Volleyball company focus assignment.

1. COMPANY/LEAGUE FOCUS
VOLLEYBALL
Caitlin Kirchner

2. HISTORY
 Started in 1895, where it was originally called
Mintonette.
 Started by William G. Morgan after being
inspired by Basketball.
 The first official league was the American
Volleyball Professionals in 1983.
 The Volleyball season runs from August to
November.

3. IMPORTANT TIMELINE
 Volleyball became a designed sport in 1900.
 The offensive style called Spike was invented in 1916, by the
Philippines.
 In 1922, the first YMCA national championships were held in
Brooklyn, NY. Twenty-seven teams from 11 states were
represented.
 1928, USVBA was created.
 In 1930, the first two-man beach game was played.
 In 1947, the Federation Internationale De Volley-Ball (FIVB) was
founded.
 In 1964, volleyball was introduced to the Olympic Games in
Tokyo.
 In 1983, the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) was
formed.
 In 1995, the sport of volleyball was 100 years old!

4. FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE VOLLEYBALL
 Was found in 1947 in Paris, France by Paul Libaud.
 Fourteen national federations representing five different continents
attended the meetings where, between April 18 and 20, the entity was
officially formed
 They are responsible for organizing The Olympics, The World
Championship and World Cup.
 Their Current President is Ary Graça
 http://www.fivb.org/

5. LOCATION
 The FIDV headquarters is currently located
in in Lausanne, Switzerland
 https://www.google.fr/maps/place/F%C3%A9
d%C3%A9ration+Internationale+de+Volleyba
ll/@46.507434,6.635734,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!
4m2!3m1!1s0x478c2fc87ee528b7:0x40816c
bb7c47e0f0?hl=fr

6. CHAMPIONS!
 The Current Volleyball Champions
 Olympics- Russia
 World Championship- Poland
 World Cup-Russia

7. CLOSEST TO ME!
 Being a New York resident, the closest
Volleyball league to me is the New York
Urban Professionals League.
 http://www.nyurban.com/volleyball/

8. SCHOLARLY ARTICLE
 http://web.b.ebscohost.com.jerome.stjohns.e
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9. LINKED IN PROFILE

10. ASICS!
 http://www.asicsamerica.com/

11.  Asics is an Sporting Appeal company that mostly
serves in the Volleyball athlete.
 It was founded in 1949 in Japan by Kihachiro
Onitsuka
 ASICS is an acronym of the Latin phrase “anima
sana in corpore sano”, which translates to "healthy
soul in a healthy body"
 U.S Headquarters
 https://www.google.com/maps/place/80+Technology+
Dr,+Irvine,+CA+92618/@33.658901,-
117.74162,3a,75y,25.06h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s
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12. SOURCES
 http://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-
volleyball.htm
 http://www.nyurban.com/volleyball/
 http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball.aspx
 http://web.b.ebscohost.com.jerome.stjohns.e
du:81/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=5&sid=
e89ba243-e734-48f2-b631-
ffe84e7eb179%40sessionmgr198&hid=107