Quick Team Informa on Current FIVB World Ranking: 1st Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon 2011 Record: 39-10 Records for 2010: 28-13; 2009: 18-14 Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly, Paula Weishoff; Asst Coach/Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison
U.S. Women’s Na onal Team Quick Informa on
2012 Olympic Games Bound
FIVB World Ranking (as of Nov. 18, 2011)
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USA.........................................285 Brazil ......................................265 Japan ...................................228.5 Italy .....................................217.5 China ......................................198 Russia ..................................167.5 Serbia ..................................167.5 Germany .............................121.5 Cuba .........................................94 Turkey....................................78.5 Dominican Repbulic ..............78.5 Poland ...................................69.5 Thailand ................................68.5 Korea ........................................63 Kenya.....................................56.5 Algeria ...................................53.5 Peru .......................................49.5 Argen na..................................42 Netherlands .............................39 Puerto Rico...............................39 Kazakhstan ............................32.5 Canada ..................................31.5
USA Na onal Team Center and City of Anaheim USA Volleyball and the City of Anaheim are pleased to announce the agreement to bring the U.S. Women’s Na onal Volleyball Team to Anaheim from Colorado Springs was finalized in April 2009. The agreement also designates Anaheim as the Exclusive Official Host City for the USA Men’s and Women’s Na onal Volleyball Teams through 2016. The team trains at the USA Na onal Team Center within the American Sports Centers in Anaheim. The City of Anaheim and USA Volleyball are grateful for the support of these local sponsors who have contributed to the success of the U.S. Men’s and Women’s Na onal Teams in Anaheim: American Sports Centers; Anaheim White House; JT Schmid’s Restaurant & Brewery; PepZ Pizza & Eatery; OC Sports Grill; Ruth’s Chris Steak House; CIM/ Anaheim; Anaheim Marrio Suites; Anaheim Marrio Hotel; B.W. Stovals Hotels; Crowne Plaza Hotel; Disneyland Resort Hotels; Doubletree Guest Suites; Embassy Suites Anaheim South; Hilton Anaheim Hotel; Red Lion Hotel Anaheim; Sheraton Anaheim; and numerous Anaheim/OC Visitor and Conven on Bureau member hotels.
Addi onal Team USA Facts USA Volleyball CEO: Doug Beal Training Site: Anaheim, Calif. Media Contact: Bill Kauffman Phone: 719-228-6800 E-Mail: bill.kauffman@usav.org Web Site: www.usavolleyball.org Confedera on: NORCECA
named an FIVB Hero in summer of 2011, ranked among the top scorers in both the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix and the 2010 FIVB World Championships in just her first year of interna onal compe on and followed that up with an impressive 2011 season during the World Grand Prix and FIVB World Cup tournaments. Larson has been a regular starter the past two seasons, but is being pushed for playing me by Hodge and Barboza among others. DRIVE FOR FIVE OLYMPICS: Danielle Sco -Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) has had staying power in the sport as one of the best middle blockers in the world. She played in her fourth Olympic Games in Beijing, winning her first medal as Team USA captured the silver medal. Only Tara Cross-Ba le has been selected to four U.S. Women’s Olympic team rosters, matched only once on the men’s side by Lloy Ball. If she is selected to the 2012 Olympic Games roster, Sco -Arruda will be 39 years old at the me of the London Games – just three months shy of turning 40. Further, Sco -Arruda is a emp ng to become just the third female volleyball player worldwide to compete in five Olympic Games, matching the feat of Brazilian se er Hélia Rogério de Souza (Fofão) and Russia’s Yevgeniya Artamonova-Estes. Aside from age, she has also taken me off from the team in parts of 2009 and 2010 as she gave birth to her first child in April 2010. A er missing all compe ons in 2010, Sco -Arruda returned to the lineup at the 2011 FIVB World Cup and helped the U.S. to the silver medal and Olympic Games qualifica on. She averaged 1.62 points per set with a .500 hi ng efficiency, highlighted by a nine-point performance in the tournament-opening win over then-No. 1 Brazil. ANOTHER QUAD FOR FOUR: While Danielle Sco -Arruda is a emp ng to play in her fi h Olympics, other veterans are seeking their fourth Olympics experience. Outside hi er Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) and middle blocker Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), s ll considered among the best in the world, will look toward London as their fourth Olympic Games appearance. Libero Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) is also in the mix for 2012, which would be her fourth Olympic Games, as she con nues to recover from a devasta ng bus accident in April 2011. RECOVERY OF STACY SYKORA: Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas), the U.S. star ng libero at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games and member of the 2008 Olympic Games, was seriously injured in a bus accident on April 12, 2011, while traveling with her professional club team in Brazil. She was named the Best Libero at the 2010 FIVB World Championship and widely considered back on top of her game. She con nues to make progress toward a full recovery and is currently in Brazil compe ng for her club team Volei Futuro. Team USA is not without a top libero in the world as Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.), who was the star ng libero at the 2008 Olympic Games, has stepped back into the top libero posi on on the team. STARTING FAMILIES: Two key members of the 2008 Olympic Games roster have taken me off from the team during the current quadrennial to start families. Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Danielle Sco -Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) gave birth to their first offspring a month apart in March and April of 2010. Both returned to the USA gym in 2011 and saw ac on in at least one tournament. HaneefPark scored a team-high 75 points during the 2011 Montreux Volley Masters event held June 7-12 at Montreux, Switzerland, then was part of the 2011 FIVB World Cup roster in which she contributed 40 points in a reserve role. Sco -Arruda also competed in the World Cup, notching 34 points with a .500 hi ng efficiency (27-1-52) in mainly a reserve role with two match starts. She tallied nine points in a reserve role to spark the U.S. to a win over No. 1 Brazil in the World Cup opener. COACHING STAFF FULL OF GOLD AND OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) has made the transi on from being the U.S. Men’s Na onal Team Coach to the U.S. Women’s Na onal Team Coach. He led the U.S. Men’s Olympic Team to the 2008 Olympic Games gold medal in Beijing under extraordinary circumstances. Now McCutcheon has taken the helm of the U.S. Women’s Na onal Team Program with the hopes of building a las ng legacy for the program being gold-medal contenders in each Olympic Games. He holds an 85-37 record in the first three years of the current quadrennial and an overall 192-70 record coun ng his 107-33 record with the U.S. Men. McCutcheon is a emp ng to become the second coach to lead both genders to an Olympic Games gold medal (previously accomplished by Brazil’s Jose Roberto Guimaraes, who led Brazil men to Olympic gold in 1992 Olympics and Brazil women to Olympic gold in 2008 Olympics). In addi on, McCutcheon hired three- me Olympic Games gold-medalist Karch Kiraly to be his assistant. Kiraly was named the Interna onal Volleyball Federa on’s (FIVB) greatest men’s volleyball player of the sport’s first century a er he earned two indoor volleyball gold medals (1984 and 1988) and a beach volleyball gold medal (1996). He is the only volleyball player –male or female – to win Olympic Games gold medals in both the indoor and beach volleyball disciplines. Further, Kiraly is the first volleyball player – and one of only two ever – to win three gold medals in the sport. Joining the coaching staff in 2011 as an assistant coach, Paula Weishoff brings added Olympic Games experience. She is a 1998 Volleyball Hall of Fame inductee and is regarded as one of the greatest middle blockers during her genera on. Weishoff is the only two- me U.S. Olympic medalist in women’s indoor volleyball, having won the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games, and the bronze in the 1992 Olympic Games. She also played in the 1996 Olympic Games.
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