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OLYMPIAN RAN MASTER CLASS
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Date: Friday February 17th, 2023
Location: Bartle Hall Convention Center Ages: 14's-18's Price: $200 the day of camp. You can purchase only at Camp Check-In. |
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New to the TC NIT Friday slate is our Master Class, which 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. |
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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. |
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Danielle Scott-Arruda
Danielle Scott-Arruda’s ability to sustain excellence over an extraordinary length of time at the highest levels has warranted her a spot among the all-time greats of the game. Before starring on the U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team as a middle blocker for 19 years, Danielle played collegiately at Long Beach State University where she was a three-time American Volleyball Coaches Association All-American First-Team. She ended her career as the NCAA leader in career hitting efficiency at .421. Danielle led the 49ers to the NCAA title as a senior in 1993 when she earned three major postseason awards – AVCA and Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year and the Honda Award as the nation’s best female volleyball player. That same year, she earned All-Big West Conference in basketball to become the first player to earn all-conference accolades in two sports in one season. Danielle joined the U.S. Women’s National Team on a full-time basis in 1994, making her international debut at the Goodwill Games and played in her first of three FIVB World Championships. In 1995, she helped Team USA win its first-ever FIVB World Grand Prix title with extensive time off the bench. After biding her time as a key reserve in her first two years, Danielle was selected to her first of five consecutive Olympics – the 1996 Atlanta Games where she started the final two matches. Four years later, Danielle became a veteran leader on a rather young 2000 Olympic Team that finished fourth in Sydney. She was named Best Blocker of the 2000 Olympics where she had 33 blocks as part of her 139 total points. Danielle carried that success through the rest of the decade with multiple medals and individual honors. She sparked the Americans to the 2001 FIVB World Grand Prix title as she was honored with the most valuable player award, Best Scorer and Best Blocker awards. In the following year, Danielle led the U.S. to the 2002 FIVB World Championship silver medal as she was named Best Blocker. She paced Team USA to the bronze medal at the 2003 FIVB World Cup where the Americans qualified for the 2004 Olympics. At the Athens Games, Danielle was seventh overall in blocking despite the USA’s disappointing knockout in the quarterfinals. Following the Athens Games, she helped a resurgent Team USA in 2007 following two years of middling results. Danielle was named as flag bearer to lead the Team USA delegation at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio, where the young USA roster finished with the bronze medal. Later that year, the Americans qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games by finishing third at the 2007 FIVB World Cup and Danielle finished third in blocking. Team USA’s late quadrennial momentum continued in 2008 as Danielle and her overachieving teammates found themselves in the Beijing Olympic Games final against Brazil before taking home the silver medal – the team’s first Olympic medal since 1992. After missing all of 2010 while pregnant with her daughter Julianne, Danielle worked herself back into shape and was a key performer off the bench to help Team USA win gold at the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix and silver at the 2011 FIVB World Cup, thus again earning a berth into the 2012 Olympics. Based on her strong efforts starting eight of 14 matches of the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix leading to her fifth gold in that event, Danielle was selected to her fifth Olympic Games at the age of 39. As a reserve middle playing six sets in the London Games, she provided a veteran presence for the Americans to finish with the 2012 Olympic silver medal, losing only to Brazil in the finals. Danielle’s second-to-last appearance wearing the Red, White and Blue was in 2013, playing in the inaugural USA Volleyball Cup against Japan on June 12 at Long Beach State where she played collegiately. Since then, she has been an integral part of USA Volleyball’s High Performance pipeline coaching the next generation of aspiring Olympians. Danielle is one of only four volleyball players – male or female – to have participated in five Olympic Games. Russia’s Yevgeniya Artamonova-Estes and Sergey Tetyukhin played in a remarkable six Olympics, while Brazilian and 2015 International Volleyball Hall of Fame inductee Fofão competed in five Olympics. And what makes Danielle’s five Olympics even more impressive is that she played under five different head coaches with five different systems. Along with the five Olympic Games appearances, Danielle’s career included four appearances in the FIVB World Cup, three selections to FIVB World Championships and 11 appearances in FIVB World Grand Prix tournaments. |
Coaches Attending
COLLEGE COACHES ATTENDING
- 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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