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Jennifer Joines
Jennifer Claire Tamas (; born November 23, 1982) is an American indoor volleyball player. Tamas made her first Olympic Games, Olympic appearance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and helped Team USA to a silver medal. Personal life Tamas was born in Santa Clara, California, to David and Jody Joines. She has a brother, John, who also graduated from the University of Pacific and played baseball for four years as an outfielder. She lives and coaches in Illinois. She attended Milpitas High coached by Jeff Lamb for two years and Presentation High School in San Jose, California, coached by Jim Reilly and graduated in 2000. She chose to play volleyball at the University of the Pacific (United States), University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where she majored in communications and business and was a member of Alpha Phi. On August 22, 2009, she married her college sweetheart, Chris Tamas, in Paso Robles, California. Chris also played collegiate volleyball at Pacific where he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara ( ; Spanish language, Spanish for "Clare of Assisi, Saint Clare") is a city in Santa Clara County, California. The city's population was 127,647 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities and towns in the San Francisco Bay Area, eighth-most populous city in the Bay Area. Located in the southern San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area, the city was founded by the Spanish in 1777 with the establishment of Mission Santa Clara de Asís under the leadership of Junípero Serra. Santa Clara is located in the center of Silicon Valley and is home to the headquarters of companies such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Nvidia. It is also home to Santa Clara University, the oldest university in California, and Levi's Stadium, the home of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers, and California's Great America Park. Santa Clara is bordered by San Jose, California, San Jose on almost every side, except for Sunnyvale, California, Sunnyv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup Squads
This article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the 2007 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup in Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea .... The following is the Brazil roster in the 2007 FIVB World Cup. The following is the Cuba roster in the 2007 FIVB World Cup. The following is the Dominican Republic roster in the 2007 FIVB World Cup. The following is the Italy roster in the 2007 FIVB World Cup. The following is the Japan roster in the 2007 FIVB World Cup. * Head coach: Shoichi Yanagimoto The following is the Kenya roster in the 2007 FIVB World Cup. The following is the Peru roster in the 2007 FIVB World Cup. The following is the Poland roster in the 2007 FIVB World Cup. The following is the Serbia roster in the 2007 FIVB W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the City of San José ( ; ), is a cultural, commercial, and political center within Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. With a city population of 997,368 and a metropolitan area population of 1.95 million, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and Northern California and the List of United States cities by population, 12th-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of and is the county seat, seat of Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County. Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was long inhabited by the Tamyen people, Tamien nation of the Ohlone people San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as the ''Pueblo de San José de Our Lady of Guadalupe, Guadalupe'', the first city founded in the Californias. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 after the Mexican Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presentation High School
Presentation High School is a private, Catholic, college preparatory school for girls established in 1962. It is owned and run by the Sisters of the Presentation, and operates within the Diocese of San Jose in California. The school is located in the Willow Glen area of San Jose, California, United States. Students come to Presentation from 154 different schools in 62 zip codes around the Bay Area. On top of being superior in academics, Presentation High School also offers more than 60 diverse clubs, teams, programs and affinity groups for its students to choose fromThe Robotics Club (Team 2135)is recognized by the FIRST Robotics Competition. This helps young women explore the STEM fields by hands-on engineering, programming and design. Athletics The following sports are offered at Presentation: *Basketball * Competitive Dance * Cross country *Field hockey *Golf *Lacrosse *Soccer *Softball * Swimming & diving *Tennis *Track and field * Volleyball *Water polo *Wrestling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Beijing Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events, one event more than those scheduled for the 2004 Summer Olympics. This was the first time China had hosted the Olympic Games, and the third time the Summer Olympic Games had been held in East Asia, following the 1964 Summer Olympics, 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. These were also the second Summer Olympic Games to be held in a communist state, the first being the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union (with venues in Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussia, and Estonian Soviet Socialis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2011 Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the tenth edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament, played by twelve countries over July 1–9, 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, Mexico. The top four NORCECA teams and the top two from Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol, CSV confederation, qualified for