Volleyball

             Evidence exists which suggests that modern volleyball was invented by a man named William G. Morgan (1870-1942) at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He worked as the Director of Physical Education. As he was responsible for developing a program of physical activities and exercises for male adults, he came up with the game he referred to as "Mintonette". "Mintonette" served its purpose as a less violent and less intense alternative for the older male members of the Association. Due to the network of YMCAs throughout the world, the game now known as volleyball soon spread far and wide. Japan was among the first to take up the new sports trend. The set and spike originated in the Philippines in 1916, while teams of six became standard in 1918 and rules dictating only three hits per side and back-row attacks came into being in 1920. The game spread further when US soldiers played it at their European bases during the Second World War.
             Beach Volleyball emerged in the early 1920's as a common domestic sport in Santa Monica, California, where families played in six-player teams and the first courts where put up on the beach at the Playground. For the next seventy years, beach volleyball gained credibility as a men's tournament and professional women's sport. Leagues and Associations were continually formed and other countries began to get involved. However, California remained the epicenter for the sport due to climate and proximity to the ocean. Finally, in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia 24 men's teams and 16 women's teams represent their countries in the first ever Olympic Beach Volleyball Tournaments.
             Since that year, it has become an extremely lucrative career especially for Karch Kiraly. He is a three time Olympic Gold Medallist for Beach Volleyball. His awards have amassed up to over $2,849,565. He certainly has little trouble caring for his wife and two children, and without necessa...

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