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Marquette volleyball coach Pati Rolf leads a double life and it wouldn't be inaccurate to call her an international woman of mystery.
During their season, Rolf gives her full attention to coaching the Golden Eagles volleyball team. But in her down time at Marquette, Rolf moonlights as an international volleyball referee.
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Japan risks losing its bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games because of growing local and international opposition to the national tobacco corporation's sponsorship of World Cup volleyball, which attracts millions of women and schoolgirls.
A United Nations agency, an international group of nongovernmental organizations and hundreds of antismoking activists and doctors in Japan are calling on Japan Tobacco, the world's third- largest cigarette maker, to halt its sponsorship of World Cup matches, which includes players from the United States and other nations that forbid tobacco advertising at sporting events.
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Paola Ampudia began her college volleyball career playing a deliberate international style that valued sky-scraping sets and raw outside power.
Ampudia
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Missouri football. Excitement and emotion wrapped up in two little words that, when examined closer, revealed a multi-volume epic of great stories.
Columbia was witness to the best of the best in collegiate sports - a national champion wrestler, the NCAA baseball and soccer tournaments, the NAIA volleyball tournament - international superstars - Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Tour de France-caliber cyclists - as well as state high school championship tournaments and individual performances.
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COLLEGE Womens soccer Marshall at C-USA Championships, Memphis Womens basketball Salem International at Marshall (exhibition), 7 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 4 COLLEGE Volleyball Davis & Elkins at W.Va. State, 7 p.m. Marshall at Houston, 7 p.m. West Virginia at Connecticut, 7 p.m. Womens tennis Marshall at North Carolina tournament Womens basketball WVU Tech vs. Virginia Intermont at Bluefield, Va., 6 p.m.
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The Los Altos High School boys volleyball team truly has an international flavor.
The Conquerors have combined two immigrants and a foreign exchange student with an enthusiastic first-year coach to develop one of the best teams in the Valley.
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From staff reports The University of New Haven women's volleyball team defeated American International College 3-0 (25-19, 26-24, 25- 15) Wednesday night at West Haven.
The win was the team's 10th in Northeast-10 Conference play. The Chargers are 17-2 overall. The Yellow Jackets are 14-9, 5-4.
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Hitting is such a visible and spectacular aspect of volleyball, it's easy to forget that those kills wouldn't be possible without a good, solid pass. What many coaches and fans came to value this season was a player who could pick up one of those scorching kills when the block failed them. A fixture in international volleyball, liberos made their first appearance in Utah this season. The position is a defensive specialist who wears a different color jersey and can sub in for any back row player at any time, but isn't allowed to serve. The Deseret Morning News selected two liberos to honor them for their efforts in a position that is often overlooked.
Pleasant Grove's Morgan Lloyd, a senior, and Morgan's Kambria Kinsey, a junior, were standouts with their ability to be where the ball was...
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Canisius debuts new Field House
The Canisius volleyball team lost in four games to San Ignacio, an international opponent from Puerto Rico, on Friday in the first athletic contest played in the Bernard Kennedy Field House.
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PARIS -- For the second straight year, Bountiful's Jake Gibb has taken second place at the Federation International de Volleyball Grand Slam beach tournament in Paris.
Gibb, the 15th seed with his 2006 partner Sean Rosenthal, fell on Sunday to the hottest team on the Swatch-FIVB World Tour, Brazil's Marcio Araujo and Fabio Magalhaes 21-11 and 21-17 in the 44-minute championship match of the Henkel Grand Chelem in front of the Eiffel Tower.