The Volleyball Hall of Fame was founded to honor extraordinary players, coaches, officials, and leaders who have made significant contributions to the game of volleyball

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.The complete rules are extensive...

. The hall is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts

Holyoke, Massachusetts

Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range of mountains. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 39,880...

, where volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan

William G. Morgan

William G. Morgan was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette". He was born in Lockport, New York, USA. He met James Naismith, inventor of basketball, while Morgan was studying at Springfield College, Massachusetts in 1892. Like Naismith, Morgan pursued a career in Physical...

 at the local YMCA

YMCA

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.

In 1971 the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce established a committee to campaign for the founding of the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts

Holyoke, Massachusetts

Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range of mountains. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 39,880...

, which is where volleyball was originally founded. In 1895, William G. Morgan

William G. Morgan

William G. Morgan was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette". He was born in Lockport, New York, USA. He met James Naismith, inventor of basketball, while Morgan was studying at Springfield College, Massachusetts in 1892. Like Naismith, Morgan pursued a career in Physical...

, the inventor of volleyball, was posthumously inducted into the hall as its first member. A small exhibit dedicated to the history of volleyball and the hall of fame's inductees opened in a local building on June 6, 1987 with 1600 square feet (148.6 m²) of space. In 1997 the exhibit moved to a new temporary location, and is now awaiting movement to a permanent museum. The temporary location is at the Holyoke Heritage Park near the Children's Museum.

Current inductees

The following tables enumerate all of the inductees to the Volleyball Hall of Fame through 2010.

