Volleyball

HBU to add sand volleyball as NCAA Division 1 sport

Houston Baptist University has else women’s sand volleyball as its seventeenth NCAA Division I sport and can begin competitive  in spring 2016, HBU president Robert B. Sloan Jr. and director of athletics Steve Moniaci declared Sat.

There area unit forty five alternative Division I programs. HBU are the primary region Conference college. TCU has the sole alternative program in TX.

“We have already got many outstanding women’s sports, and therefore the addition of this new and really exciting Olympic sport can provide even a lot of opportunities to prospective feminine student-athletes,” Sloan aforementioned during a news unleash.

Added Moniaci: “We had several outstanding sports to think about, however we have a tendency to believe sand volleyball makes the foremost sense for our department, considering our location. the expansion and recognition of the game during this region, in addition as having an excellent facility close, ought to facilitate U.S. field a competitive team quickly, and that we feel the advantages to our indoor team couldn't be exaggerated. we have a tendency to area unit terribly pleased with our call to maneuver forward with sand volleyball.”

HBU can apply and play home matches at Third Coast Volleyball Cub, that is a smaller amount than 3 miles from field. HBU volleyball coach Trent Woody Herman can administer each programs for currently. All indoor volleyball scholarship student-athletes area unit eligible to play sand volleyball, however student-athletes recruited to play sand volleyball aren't eligible to contend on the indoor team till their junior year. The indoor team receives twelve full scholarships, whereas the sand volleyball team gets six scholarships, which may be divided between team members.

“I believe this can be an excellent advantage for U.S.,” Woody Herman aforementioned. “With the momentum sand volleyball is gaining, one among the primary queries we have a tendency to get from prospective student-athletes is, ‘Are you attending to be adding sand volleyball?’ we are able to currently provide them the solution they require to listen to which we've got been looking ahead to.”
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101 sports updates: Volleyball:

with Around 900 million fans Across Asia, Europe, Americas, Australia Volleyball is the 6th Most Popular Sport in the World.

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net on each side. Each team tries to get score/ points by grounding a ball on the other team’s court under organized rules.[1] It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since 1964. It is very popular game in asia Europe, America, Australia.

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Basic Volleyball Rules:

Volleyball is a complex game of simple skills. The ball is spiked from up to 60 cm above the height of a basketball hoop (about 3.65 metres) and takes fractions of a second to travel from the spiker to the receiver. That means the receiver must assess incoming angle, decide where to pass the ball and then control their pass in the blink of an eye. A purely rebound sport (you can't hold the ball), volleyball is a game of constant motion.
A team can touch the ball three times on its side of the net. The usual pattern is a dig (an underarm pass made with the forearms), a set (an overhead pass made with the hands) and a spike (the overhead attacking shot). The ball is served into play. Teams can also try to block the opponent's spike as it crosses the net. A block into your own court counts as one of your three touches in beach volleyball, but not in volleyball.
Power and height have become vital components of international teams, but the ability of teams and coaches to devise new strategies, tactics and skills has been crucial for continued success.

• There are six players on court in a volleyball team, who each must rotate one position clockwise every time their team wins back service from the opposition. Only the three players at the net positions can jump and spike or block near the net. The backcourt players can only hit the ball over the net if they jump from behind the attack line, also known as the three-metre line, which separates the front and back part of the court.
• Volleyball has developed into a very specialised sport. Most teams will include in their starting line-up a setter, two centre blockers, two receiver-hitters and a universal spiker. Only certain players will be involved with service reception. Players will also have specialist positions for attack and defence. Substitutions are allowed during the game.
• Since 1998, volleyball bas been using a new scoring system. Teams scored a point on every rally (Rally Point System), regardless of which team served. Formerly, a team could only win a point if it served the ball. Winning the serve back from the opposition was known as a side-out.
• Matches are played best of five sets. The first four sets are played to 25 points, with the final set being played to 15 points. A team must win a set by two points. There is no ceiling, so a set continues until one of the teams gains a two-point advantage. Previously, all sets were to 15 points, with the first four sets having a ceiling of 17 and the final set requiring at least a two-point winning advantage.
• In 1998, the FIVB introduced a new specialist role: the libero. This player wears a different coloured uniform from the rest of the team and can be substituted in backcourt for any player on the team. The libero cannot serve, spike the ball over the net or rotate into the front-line positions, but plays a vital role for the team in serve reception and backcourt defence. There must be at least one point played between a libero substituting off for a player and going back on the court for another player – hence he/she cannot be on the court for the whole game. The libero has added an extra dimension to backcourt defence, improving the reception of teams, lengthening the rallies and giving a vital role to shorter players.
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• Referee Delegate Seminar gets under way in Montreux
    Lausanne, Switzerland, May 29, 2014 – A four-day FIVB Referee Delegate Seminar got under way in Montreux, Switzerland, on Thursday.
  
  
  The purpose of the seminar is to train and learn about the duties of Referee Delegates at official FIVB competitions.
  
  
  The Montreux seminar follows on from a similar seminar held in Osaka, Japan, at the beginning of May under the leadership of FIVB 2nd Executive Vice-President in charge of Referees Andre Meyer, FIVB Refereeing Commission President Hassan Mohamed and FIVB Refereeing Commission Secretary Sergey Titov.
  
  
  The Montreux seminar is for delegates from Europe and NORCECA.
  
  
  It is being held alongside the Montreux Volley Masters, which presents the participants with an ideal opportunity to analyze games, procedures and refereeing issues.
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