High School Girls Volleyball Rankings

Imagine a ball hit so hard that she comes to you at a speed of 110 miles per hour! The ball is moving so fast that you can barely see. Your job is to get under this flash of white and pass it accurately to the good teammate. He, in turn, then passes the ball to a striker who jumps into the air and crashed this movement the ball with tremendous speed on the net and the court to your opponents.

Volleyball is played by some of the greatest athletes in the world today. The game is played in sixty countries and over more than fifty million people each year. In countries such as France, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Russia, Japan, Mexico and Brazil, the championship games draw crowds and competing with several times higher than football and basketball in the United States USA.

So popular volleyball has become what he is third in the world as a team sport recreation. In at least twenty-five countries, it is considered a competitive sport. Perhaps the greatest progress occurred in 1957 when the International Olympic Committee volleyball recognized as an official Olympic sport.

Volleyball has been played in 1955 Pan American Games in Mexico City and the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago. The Asian Games 1958 held in Tokyo featuring volleyball in circulation, which drew large crowds. The World Championships Volleyball 1956 in Paris has attracted teams from twenty-seven countries and completed the Sports Palace several times with crowds of twenty-five thousand people. Another World Championship took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1960.

In the USA Volleyball is played relatively little as a varsity sport and interscholastic. However, the sport is growing, and directors of sports in schools and colleges are looking for ways to add volleyball to their competitive programs. Wisconsin, New York, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania and organize high school championships.

Los Angeles high schools held their first city championship for boys and girls in 1959. programs of Catholic youth organizations sponsoring volleyball big in Pennsylvania and southern California. The Guide 7959 Volleyball Official lists eighty-nine colleges and universities that have academic or representative teams .* The game is one of the largest intramural sports in colleges and universities. Volleyball has always been an important activity in
* J. Edmund Welch, ed. 1959 Official Guide Volleyball (Berne, Indiana: USVBA printer), p. 141.

YMCA, where the game was invented and nurtured, Jewish community centers, city and recreational services industry and American Turners.

The armed forces of the United States is one of the major proponents of the sport. The Army and Air Force have invited outstanding coaches to conduct clinics throughout the world. Their command and all the world championships, tournaments are run with the utmost attention to color, the ceremony, the proper procedure, and the attraction of spectators.

Indicative of the interest that the armed forces in volleyball is the following statement made by Major-General Herbert B. Powell the Army-1957, all championships.

Volleyball is an integral part of the Army sports program, and is very effective in building the team we need in our military efforts to achieve success in combat. This activity develops the sharp "eye" muscle coordination and physical ability necessary for the soldier alert and aggressive today. By winning the right to represent your command in this competition, it was proven that you have achieved the above attributes, and I offer you my congratulations.

Volleyball is a sport considered highly desirable by almost all criteria used in evaluating activities in a program of physical education or recreation. The game is suff.