1955 In Mexico Metropolis, the U.S. nationwide squad beats the Brazilian crew Three-2 (15-7, 7-15, 13-15, 16-14 and 15-9) to win its first medal (silver) within the Inaugural Ladies's Volleyball Match on the Second Pan American Video games (a efficiency it repeats in 1959 and 1963). This medal is the primary medal of any variety for the States in volleyball in a world championship.
1956 America of America, birthplace of volleyball, participates for the primary time within the Ladies's World Championships at Paris, France, together with athletes from 16 different nations (Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, North Korea, Poland, Romania, USSR, West Germany, and the host nation).
1959 The American crew finishes second in ladies's volleyball on the III Pan American Video games in Chicago, IL (in what will be the first ladies's worldwide volleyball event on U.S. soil), falling to Brazil within the finals Three-1 (15-7, 15-10, 9-15, 15-11).
1960 The nationwide squad participates on the FIVB World Championships at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), coming in sixth amongst 10 nations.
1962 America declines to compete within the World Championships within the Russian capital of Moscow in October.
1963 The IV Pan American Video games (which is held each 4 years since 1951) are held in Brazil and function an Olympian qualifier for girls's volleyball. On Brazilian soil, the U.S. squad wins its third Pan American silver medal after dropping to Brazil (Three-1:12-15, 15-12, 15-Four, 15-11) within the finals.
1964 Volleyball is admitted as an Olympian sport for the primary time within the 18th Olympiad in Japan and the U.S. is without doubt one of the opponents, after Brazil introduced their choice to cancel its participation as winner of the Pan American Video games in 1963 (a Pre-Olympic event for athletes from Latin America and North America).
1964 Twelve athletes are chosen for the primary U.S. Olympic ladies's volleyball squad. They're: Linda Murphy, Jane Ward, Jean Gaertner, Lou Galloway, Verneda Thomas, Barbara Harweth, Patti Lucas-Vivid, Gail O' Rourke, Nancy Owen, Mary Jo Peppler, Mary Margaret Perry, and Sharon Peterson.
1964 The States turns into the primary nation from the Americas (from Alaska to Argentina) to compete within the First Olympic Match, ending in fifth place, behind Japan, USSR, Poland, and Romania.
1967 After not competing in 1962, the U.S. squad is runner-up to Japan within the fifth World Championships at Tokyo.
1967 The underdog United States volleyball crew makes worldwide headlines after they win the worldwide event on the Winnipeg Pan American Video games ( the nation's first Pan American gold medal in ladies's volleyball and first main worldwide title) by defeating 5 opponents-- Canada (Three-Zero: 15-6,15-5, 15-2), Peru (Three-Zero:15-12, 15-Eight, 15-6), Mexico (Three-Zero:15-7,15-Four, 15-5), Cuba (Three-Zero:15-Eight,15-Eight,15-10) and the defending champion Brazil (Three-Zero:15-Eight,15-10,15-12). The winner will get a berth in subsequent 12 months's Olympics within the metropolis of Mexico Metropolis.
1968 The Unites States sends gamers to the United Mexican States to compete within the Video games of the 19th Olympiad. The North American nation certified for the Olympiad within the Pan American Video games a 12 months earlier.
1969 The U.S. volleyball crew takes the bronze within the Inaugural Norceca (North and Central American and Caribbean regional volleyball championship) Match within the Mexican capital.
1970 Below the management of Mary Jo Peppler, the nationwide facet competes of their second consecutive FIVB World Championship within the Balkan republic of Bulgaria, putting 11th. On Bulgarian soil, Miss Pepper -- a member of the primary U.S. Olympic ladies's volleyball squad at Tokyo'64 and 1967 Pan American Video games ladies's volleyball gold medalist-- makes historical past as she is considered one of many prime gamers on the planet (the primary American to take action).
1971 The USA crew refuses to take part within the Second Norceca Championship on Cuba.
1971 Surprisingly, the USA squad fails to qualify for the 1972 Munich Summer time Olympics by ending sixth within the VI Pan American Video games at Cali ( a metropolis in southwest Colombia, South America), after their victory over Haiti Three-Zero (15-7, 15-1, 15-7).
