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USA Volleyball Doug Beal - CEO The following are some of the highlights of the final quarter of USA Volleyball activity for 2009, many of which will be covered in more detail by the respective Directors responsible for each department in their reports. 1. USA Volleyball will have a significant presence at the AVCA Convention in Tampa, Florida the week of December 14. Our partnership with the AVCA is strong, and we will locate our booth next to one of our major sponsors on the convention floor. Additionally, we will partner with the Florida Region, as well as with our new magazine partner, JDP, at our booth. There will be upwards of 20 USAV staff attending, who will make presentations, produce CAP and Beach CAP programming, and be involved with PAVO and the National Referees Clinic. Our Board Chair, David Schreff, will also attend. 2. You will soon be receiving the winter 2009 edition of our “new look” magazine, which is the third issue produced in cooperation with JDP, an outside editorial and production company. We are eager to receive your feedback relative to content and the general look of the magazine. 3. I attended, for the first time in almost 20 years, the revived FIVB World Club Championship, which was held in Qatar in early November. This is a major FIVB event that could have implications for the USAV Open Championships, as a representative from the NORCECA Confederation will always be invited. The event was also used by the FIVB to test new rule ideas, and that should continue to be the case in the future. The competition was held for men only, but my understanding is that the FIVB has concluded a long-term contract for this event with the country of Qatar and, starting in 2010, will include a women’s event as well. 4. Several of our staff recently returned from the Dominican Republic, where they attended NORCECA Commission meetings (Beach and Sports Organizing). On-going discussions about event locations, dates, and other conditions were held. Of particular interest is the Youth Olympic Games that will be held in 2010 in Singapore. The US has an opportunity to qualify for the boys event only (per USOC decision reflecting limited team sport entry per National Olympic Committee) in April of this

coming year. In addition, there was confirmation of a NORCECA beach event to be held in the US in 2010. 5. USA Volleyball held its fall Board of Directors meeting in conjunction with the Volleyball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Holyoke on October 30. The induction activities continue to improve each year and the growth of the Hall, with the major support of our regions as well as USAV, is significant. This year the ceremony was attended by an Executive Vice President on the FIVB Executive Committee, Ms. Marta Centeno of Guatemala. We are moving forward in our discussions for a partnership with the FIVB to further grow and expand the Volleyball Hall of Fame. 6. I was able to spend a weekend in Lansing, Michigan meeting with the leadership of the Lakeshore Region to discuss growth opportunities and cooperative programming that might enhance USAV programming in that relatively new region. 7. Our Finance and Budget Committee met in Colorado Springs December 6-7 to review and finalize the 2010 budget for Board of Directors approval in January. It is significant that we have added two regional representatives (Steve Bishop, Florida Region and Angelo Iasillo, Great Lakes Region) in an ad hoc relationship to this very important committee. 8. The IOC selected Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 site for the Olympic Games, and Chicago was disappointed by being eliminated on the first ballot. There have been significant changes within the USOC recently, and they are currently in the final stages of selecting a new CEO who should be identified by the end of this year. 9. Our men’s indoor team competed in the NORCECA Championship in Puerto Rico in the middle of October, losing in the finals to Cuba, who qualified for the FIVB Grand Champions Cup. Cuba subsequently finished second in this competition. The women’s Grand Champions Cup finished with Italy defeating Brazil for the gold medal. The Dominican Republic represented NORCECA after winning the zone championship. Their women’s team finished third at the Grand Champions Cup. 10. The Regional Assembly meeting was held in Denver in early October. A great deal of information was shared by the regions and other outside experts. Additionally, future event sites were announced, most notably Reno,Nevada for the 2010 Girls Junior National Championships. 11. NORCECA held its bi-annual Congress in late October in Guatemala. One of the significant outcomes, for this non-election Congress, is the major increase in support that NORCECA is now receiving from FIVB, which will be passed on to the organizers of Confederation events. There is also projected to be significant growth in the number of NORCECA beach events in 2010, which will become part of the Beach Olympic Qualification for 2012 through the Confederation series. 12. USA Volleyball was honored to host the President of the African Confederation, Dr. Amr Elwani of Egypt, who is also a Vice President of FIVB, for two days of discussions on cooperative programming that could assist the African Confederation. It is likely we will create specific exchanges that will involve hosting teams from Africa, as well as creating new coaching and officiating programs to be conducted within their Confederation. It is noteworthy that Egypt will be a team in the World League pool with the USA Men’s Volleyball Team in 2010. 2009

All of us at USA Volleyball wish you a healthy and peaceful holiday season with your family and friends.

