Over time, such sports notables as Amos Alonzo Stagg, Harlem Globetrotter Curly Neal, Elgin Baylor, NBA stars Wilt Chamberlain and Christian Laettner would claim that a YMCA nurtured their interest in basketball. Dr. Martin Luther King, Olympic track star Jesse Owens, baseball legend Jackie Robinson and former U.N. Ambassador Rev. Andrew Young, all honed their athletic skills and built friendships on YMCA basketball courts. While basketball was creating excitement in Springfield, Mass., another YMCA instructor, William Morgan, thought it "too strenuous for sedate businessmen." He blended elements of basketball, tennis and handball into a new game he called "Mintonette." The 1st game was played at Morgan's Holyoke, Mass.

YMCA in winter 1895, by middle-aged businessmen. Morgan introduced the game using a borrowed tennis net raised to 6 feet, 6 inches - a head taller than the average man. The name "volley ball" was first used in 1896 and the net was raised to increase the game's difficulty. Between 1918 and 1919, more than a million American WWI soldiers participated in YMCA- organized volleyball games. Returning home, they brought the new game with them.

Today, more than 46 million Americans - and 100's of millions of people internationally - play volleyball. Some nine-hundred American YMCAs offer volleyball for children and adults.

"These are wonderful sports and YMCA legacies," said Ken Gladish, Ph.D., national executive director, YMCA of the USA. "They're fun, they teach values and teamwork, and provide an excellent form of exercise - all part of the YMCAs' goal of building healthy spirit, mind and body."

Together, 2,575 YMCAs are the United States largest not-for-profit community service organization. At the heart of community life, YMCAs serve 18.9 million people, including 9.3 million children through a broad range of programs. YMCAs are for people of all faiths, races, ages, incomes and abilities. Financial assistance available.

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Archery ranks in importance as a cultural advance with the development of speech and the art of making fire.

Cross Country Closure by Ogadinma Anyanwu. This teacher tried so hard to convince me to run cross-country in the fall instead, but I was fixated on playing volleyball.

Men's volleyball is classed as an equivalency sport but women's volleyball is classed by the NCAA as a head count sport. Volleyball recruiting statistics and information.

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The game of Badminton was invented a long time ago; its origins go back at least 2000 years to the game of shuttlecock and battledore played in ancient India, Greece and China.