1973 Within the regional championship within the Mexican border metropolis of Tijuana, the U.S. beats hosts (defending champion) Three-2 (15-10, Three-15, 2-15, 16-14, 15-11) to win the bronze medal, clinching America's first look within the World Cup.
1973 Younger-up-and-coming participant Flora "Flo" Jean Hyman makes her main debut on the World College Video games in the us/Soviet Union. Indisputably, she would be the most well-known feminine participant in U.S volleyball historical past.
1973 America is one in all 12 nations to compete within the Inaugural World Cup competitors within the South American republic of Uruguay, one of the crucial prestigious ladies's volleyball tournaments alongside the FIVB World Championship, the Grand Prix, and the Summer time Video games.
1973 South Korean-born Park Moo, who later was coach of the 1976 Canadian Olympic facet, works with a brand new U.S. crew.
1974 The American crew -made up of six notable athletes: Paula Ditner, Leslie Knudsen, Debra Landreta, Susan Woodstra, Roxane ElÃas & Debbie Inexperienced-- finishes 12th on the FIVB World Championship at Guadalajara (Mexico).
1974-1975 15-year-old Debbie Inexperienced turns into the youngest participant in U.S historical past.
1975 Los Angeles (CA) hosts the IV Norceca Match. After defeating Mexico (Three-2) and Canada (Three-Zero), the host nation finishes second within the regional championship, profitable the suitable to compete on the 1976 Pre-Olympic Match in Heidelberg, West Germany.
1975 The U.S. ladies's volleyball crew fails to qualify for the medal spherical within the Seventh Pan American Video games, regardless of defeating Mexico (the host nation) Three-2 (6-15, 7-15, 15-12, 16-14, 15-11) within the first spherical.
1975-1984 Arie Selinger is called Head Coach of the USA Ladies's Squad. Mr. Selinger has been praised by sportswriters and specialists for his work with big gamers, changing into a world pioneer within the sport of volleyball.
1976 After two troublesome video games towards Bulgaria and East Germany and three victories over Switzerland, Poland, and the host Germans, the American squad, underneath Selinger as a head coach, fails to qualify for the 1976 Montreal Olympic Video games by ending in fourth place within the Pre-Olympic Match at Heidelberg (Federal Republic of Germany).
1976 The Peruvian facet, led by its most important athlete Mercedes "Meche" Gonzalez (who later performed within the state of Arizona), makes a visit to U.S. to play pleasant video games towards the American crew of Arie Selinger.
1977 Within the V Norceca World Cup Qualifying in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), the usside -- spearheaded by the top-class volleyball participant Flo Hyman -- takes the silver medal after dropping to arch-rival Cuba Three-1 (15-2, 15-13, Eight-15, 15-13).
1977 The U.S. is invited to take part within the Second World Cup in Japan.
1977 On the FIVB Volleyball World Cup in Japan's capital metropolis of Tokyo, America defeats Soviet Union Three-1 for the primary time in U.S. volleyball historical past. A 12 months in the past, the us picked up a silver medal on the 1976 Montreal Sumer Video games.
1978 Earlier than grabbing fifth place within the Ladies's World Championships on Soviet soil, America beats China Three-Zero (15-13, 15-11, 15-10).
1978 Selinger's crew shocks the world with a convincing victory over Peru Three-Zero within the International Championships at Moscow, USSR. Within the occasion, America makes historical past once more when its athlete Flora Hyman turns into one of many world's prime feminine gamers (alongside Yuri Yokohama from Japan and Cuba's Mercedes Perez). The final American feminine to win this honor was Mary Jo Peppler within the early 1970s. Miss Hyman has performed greater than 300 ladies's volleyball matches since her official debut in 1973.