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Kerry Klostermann - Secretary General Sponsorships / Marketing / Television • Beginning design approval and rollout of official licensed product with Wincraft. • Finalizing sponsor agreement with volleyball recruiting company. • Ongoing discussion with the Beach Commission regarding structure of Olympic Trials and investigating the possibility of joint Trials with USA Wrestlilng. • Finalized license agreement with CHANGE Sports Physical Therapy Institute to provide services to the National Teams at the Anaheim Training Center. • Received approval of our application to participate in the 2010 Combined Federal Campaign donor program. • • • •

Presented the USOC with our 2010 event schedule for broadcast and broadband opportunities. Presented a sponsor renewal proposal to Spalding for 2010 through 2012. Working with Hilton Hotels on a re-launch of the USA Team Advantage program for early 2010. Revising USAV logos based on approvals from the Patent & Trademark office and the re-branding of our National Championships.

General • Finalizing Performance Partnership Agreement with the USOC. • Finalizing Selection Procedures with the USOC for the Pan American Games (Beach Discipline) and the Youth Olympic Games. • Communicating regularly with NORCECA, FIVB and other National Federations in order to rectify professional club agreement obligations to USA athletes.

Stacie Kearns, Dir. of Finance • Management of our last quarter cash flow was assisted by the change in registration year. We were able to deposit just over $75,000 in October and November/December deposits far exceeded that amount. Since this is our first year recognizing partial revenue, we are closely monitoring the progress and recognized amounts. If collections continue on this trend, we could exceed the budgeted membership income for the year by $100,000. • The finance department held a strategic planning retreat in early November. Changes were made to the departmental strategic plan and finance policies and procedures. Also discussed were general ideas for efficiencies and improvement and job responsibility changes for 2010. • The Audit, Budget and Finance Committee met in early December to review the 2010 budget. As of the end of the meeting, the budget was out of balance by approximately $135,000. Staff is revisiting the budget submissions and expect to have revised figures to the committee within a week for a follow-up conference call. We are highly optimistic that a balanced budget will be achieved. • Our employee health insurance will renew January 1st and we are adding a High Deductible Plan with a health savings account option for our employees. This will be the first time we have offered two plans for our employees to select the plan that best fits their needs.

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Hugh McCutcheon - Women’s National Team Coach • 17 Athletes are training in Anaheim at the American Sports Centers during the fall period • Middle blockers training include Jen Joines Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.), Tracy Stalls (Denver), Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Mekana Barnes (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Cheryl Weaver (Washington, D.C.). The outside hitter group includes Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.), Julie Rubenstein (Camarillo, Calif.) and Katie Kimmich (Lakeside, Calif.), who previously played for Team USA as Katie Wilkins. Setters in the fall training session are Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.), Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.) and Bryn Kehoe (North Bend, Ohio). Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) and Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio) are taking training reps at opposite during the fall training period. The libero position has Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas), Jessica Fine (Tarzana, Calif.), Holly Benson (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Jaimi Gregory (Westminster, Calif.) working out at American Sports Centers. • A dozen U.S. National Team athletes competing in overseas professional leagues in Japan, Italy, China, Russia, Brazil and Czech Republic • Organizing National Team Open Tryouts for Feb. 19-21 at the USOC Training Center in Colorado Springs • Presentation at American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Annual Convention and watching NCAA Division I Volleyball Championship semifinals and title match in Tampa, Fla. Making additional contacts with the college and club coaches promoting the Women’s National Team program

Alan Knipe - Men’s National Team Coach The U.S. Men’s National Team opened the fourth quarter of 2009 with a secondplace finish at the NORCECA Continental Championship in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. They won their pool over Canada, Mexico and Panama. In the semifinals, they defeated Puerto Rico in three sets. However, in the final, they ran up against a tough Cuban team and lost in four sets, 21-25, 25-22, 21-25, 22-25. The loss meant that the U.S. Men did not qualify for the FIVB Grand Champions Cup in November in Japan. The U.S. Men faced some difficult circumstances going into the tournament as several players had already joined their overseas club teams and only rejoined the U.S. team the day before the tournament. Also, starter Ryan Millar could not be with the team and starter Clay Stanley had to leave the tournament, both due to family emergencies. Since the NORCECA Championship, the U.S. Men’s staff has spent a lot of time catching up on things that didn’t get done prior to the 2009 World League because of the staffs’ late hiring dates. We are compiling an extensive summer review report and evaluation and formulating plans of action both for 2010 and the rest of the quad leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Also, we have been working with a few U.S. Men’s players in the gym this fall: Tyler Hildebrand, Dustin Watten, Tom Hoff, Rich Lambourne, Nick Scheftic, Vance Worely and Riley Salmon. Lambourne and Salmon have since left for overseas clubs. A winter training block will begin on Jan. 11 and we expect to have more players join us when the Puerto Rican league finishes. We now know our pools for the 2010 World League and World Championship so we have been collecting video and information for scouting reports. Gary Sato and I will be giving presentations at the AVCA Convention in December. Gary will also be running the USAV high performance holiday camp in San Diego at the end of December. Additionally, I will be traveling to Europe twice early next year to visit with U.S. players on international club teams.

