Support Women's Volleyball: USA National Team News

Kid's Talk Radio, Long Beach. (July 3, 2008) - The U.S. Women's National Indoor Volleyball team has won five straight matches and takes a 5-1 FIVB World Grand Prix record into the final preliminary weekend at Taipei, Chinese Taipei July 4-6.



This is getting to be a very exciting time of the year.  There is lots of action on the volleyball scene.  It is now time to start to play close attention to our USA National Teams.  Our favorite is of course indoor and outdoor women's Volleyball.  Don't get me wrong, we like the men too.  If you have any stories that you would like to share with Kid's Talk Radio, please do so right now.  We have the Great American Story Writing Contest going on right now.  We are featuring stories on the Olympics in general.


We hope that some of you had a chance to see the USA Women's National Team on TV when they played against Brazil.  Did any of you tape the game?  If you did, we want a copy.

More Women's National Volleyball News.

Team USA will face three of the top five teams in the World Grand Prix standings during Pool H play, including two rematches from earlier in the schedule. The U.S. challenges Poland (0-6) on July 4 at 3 p.m. (1 a.m. Mountain Time), less than a week after the Americans swept the Polish squad 25-17, 25-16, 25-20 in Poland on June 29. Team USA plays Turkey (4-2) on July 5 at 3 p.m. (1 a.m. Mountain Time). Turkey defeated the U.S. on the opening day of the World Grand Prix. Team USA concludes the preliminary round versus Italy (5-1) on July 6 at 5 p.m. (3 a.m. Mountain Time). The Italians won the last meeting on Nov. 16, 2007, as both teams squared off for the gold medal on the final day of the 2007 FIVB World Cup in Japan.

The U.S. is in a three-way tie for second place in the 12-team tournament with Italy and Brazil, one loss behind undefeated tournament leaders China. Based on the tiebreaker of points won ratio, the Americans (1.203 points ratio) hold a slim advantage over Brazil (1.191) and Italy (1.117). Turkey is currently ranked fifth in the World Grand Prix standings.

After this weekend's third and final preliminary round weekend, the top five teams will travel to Japan and join the host country in the six-team FIVB World Grand Prix Finals. The round-robin Finals will be played July 9-13 at Yokohoma. The overall ranking in the preliminary round is decided by the total number of World Grand Prix Points (GPP) gained by the teams in the preliminary matches with two points awarded for a win and one point for a loss.


U.S. Women's National Team Roster for FIVB World Grand Prix Weekend in Taipei.   This listing will help you to get to know the players on the USA National Team.

# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)
2 - Danielle Scott-Arruda (MB, 6-2, Baton Rouge, La., Long Beach State)
3 - Tayyiba Haneef-Park (OPP/OH, 6-7, Laguna Hills, Calif., Long Beach State)
4 - Lindsey Berg (S, 5-8, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Minnesota)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawai'i)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH/OPP, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
10 - Kim Glass (OH, 6-2, Lancaster, Pa., Arizona)
11 - Robyn Ah Mow-Santos (S, 5-8, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawai'i)
14 - Kim Willoughby (OH, 5-10, Napoleonville, La., Hawai'i)
15 - Logan Tom (OH, 6-1, Salt Lake City, Utah, Stanford)
17 - Angie McGinnis (S, 5-11, Fraser, Mich., Florida)
18 - Kristin Richards (OH, 6-1, Orem, Utah, Stanford)
19 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
Head Coach: "Jenny" Lang Ping
Assistant Coaches: Sue Woodstra, Tom Hogan, Li Yong (not traveling)
Technical Coordinator: Diane French
Team Leader/Manager: Joan Powell


Pool H: Taipei, Chinese Taipei, Hsinchuang Gym
July 4: USA vs. Poland, 3 p.m.
July 4: Italy vs. Turkey, 6:20 p.m.
July 5: USA vs. Turkey, 3 p.m.
July 5: Italy vs. Poland, 5 p.m.
July 6: Poland vs. Turkey, 3 p.m.
July 6: Italy vs. USA, 5 p.m.

Pool I: Macau, Macau Forum
July 4: Brazil vs. Dominican Republic, 6 p.m.
July 4: China vs. Japan, 9 p.m.
July 5: Brazil vs. Japan, 2 p.m.
July 5: China vs. Dominican Republic, 5 p.m.
July 6: Dominican Republic vs. Japan, 1 p.m.
July 6: China vs. Brazil, 4 p.m.

Final Round: Yokohama, Japan
July 8-13

U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team in China.
    Cynthia Barboza,
    Danielle Scott-Arruda,
    Foluke Akinradewo,
    Heather Bown,
    Kim Glass,
    Kim Willoughby,
    Kristin Richards,
    Lindsey Berg,
    Logan Tom,
    Nicole Davis,
    Tayyiba Haneef-Park,
    Robyn Ah Mow-Santos