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SlamBall was invented in 1999 by Mason Gordon, who was working at the time for Tollin/Robbins Productions. [3] The name SlamBall is owned by Gordon's company. Inspired by video games, [4] Gordon sketched an idea on a napkin for a sport that combined several existing ones. [5][6] He approached his boss, movie and television producer Mike Tollin ...
Hybrid : A term describing serves in which the ball is hit with a spin not reflected in the toss, usually jumping. For example, a toss with topspin struck in a manner to induce float, or no spin, on the ball. This is often used in combination with another serve of the same toss, but a different spin.
Andrea Carrie "Annie" Drews (born December 25, 1993) is an American professional volleyball player for the United States women's national volleyball team.Drews was elected as the Most Valuable Player of the 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League in Nanjing, China, where Team USA won the gold medal and the Best Opposite of the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup where the U.S. finished ...
The Swatch FIVB World Tour 2007 was an international beach volleyball competition. The tour consists of 12 tournaments with both genders and 10 separate gender tournaments. [1] One of the tournaments, was the 2007 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Gstaad, Switzerland . The top eight finishes that a team has from January 1, 2007 to July 20 ...
Representing the United States. Olympic Games. 2024 Paris. Team. Pan-American Cup. 2019 Trujillo/Chiclayo. Kathryn Rose Plummer (born October 16, 1998) is an American professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for the United States women's national volleyball team and the Turkish club Eczacıbaşı Dynavit.
The 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour was the global elite professional beach volleyball circuit organized by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) for the 2016 beach volleyball season. The 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Calendar comprised four FIVB World Tour Grand Slams, 13 Open tournaments (Doha and Kish Island only ...
Beach. 2019 Varadero. Beach. Falyn Talei Fonoimoana[1] (born March 3, 1992) is an American professional indoor and beach volleyball player who plays as an opposite hitting for indoor professional league Athletes Unlimited. She has also represented the U.S. National Team in the 2015 Pan-American Games, earning a gold medal with the team.
Sara Elizabeth Hughes (born February 14, 1995) [4] is an American beach volleyball player. With teammate Kelly Cheng she achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 2 in August 2023. Hughes has won six tournaments on the AVP Pro Tour and seven gold medals, one silver medal, and three bronze medals on the FIVB World Tour/Pro Beach Tour.