Essays on Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.

In December 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts (United States), William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton, as a pastime to be played (preferably) indoors and by any number of players.

Players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents’ playing area before it can be returned. To prevent this a player on the opposing team bats the ball up and toward a teammate before it touches the court surface — that teammate may then volley it back across the net or bat it to a third teammate who volleys it across the net. A team is allowed only three touches of the ball before it must be returned over the net.

Karch Kiraly, Lorenzo Bernardi, Misty May-Treanor, Giba, Regla Torres, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Sheila Castro, Saeid Marouf, Ricardo Lucarelli Souza, etc.

Most volleyball players jump about 300 times a match.
Volleyball is the second most popular sport in the world today, exceeded only by soccer.
The longest recorded volleyball game was in Kingston, North Carolina. It took 75 hours and 30 minutes.
In 1900 the first specially designed ball for the sport was created.