The FIVB World Ranking is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in volleyball. The teams of the member nations of FIVB, volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their competitions results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A point system is used, with points being awarded based on the importance of each FIVB International competitions and Continental competitions also. Under the existing system, rankings are based on a team's performance, with more recent results and more significant competitions being more heavily weighted to help reflect the current competitive state of a team. As of October 2018 the top 3 teams in men's category are, world's No.1 Brazil, No.2 United States, No.3 Italy and in women's category are as follows, world's No.1 Serbia, No.2 China, No.3 United States.
Foluke Atinuke Akinradewo is a Canadian-Nigerian-American indoor volleyball player, a member of the United States women's national volleyball team and Japanese club Hisamitsu Springs, a participant of the Olympic Games, bronze medalist of the 2016 Olympic Games, 2015 World Cup, silver medalist of the 2012 Olympic Games, and a gold medalist of the 2014 World Championship and 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix. She played college women's volleyball at Stanford University. She was named Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2007 and 2008.
The Cuba women's national volleyball team was the first team to break the USSR's and Japan's domination in the world women's volleyball by winning the 1978 World Women's Volleyball Championship.
Lyubov Vladimirovna Sokolova is a retired Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the gold medals at 2006 and 2010 World Championship in Japan and the silver medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Nancy Carillo de la Paz is a volleyball player from Cuba.
Valeriya Mammadova is a retired Azerbaijani volleyball player who played as a Libero. She was a member of Azerbaijan women's national volleyball team and was selected as the Best Libero of European Volleyball Championship in 2005 and 2017.
Naz Aydemir Akyol is a Turkish volleyball player. She is 186 cm tall and plays as setter for Vakıfbank Spor Kulübü and Turkey women's national volleyball team. She has won two league championships with Fenerbahçe and three with Eczacıbaşı Zentiva. She also has two CEV Champions League championships, winning the 2011–2012 edition with Fenerbahçe and the 2012–2013 edition with VakıfBank.
Cosiri Rodríguez Andino de Dionicio is a retired volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #15 jersey. There she ended up in eleventh place with the Dominican Republic women's national team.
Bethania de la Cruz de Peña is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the gold medal with the Dominican women's national team at the 2009 NORCECA Championship and the 2010 Pan-American Cup.
Carmen Rosa Caso Sierra is a retired volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the bronze medal with the Dominican women's national team at the 2007 NORCECA Championship. She also became "Best Libero" of the event.
Niverka Dharlenis Marte Frica is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic. She played the 2012 Summer Olympics with the Dominican Republic national team ranking in fifth place. She also played the 2010 and the 2014 World Championship earning the 17th place and the fifth place and the 2011 and the 2015 FIVB World Cup with her national team ranking in the eight and seventh place. She won the bronze medal in the 2015 Pan American Games.
Diana Karina Estrada Santana is a female beach volleyball player from Mexico, who won the gold medal in the women's beach team competition at the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2008 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, partnering Martha Revuelta. Later, in September 2008, she competed with her sister Paola Estrada, at the Internacional de Puerto Vallarta Beach Volleyball Tournament in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, winning the Bronze medal.
The Kenya women's national volleyball team represents Kenya in international volleyball competitions. Kenya has dominated the African continent since the 90's winning the Women's African Volleyball Championship a record nine times. They also won the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix group 3 title after beating Peru in the final.
The Mirador Sport and Cultural Center or simply Mirador is a women's volleyball club, based in Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic.
The Australia women's national volleyball team, also known as Volleyball Team Australia Women (VTAW) or the Volleyroos, is the national volleyball team of the volleyball playing nation of Australia. As of January 2016, they are ranked 41st in the world. They are a member of the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC).
Zhu Ting is a Chinese professional female volleyball player. She is the Outside Hitter and Captain of the Chinese women's volleyball national team, and currently plays for Turkish club Vakıfbank Istanbul.
Senna Ušic-Jogunica is a Croatian volleyball player. She is a member of the Croatia women's national volleyball team and played for Eczacıbaşı Istanbul in 2014.
Karen Cope Charles is a female beach volleyball and volleyball player from Costa Rica who played the 2006 and 2010 FIVB indoor World Championships and the 2015 World Championships and the 2016 Summer Olympics in beach volleyball.
This article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan.
Paola Ramírez Vargas is a Costa Rican female volleyball player.