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Bill Hamiter - Head Coach, Disabled Programs

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• USA Sitting Men’s & Women’s team training for 2010 World Championships at UCO with two four day camps • Continued Planning 2010 World Championships to be held at the University of Central Oklahoma in July • Held two men and women Sitting National Team training Camps. • Continued work on expanding the resident program for Men & Women. • Created educational program for A2 training team. • An A2 camp was held in November with 17 athletes attending. • Worked with USOC April Heinrich on Sports Performance issues • Updated 2010 schedule. • Worked on Para Pan American Championship for 2010. Resident players trained 35 days during the quarter. Continued work with UCO on developing a sport performance staff/team. Continued involvement in US Paralympics Military Sport Camps, Clinics & Train the Trainer events Elliot Blake with grassroots has been planning events for the spring: Denver, Colo., Houston, Texas, Cary, North Carolina, etc. Elliot Blake held an intramural sitting volleyball clinic for UCO. Elliot Blake held a grassroots clinic in Westfield, NJ with Atlantic Valley Volleyball Club & Garden Empire Region. Coach Bill Hamiter will attend the AVCA Convention teaching sessions at the convention and with the CAP program. Also attended the CAP CADRE meetings.

Margie Mara - Senior Director • The registration season start was changed from November 1 to September 1. The membership season will now run from September 1 (of 2009) to October 31 (of 2010) or until renewal of the membership (for the 2010-11 season) whichever comes first. It is hoped that the change will encourage earlier registration and eliminate gaps in member benefits. • Regional registration data and payments as of October 31 totaled 40,120. Junior Females comprise 61% (24,442) of the total membership (40,120) to date, Junior Males 12% (4,813), Adult Females 15% (5,929), and Adult Males 12% (4,888). • The regions showing the largest early enrollments include North Texas (6,374), Lone Star (4,295) and Rocky Mountain (3,811). • The 2009-2011 Domestic Competition Regulations was printed and distributed in August. This publication has moved to a two year print cycle, rather than being published every year. • The 2010 Official Guide was printed and distributed in December. • The 2010 budget process is in the final stages. Despite economic downturn, USA Volleyball was able to maintain programs in 2009 and is optimistic about 2010. • The Officials Development crew produced the second annual Train the Trainers workshop in Houston, Texas in August. • The National Referee Clinic schedule has been released for the 2009-10 season. These 2009 clinics are being run in conjunction with the regions as hosts. There will also be a clinic in Tampa at the PAVO convention. • Changes to the Volleyballreftraining.com website are in the works. Plans to develop more video training materials for referees are being pursued.

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Tom Pingel, Managing Dir. - High Performance Programs • Hugh McCutcheon to headline the High Performance Coaches Clinic at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs from January 21-23. • “Inside HP”, the High Performance Department’s electronic newsletter was launched in October. Issues will be released every 1-2 months. The primary recipients of “Inside HP” will be participants of our tryouts, our HP Coaches Pipeline members, and USAV Leadership. Old issues will be archived and posted to the USAV web site approximately 2 months after the original release. • The 2010 Tryout Schedule has been posted in the High Performance section of the USAV web site. While some sites have been added and a few dropped, generally, the same number of tryout sites will be offered in ’10 as in ’09. • The Wilderness Resort in Sevierville, Tennessee will serve as the host of the 2010 USA High Performance Championships from July 27-31. • The HP Department will host its annual Holiday Camp from December 26-30 for Boys Youth, Women’s Junior and Girls’ Select age groups. The girls’ camp will be at the OTC in Colorado Springs while the Boys’ Camp will be in San Diego. • Coinciding with the Holiday Camps will be a camp held to select USA’s Girls’ Youth National Team to compete in the NORCECA Championships in Guatemala from April 2-11. This selection camp will be held at the OTC in Colorado Springs from December 26 to January 2.

