TEAM SPORTS

OFFICIATING

VOLLEYBALL
Who invented the game?

William Morgan in
the city of
HOLYOKE,
Massachusetts.
Previous name of the game

MINTONETTE-

The game was

played with a
racket
Renamed Volleyball
through the
suggestion of G.A.
Halsted
Objective of the game

To volley
the ball
The first Champion in the Philippine
National Competition in volleyball

Philippine

Normal
College
Composition of Players

Sixmembers
against
another team
 The sixth member may or may
not be a LIBERO, an around
player, who can play anywhere
in the backcourt anytime
during the game even without
the permission of the umpire.
Equipment

BALL AND
NET
 Ball-Tricolor,
with a
circumference of 65x67
centimeters and official
weight should range from
260 to 280 grams
Net-1 meters wide
and 9.50 meters
long, made of 10
centimeter square
dark stitches.
Men- the official
height of the net is
2.43 meters
Women-2.24 meters

from the floor

The playing court is
rectangular with
measurements of 18
meters in length and 9
meters in width. It must
be flat, clear and clean.
Acenter line divides the
area into two equal courts
measuring 9m. X9m. Each
court has a front zone 3 m.
long and 9 m. wide with an
attack line as boundary