Volleyball Players, Men: Player Name Year Eugene Selznick Eugene Selznick Eugene Selznick is an American Hall of Fame former volleyball player, and volleyball coach.-Early life:...   1988 Michael O'Hara  1989 Rolf Engen  1991 Thomas Haine  1991 Jon Stanley  1992 Ron Von Hagen  1992 Mike Bright  1993 Larry Rundle  1994 Pedro "Pete" Velasco  1997 Craig Buck Craig Buck Craig Werner Buck is a former volleyball player from the United States, who was a member of the American men's national team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He also competed and won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-References:**...   1998 Dusty Dvorak Dusty Dvorak Douglas Scott Dvorak is a former volleyball player from the United States, who was a member of the American Men's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Dvorak was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1998.-External link:*...   1998 Steve Timmons Steve Timmons Steve Dennis Timmons is a former volleyball player from the United States, who represented the USA at three consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 1984. In each tournament he won a medal: two gold and one bronze...   1998 James G. Wortham  1999 Yuri Tchesnokov  2000 Harold Wendt  2000 Charles "Karch" Kiraly Karch Kiraly Charles Frederick "Karch" Kiraly , is an American volleyball player who is the only person to have won Olympic gold medals in both the indoor and beach versions of the sport.-High school career:...   2001 Tomasz Wojtowicz  2002 Jungo Morita Jungo Morita Jungo Morita is a former volleyball player from Japan, who was a member of the Japan Men's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics....   2003 Sinjin Smith Sinjin Smith Christopher St. John Smith is a professional Beach Volleyball player. He won one U.S. championship and two World championships with Randy Stoklos....   2003 Josef Musil Josef Musil Josef Musil is a Czech former volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.He was born in Kostelní Lhota, Okres Nymburk....   2004 Seiji Oko Seiji Oko Seiji Oko is a former volleyball player from Japan, who was a member of the Japan Men's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics....   2004 Bernard Rajzman Bernard Rajzman Bernard Rajzman is a former Brazilian volleyball player. He is Jewish, and was born in Rio de Janeiro. He was enshrined in the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2005...   2005 Konstantin Reva  2005 Ron Lang  2005 Stanislaw Gosciniak  2005 Bernie Holtzman  2006 Edward Skorek Edward Skorek Edward Skorek is a Polish former volleyball player who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics, in the 1972 Summer Olympics, and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.He was born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki....   2006 Bob Ctvrtlik Bob Ctvrtlik Robert Jan Ctvrtlik born July 8, 1963 in Long Beach, California) is an American volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist, businessman and former member of the International Olympic Committee. Ctvrtlik is a 1985 graduate of Pepperdine University....   2007 Andrea Gardini Andrea Gardini Andrea Gardini is an Italian former volleyball player. Standing at 202 cm, he played central blocker and totalled 418 caps for the Italian national volleyball team....   2007 Dimitar Zlatanov Dimitar Zlatanov Dimitar Zlatanov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, who won the Silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The only Bulgarian member of the volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, MA , Number 1 striker in the world for 1970....   2007 Andrea Giani Andrea Giani Andrea Giani is an Italian coach and retired volleyball player who scored notable successes in the 1990s, winning three World Championships with his national team. He is 196 cm tall.-Career:...   2008 Randy Stoklos Randy Stoklos Randy Stoklos is the first player to earn $1,000,000 in beach volleyball. He won one U.S. championship and two World championships with Sinjin Smith...   2008 Yuri Poyarkov  2008 Ivan Bugajenkov  2009 Siegfried Schneider  2009 Aleksandr Savin  2010 Lorenzo Bernardi Lorenzo Bernardi Lorenzo Bernardi is an Italian volleyball player who was twice World champion with his national team in 1990 and 1994, and was elected "Volleyball Player of the Century" in 2001.-Career:...   2011 Vladimir Grbić Vladimir Grbic Vladimir "Vanja" Grbić is a former Serbian volleyball player. He is 193 cm and played as passer-side attacker. He was born in Klek, then in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia, now in Serbia...   2011 Volleyball Coaches: Coach Name Year Harry Wilson  1988 Douglas Beal Doug Beal Doug Beal is an American volleyball player and coach, the current USA Volleyball CEO, and a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.- Education :...   1989 Col. Edward DeGroot  1990 James Coleman  1992 Al Scates Al Scates Al Scates is an American former volleyball player and is the current volleyball coach of the UCLA Bruins of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation...   1993 Marv Dunphy Marv Dunphy Marv Dunphy is an American former volleyball player and is currently the Head Men’s Volleyball Coach at Pepperdine University. During his tenure, Pepperdine has won five NCAA Division I Championships. Dunphy holds a career record of 507-199 ....   1994 Arie Selinger Arie Selinger Aryeh Selinger is widely regarded as one of the greatest volleyball coaches of all time.Selinger has served as the head coach of the USA Women's Team in the years 1975-1984, a team that would go on to win the Bronze medal in the 1982 World Championship and the Silver Medal in the 1984 Summer...   1995 Donald Shondell  1996 Andy Banachowski Andy Banachowski Andy Banachowski is an American volleyball coach. He was the head coach of the women's volleyball team at UCLA . He has more wins than any other Division I coach, and his record since the 1970 season is 1,060-281 . He did not coach from 1968-1969 because of his graduation from UCLA...   1997 Yasutaka Matsudaira  1998 Hirofumi Daimatsu  2000 Vyascheslav Platonov  2002 Givi Akhvlediani  2003 Julio Velasco Julio Velasco Julio Velasco is a professional volleyball coach from Argentina, who guided the Italian national men's team to several successes in the 1990s. After the 1996 Summer Olympics, where the Italians won silver, he switched to the Italian women's team...   2003 Eugenio George  2005 Shigeo Yamada  2006 Yuan Weimin Yuan Weimin Yuan Weimin is a Chinese sports administrator and civil servant. He was the Executive President of the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2008 Summer Olympics.Yuan was introduced to the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2007.-References:...   2007 Nikolay Karpol Nikolay Karpol Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol in Polesie Voivodeship, Poland; now Pruzhany Raion, Brest Voblast, Belarus) is a retired Russian women's volleyball coach, who is considered to be one of the most experienced international coaches in the history of the modern game....   2009 Gabriella Kotsis  2010 Hubert Wagner  2010 Hugo Conte Hugo Conte Hugo Néstor Conte is a volleyball coach and retired player from Argentina, who represented his native country in three Summer Olympics. He was born at Buenos Aires...   2011

