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Ariana Rodríguez
Ariana Rodríguez Fung (born 3 November 2005) is a Dominican Republic volleyball player who played the 2024 Summer Olympics. Personal life Rodríguez is tall , born on 3 November 2005, in New York City, United States. Her parents are Dominican Elvis Rodríguez, who played volleyball professionally for seven years in Switzerland, former AVP player, Dominican national team member and coach and Dominican Chinese Suquin Fung, collegiate and Dominican League volleyball player and coach. She went to Poly Prep Country Day School in New York, winning two NYSAIS championships, first team, all-league and Most Valuable Player and is studying at University of Miami. Career 2021 Rodríguez played with her national team the 2021 FIVB Women's U20 World Championship, finishing with her team in the eight place after losing 0–3 to Brazil. 2022 She won with the Dominican Republic the U19 Pan American Cup bronze medal and the Best server award. 2023 Playing with her national Youth team, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League
The 2023 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the fifth edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, an annual Women's international volleyball tournament. The competition was held between 30 May to 16 July 2023, and the final round took place at College Park Center, Arlington, Texas, United States. Following the results of 2022 Nations League and 2022 Challenger Cup, Belgium were replaced by debutants Croatia in this edition. Turkey claimed their first VNL title after defeating China in four sets. China took the silver medal, which is their best result in this tournament. Poland won their first medal of the tournament, claiming the bronze after defeating finals hosts the United States in five sets. Melissa Vargas of Turkey named as the MVP of the tournament. Qualification Sixteen teams qualified for the competition. Eleven of them qualified as core teams which cannot face relegation. Five other teams were selected as challenger teams which could be relegate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poly Prep Alumni
Poly, from the Greek πολύς meaning "many" or "much", may refer to: Businesses * China Poly Group Corporation, a Chinese business group, and its subsidiaries: ** Poly Property, a Hong Kong incorporated Chinese property developer ** Poly Real Estate, a Chinese real estate developer ** Poly Technologies, a defense manufacturing company * Poly (company), formerly Polycom, an American communications technology company People * Poly (footballer) (1906-1986), full name Policarpo Ribeiro de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer * Natasha Poly (born 1985), stage name of Russian supermodel Natalya Sergeyevna Polevshchikova * Poly Styrene (1957–2011), stage name of British musician Marianne Joan Elliott-Said Polytechnic * Hong Kong Polytechnic University, locally known as Poly * Polytechnic Heights, Fort Worth, Texas, neighborhood locally known as Poly * Polytechnic Institute of NYU (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering), locally known as Poly * ''The Rensselaer Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami Hurricanes Athletes
Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States, Southeast after Atlanta metropolitan area, Atlanta, and the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, ninth-largest in the United States. With a population of 442,241 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Miami is the List of municipalities in Florida, second-most populous city in Florida, after Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville. Miami has the List of tallest buildings in the United States#Cities with the most skyscrapers, third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over List of tallest buildings in Miami, 300 high-rises, 70 of which exceed . Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volleyball Players From New York City
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 the ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
