by beach volleyball , which has continued at subsequent editions.
Nuss was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana to Audrey and George. She is the youngest of four children, with older brothers Pete, Jeffrey, and Jordan. Nuss was a multi-sport athlete throughout high school, leading Mount Carmel Academy to three indoor volleyball and two basketball state titles, [2] though beach volleyball was the sport she enjoyed most. [1]
She played four years of indoor volleyball (2008–11) for Pepperdine University and two years of beach volleyball (2012–13). [3] Hill was the first college volleyball player to earn AVCA All-American first team honors in both indoor and beach. She received the accolades in 2011 with the indoor squad, and in 2012 and 2013 on the beach.
Orsi Toth has two siblings: her brother, Lorenzo, [1] was a track and field athlete who ran the 800 metres; [4] her younger sister, Reka, [1] was a silver medalist at the 2017 European U20 Beach Volleyball Championships, and has played NCAA Division I indoor volleyball for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (2018) and beach volleyball for the ...
She is the beach volleyball leader in career victories as of 2016 having won 135 international and domestic tournaments. [2] Walsh Jennings and teammate Misty May-Treanor were the gold medalists in beach volleyball at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. They also won the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007.
When the player also slides their hand under a ball which is almost touching the court it is called a "pancake". The pancake is frequently used in indoor volleyball, but rarely if ever in beach volleyball because the uneven and yielding nature of the sand court limits the chances that the ball will make good, clean contact with the hand.
Volleyball is one of the sports that is played at the Summer Olympic Games in two disciplines: the traditional six-per-side indoor game, and the newer game of beach volleyball. Indoor volleyball was added to the Olympic programme in 1957 at the 53rd session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the first ...