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2004 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The 2004 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the third edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament, played by ten countries from June 17 to June 27, 2004 in Mexicali and Tijuana, Mexico. The intercontinental event served as a qualifier for the 2005 FIVB World Grand Prix. Competing nations Squads * Preliminary round Group A *Friday June 18, 2004 *Saturday June 19, 2004 *Sunday June 20, 2004 *Monday June 21, 2004 *Tuesday June 22, 2004 Group B *Friday June 18, 2004 *Saturday June 19, 2004 *Sunday June 20, 2004 *Monday June 21, 2004 *Tuesday June 22, 2004 Final round ---- *Thursday June 24, 2004 **Ninth Place Match **Seventh Place Match *Friday June 25, 2004 **Fifth Place Match **Semi-finals *Sunday June 27, 2004 **Bronze Medal Match **Gold Medal Match ---- Final ranking **''Cuba, United States, Dominican Republic and Brazil qualified for the 2005 World Grand Prix'' Individual awards *Most Valuable Player: ** *Best At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. making it the world's List of countries by area, 13th-largest country by area; with approximately 126,014,024 inhabitants, it is the List of countries by population, 10th-most-populous country and has the hispanophone#Hispanosphere, most Spanish-speakers. Mexico is organized as a federation, federal republic comprising 31 list of states of Mexico, states an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexicali
Mexicali (; ) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California. The city, seat of the Mexicali Municipality, has a population of 689,775, according to the 2010 census, while the Calexico–Mexicali metropolitan area is home to 1,000,000 inhabitants on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. Mexicali is a regional economic and cultural hub for the border region of The Californias. Mexicali was founded at the turn of the 20th century, when the region's agricultural economy experienced a period of boom. The city rapidly expanded throughout the 20th century, owing to the proliferation of maquiladoras in the city, making the Mexicali economy more interconnected with businesses from across the border. Today, Mexicali is a major manufacturing center and an emerging tourist destination. History The Spaniards arrived in the area after crossing the Sonoran Desert's " Camino del Diablo" or Devil's Road. This led to the evangelization of the area by Catholic missionari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tijuana, Mexico
Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana" (US) and ), known also by the initials T.J., is a city and municipal seat of , , located on the . It is part of the San Diego-Tijuana metro area and the larger [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoila Barros
Zoila Barros Fernández (born 6 August 1979) is a retired Cuban female volleyball player who played as a middle blocker. She played for the Cuban women's national volleyball team, and helped the team win a gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Barros was named Best Spiker at the 2005 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship in Port of Spain, where Cuba was defeated in the final by title defender USA. Club volleyball Barros played for the Italian club Medinex Reggio di Calabria for the 1998-1999 season. She played with the Russian club Uralochka-NTMK for the 2004-2005 season. Clubs * Ciudad Deportiva La Habana (1998) * Medinex Reggio di Calabria (1998-1999) * Ciudad Deportiva La Habana (1999-2004) * Uralochka-NTMK (2004–2005) * Dinamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup is a Continental Cup organized by NORCECA with teams from all over America ( North-, South- and Central America, and the Caribbean), that served as a qualifier for the World Grand Prix. The tournament also granted places for the Final Four Women's Volleyball Cup. Now, the event serves as an America qualifier for the Pan American Games classification. The men have their own equivalent of the tournament, the Men's Pan-American Cup. Results Medal table Teams by year MVP by edition *2002 – Yumilka Ruíz *2003 – Milagros Cabral *2004 – Zoila Barros *2005 – Yudelkys Bautista *2006 – Mari Steinbrecher *2007 – Nancy Carrillo *2008 – Sidarka Núñez *2009 – Bethania de la Cruz *2010 – Prisilla Rivera *2011 – Sheilla Castro *2012 – Kristin Richards *2013 – Nicole Fawcett *2014 – Brenda Castillo *2015 – Krista Vansant *2016 – Brayelin Martinez *2017 – Micha Hancock *2018 – Laur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the programme at the Atlanta 1996. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball. The complete set of rules is extensive, but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to three times to return the ball to the other side of the court, but individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIVB World Grand Prix 2005