1979 The Peruvian crew travels to the USA to play some matches.
1979 Regardless of being one of many favorites on the Pan American Video games within the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the States isn't in a position to win a medal after dropping to Brazil Three-2 (15-Eight, 7-15, 15-11,7-15 and 15-11) within the bronze-medal match.
1979 On the VI Norceca Cup on the island of Cuba, the USA squad locations second, profitable the suitable to characterize Norceca within the 22nd Olympiad (a feat it repeats in 1987). An American crew has not participated within the Olympian occasion since 1964.
1980 For the primary time since 1967, the USA defeats Cuba Three-Zero.
1980 As a result of American boycott of the Summer time Video games in the us ( in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan), the U.S. ladies's Olympic crew, made up of the very best American athletes out there, loses an opportunity to change into an Olympic champion at Moscow (the capital of Soviet Russia), after spectacular victories over Cuba (world champion and winner of the Pan American Video games in 1979) and the Folks's Republic of China over the past 10 months.
1981 In a historic volleyball match, the nationwide crew wins the regional championship title over the world's primary squad, Cuba, Three-1 at Mexico Metropolis (that they had spent practically 12 years dropping within the Norceca tournaments), a feat it repeats in 1983.
1981: The U.S. ladies's World Cup crew makes extra historical past: For the primary time in American volleyball historical past, the nation defeats Japan (host -country) Three-2 (15-10, 11-15, 15-13, 12-15, 15-9 ) on the FIVB World Cup. This win would have been extraordinarily exhausting to think about within the 1960s and 1970s. On October 11, 1964 America misplaced, Three-Zero (15-1, 15-5, 15-2) to Japan on the Summer time Olympics.
1981 The ladies's volleyball squad of Peru makes a go to to Colorado Springs (USA's most important Olympic middle) and to different cities to play necessary matches towards the American squad of Mr. Selinger.
1981 Through the III World Cup on Japanese soil, the USA nationwide crew beats South Koreans by Three-Zero 15-Eight, 15-12, 15-6; its first-ever win over South Korea.
1981 In Japan, the star of the U.S. ladies's volleyball crew is the African-American Flo Hyman, one of the crucial charismatic gamers within the historical past of sport. A 9-year member of the U.S. ladies's nationwide crew starting 1973, she paves the best way for future champions in the USA of America.
1982 America beats China by Three-1 within the first spherical earlier than falling Three-Zero to Peru within the semi-finals of World Championship within the Peruvian capital of Lima. Nonetheless, Selinger's crew continues to make volleyball historical past as the primary North American squad to seize a world medal (bronze), following a win over Japan, who dominated ladies's volleyball for a decade.
1982 For the primary time in US volleyball historical past, Miss Rita Crockett and her fellow American Flo Hyman are named to the All-Match Staff in Peru, beating out teammate Debbie Inexperienced, Mercedes "Mamita" Perez of Cuba and the Peruvian-born Raquel "Chunga" Chumpitaz for the award.
1983 Large Rose Mary Magers (who stands 1,90m tall) makes her first look on the U.S. nationwide crew.
1983 South Korean-born American participant Debbie Inexperienced (1,63m-tall) is changed by the less-experienced Carolyn Becker (1,84m-tall) as an official setter. By the mid-1970s, Miss Inexperienced was the primary Asian-American participant to make the U.S. volleyball senior nationwide crew. Regardless of her brief stature, she was one of many prime setters in American volleyball historical past.
1983 The captain Flo Hyman and her fellow People are on a tour of Cuba to play seven matches (six wins and one losses), changing into one of many first American newbie groups to go to Castro's island because the late 1950s. Seventy years in the past, the USA had launched the sport of volleyball to the island of Cuba.
1983 The Soviet-trained Cuban athletes, led by their world-class gamers Mireya Luis Hernandez and Josefina Capote, make a journey to the USA to play eight matches (USA gained all matches).
1983 The VIII Norceca Championship is held in Indianapolis (IN) with the house nation beating Cuba Three-Zero (15-Four, 15-9, 15-13) within the finals. They, with its new younger star Rose Magers, change into the primary U.S. crew to win back-to-back Norceca titles.
