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OLYMPIAN RAN MASTER CLASS
Date: Friday February 16th, 2024
Location: Bartle Hall Convention Center Times: 2: 2-3:30 Ages: 14's-18's Price: $200 |
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Our Master Class will deliver high-end skill instruction from veterans from the USA Olympic team:
Position-specific training, with sessions at noon-1:30 p.m. and 2-3:30 p.m. As players work out, D-I college coaches will be allowed courtside for recruiting purposes.
PARENTS/SPECTATORS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WATCH CAMPS ON THE COURTS
- Lloy Ball (four-time men’s team player, 2008 gold medalist)
- Tara Cross-Battle (bronze medalist on women’s team, 1992)
- Danielle Scott (five-time women’s team player, 2008 and 2012 silver medalist)
Position-specific training, with sessions at noon-1:30 p.m. and 2-3:30 p.m. As players work out, D-I college coaches will be allowed courtside for recruiting purposes.
PARENTS/SPECTATORS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WATCH CAMPS ON THE COURTS
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Tara Cross-Battle
Not just one of the greatest players in the history of American volleyball, Tara Cross-Battle was one of the best players in the world. From a young age, Cross-Battle was no stranger to winning. She earned two California state championships her junior and senior years of high school. Cross-Battle was also named to Volleyball Monthly magazine’s Fab 50 list of the top high school players in the country. Cross-Battle was a two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division I Player of the Year and a four-time AVCA All-America selection at Long Beach State University. She was named to the All-Decade team for the 1980s as she led Long Beach State to the school’s first-ever national title in 1989 as the 49ers finished 35-2 overall. Cross-Battle set records in the NCAA for career kills with 2,767, which included a personal-best and school-record 47 kills in a single match. Her senior year, she received the Honda Award for volleyball, an award given to the most outstanding collegiate female athletes. Her dominance continued on the U.S. Women’s National Team where she was an all-around skilled passer and world-class hitter. She became the United States’ first four-time volleyball Olympian, competing in the Games in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. In her debut Olympics, she helped the United States to the bronze medal in Barcelona. She competed in three FIVB World Championships (1990, 1994, 2002), winning the bronze medal in 1990 and the silver medal in 2002. She was instrumental in the United States winning gold medals in the 1995 and 2001 FIVB World Grand Prix, along with bronze medals in the 2003 FIVB World Cup and World Grand Prix. She was named Best Scorer and Most Valuable Player of the 1995 FIVB World Grand Prix. In 2001, Cross-Battle led the U.S. to the NORCECA Continental Championship and was named most valuable player in the tournament. Cross-Battle played professionally overseas in Italy and Brazil from 1992 to 2003. After her retirement from playing she became a juniors coach back in her home state of Texas. She currently serves as head training coach for Houston Juniors Volleyball Club, which captured the 17 National Division silver medal in the 2014 USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships. |
Lloy Ball
Lloy Ball, the only United States male player to play in four Olympic Games for indoor volleyball, started playing the sport before the age of 5. His father, Arnie, would set up pillows along the living room floor and they would play one-on-one with a balloon. Even though there was no high school volleyball in Indiana and Lloy was limited to playing only in the summers, he was able to make his first big breakthrough at age 15 by earning a spot in the 1987 Olympic Festival. He was the youngest player ever to compete in that competition. Due to an injury opening a spot on the roster, U.S. Head Coach Bill Neville called for Lloy to go with the national team on a tour to Japan in 1988, making him the youngest player to ever compete with the US National Team at the age of 16. Lloy was recruited out of high school by legendary coach Bobby Knight to play basketball at the University of Indiana. Instead, he chose to play volleyball for his father at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) where he pursued a degree in communications. He finished off his outstanding college career at IPFW with the second most career assists in NCAA history and in the top five for service aces. He also set school records for career assists (6,526), block assists (416) and service aces (167). After competing for the USA in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympic Games, Lloy was able to retire from international play in style, capping his remarkable career with USA by winning the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Just weeks before the 2008 Games, he had led Team USA to the FIVB World League title, picking up the honors of Most Valuable Player and Best Setter along the way. Lloy has had a long and decorated career with the USA in the foot steps of two other International Volleyball Hall of Fame setters, Dusty Dvorak and Jeff Stork. He earned the bronze medal at the 1994 FIVB World Championship in Greece, and he claimed the Best Setter award at the 1999 FIVB World Cup when the U.S. just missed the podium with a fourth-place finish. Lloy also had a stellar professional club career overseas spanning 15 seasons in four countries to go with his National Team exploits. His first pro experience was with Toray in the Japan V-League from 1996 to 1999. In the early 2000s, he collected three European Champions League silver medals with one coming with Italy’s Pallavolo Modena in 2002-03 and the other two with Greece’s Iraklis Thessaloniki in 2004-05 and 2005-06. Lloy was tabbed Best Setter of the European Champions League following his first silver medal with Thessaloniki. After transferring to play for Russia’s Zenit Kazan, he earned the European Champions League gold medal in 2007-2008 in the same year he won the Olympic Games, followed by the silver medal in 2010-11 when he was selected as Best Setter. In total, he won league titles in three countries including four in Russia, two in Greece and one in Italy. |
Coaches Attending
COLLEGE COACHES THAT ATTENDED 2023
- Abilene Christian
- Air Force
- Arizona
- App State
- Arkansas State
- Augustana
- Baylor
- Boston College
- Bowling Green State
- Bucknell U
- Colgate
- Colorado
- Colorado State
- Columbia
- Creighton
- CSU Bakersfield
- Dallas Baptist
- Dartmouth
- Duke
- ETSU
- Florida
- Fordham University
- Franklin and Marshall
- Fresno State
- George Mason
- Green Bay
- Holy Cross
- JMU
- Lehigh
- Morehead State
- Morgan State
- North Alabama
- Northern Colorado
- Oakland University
- Oregon State
- Pittsburgh
- Southeastern Louisiana
- Tennessee State
- UC Santa Barbara
- ULM
- University of Georgia
- University of Kentucky
- Western Michigan
REFUND POLICY
REFUND POLICY
No Refunds after January 4th.
Refunds prior to January 4th will be less a 20% admin fee.
Refunds prior to January 4th will be less a 20% admin fee.
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