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• International Transfer Certificates – To date, 190 transfers for US athletes have been completed for their transfer to play for foreign volleyball clubs. We continue to assist athletes in attempting to recover their contracted payments from their foreign clubs from previous seasons. • USA Women’s and Men’s Beach Teams – Assisted USA Beach office with entries and the submission of coach/physiotherapist accreditations for participation in the final FIVB Beach World Tour and NORCECA Beach Circuit events of 2009. Working with the California beach staff to make payments due to coaches, athletes, etc., before the close of 2009. High Performance – Finalized the dates for training camps that will be conducted at the end of December 2009/early January 2010. Currently in the process of confirming all arrangements for the High Performance Coaches and CAP Clinics, which will once again be held at the Colorado Springs OTC in late January. USA Women’s and Men’s Indoor National Teams - Working with the staff of both teams to tie up loose ends for 2009 and begin the planning process for 2010. USA Women’s and Men’s Sitting Volleyball Teams – Both the women’s and men’s sit2009 ting teams have conducted training camps in Oklahoma City during the fourth quarter of this year. USADA – Achieved 100% compliance for submission of USADA Whereabouts Filing forms for out-of-competition testing for all beach, indoor, and sitting team athletes.

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Mike Chandler, Managing Dir. - Events

USAV Qualification & National Championship Events • Updated US Adult Opens Pre-Tournament Manual in order to post on website in January 2010 • Submitted visa request for Venezuelan Masters teams to participate in the 2010 US Adult Open Championships • Managed competition at the US Senior Games in Palo Alto, Calif. • Opened registration for 2010 Asics Show Me Qualifier, 2010 Boys Florida Fest Bid Tournament, & 2010 Northeastern Boys Bid Tournament. • Finalized Northeastern Boys Bid Tournament logo and website, finalizing GJNC and BJNC pages on the website. • Closed 2009 BJOVC – surveys, final payments, cleanup • Built all Event Department 2010 budgets • Created websites and opened registration for the 2010 Florida Fest and 2010 Northeastern Boys’ Bid Tournament • Finalizing logistics for both boys’ bid tournaments • Updated RFP’s and developed grid for event responsibilities • Created and submitted a new RFP for awards • Sent out new bid tournament contracts • Updated and posted the Girls’ Qualifier Manual & Boys Bid Tournament Manual • Updated Tournament Directors’ webpage International Events • Sent RFP for the 2010 World League sites – Pool for 2010, Russia, Netherlands and Egypt • Working on a tour for each Men and Women to be held in May and July respectively Beach Events • Finalizing Junior Tour stops for 2010 • The Elevation Group will once again run the Corona Wide Open Events as Qualifiers into the US Beach Open, winners of these received air and hotel packages to the US Open in Manhattan Beach • Finalizing the US Open dates Marketing & Sponsors • Processed VIK orders for Molten and Mizuno • Organized USAV Booth and scheduling at AVCA Convention • Meeting with Mizuno Japan and Mizuno USA regarding product for 2010 Officials Division • Managed the collection of annual National Officials’ Dues to include email notifications, reports to Officials’ Commission and notations in membership database to reflect payment • Created copies of 2009-2010 Referee Clinic CDs and distributed to regions and referee chairs • Maintained database for officials to include National Referee Clinic attendance and participation at Opens, Girls Junior National Championships and Boys Junior National Championships • Updated secure website tests and clinic materials for Regional Referee Chair and Regional Scorekeeper Chair access • Reorganized Officials’ website information • Coordinated National Referee Clinic registrations as well as the “Train the Trainer” program with weekly reports to Officials’ Commission • Sent email newsletters to National-level officials, Referee Chairs and Scorekeeper Chairs upon requests of Officials’ Commission Other Department Functions (Staff Involvement) • Continued development and began beta testing of the volleyball ranking system • Continuing a partnership with AES to improve the integration of the Web-Point system with event registration for all National Events • Designed Christmas cards, NCVA brochures events, Boys Bid Tournament invitations, • Conducted event wrap-ups to generate a list of improvements for 2010 Events during the staff retreat.

