By Gary AndersonDecember 17 - Arena Group has today been announced as the official supplier of overlay and temporary structures for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

temporary structures across a number of venues during London 2012, including Horse Guards Parade for beach volleyball

Emily GoddardDecember 17 - Adelaide has been named as the host of the historic first Standing Beach Volleyball

Having a great history in the discipline of beach volleyball for the able-bodied, Volleyball Australia

is honoured to host the first ever Standing Beach Volleyball World Championship for men with a physical

Championships, will host the first ever Standing Beach Volleyball World Championship for men with a

A permanent commission of Volleyball Australia has also been established to plan the development of volleyball

World ParaVolley looks forward to working with Volleyball Australia to ensure the inaugural Beach Standing

By Paul OsborneDecember 16 - Double London 2012 gold medallist Hannah Cockroft will participate in a one off Strictly Come Dancing Sport Relief special alongside three other Paralympic heroes.

The show will see Cockroft, alongside sitting volleyball star Martine Wright, javelin and discus thrower

By Gary AndersonDecember 14 - The International Federation of Volleyball's (FIVB) Sports Events Council today approved a new four-year events calendar through to 2017 and which will now be considered by the governing body's Executive Committee tomorrow (Sunday) in Lausanne.

take place in Italy from September 23 to October.The dates and venues for the 2014 men's and women's Volleyball

World League running from May 23 to July 20 while the Volleyball World Grand Prix takes place from July

The dates for the Volleyball Club World Championships in 2015 and 2016 have been set for May 5 to 10

World League will take place from May 29 to July 19 followed by the Volleyball World Grand Prix from

World League expands to 28 teams for 2014March 2013: FIVB Volleyball World League 2013 host cities

By Nick ButlerDecember 11 - Details of the first in a series of multi-sport preparation camps to support athletes in the final 1,000 days of their preparations for Rio 2016 have been announced by the British Paralympic Association (BPA).

consisting of athletics, boccia, cycling, canoeing, triathlon, rowing, shooting, table tennis, sitting volleyball

Four years earlier in Beijing we had the infamous women's beach volleyball encounter between Russia and

There was no love lost in the Russia versus Georgia beach volleyball preliminary clash in Beijing ©AFP

By Paul OsborneDecember 1 - The International Federation of Volleyball (FIVB) World League will be expanding

from 18 teams to 28 when the premier annual men's volleyball event gets underway in 2014.

This new direction is all about growing volleyball and providing opportunities for federations to play

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titleMarch 2013: FIVB Volleyball World League 2013 host cities unveiled

By Nick ButlerNovember 29 - Sports Aid patron the Duchess of Cambridge has continued her role in inspiring the next generation of athletes into sport with an appearance at the charity's annual Sports Ball in London. 

where she watched aspiring athletes competing across various sports before personally taking to the volleyball

never be a truly global event while it is confined to snow and ice sports.Some indoor sports, such as volleyball

Summer Olympic programme.Volleyball and handball seem naturals to make the switch, especially with beach volleyball

spectators and facilities for athletics, gymnastics, boxing, fencing, judo, wrestling, handball, basketball, volleyball

By Gary AndersonNovember 27 - More Brazilians than ever are taking up rugby ahead of the sport's re-introduction to the Olympic Games at Rio 2016, according to the International Rugby Board (IRB), as schools programmes attract more and more youngsters.

one of those trying to gain a foothold for the sport which faces stiff competition from football and volleyball

By Gary AndersonNovember 25 - Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) has announced the appointment of Megan Munro as the lead physiotherapist for its Para-swimming programme.

a number of years, including in the UK where she was involved in athletics, adaptive rowing, seated volleyball

By Nick Butler at the Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel in AthensNovember 24 - Sitting volleyball

venues are set to be "twisted around" to ensure maximum effectiveness.Due to size constraints, sitting volleyball

We knew from the beginning that we had some challenges with sitting volleyball because it is a big venue

By Duncan MackayNovember 23 - There will be two candidates to replace Hemasiri Fernando as President of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka in an election already marred by controversy.

position since 1996.Dilan Perera, a member of Sri Lanka's Parliament and President of the Sri Lanka Volleyball

Volleyball Some of Europe’s brightest stars in both beach and indoor

volleyball will compete at the Beach Arena and Baku’s iconic seafront landmark, Crystal Hall.