Date:	Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Time:	2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Place:	ESPN Zone, Downtown Disney
	1545 Disneyland Drive, Anaheim, CA 92802

Media are invited to attend. Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle, City Council members and City leaders will also be at ESPN Zone for the send-off. The team will be acknowledged during a brief ceremony, scheduled to take place at 3:00 p.m. in front of the restaurant.

The U.S. Men’s National Volleyball team trains in Anaheim, having moved from Colorado Springs, Colo. in 2006. Their training center is at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim.

To pre-arrange interviews, please contact Ruth Ruiz, City of Anaheim Public Information Office, at 714-765-5060 (direct), or 714-420-7797 (cell).

Olympic team roster:

No. Name (Pos., Height, Age., Hometown, College)
1 Lloy Ball (S, 6-8, 36, Woodburn, Ind., IPFW
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, 25, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, 26, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, 33, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, 30, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, 30, Palmdale, Calif., BYU)
10 Riley Salmon (OH, 6-6, 32, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
12 Tom Hoff, Team Captain (MB, 6-8, 35, Park Ridge, Ill., Long Beach State)
13 Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, 30, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawai'i)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, 26, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
15 Gabe Gardner (OPP, 6-9, 32, San Clemente, Calif., Stanford)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-6, 26, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)

Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand), serves as the Olympic team’s head coach. He was a Team USA assistant coach in the 2004 Olympic Games.

Multiple Olympians

4-Lloy Ball (1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008)
3-Tom Hoff (2000, 2004 and 2008)
3-Ryan Millar (2000, 2004 and 2008)
2-Gabe Gardner (2004 and 2008)
2-Reid Priddy (2004 and 2008)
2-Riley Salmon (2004 and 2008)
2-Clay Stanley (2004 and 2008)

Olympians by College


Long Beach State (3): Tom Hoff, David Lee, Scott Touzinsky
BYU (2): Ryan Millar, Rich Lambourne
Stanford (2): Gabe Gardner, Kevin Hansen
Hawaii (1): Clay Stanley
IPFW (1): Lloy Ball
Loyola Marymount (1): Reid Priddy
Pepperdine (1): Sean Rooney
Pierce College (1): Riley Salmon

Beginnings and International Scope of Volleyball

·         On an international level Volleyball ranks second behind soccer among participation sports.  Worldwide, 800 million individuals play Volleyball at least once a week, 46 million of those being Americans.

·         The sport of Volleyball is more than 100 years old, invented in 1894 by William Morgan, a YMCA instructor from Holyoke, Massachusetts. 

·         The YMCA introduced Volleyball to the countries of Canada, Asia, the Southern Hemisphere, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Brazil, the Philippines – all before 1916. 

·         The International Olympic Committee (IOC) adopted Volleyball as an official team sport in 1957, and was introduced at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. 

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