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2013–14 Azerbaijan Women's Volleyball Super League
The 2013/14 season of the Azerbaijan Women's Volleyball Super League (), was the sixth annual season of the country's highest volleyball level. Rabita Baku won their sixth consecutive title. Members of the Azerbaijan Women's Volleyball Super League (2013–14 season) :''Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.'' Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Semi-final 3rd place Final Awards *MVP: Aurea Cruz (Rabita Baku) *MVP of Final : Katarzyna Skowrońska (Rabita Baku) *Best scorer : Katarzyna Skowrońska (Rabita Baku) *Best setter : Nootsara Tomkom (Rabita Baku) *Best blocker : Annerys Vargas (Azeryol Baku) *Best server : Manon Flier (Igtisadchi Baku) *Best spiker : Pleumjit Thinkaow (Igtisadchi Baku) *Best receiver : Aurea Cruz (Rabita Baku) *Best digger : Aurea Cruz (Rabita Baku) *Best libero : Brenda Castillo (Rabita Baku) ... [...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 program at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball. Basic play 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 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku Sports Hall
Baku Sports Palace (also known as Baku Sport Hall) is an indoor arena located in Baku, Azerbaijan. Originally, the arena is named as Palace of Hand Games () until 2015. It is located near the Baku Boulevard on the Caspian Sea coast. It was built in 1974 and was renovated in 2015. The palace consists of 1736 seats. Various domestic and international competitions such as badminton, judo, futsal, wrestling, table tennis, taekwondo and volleyball are held in the Palace. Events hosted See also * Baku Olympic Stadium Baku Olympic Stadium () is a stadium, designed and constructed to meet the international standards for stadiums set by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and the Internat ... * National Gymnastics Arena References External links * Indoor arenas in Azerbaijan Sports venues in Baku Sports venues completed in 1974 1974 establishments in the Soviet Union 2015 European Games ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleumjit Thinkaow
Pleumjit Thinkaow (; ; born 9 November 1983) is a Thai volleyball player. She was a member of the Thailand women's national volleyball team. Her international debut was at the 21st SEA Games in Malaysia. Personal life Pleumjit grew up in a sport-loving family in Angthong (a province about 100 km. north of Bangkok), having an elder brother. Her parents are civil servants. Before she started playing volleyball, she was into table tennis. She switched to volleyball following her father's advice that volleyball was more fun and more likely to become popular. Afterwards, a volleyball coach of Bodindecha (Sing Singhaseni) School in Bangkok was so impressed by her playing that he brought her to the school during her high-school level. At first, she did not play as a middle blocker but an outside hitter. Pleumjit was first capped for the national junior team in 2000. A year later, she was chosen to join the national team when she was 17 years old. and She went to play profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manon Flier
Manon Nummerdor-Flier (born 8 February 1984) is a retired Dutch volleyball player who played as an opposite. Career Flier was named Most Valuable Player at the 2007 FIVB World Grand Prix in Ningbo, PR China, where the Dutch national team won the gold medal. Flier lost the bronze medal at the 2010–11 CEV Champions League after her team Scavolini Pesaro was defeated 3–1 by the Turkish Fenerbahçe Acıbadem. She was individually awarded "Best Spiker". In July 2011, Toray Arrows announced that she was joining for the 2011–12 season. Flier won the bronze medal with Igtisadchi Baku in the 2013–14 Azerbaijan Super League and the Best Server award. In 2015, she played with the Dutch national team at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. Flier started her volleyball career at Flash Nieuwleusen in 1992 and is the most experienced player of the current team with 406 international matches. Personal life Flier is married to the Dutch beach volleyball player Reinder Nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annerys Vargas
Annerys Victoria Vargas Valdez (born August 7, 1981) is a retired female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic who won four consecutive gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games. Career 2003 Vargas won gold medal with the women's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in her home town Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She was selected as the Best Server and Best Blocker. Later that year, she won the bronze medal at the 2003 NORCECA Championship, and was selected as the Best Blocker. 2004 Vargas played as a middle blocker and competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics for her native country, which finished in 11th place. Playing with the Dominican club Los Cachorros, Vargas finished the 2004 season of the Superior Tournament as the First Runner-Up, after losing to Mirador in the final series. 2005 Vargas joined the Puerto Rican professional team Vaqueras de Bayamón from the LVSF for the 2005 season. She was selected among the "Offensive Team". 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nootsara Tomkom