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John Kessel - Dir. of Membership Development & Disabled Membership Development

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• Dozens of updates to the Grassroots section on USAV website –new posters, articles, best practices. • Held five RVA “Coaches Appreciation” webinars with RVA Commissioners and new updates for returning coaches as part of the coaches retention programming. • Grow the Game Blog continues to be #2 most viewed of all the hundreds on the USOC Team USA Website with bi-monthly postings • New 100 page Minivolley for Youth distributed • AVCA National Convention presentations on youth volleyball, grassroots beach, CAP • Custom Youth/Mini Volleyball CDs for Colorado AAHPERD and two RVAs • NCVF (National Collegiate Volleyball Federation) webinars and rule book distribution • CAP in Chesapeake, Rocky Mtn and Arizona RVAs Community Olympic Development Program national meeting and volleyball programming updates Up2Us National Conference presentation. USA Swimming, USOC Diversity and USA Synchronized Swimming presentations made. Leave a Ball Behind program delivers to 5 new programs Starlings National Directors Convention presentations and webinar and StarKidz project implemented. Parents for Good Sports Programming and material development and grant programming Positive Coach Alliance Programming, training and National Conversations on Good Coaching 178 rolls of USAV Logo plastic banner signage have been purchased - use at USAV national events, 33 Regions will receive rolls to help brand their events, 50 Starlings VB Clubs will get banner rolls at their convention

Disabled • USOC “I”lympics Sitting VB training at the COS OTC • Colorado AAHPERD Sitting VB training and booth for State Convention in October NCAA Collegiate Men • Men’s All-Star event at the AVCA convention has been postponed until 2011 convention for budgetary reasons (D-I) • AVCA and USAV will jointly host the coaches reception at the NCAA Nat’l Championship at Stanford - CAP modules will be offered as part of the AVCA Spring Clinic and efforts are underway to coordinate a boys high school event to be held on the NCAA court on Friday evening (D-I) • Meetings with EIVA representatives to enhance men’s volleyball were productive (D-I) • Conference Carolinas will hold a conference championship event (D-II) • Belmont Abbey College is considering adding a team in the Conference Carolinas (D-II) • Renewed efforts to get Division II schools in Hawaii to add men’s volleyball teams (D-II) • Carthage College selected as host for 2010 Molten D-III. NCAA Reception planned for administrators from five D-III Conferences and NCAA representatives will attend the Molten tournament. An advertisement for the Molten was included in the WIAA boys’ volleyball state championship program (D-III) • NCAA is involved with budgetary talks concerning the creation of D-III tournament (D-III) • Thiel College (PA) has announced they will add a new team in 2010-11 (D-III) • Elmira College is likely to add a new team in 2010-11 (D-III) Scholastic Growth • The revised USAV Boys Scholastic Volleyball Grant Program was debuted at RVA Assembly. Schools in Colorado, California, and Florida have already applied for the new grants and Maine is beginning a new program to promote high school teams. • The incentive for new 12U and 13U boy’s teams was introduced at the RVA Assembly • A spring league template was introduced to encourage clubs to attract more younger players • The World Volleyball Training Center officially introduced their new boys’ camp for next summer. New York fall season teams were contacted to promote the camp and PSAL spring season teams will be contacted prior to their season. Italy program is working directly with the camp on logistics Club Boys • Custom brochures are now produced to allow regions to promote boys volleyball opportunities within their regions • Best Practices were shared from Carolina, IREVA, Heartland, and Badger regions at the RVA Assembly • World League Camp concept was presented to the RVA Assembly • Boys Coordinator and Boys HP Manager will meet with players and parents in Colorado to discuss tryout and collegiate issues

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Tim McCune, Dir. - Development

Development Activities: • Follow up with contacts and donor prospects from the Oct. 2nd Anaheim, CA event around the IOC 2016 Summer Olympic announcement. • Participated in the organizing meeting of the Sports Philanthropy Summit. This group of sports oriented NGB Foundations and others who are focused on networking, sharing best practices, and identifying cooperative opportunities in fund raising. The list of the inaugural group include:

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»» USA Volleyball Foundation »» US Soccer Foundation »» US Lacrosse »» Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation »» Peace Players International »» Special Olympics North America »» USA Swimming Foundation »» The First Tee »» Baseball Tomorrow Fund »» USA Football Participated and presented at the October USAV and USAV Foundation Board Meetings in Holyoke, MA. Participated and networked at the Volleyball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies, Holyoke, MA. Continued working on the Foundation database system and adding donor prospects and other contacts. Continued working on identifying, contacting and cultivating major donor prospects. This has included sending out three major gift solicitations. (all under consideration at the time of this report) • Continue to follow up all gifts to the Foundation with thank you and acknowledgement letters. • Continuing to meet with USOC development consultants on loan from US Track & Field • Working on similar donor/foundation board member model successfully developed at UST&F • Developing a donor prospect event for early March, 2010 in S. CA with a major donor prospect hosting and inviting other high capacity, high affinity prospects for networking, cultivation and possible solicitation. • Continuing to work internally and with USOC on a new “donor centric” USAVF web site. Working on draft case statements for the various USAV programs and areas of support that will be available and used during cultivation and solicitation meetings and events.

