The History of Volleyball

                                Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William J. Morgan, who was physical education director of the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He developed the game to provide an indoor game for the winter months in which relatively large groups of men could participate in a small gym. The principal features of tennis were employed, but the net was raised and the players struck the bladder of a basketball with their hands instead of racquets.

He intended to create a game for his classes of business when which would demand less physical contact then basketball .Originally the game was called mignonette.

During a demonstration game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more descriptive name for the sport.

In 1964, Volleyball was introduced to the Olympic Games in Tokyo. In 1984, the United States Men's and Women's teams won medals for the first time. Men’s won gold, Women won silver.

Today there are 24 million Americans who play Volleyball. There are over 800 million people worldwide who play Volleyball at least once a week

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