The FIVB World Grand Prix 2005 was the thirteenth edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament, which is the female equivalent of the Men's Volleyball World League. The 2005 edition was played by twelve countries from June 24 to July 18, 2005, with the final round held at the Sendai Gymnasium in Sendai, Japan. Hosts Japan and the top five ranked teams after the preliminary rounds qualified for the last round. The competition of the 2005 WGP lasted four weeks with a total number of 69 matches. During the first, second and third week: 18 matches per team were played with a total of 54 matches. Classification in the preliminary rounds was decided by the number of points gained by teams participating in the same group. The classification in the general ranking of the preliminary rounds of the 2005 WGP was decided by the total number of World Grand Prix Points (GPP) gained by the teams in the preliminary matches. Qualification Asia *The top four Asian teams according to the FI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaima Ortiz
Yaima Ortiz Charro (born 9 November 1981, in Havana) is a retired Cuban volleyball player and model, who competed in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. Career 2001 Ortiz made altitude training in March 2001 with the National Team in Riobamba, Ecuador in order to be in shape for the upcoming tournaments. She played the 2001 FIVB World Grand Prix, finishing in fourth place, and later played the 2001 NORCECA Championship in Santo Domingo, winning the silver medal. 2002 She was called to the Cerro Pelado Training Center as one of the national team rookies at the age of 21. She later played the 2002 Cuban National League with the club Occidentales that became league champion with Ortiz's help, and only lost one match in the whole season. After the Cuban league, she joined the national team under the guidance of coaches Eugenio George, Luis Felipe Calderón and Jorge Garbey, set to a four-country warmup tour before the Pan American Cup. After beating the Dominican Republic 3-1, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Bachman
Elisabeth Anne "Wiz" Bachman (born November 7, 1978) is a retired volleyball player from the United States, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she finished in fifth place with the USA National Team. Career Elisabeth Bachman played at UCLA during her time as an undergraduate. While there she completed a highly successful Bruin career with 1,308 kills and 622 blocks, becoming the first Bruin and fifth Pac-10 player in history to record both 1,200 career kills and 600 career blocks. She set a new UCLA and Pac-10 record with a career attack percentage of .362. While at UCLA Bachman was named second-team Verizon Academic All-American, was named to Pac-10 and AVCA All-Pacific Region first teams, and three All-Tournament Teams. At the end of her season in 2000, she was named by ''Volleyball Magazine'' as Honorable Mention All-American. At the ''2000 USA Volleyball Open Championships'' playing with the Westwood Volleyball Club of Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Carrera
Evelyn Carrera Pichardo (born October 5, 1971 in Santo Domingo) is a retired female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #5 jersey. There she ended up in eleventh place with the Dominican Republic women's national team. Carrera played as a libero. Career Evelyn win the silver medal at the 2002 Pan-American Cup held in Mexicali, Mexico; she also was awarded Best Libero for the tournament. She won the gold medal and the Best Libero award with the national squad at the 2003 Pan American Games. Carrera was named ''Best Digger'' and ''Best Libero'' at the 2004 Pan-American Cup. Playing professionally in the Puerto Rico's Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino, she was awarded as the Best Libero, and among the ''All Star Team 2006''. Beach Volleyball During the Holy Week Sport Festival held in Hato Mayor, Carrera played Beach Volleyball (three) with Yenifer Calcaño and Brenda Castillo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosiri Rodríguez
Cosiri Rodríguez Andino de Dionicio (born August 30, 1977, in San Cristóbal) 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. Career She started representing her home country in the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games in Ponce, Puerto Rico. At the 2000 USA Open Championships her team won the championship and she was selected All-Tournament "MVP". Playing with the Spanish club Hotel Cantur Costa Mogán, Rodriguez won the 2003 Spanish Superleague Championship and the second place at the 2003 CEV Cup. Rodríguez claimed the gold medal with the national squad at the 2003 Pan American Games. She also was elected Best Digger and Best Receiver. Later that year, she claimed with her team the bronze medal and the Best Receiver award at the 2003 NORCECA Championsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsey Berg
Lindsey Napela Berg (born July 16, 1980) is an American volleyball player who plays for Fenerbahçe Istanbul in Turkey. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and played volleyball for the University of Minnesota. She played in three Olympic Games for the United States national team, winning two silver medals. Career College Berg attended the University of Minnesota and played on the school's volleyball team. She was named to the All-Big Ten team in 1999, 2000 and 2001. She also set a Minnesota record for most career assists."Lindsey Berg" teamusa.org. August 16, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2012. Professional Berg played for the Minnesota Chill of the United States Professional Volleyball league in 2002. She was named the Outstanding Server and Outstanding Setter. From 2005 to 2008, she played in the Italia ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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