The European Volleyball Confederation is the continental governing body for the sports of indoor volleyball, beach volleyball and snow volleyball in Europe. Its headquarters is in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Angelina Grün is a German former volleyball player, who was a member of the German Women's Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Grün also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Tonya Slacanin, formerly known as "Teee" Williams or "Teee" Sanders, is a retired female volleyball player from the United States. She won a bronze medal with the USA National Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, finishing in seventh place.
Christiane Fürst is a German retired volleyball player.
Gizem Güreşen is a Turkish volleyball player. She is 1.76 m tall and plays as libero.
Margareta Anna "Maggie" Kozuch is a German female volleyball player who played for Atom Trefl Sopot, and previously played as a wing-spiker for TuS Berne Hamburg, CVMJ Hamburg, TV Fischbek, and Unicom Starker Kerakoll Sassuolo.
Susanne Lahme is a former German indoor and beach volleyball player who is best known for her time at SC Dynamo Berlin throughout the 1980s.
Tijana Bošković is a Serbian professional volleyball player. A left-handed opposite, she has won gold medals with the Serbia women's national volleyball team at the 2018 and 2022 World Championships and the 2017 and 2019 European Championships. She is also a two-time Olympic medalist, having won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and bronze at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Kimberly Hill is an American former professional volleyball player who played as an outside hitter for the United States women's national volleyball team. Hill won gold with the national team at the 2014 World Championship and the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, and bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas, Inc. was the national sport association for volleyball in the Philippines between 2015 and January 2021. It was recognized by the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) and provisionally recognized by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). In 2021, the newly formed Philippine National Volleyball Federation became recognized by the POC, AVC and FIVB as the national sport association for volleyball in the Philippines.
Anne Elise Buijs is a Dutch volleyball player. She has been a member of the Women's National Team since 2008. She is the daughter of Internacional coach and ex-volleyball player Teun Buijs, who trained her for several clubs in her career. Her mother and older brother were also volleyball players. She currently plays for Italian club Reale Mutua Chieri.
Carmen-Alida Cioroianu Marcovici is a retired Romanian female volleyball player, who played as a middle blocker.
Florentina Nedelcu is a retired Romanian female volleyball player, who played as a wing spiker.
Celina Crusoe is an Argentine female volleyball player, who played as a setter. She was part of the Argentina women's national volleyball team.
Anne Kathrin Schade was a German female volleyball player. She was part of the Germany women's national volleyball team.
Alexandra Jupiter is a French female former volleyball and beach volleyball player, playing as an outside hitter. She was part of the France women's national volleyball team.
Nina Brunner is a Swiss professional beach volleyball player who plays as a right side defender with her partner Tanja Hüberli. She is a two-time European Champion, winning the title in 2021 and 2023, the silver medallist at the 2018 and 2022 European Championships, and the bronze medalist at the 2024 Summer Olympics. With her former partner Nicole Eiholzer, she won the gold medal at the first ever European Games in 2015. Alongside Hüberli, Betschart has won combined total of 3 gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze medals on FIVB World Tour and its successor Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Betschart / Hüberli team represented Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics where they finished in ninth place and played a pivotal role at their country's triumph in the women's event of the inaugural CEV Beach Volleyball Nations Cup in 2022. They achieved a career-high World ranking of No. 2 in November 2021.
The following were the events of Volleyball for the year 2017 throughout the world.
Zehra Güneş is a Turkish professional volleyball player. She plays in the middle blocker position. Currently, she plays for Vakıfbank Istanbul and is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.
Pallavolo Femminile Matera, commonly referred to as PVF Matera, was a women's volleyball team based in Matera, Italy. The club was a dominant force in Italian and Global volleyball during the 1990s, winning several national and international titles. Matera won the Italian Women's Volleyball Championship four times (1992-1995) and the Italian Women's Volleyball Cup three times (1993-1995). Internationally, secured two CEV Women's Champions League titles, two CEV Women's Challenge Cups, and one Women's Volleyball European Super Cup (1993). Matera also finished as Vice World Champion, reaching the World Championship final.