• In various stages of development for other events and activities with Board members and others interested in assisting the Director of Development in the Foundation’s fund raising efforts.

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Ali Wood-Lamberson, Dir. of International & HP Beach Recent Medals • Kessy-Ross: Silver, FIVB Open Sanya, China; Gold, FIVB Open Phuket, Thailand • Turner-Akers: Bronze, FIVB Open Sanya, China; Silver, FIVB Open Phuket, Thailand • Smith-Van Fleet: Bronze NORCECA Manzanillo, Mexico. Beach National Team • Submitted annual budget for Beach National Team Programs. • Meeting with athlete reps to determine 2010 stipend breakdown and support issues. Distributing 2009 Sports Medicine program review. Reassessing sports medicine program to meet 2010 needs. • Participating in monthly Olympic Trials conference calls and working on regional Olympic Qualification system proposal with NORCECA Beach Commission • Collecting and reviewing final coaches’ reports. High Performance Programs • Submitted annual budget for Beach High Performance and Development Programs. • Attended NORCECA Beach Commission, Dominican Republic. • Revising 2010 NORCECA Beach Circuit Regulations. • Compiling Technical Review of Youth and Junior Beach National Team Program with individual athlete evaluations. • Organizing Holiday High Performance Camp, Chula Vista, 28 athletes. Secured top AVP/FIVB coaches and medical staff. • Planning 2010 calendar of events including tryouts, International Development Qualifiers, and new Beach HP Championships. Expanding to three new regions. • Collaborating with AVP to sanction new AVP U26 Tour and merge with USAV programs. • Planning first ever USA tour stop of the NORCECA Beach Circuit. Development Programs • Planned Beach CAP to be held at AVCA Convention. Recruited top coaches to contribute to USAV Beach Coaching Manual. Marketed event through beach database. • Planning 2010 calendar of Development Camps and Coaches’ Clinics, adding Pee Wee Beach program, and expanding to two new regions. • Working with Elevation to package events. Producing best practices handbook for competitions. Other • Finalizing plans for six international beach courts Chula Vista OTC. Working with USOC to expand funded access for elite development programs. • Made presentation at RVA meeting, met with each zonal group. • Led NORCECA International Beach Volleyball Coaches Clinic, Dominican Republic • Created NCAA Recommendations document for AVCA distribution to NCAA coaches; circulated AVCA “Block the Override” ballot thorough newsletters and email lists. 2009 • Preparing USAV Beach HP Year in Review for AVCA Convention • Finalizing 2011 Pan Am Games Selection Procedures. • Increasing media exposure through regular blog posts on USAV website and HP newsletter.

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Diana Cole, Director of Education 4 CAP Courses/Modules Clinics Dates Scheduled between Oct.-Dec., 2009 • October 24-25, 2009: McLean, VA (CAP I and II) hosted by VA Elite VBC • November 20-22, 2009: Colorado Springs, CO (IMPACT, CAP I and II) hosted by VA Elite VBC • December4-6, 2009: Tempe, AZ (IMPACT/Instructor Training, CAP I & II) hosted by the AZ RVA • December 15-20, 2009: Tampa, FL (IMPACT Clinic/Instructor Training, CAP I, BEACH CAP I, & CAP II, VCAP Clinic/Instructor Training) co-hosted by USAV, the AVCA Convention, and the FL RVA Next Qtr CAP Courses and Module Clinics scheduled as of this report: • January 8-10, 2010: IMPACT Clinic, CAP I & II in the Iroquois Empire Region (Utica, NY) • January 20-24, 2010: CAP II & III in conjunction with the USAV High Performance Coaching Clinic in COS 4th QTR IMPACT Webinars Held 18. Oct 14-15, 2009 19. Oct 26-27, 2009 20. Nov 10-11, 2009 21. Nov 23-24, 2009 22. Dec 7-8, 2009 23. Dec 15-16, 2009 – from Tampa, FL at the AVCA Convention 1st QTR 2010 IMPACT Webinars Scheduled 1. Jan 6-7, 2010 2. Jan 18-19, 2010 3. Feb 3-4, 2010 4. Feb 16-17, 2010 5. March 3-4, 2010 6. March 15-16, 2010 7. March 30-31, 2010 IMPACT Instructor “Refresher Class” Webinars In addition to the 3 held in early September, USAV Education Department held another IMPACT Instructor “Refresher” class for current RVA IMPACT Instructors and CAP Cadre in early November. The 1.5-2 hour online Webinars debuted the 2010 PowerPoint, Manual and other Instructor materials. Those who attended the live Webinar also received one CAP Module Credit toward their next re-certification. The free Refresher Classes were well received and a total of 40 Instructors took part. CAP Module Webinars to be Offered USAV Education piloted the first in a series of 1 to 2 hour long CAP Module Webinars in late October, 2009. The first topic was Nutrition 101: Fueling for Volleyball Athletes. This topic is also scheduled to be taught on December 22nd, 2009. The Module Webinars will include existing CAP Module topics as well as new topics TBD. Each Module Webinar will carry 1-2 CAP Module Credits which may be applied toward the “additional Module” requirement to complete an in-process CAP Certifica2009 tion, or be applied toward a re-certification for CAP I, II or III coaches. The Education department has run a series of Polls on the website to ask coaches which topics they would like to see developed and offered in this format. A schedule of which topics will be developed and a schedule will be published soon after the new year.