the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix. Competing nations Squads Preliminary round Group A Group B Final round Championship bracket 5th–10th places bracket Eleventh place match Classification 7–10 Quarterfinals Ninth place match Classification 5–8 Semifinals Seventh place match Fifth place match Third place match Final Final standing *''Brazil, Dominican Republic, the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Argentina qualified for the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix''. Individual awards *Most valuable player ** *Best scorer ** *B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup is a continental cup organized by NORCECA with teams from all over America ( North-, South- and Central America, and the Caribbean), that served as a qualifier for the World Grand Prix. The tournament also granted places for the Final Four Women's Volleyball Cup. Since 2018 the event also serves as Pan American Games classification. The men have their own equivalent of the tournament, the Men's Pan-American Cup. Results Medal table Teams by year Most valuable player by edition * 2002 – Yumilka Ruíz *2003 – Milagros Cabral *2004 – Zoila Barros *2005 – Yudelkys Bautista * 2006 – Mari Steinbrecher *2007 – Nancy Carrillo *2008 – Sidarka Núñez *2009 – Bethania de la Cruz *2010 – Prisilla Rivera *2011 – Sheilla Castro *2012 – Kristin Richards *2013 – Nicole Fawcett *2014 – Brenda Castillo *2015 – Krista Vansant *2016 – Brayelin Martinez *2017 – Micha Hancock *2018 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volleyball At The 2003 Pan American Games – Women's Team Rosters
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. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the program at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball. Basic play The complete set of rules is extensive, but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to three times to return the ball to the other side of the court, but individual players may not touch the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volleyball At The 2003 Pan American Games
This page presents the results of the Men's and Women's Volleyball Tournament during the 2003 Pan American Games, which was held from August 1 to August 17, 2003, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. There were four medal events, two (indoor and beach) for both men and women. Men's indoor tournament Squads Preliminary round Group A * August 3 * August 5 * August 7 Group B * August 4 * August 6 * August 8 Quarterfinals * August 10 Final round Semifinals * August 13 Finals =Classification match (7th/8th place)= * August 10 =Classification match (5th/6th place)= * August 11 =Bronze-medal match= * August 15 =Gold-medal match= * August 15 Final standings # # # # # # # # Individual awards * Most valuable player ** Ernardo Gómez * Best attacker ** Ronald Méndez * Best scorer ** Ernardo Gómez * Best defender ** Nalbert Bittencourt * Best setter ** Rodman Valera * Best server ** Gabriel Gardner * Best receiver ** Yasser Portuon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan American Games
The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of the Americas, every four years, the year before Summer Olympic Games, Summer Olympics. It is the second-oldest continental games in the world. The only 1990 Winter Pan American Games, Winter Pan American Games were held in 1990. In 2021 Junior Pan American Games, 2021, the Junior Pan American Games was held for the first time specifically for young athletes. The Pan American Sports Organization is the governing body of the Pan American Games movement, whose structure and actions are defined by the Olympic Charter. The most recent event was the 2023 Pan American Games, XIX Pan American Games, held in Santiago from 20 October to 5 November 2023. The 2027 Pan American Games, XX Pan American Games will be held in 2027. Since the 2007 Pan America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 FIVB World Grand Prix Squads
This article show all participating team squads at the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix, played by sixteen countries with the final round held in Macau, China. The following is the Argentina roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The following is the Brazil roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The following is the China roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The following is the Cuba roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The following is the Dominican Republic roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The following is the Germany roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The following is the Italy roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The following is the Japan roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The following is the Kazakhstan roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The following is the South Korea roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The following is the Peru roster in the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix. The followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 FIVB World Grand Prix
The 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix was a women's volleyball tournament played by 16 countries from 5 to 28 August 2011. The finals were held at the Macau East Asian Games Dome in Macau, China. The United States won the tournament, after defeating 3–0 to Brazil in the gold medal match. Destinee Hooker of the United States won the MVP award. Competing nations The following national teams qualified: Squads Pool standing procedure 1. Match points 2. Numbers of matches won 3. Sets ratio 4. Points ratio Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser Calendar Preliminary round Ranking The host China and top seven teams in the preliminary round advanced to the final round. First round Pool A Pool B Pool C Pool D Second round Pool E Pool F Pool G Pool H Third round Pool I Pool J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
