Association | United States Virgin Islands Volleyball Federation | |
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FIVB ranking | 96 (as of 16 November 2022) | |
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The United States Virgin Islands women's national volleyball team represents the United States Virgin Islands in international women's volleyball competitions and friendly matches.
They compete at the NORCECA World Championship Qualification Tournament. [1]
1991 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
The U.S. Virgin Islands national soccer team, nicknamed The Dashing Eagle, is the national soccer team of the U.S. Virgin Islands and is controlled by the U.S. Virgin Islands Soccer Federation.
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 located in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
The University of the Virgin Islands is a public historically black land-grant university in the United States Virgin Islands.
The South Carolina Gamecocks represent the University of South Carolina in the NCAA Division I.
The North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA) is the international governing body for the sports of volleyball in Northern America, Central America, and the Caribbean. NORCECA is the continental confederation that represents its 35 member associations at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) level. It also has six associate members: Bonaire, Saba, Saint Martin, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The confederation is responsible for, among other things, the staging of Olympic and World Championship zone qualification tournaments, as well as continental championships for both men and women in indoor volleyball and beach volleyball. In 2022, NORCECA celebrated its fifty-fourth (54th) anniversary.
The Asian Volleyball Confederation, commonly known by the acronym AVC, is the continental governing body for the sports of indoor, beach, and grass volleyball in Asia and Oceania. It has 65 member associations, mostly located in the Asia-Pacific region, but excludes four transcontinental countries with territory in both Asia and Europe – Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey – along with Armenia, Cyprus, and Israel, which are members of the CEV instead.
The United States women's national volleyball team participates in international volleyball competitions and friendly games, and is governed by USA Volleyball. The current head coach is three-time Olympic gold medalist and retired dominant beach volleyball professional Karch Kiraly.
Paula Jo Weishoff is a retired female volleyball player from the United States, who won two medals with the USA National Women's Team at the Summer Olympics: 1984 (silver) and 1992 (bronze). And former assistant coach along with assistant coach Karch Kiraly served with Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon of the United States women's national volleyball team for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Cory Bishop is a U.S. Virgin Islands soccer player who played as a defender or midfielder. He has gained one international cap for the United States Virgin Islands national soccer team.
The United States Virgin Islands women's national soccer team is the national women's soccer team of the U.S. Virgin Islands and is overseen by the U.S. Virgin Islands Soccer Federation.
24 teams competed in the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, with two places allocated for the hosts, Japan and the titleholder, Italy. In the qualification process for the 2006 FIVB World Championship, the Five FIVB confederations were allocated a share of the 22 remaining spots.
The United States Virgin Islands competed at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia, from 10–18 August 2013. Eddie Lovett was the Virgin Islands' sole athlete, competing in the 110m hurdles. Lovett was eliminated in the heats.
United States Virgin Islands women's junior national softball team is the junior national team for United States Virgin Islands. The team competed at the 1995 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Normal, Illinois where they finished fourteenth.
The United States Virgin Islands national basketball team is the side which represents internationally the US Virgin Islands in women's basketball.
Laura Davis is a retired American female volleyball player. She was part of the United States women's national volleyball team at the 1998 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan. In 1995, she won the Honda-Broderick Award as the nation's best female collegiate volleyball player.
The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification is a series of tournaments to decide teams which will play in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship. The 2018 World Championship will feature 24 teams. Two places were allocated to the hosts, Japan and the titleholder, United States. The remaining 22 places will be determined by a qualification process in which entrants from among the other teams from the five FIVB confederations will compete.
The FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The initial gap between championships was variable, but since 1970 they have been awarded every four years. The current champions are the Serbia, which won their second title at the 2022 tournament in Netherlands and Poland.
The following were the events of volleyball for the year 2018 throughout the world.