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Brent Buzbee, Dir. - Communications & Technology • Launched Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS) to replace Lucent/ Avaya phone system. OCS brings an extensive menu of new communications tools to the USAV office, which we hope to use to reach all corners of the organization. Internally, we have new features like instant messaging for all staff across all offices, voice mail forwarding to email, conference call hosting, video calling, video conferencing, desktop sharing, “portable” telephones that can connect anywhere an internet connection is available, call forwarding to mobile or home phones, company presence indicators, additional caller tracking tools for reception, tools for mobile phones, webinars, soft-phones and many other innovations that make this a cutting edge communications platform. Since the platform is software driven instead of legacy PBX hardware driven, upgrades and additional features for telephones and the platform can be made whenever an updated software package is available. We aren’t stuck with a legacy phone system that can only be upgraded by ripping out all of the hardware and starting over. • Rolled out a new information sharing platform for the national teams and beach office in California. Private sites, running on the Microsoft Sharepoint platform, have been introduced to the USAV team offices in California to better and more effectively facilitate information sharing amongst the teams. Features include document sharing, task sharing, discussion boards, announcements, calendaring and project tracking are all available on password protected intranet site. Future additions could include video sharing and other items as deemed important to the respective staffs. Key administrative staff in Colorado Springs are able to access the sites to further enhance interaction with the teams and sharing needed information. If the platform proves to effective for the national team, we will visit other organization wide uses from the board down to the regions and commissions. • Visited California offices to assess infrastructure needs and evaluate ways to better integrate systems between sites. An infrastructure upgrade proposal is in its initial stages and would allow Colorado Springs IT staff to better assist the remote office in computer/network support. Initial upgrade goals include installing servers to run basic network services and provide digital video sharing, and keep a persistent VPN connection to the USAV corporate headquarters. We would be able to ensure that all computers and data in California were secure and receive malware and security patch updates. Advanced objectives include providing data replication services between offices for critical data disaster recovery. 2009 • Fourth-quarter website traffic is traditionally the lowest of the year. Pages views for the 4th quarter to date (12/5/2009) are over 1.3 million views from 230,000 visitors.