Volleyball Players, Women: Player Name Year Flo Hyman Flo Hyman Flora Jean Hyman was an American volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist. She died during a volleyball match in Japan, as a result of Marfan syndrome.-Early Life and Education:...   1988 Jane Ward  1988 Kathy Gregory  1989 Mary Jo Peppler Mary Jo Peppler Mary Jo Peppler is a retired American volleyball player and coach. Peppler was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1990.-Early life:...   1990 Patty Dowdell  1994 Debbie Green  1995 Patti Bright  1996 Paula Weishoff Paula Weishoff Paula Jo Weishoff is a retired female volleyball player from the United States, who won two medals with the USA National Women's Team at the Summer Olympics: 1984 and 1992 ....   1998 Inna Ryskal Inna Ryskal Inna Valerievna Ryskal is a former Russian volleyball player for the USSR. She was one of the pre-eminent players of the 1960s and the early 1970s, training at VSS Neftchi in Baku. With the USSR national team, she won an Olympic title in 1968 and 1972 and silver medals in 1964 and 1976...   2000 Takako Shirai Takako Shirai Takako Shirai is a former volleyball player from Japan, who was a member of the Japan Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics....   2000 Jean Gaertner  2001 Regla Torres Regla Torres Regla Torres Herrera is a Cuban volleyball player who has won three Olympic gold medals with her first being at the young, for volleyball, age of 17. She has played on the international circuit since she was 14...   2001 Lang Ping Lang Ping MedalGold MedalGold MedalGold (1982 World Championship 1982 Perú"Jenny" Lang Ping , is a former Chinese volleyball player and the former head coach of the U.S. women's national volleyball team. Her nickname is the "Iron Hammer"....   2002 Karolyn Kirby Karolyn Kirby Karolyn Kirby is a retired female beach volleyball player from the United States, who won the bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships in Los Angeles, California, partnering Nancy Reno.-References:*...   2004 Mireya Luis Mireya Luis Alejandrina Mireya Luis Hernández, often referred to as Mireya is a retired Cuban volleyball player....   2004 Cecilia Tait Cecilia Tait Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta is a former Afro-Peruvian volleyball player from Lima, and a Peruvian politician. Nicknamed La Zurda del Oro she participated in three Summer Olympics with the Peruvian national team, finishing 4th in 1984 and receiving a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in...   2005 Jacqueline "Jackie" Silva Jackie Silva Jacqueline Louise Cruz Silva is a retired volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Sandra Pires....   2006 Nina Smoleeva  2006 Kerri Pottharst Kerri Pottharst Kerri Ann Pottharst OAM is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist.Pottharst was born in Adelaide, South Australia and currently resides in Sydney....   2007 Masae Kasai Nakamura  2008 Ana Moser  2009 Holly McPeak Holly McPeak Holly McPeak is an American beach volleyball player.McPeak has 72 career beach volleyball titles and $1.4 million USD in career earnings, which are third and second respectively of any woman in the history of professional beach volleyball...   2009 Gabriela Pérez del Solar Gabriela Pérez del Solar Gabriela Lourdes Pérez del Solar Cuculiza is a Peruvian female volleyball player and politician . On July 27, 2006 she assumed a position in the Peruvian Congress, representing Lima.-Sports career:...   2010 Shelda Bede Shelda Bede Shelda Kelly Bruno Bede is a beach volleyball player from Brazil who won silver medals in beach volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:*...   2010 Adriana Behar Adriana Behar Adriana Brandão Behar is one of the most outstanding volleyball players of her generation....   2010 Magaly Carvajal Magaly Carvajal Magaly Carvajal is a Cuban Volleyball Player, World champion and Olympic champion. She led Cuba to Olympic Gold Medals in the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Games. She also helped Cuba to win the World Gold Medal in 1994....   2011 Rita Crockett Rita Crockett Rita Louise Crockett is a former American competitive volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist. Crockett played NCAA women's volleyball with the Houston Cougars.-External links:...   2011 Volleyball Officials: Official Name Year Glen Davies Glen Davies Glen Davies , is a footballer who played in the Football League.-External links:...   1989 Alton Fish  1990 Dr. George J. Fisher  1991 Catalino Ignacio  1991 Merton H. Kennedy  1992 C.L. (Bobb) Miller  1995 Dr. Endre Holvay  2006 Paul Libaud  2009 Volleyball Leaders: Leader Name Year William G. Morgan William G. Morgan William G. Morgan was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette". He was born in Lockport, New York, USA. He met James Naismith, inventor of basketball, while Morgan was studying at Springfield College, Massachusetts in 1892. Like Naismith, Morgan pursued a career in Physical...   1985 Harold T. Friermood  1986 Leonard Gibson  1988 George J. Fisher George J. Fisher George J. Fisher M.D. was a physician and leader in the fields of youth development and physical fitness in the United States during the early twentieth century. He was a noted advocate for advancing the sport of volleyball....   1991 John Koch John Koch John Koch was an American painter, and an important figure in 20th century realist painting. His early work may be considered Impressionist...   1994 Robert L. Lindsey  1995 Albert Monaco Jr.  1997 Bill Baird  1998 Wilber H. Peck  1999 Dr. Endre Holvay  2006 Carlos Arthur Nuzman Carlos Arthur Nuzman Carlos Arthur Nuzman is a Brazilian lawyer and a former volleyball player, having competed professionally from 1957 to 1972 and represented the national team between 1962 and 1968...   2007 Sinan Erdem Sinan Erdem Sinan Erdem was a former Turkish volleyball player and long-standing head of the National Olympic Committee of Turkey.-Biography:He was born on May 9, 1927 in Manisa, Turkey. After finishing the high school in Galatasaray High School, he was educated in Law at Istanbul University.Sinan started to...   2008 Vladimir Savvine  2008 Frantisek Stibitz  2011

See also

• Category:American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Hall of Fame
• Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
  Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
  The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball , commonly known by the acronym FIVB, is the international governing body for the sport of indoor, beach and grass volleyball.. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland and its current president is Wei Jizhong .- History :The FIVB was founded...
  
  

External links

• Volleyball Hall of Fame official website