Nootsara Tomkom (; ) is a Thai volleyball player who plays for the Columbus Fury of the Pro Volleyball Federation. Widely regarded as one of the best setters in international volleyball, Tomkom has been selected to play for the Thailand women's national volleyball team over 50 times. Career She participated at the 2006 FIVB World Grand Prix. Tomkom played along Wilavan Apinyapong with the Spanish club IBSA Club Voleibol for the 2007/2008 season of the Spanish Superliga. Tomkom won the Bronze medal with the Azeri club Rabita Baku in the 2013–14 CEV Champions League after falling 0-3 to the Russian Dinamo Kazan, but defeating 3-0 to the Turkish Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul in the third place placement match. She was awarded tournament's Best Setter. Rabita Baku, claimed their sixth title championship by winning the 2013–14 Azerbaijani Super League 3-0 to Azeryol Baku and she won the Best Setter award. She also ranked fourth in the 2013-14 Thailand League with Idea Kho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarzyna Skowrońska
Katarzyna is a Polish given name, equivalent to English "Catherine". Its diminutive forms include Kasia, Katarzynka, Kasieńka, Kasiunia, Kasiulka; augmentative – Kaśka, Kacha, Kachna. Individuals named Katarzyna may choose their name day from the following dates: February 2, February 13, March 9, March 22, March 24, April 1, April 6, April 17, April 29, April 30, May 21, September 4, September 15, November 25, or December 31. Notable people Nobility * Joanna Katarzyna Radziwiłł, Polish noble lady * Katarzyna Barbara Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian szlachcianka * Katarzyna Branicka, Polish noblewoman * Katarzyna Juszczak, Polish-born Italian judoka and freestyle wrestler * Katarzyna Karolina Radziwiłł, Polish noble lady * Katarzyna Kostka, Polish noble lady * Katarzyna Lubomirska, Polish szlachcianka * Katarzyna Ostrogska (1560–1579), Polish noble lady * Katarzyna Ostrogska (1602–1642), Polish szlachcianka * Katarzyna Potocka, Polish noble lady * Katarzyna S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurea Cruz
Aurea, golden in Latin, may refer to: * Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy (AUREA), an advocacy organization for aromanticism * Aurea (car), a former Italian automobile manufactured in Turin from 1921 to 1930 * Aurea (singer) (born 1987), Portuguese singer * Aurea Alexandrina, a kind of opiate or antidote * Áurea, a municipality in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Aurès Mountains, a mountain range in Algeria and Tunisia * Dioscuri Aurea Saecula, the first demo tape of the Italian National Socialist black metal band Cain * Domus Aurea (Latin, "Golden House"), a large landscaped portico villa, residence of the Roman emperor Nero * Ducati Aurea, a motorcycle made from 1958 to 1962 * Legenda Aurea, the Golden Legend, a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine * Legenda Aurea (band), a Swiss heavy metal band * Lei Áurea The (; ), officially Law No. 3,353 of 13 May 1888, is the law that abolished slavery in Brazil. It was signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku
Baku (, ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Azerbaijan, largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus region. Baku is below sea level, which makes it the List of capital cities by elevation, lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, on the Bay of Baku. Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into #Administrative divisions, twelve administrative raions and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, as well as the industrial settlement of Neft Daşları built on oil rigs away from Baku city in the Caspian Sea. The Old City (Baku), Old City, conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the Drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus, Bosporus Strait. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe ... is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea with its outlets, the Bosporus and Dardanelles." Europe covers approx. , or 2% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface (6.8% of Earth's land area), making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telekom Baku
Telekom Baku (formerly named Rabita Baku) was an Azerbaijani women's volleyball club. Telekom was an eight-time champion of Azerbaijani Superleague and the winner of the 2011 FIVB Club World Championship. History The Rabita Bank was founded in 2001 as Rabitachi Baku, and then took Rabita Baku in 2004. Club participated for the first time in an official competition in the European CEV Cup 2007–08, but was eliminated immediately by OK Hit Nova Gorica. In the season 2008–09, reaches the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup and was eliminated from the Club Voleibol Albacete and wins for the first time the championship in the final against Azerrail. The season 2009-10 campaign starts with a good buy: the team wins the championship again and get the third place in the CEV Cup, losing in the semifinals against Futura Volley Busto Arsizio, but winning the final for bronze against VC Uralochka-NTMK Yekaterinburg. In the season 2010 - 11, club participated for the first time in the Wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igtisadchi Baku
Igtisadchi Baku is an Azerbaijani women's volleyball club. History Igtisadchi Baku was founded in the Summer of 2008 and immediately got the right to participate in the Azerbaijan Women's Volleyball Super League, Azerbaijan Super League, qualifying after just one season to the CEV Women's Challenge Cup. The following season saw Igtisadchi Baku eliminated in the second round table of European competition, because of the deployment of an ineligible player in the qualification to the Challenge Cup. In the season 2009-2010, the club achieved third place in the championship, beating the Azerrail Baku and qualifying for the third consecutive season in the Challenge Cup. In the season 2012-2013, the club participated in the Women's CEV Volleyball Cup, being eliminated in the 8th final round of the competition. 2012-2013 Azerbaijan Women's Volleyball Super League, In the 2012/13 Azerbaijani Super League, the club claimed the silver medal, tied with Azerrail Baku. In 2014, it was anno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
