The Hong Kong women's national volleyball team represents Hong Kong in international women's volleyball competitions and friendly matches. It appeared at the Asian Women's Volleyball Championship 13 times. The team also participated at the 2016 Women's Volleyball Thai-Denmark Super League.
volleyball, game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in which the players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents’ playing area before it can be returned. To prevent this a player on the opposing team bats the ball up and toward a teammate before it touches the court surface—that teammate may then volley it back across the net or bat it to a third teammate who volleys it across the net. A team is allowed only three touches of the ball before it must be returned over the net.
Volleyball Federation of India (VFI) had entrusted the Odisha Volleyball Association to conduct the Coaching Camp of 45 provisionally selected players which was held at Biju Patnaik Indoor Stadium, Campus-13, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar from 2nd May 2022 onwards.
After the successful conduct of Coaching Camp 14 players were finally selected along with 03 officials and will leave for Thailand from Bhubaneswar on 22nd June 2022 to participate in “PRINCESS” 3rd AVC WOMEN CHALLENGE CUP Volleyball Championship 2022 at Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
The Indian Team consists of Six players from Kerala, Five from Indian Railways, One each from Odisha, Rajasthan & Himachal Pradesh.
Prof. Achyuta Samanta, Hon’ble MP, Kandhamal, President Volleyball Federation of India and Founder KIIT & KISS has provided all kinds of help and support for the smooth conduct of the Coaching Camp. He also distributed the sports kit to all the players and officials and also extended his good wishes for their success.
History
Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, physical director of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It was designed as an indoor sport for businessmen who found the new game of basketball too vigorous. Morgan called the sport “mintonette,” until a professor from Springfield College in Massachusetts noted the volleying nature of play and proposed the name of “volleyball.” The original rules were written by Morgan and printed in the first edition of the Official Handbook of the Athletic League of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of North America (1897). The game soon proved to have wide appeal for both sexes in schools, playgrounds, the armed forces, and other organizations in the United States, and it was subsequently