1983 On the Varna Cup in Bulgaria (one of the crucial notable worldwide occasions on Earth), America -- the world's top-ranked squad- locations first, following wins over the Folks's Republic of China (Three-Zero) and the Soviet Union (Three-Zero), respectively.
1983 In essentially the most wonderful worldwide match in volleyball historical past, Cuba beats the U.S. Three-2 (17-15, 15-7, 11-15, 9-15, 15-10) for the IX Pan American Video games gold medal within the Venezuelan capital of Caracas; the nation's first Pan American medal in 16 years. A marathon sport the place the worldwide star Flo Hyman is overshadowed by the 16-year-old Cuban volleyball prodigy Mireya Luis Hernandez (who stands 1,76m tall, however with a leap of three,39 meters over the online), a key-player in the course of the match. Days in the past, the U.S. had defeated Cuba Three-1 (16-14, 16-14, 11-15, 16-14) within the first spherical; it was the primary defeat for a Cuban ladies's volleyball squad within the Pan American Video games since 1971. The North American nation additionally had wins over 5 different squads: Canada (Three-Zero), Venezuela (Three-Zero), Brazil (Three-1), Argentina (Three-Zero), and Peru (Three-Zero).
1983 Regardless of being defeated by Cuba on the IX Pan American Video games in August, the USA crew turns into the highest ranked volleyball crew on the earth and massive favourite to win the gold medal on the 1984 Summer time Video games.
1984 The U.S. squad is getting ready for the 1984 Los Angeles Video games! The crew embarks on a worldwide tour to play a number of worldwide games-- Far East, Jap Europe, and South America.
1984 As a number nation, the North American crew competes within the 1984 Los Angeles Summer time Video games.
1984 Arie Selinger leads the U.S. ladies's squad to a silver medal on the 1984 L.A. Summer time Olympics. The Los Angeles Video games represented the end result of Selinger's 10-year venture to remake the American facet (first ladies's volleyball squad in U.S. historical past to win an Olympian medal). In California, the USA is the one nation to have each its squads (women and men) advance to the finals.
1984 California-born athlete Flo Hyman and 9 teammates, amongst them Debbie Inexperienced, Rita Crockett, and Susan Woodstra, retire from worldwide competitors upon profitable a silver on the Los Angeles Video games. Miss Hyman was essentially the most excellent feminine participant in U.S. volleyball historical past. In her excellent profession, she was nicknamed "the Black giraffe" for her tall (1,96m/6 ft 5 in) at a time when had not big gamers on the earth of volleyball. In these years, Hyman and her fellow People gained a bronze within the international event by defeating long-time champion Japan in a historic volleyball match. Beforehand, that they had earned a spot within the 1980 Moscow Olympics. By 1981, the nationwide crew was undefeated in 5 video games on the Tokyo World Cup, beating Japan Three-2 for the primary time. Within the latter half of the 1980s and 1990s, Hyman was an inspiration to many world-class gamers resembling Rose Magers, Gabriela "Gaby" Perez del Photo voltaic Cuculiza of Peru and Cuba's Olympic champions Regla Torres and Magaly Carvajal.
1985 With an virtually totally totally different roster, the USA finishes final within the South Korea Cup (an unofficial championship) in Seoul, after dropping its three video games (Japan, Canada, and the Republic of Korea).
1985 The nationwide crew wins the Taurus Cup at Hungary, a world occasion with 5 groups (America, Japan, Italy, France, and the host Hungarians).
1985 The States, underneath a brand new nationwide coach, fails to qualify for the 1985 World Cup (in Far East) for the primary time by ending second within the Continental event at Santiago de los Caballeros (Dominican Republic).
1985 The worldwide star Rose Magers, who gained her nation's first Olympian ladies's volleyball gold medal at L.A in 1984, earns a spot on the World All-Star Staff (alongside Ute Oldenburg of East Germany, Cecilia Tait of Peru, Japan's Kumi Nakada, Heloisa Roese from Brazil, and different prime gamers from the Soviet Union, Cuba, Italy and Asia), making her the primary American feminine to earn that honor.
