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• Redbird Eyes Europeanchallenge'

NORMAL - Illinois State senior setter Erin Lindsey will participate in Europe's "Global Challenge," an international tour organized by the USA Volleyball Federation. Lindsey, who will compete for the "Bring it On Promotions"/USA Development Team, departs for Zagreb, Croatia, today and will remain overseas until July 26.--

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• July 16, 2008

• Bountiful's Gibb Takes 2nd Again

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.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• July 31, 2006

• Smoking Foes Assail Firm's Ties to Girls Volleyball ; Say Japan Tobacco Marketing Aimed at World Cup Athletes

Anti-smoking campaigners in Japan are accusing one of the world's leading tobacco companies of marketing products to teenage girls at World Cup volleyball events here. Japan Tobacco's logo is on the national team uniforms, courtside digital billboards, TV ads and "gift" packages handed out to schoolgirls, mothers and children entering Yoyogi National Stadium and arenas across Japan during the World Cup, which runs through Dec. 4.

... tobacco ads on TV in 1991 and at international sporting events in 2005. The International Federat...Hiroshi Takeuchi, the federation's press commission president, said the federation ...

• The Washington Times
• November 25, 2011

• AVP Announces Five Year Title Sponsorship Agreement with Crocs, Inc. for Australian Beach Volleyball Tour.

... on behalf of the Australian Volleyball Federation." . Highlights of the deal include: . * Five-year ...The AVF is affiliated to the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), the Asian Volleyball...

• Business Wire
• February 25, 2008

• Tobacco Sponsorship of Sports Could Doom Olympic Bid ; Opposition Includes U.N., Activists and Doctors

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.

..., said WHO plans to contact the Federation of International Volleyball, the sport's governing...

• The Washington Times
• December 02, 2011

• Volleyball How High Can It Rise?

The role models for these confident, enterprising young women are gold medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, who have done for volleyball what Mia Hamm did for women's soccer, bringing visibility to the increasingly competitive and growing spectator sport. Women's beach volleyball stars May-Treanor and Walsh captured their second gold medal as Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers won a gold medal for the U.S. men's beach volleyball team. A gold medal went to the U.S. Men's National Indoor Volleyball team for the first time since 1988, and the U.S. Women's National Indoor Volleyball team won a silver medal.

... than ever, reports the National Federation of High School Sports Associations. As another mea...Internationally, he adds, it's on a par with basketball and even s...

• Parks & Recreation
• Vol. 44 Nbr. 1, January 2009

• Sport in International Development: Time to Treat It Seriously?

... organizations (NGOs) to sports federations and development agencies to multinational corporat... associations such as the International Volleyball Federation, the International Olympic Committee, F...

• Brown Journal of World Affairs, The
• Vol. 14 Nbr. 2, April 2008

• One-of-a-Kind Talent Fuels United State's Best Dejno Leads New Berlin to Title

By DAVID COTEY New Berlin -- First there was a service error, a jump serve that went past the end line. Then there was a kill attempt that was drilled into the net. Finally, there was a botched dig attempt that bounded out of bounds.

...Dejno is a 6-foot-3-inch volleyball killing machine. He elevates above the net much li... Team that took 10th in the International Volleyball Federation Youth (U-19) World Champions...

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• November 25, 2009

• Albertsons Helps Children and Elite Athletes Step Beyond Gold(Tm) in the Spirit of the Games

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... Soccer Team and USA Women's National Volleyball Team -- to receive funding support. A portion of t... reestablish their dominance at the international level. Led by head coach Pia Sundhage, who will gu... and is recognized as such by the Federation International de Volleyball (FIVB) and the United ...

• U.S. Newswire
• May 07, 2008

• AVP Announces International Expansion into Australia.

American Professional Beach Volleyball Organization Announces Five-Year Agreement with thhe Australian Volleyball Federation (AVF) to Operate the Australian Beach Volleyball T...

• Business Wire
• December 10, 2007