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Bill Kauffman, Manager - Media Relations U.S. Women’s National Team • Continued Weekly Updates for the U.S. Women’s National Team when the team was not competing to insure regular coverage of the team. Implementing new features within the update to include Volley-Tweets (brief player updates written by the players in a Tweet format) and blogs for the Web site. • Announced pools for 2010 FIVB events – World Grand Prix and World Championship • Working on year-end press-kit/year book for the U.S. Women’s National Team • Working with High Performance Department on the U.S. Women’s National Team Open Tryouts scheduled Feb. 19-21 in Colorado Springs. High Performance/Juniors, Publications, Volleyball Hall of Fame • Produced and distributed Rotations bi-weekly. • Worked with the JDP Group in formulating story ideas and final content for Volleyball USA (magazine) and editing the publication’s winter issue, which has a shipment date of early January. • Promoting High Performance tryouts for 2010, holiday camp rosters, 2010 High Performance Coaches’ Clinic and 2010 High Performance Championships. Editing High Performance’s monthly newsletter. Will be taking photos of the U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team tryouts taking place in Colorado Springs at the end of December and on Jan. 1. • Attended the Volleyball Hall of Fame induction dinner and pre-event activities. Assisted the Volleyball Hall of Fame with the event press releases, press alerts, working with the inductees during media meetand-greet open to the public and photo galleries. Assisted with the final editing of the video bios and plaque inscriptions. • Developing plan to best utilize summer intern most effectively during 2010 based on the event calendar • Completing nomination paperwork for USOC Athlete and Coach of the Year programs. USA Volleyball Boyce Banquet and Awards • Compiling award winner biographies to be used for Boyce Banquet and editing the content to fit into a 3-4 minute video shown at the banquet. Bio submission deadline was Dec. 1. Web Site • Maintaining a continual grassroots presence on the www.usavolleyball.org home page. Now adding educational type articles into the mix as well. • Addressing enhancement issues with the USOC to improve the USA Volleyball Web site. Such enhancements must be approved by the USOC before the developer begins work, which has delayed or denied some requests. Goals for 2010 First Quarter • Assist High Performance with promotion of its HP Coaches’ Clinic, along with the U.S. Women’s National Team Open Tryouts • Develop informational tools for regions on spotlighting volleyball feature stories within their region and how to assist the national office in creating grassroots storylines. • Tentatively planning to attend the NORCECA Press Commission meeting in Dominican Republic Feb. 7 • Initiate search for summer media relations intern in January • Develop press kit for U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team that will compete in 2010 NORCECA Girls’ Youth Continental Championship in April. 2009 • Continue to promote U.S. Women’s National Team as it trains in Anaheim and the players competing in overseas professional leagues. Develop initial team press kit.

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B.J. Evans, Manager - Media Relations U.S. Men’s Team • Covered U.S. Team as it competed at the NORCECA Men’s Championship, including creation of media guide, daily press releases and updating the USAV web site. • Began updating athlete profiles. • Began weekly U.S. Men’s updates. Beach Volleyball • Covered final FIVB beach events in Sanya, China and Phuket, Thailand. • Covered season-ending athlete awards from AVP and FIVB. • Covered U.S. teams competing in NORCECA events. • Helped promote various beach events including beach coaching clinic and holiday camp. • Began work on updating bios. Sitting Volleyball • Announced U.S. will host 2010 World Championship. • Began work on World Championship events page and promoted event on sitting team web pages. Other activities • Helped edit magazine and also wrote article on Sport Court for winter issue. • Continued to write grass roots articles for web site. • Wrote articles for HP Newsletter on behalf of Alan Knipe. • Worked with USOC on its new Pressbox web site. • Wrote other articles and releases as needed. 2010 Major First-Quarter Goals • Update web site and bios for upcoming season. • Prepare for 2010 World League. • Prepare for 2010 NORCECA and FIVB beach tours • Continue to write grass-roots articles for web site. • Write another Sport Court article for magazine and/or web site. • Other activities as needed.

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Susan Barkley, Manager - Database Services • USAV RVA Mid-Year Meetings: A Webpoint discussion session was held during the USAV RVA meetings in Denver. • Extended Officials Insurance: The “Extended Officials Insurance” option no longer displays for juniors during the registration process, but is restricted to only those individuals 18 years old or older. • Advanced Event Systems: As of November 1, 2009, any clubs using the data import feature in Advanced Event Systems (“AES”) are able to import only current 2010 membership data. • Club Codes: It is critical that all teams have an active roster in Webpoint and are correctly identified throughout the season. Club Codes are defined by the Region and must be consistent when used in Webpoint, HangAStar, AES, and any event registration. Club Codes are five characters, alphanumeric only – no special characters should be used (apostrophes, hyphens, etc.). • UNDECIDED default for Club Selection: The default for the Club drop-down list (on the second screen of the registration process) is now UNDECIDED rather than “Select One” for all members. • Unpaid Process: For Region Administrators indicating payment for Unpaid memberships, the second screen of the Unpaid Process now defaults to the member’s last name for the Customer dropdown list (rather than “Select One”) if only one member had been selected for processing. • Additional Jr Requirements URL: A new field is included on the Region Preferences screen, “Additional Jr Requirements URL”, which allows a Region Administrator to enter a link which will display on the Confirmation Screen at the end of the junior membership registration process, as well as on the Welcome Screen for a junior member when logging in to access his/her record. The link is displayed as “Additional Required Documents for Juniors.” This is particularly provided to facilitate the administration of the Zackery Lystedt Law requirements in Washington (regarding concussions/ head injuries), but is available for all Regions to use as needed. • Credit Card Payment for Unpaid Memberships: Members in regions that accept credit card payment within Webpoint now have the option of paying for Unpaid memberships with credit card payment directly in Webpoint. The member may not change the membership, add items, or remove items when making payment.

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