1986 The U.S. squad qualifies for his or her sixth straight FIVB World Championship (not World Cup) within the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia, putting 10th.
1986 Japanese-based participant Flo Hyman, who was one of many U.S. ladies's prime gamers between 1973 and 1984, passes away in Tokyo. After the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, she turned one of many first American gamers to play exterior of the USA and one of many first to signal knowledgeable volleyball contract in Far East at a time when many gamers couldn't compete as professionals within the Olympics.
1986 America Olympic Committee sends volleyball gamers to the First Goodwill Video games on Russian soil.
1987-2004 The Flo Hyman Memorial Award, named after the previous Olympian participant, is given yearly by the Ladies's Sports activities Basis to the sportswoman who by her instance has accomplished a lot to stimulate Olympic beliefs and girls's curiosity in sports activities. Among the many winners are Martina Navratilova (tennis), Jackie Joyner-Kersee (observe & area), Nancy Lopez (golf), Lynette Woodard (basketball), Evelyn Ashford (athletics), Chris Evert (tennis), and Mary Lou Retton (gymnastics).
1987 Regardless of lacking key gamers, the nationwide crew earns a Pan American bronze medal on dwelling soil, behind Cuba and Peru and effectively forward of Brazil (silver on the South American Cup) and Canada.
1987 Within the 10th regional championship on Cuba's capital, the North American nation is runner-up, clinching America's fourth look within the Summer time Olympics.
1989 On the Norceca World Cup Qualifying on Puerto Rico, the uswomen's nationwide volleyball crew locations third, dropping a semi-final match to Canada.
1989 The primary U.S. Below-17 crew competes internationally within the FIVB Ladies' Youth Volleyball World Championship within the southern Brazilian metropolis of Curitiba.
1990 The underdog United States volleyball squad wins the bronze medal within the FIVB Ladies's World Championships within the Folks's Republic of China -the squad's greatest World Match displaying because the early 1980s-- following a victory over the favourite, Cuba (led by its East German-trained coach Antonio Perdomo). It is without doubt one of the most extraordinary leads to the historical past of the World Championship.
1991 On the 12nd Norceca Championship, the USA crew locations second, after dropping to Cuba.
1991 Sportswoman Caren Marie Alexius Kemner leads the uswomen's World Cup crew to a fourth place end within the Japan World Match by defeating Peru Three-2, incomes a berth within the 1992 Summer time Video games within the Spaniard metropolis of Barcelona.
1992 Caren Kemner turns into one of many world's prime feminine gamers on the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Video games, serving to the U.S. volleyball crew win a bronze medal (the nation's first Olympian medal in eight years) by beating Brazil Three-Zero (15-Eight, 15-6, 15-13).
1994: The North American gamers make a journey to Sao Paulo (Brazil) to compete within the International Championship.
1995 100 years after being invented by W.G. Morgan in Holyoke (MA), volleyball is the second-largest participation sport on U.S. soil.
1995 America turns into one of many two greatest squads within the Western Hemisphere upon profitable the silver medal on the Pan American Video games in Mar del Plata (Argentina).
1995 America, led by its worldwide star Tara Cross-Battle, defeats Brazil Three-2 (15-9, 15-10, Four-15, 5-15, 15-12) to seize the Third Volleyball World Grand Prix. This crew turns into the primary feminine crew in U.S. historical past to win a significant worldwide championship. It's known as the most important upset ever in volleyball worldwide.
1996 The Olympic Volleyball Match returns to the USA (Atlanta, GA) after a 12-year absence.
1999 Within the regional championship, America's crew locations second, qualifying for the 2000 Sydney Summer time Olympics.
2000 Hawaii-born participant Robyn Mokihana Ah Mow leads the U.S. squad to a fourth place end within the Video games of the 27th Olympiad in Sydney (New South Wales, Australia), after ending seventh on the 1996 Atlanta Summer time Olympic Video games.
