The FIVB, or the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball consists of a World Congress, the supreme authority in all volleyball play, which meets every two years to elect a president and board of directors. The President and Board of Directors of the FIVB are the supreme authority governing FIVB sanctioned volleyball events.
FIVB, The World’s Largest Volleyball League
The FIVB sponsors several tournaments in beach and indoor volleyball play. The FIVB Volleyball World League is a yearly event-taking place over seven weekends in more than 40 cities. With 12 national volleyball teams competing for more that 20 million in prize money, this is the premier men’s international volleyball tournament.
The FIVB Volleyball World Championships occur every four years, and a multitude of qualifying tournaments occur prior to this magnificent volleyball event. While 214 volleyball teams start in the qualification tournament, the top 24 teams of each gender compete in the volleyball final.
The FIVB sponsors the Swatch World Beach Volleyball Tour, which travels to a variety of countries, and holds an international beach volleyball championship every two years.
The FIVB votes on official rules for the volleyball tournaments, and musters strong support to lobby other volleyball tournaments to adopt their interpretation of rules.
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Male Volleyball Players / Instructors
 Male Volleyball Player / Coach – Eric Fonoimoana Eric is a 2000 Olympic gold medalist in Sydney, Australia, AVP MVP, AVP King of the Beach, while being a 2 time Manhattan Beach Open Champion. Eric has been a professional volleyball player for the past 18 years and a winner in the AVP tour 18 times. He was also the MVP at UC Santa Barbara, and over 18 year career he has reached the sports highest awards available. |
 Male Volleyball Player – Jeff Nygaard Jeff is a three time Olympian, indoor 1996, 2000 and beach 2004. In addition he is a two time NCAA Champion and two time NCAA MVP at UCLA. In 2003 he was the AVP MVP and awarded the Team of the Year. |
 Male Beach Volleyball Coach – Steve Anderson Steve is the Olympic gold and bronze medalist coach in 2000 and 1996 with the Australian women’s beach team. Coach of the FIVB co-team of the decade 1990-2000. In addition to playing in the AVP tour himself he has coached both indoor and outdoor volleyball for the past 20 years. |
 Male Volleyball Player / Coach – Stein Metzger Stein Metzger was a 2004 Olympian, an 18 time AVP champion, FIVB winner, along with being a 2 time Manhattan Beach Open Champion. He is also best known for leading UCLA to 4 consecutive NCAA finals as a starting setting of which they won 3 championships and and was named the MVP his senior year. |
 Male Indoor Volleyball Player – Mike Diehl Diehl was a NCAA Champion at UCLA, a 4 Man Bud Tour MVP and Kill Leader, he is a 15 Year European Indoor Pro, being a 3 time league MVP, along with being the league kill and ace leader. On top of this he has 15 years coaching and personal training experience. |
 Male Indoor Volleyball Coach – Gary Sato Gary was the assistant coach for the U.S. men’s 1988 Olympic gold medal and 1992 Olympic bronze medal teams. He is also a two time NCAA champion assistant coach at Pepperdine. Currently he is the USA boys under 18 head coach as well as the assistant coach preparing the 2012 Olympic men’s team. |
 Male Volleyball Player – Matt Fuerbringer Matt is a six time AVP champion and NCAA Champion at Stanford. He is also a four time All-American and top five in blocks and kills on the AVP, he is also the 2003 AVP Rookie of the Year. Matt also brings 20 years of coaching experience and is the joint owner and director of THE MAC athletic club. |
 Male Volleyball Player – Ed Ratledge Ed is a NCAA champion at UCLA. He is the current UCLA single game kills record holder. In addition he is a ten year AVP veteran, which includes ranking in the top ten for blocks and kills on the AVP 2004-10. He is also representing the US for beach volleyball. |
 Most Explosive Male Volleyball Player – Anthony Medel Anthony is a ten year AVP veteran and the most dynamic defender and jump server on the AVP tour for the last five years. He is also a ten year coach and reached his first AVP final by defeating Todd. |
 Male Volleyball Player / Coach – Seth Burnham Seth is a 2 Time NCAA Champion at UCLA, Professional Indoor Europe player, Representative for USA volleyball for both beach and Indoor and on the AVP Tour. Anthony also has 10 + Years’ experience in coaching. |
 Male Indoor Volleyball Coach – David Fischer David is a 12 year indoor coach for boys and girls at all levels. He Played for the U.S. in Pan-Am games and NORCECA. David is also the Owner of The Volley trolley promoting the game. |
 Male Volleyball Player / Trainer – Marcin Jagoda NCAA Champion UCLA, Pro Indoor Europe, representative for the Polish National Team Indoor and for the United States Beach. |
Female Volleyball Players / Instructors
 Female Volleyball Player – Logan Tom Logan is arguably the #1 indoor volleyball player in the world. She started playing for the USA nation team at the age of 16. She is the Co-Captain of the US National team and is a 4 year time all american player at Stanford with 1 NCAA title. Logan is going to compete on her 4th olympic games and led the 2008 Olympics in points. |
 Female Volleyball Player – Priscilla Lima Priscilla started playing volleyball at the age of 15. Upon graduation she ranked fourth in career digs, fifth in kills and twice named all-conference with first-team honors her senior season. In 2004 she did not qualify for her first AVP tournament. Since she has qualified for every tournament and finished 2009 with the AVP Most Improved Player award and third in the season standings for the year. Lima’s rise has included finishes of ninth in 2005, fifth in 2007 and her first finals match in 2009 at Muskegon. |
 Female Volleyball Player – Lauren Fendrick Lauren is a six year AVP and FIVB pro with two FIVB satellite event wins. Her beach career started in 2003 after being a four year starting outside hitter at UCLA. She earned Pac-10 All-Freshman team honors, three Academic All-American honors and honorable mention All-Pac-10. After college Lauren played pro indoors in Turkey and Puerto Rico. In 2006 she finished eighth in kills, 2007 tenth in blocks and 2009 knocked off the top seed at the Brooklyn Open. On the FIVB Lauren finished fourth in Phuket, Thailand and ninth in Klagenfurt after advancing from the qualifier for her highest Grand Slam finish. |
 Female Volleyball Player – Alicia Zamparelli Alicia Zamparelli is an eight plus year AVP pro and ten plus year volleyball coach. She first started as a basketball player that picked up volleyball and fell in love with it. Since then Alicia has represented the United States in FIVB tournaments and hosted camps at AVP events. |