2001 America defeats China to change into winner of the Volleyball World Grand Prix performed in Macau, a former Portuguese dependency in Far East.
2001 The U.S. ladies wins again the Norceca championship by defeating defending champion Cuba Three-1 within the first place match.
2002 U.S. participant Tayyiba Haneef-Park (6ft 7 in) is without doubt one of the most excellent athletes within the FIVB Ladies's World Championships on German soil, serving to the U.S. squad win a silver medal.
2003 The North American nation captures the Norceca Match for the second time in a row, beating Three-Zero Cuba within the ultimate and repeating its feat from 1981,1983, and 2001.
2003 Chinese language-born Lang "Jenny" Ping, a member of the gold-medal profitable Olympic volleyball crew in 1984, turns into the primary feminine in U.S. volleyball historical past to be named head of coach of the ladies's nationwide crew.
2003 The Pan American Cup in Saltillo (Mexico) is gained by the American facet of Toshi Yoshida, who debuted as an assistant coach of the nationwide squad within the early 1980s.
2003 The American ladies are the shock squad of the World Grand Prix, profitable the third place (behind the Folks's Republic of China and Russia).
2004 The U.S. squad qualifies for the Summer time Video games for the seventh consecutive time.
2004 For the second consecutive time, the U.S. wins the bronze medal on the Volleyball World Grand Prix.
2007 On the Norceca Championship at Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada), the North American nation is available in second behind Cuba's crew (first).
2008 Lang Ping (one of many prime feminine gamers within the latter half of the 20th century) leads the 2008 United States Olympic crew, composed in nice a part of professionals, to a second place end within the Beijing Summer time Video games (the very best Olympic end) after dropping to arch-rival Brazil Three-1 within the gold medal match. Within the Folks's Republic of China, the States and Brazil are the one nations to have each their groups (ladies & males) advance to the finals.
2009 Hugh McCutcheon is called head coach of the U.S. ladies's nationwide crew (WNT), changing Lang Ping. By 2008, he coached the usnational males's crew to Olympic gold medal at Beijing.
2009 McCutcheon's crew finishes fourth within the VIII Pan American Match performed in Miami, FL.
2010 On the First Younger Summer time Video games at Singapore Metropolis, the U.S. Below-20 Nationwide Staff locations second behind Belgium (gold) and forward of Peru (bronze).
2010 America crew, led by its top-class participant Foluke Akinradewo (who performs in Japan's skilled league) beats Brazil Three-2 (25-22, 19-25, 28-30, 25-17, 13-15) to win its third World Grand Prix.
2011 Below the management of Nancy Metcalf, who performs professionally within the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, the nationwide crew wins the Norceca Championship in Caguas (Puerto Rico) with victories over the Dominican Republic (Three-Zero), Cuba (Three-Zero), Mexico (Three-Zero), Canada (Three-Zero), and the island-nation of Trinidad Tobago (Three-Zero).
2011 America U-20 squad celebrates their bronze medal within the Junior World Championships in Lima (Peru).
2011 New Zealand-born Hugh McCutcheon leads the U.S. ladies's World Cup crew (made up of 11 skilled gamers) to a second place end within the FIVB Tokyo World Cup, gaining a berth within the 2012 Summer time Video games in the UK.
2011 The Unites States Olympic Committee sends an unofficial feminine squad to the Pan American Video games at Guadalajara (Mexico), profitable a bronze medal.
2011 The nationwide crew, led by its Italian-based participant Destinee Hooker, efficiently defends its World Grand Prix title, changing into the primary North American squad to win back-to-back championships and capturing the eye of many specialists and sportswriters across the globe. They, however, have change into the fourth American crew to take dwelling a world title.
2012 The American ladies's volleyball squad is without doubt one of the favorites to seize the gold medal within the 2012 Summer time Video games within the British Isles, upon their worldwide wins between 2010 and 2012. They're skilled athletes overseas, particularly within the oil-rich nation of Azerbaijan.
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