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Danielle Scott Arruda, America's First 5-time Olympian Male or Female

Danielle Scott Arruda is the first American, male or female, to play volleyball in five Olympic games.

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Danielle Scott Arruda.

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Volleyball Player Profile: Danielle Scott Arruda

5-time Olympian Danielle Scott Arruda led the Americans to six FIVB Grand Prix medals including gold medals in 2001, 2010, 2011 and 2012 in addition to bronze medals in 2003 and 2004.

Danielle Scott Arruda is the first American, male or female, to play volleyball in five Olympic games.

Danielle Scott Arruda
College Volleyball Accomplishments

Three-time First Team AVCA All American
Volleyball Magazine First Team All American
Volleyball Magazine Second Team All American
AVCA National Player of the Year
Volleyball Magazine National Player of the Year
All Big West Volleyball
All Big West Basketball
First Big West student-athlete to get All Big West in two sports
NCAA National Championship - Division I
NCAA National Championship Runner Up
NCAA National Championship Semi-Finalist
Honda Sports Award Winner - Volleyball
AVCA All- Northwest Region
Two-time Big West Conference Volleyball Player of the Year

Danielle Scott Arruda
Olympic Volleyball Player

2012 London Olympic Games
2008 Beijing Olympic Games
2008 U.S. Olympic Exhibition for Brazil
2004 Athens Olympic Games
2000 Sydney Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta Olympic Games

Danielle Scott Arruda:
USA Volleyball Player

2009 Pan-American Cup "Best Blocker"
2008 FIVB World Grand Prix(Fourth Place)
2007 Pan American Games (Bronze Medal)
2007 FIVB World Grand Prix (Eighth Place)
2007 NORCECA Championship (Silver Medal)
2007 FIVB World Cup (Bronze Medal)
2006 World Grand Prix (Seventh Place)
2006 World Championships (Ninth Place)
2005 Montreux Volleyball Masters (Seventh Place)
2005 NORCECA Continental Championships (First Place)
2005 World Grand Champions Cup (Second Place)
2004 Montreux Volley Masters (Second Place)
2004 World Grand Prix (Third Place)
2003 Pan American Cup (First Place)
2003 World Grand Prix (Third Place)
2003 World Cup (Third Place)
2003 Montreux Volley Masters
2003 NORCECA Zone Championships
2002 World Championship "Best Blocker"
2001 World Championships (First Place)
2001 World Grand Prix (First Place)
2001 NORCECA (First Place)
2001 World Grand Champions Cup
2001 FIVB World Grand Prix "Most Valuable Player"
2001 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Scorer"
2001 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Blocker"
2000 World Grand Prix
2000 Nike Americas Volleyball Challenge
1999 Pan American Games
1999 NORCECA Championship
1999 World Cup
1996 World Grand Prix
1995 Canada Cup
1995 World Grand Prix
1995 Pan American Games
1995 World Cup
1994 World Grand Prix
1994 World Championships

Five Fun Facts About
Danielle Scott Arruda

Five fun facts about Danielle Scott's international career while on the USA Volleyball National team.

Danielle Scott Arruda earned back-to-back silver medals in the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games.

Scott played in her first Olympics at age 24 in the Atlanta Games, followed by the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens.

Named Best Blocker at the 2002 FIVB Championships as the Americans won a silver medal.

Danielle led the Americans to six FIVB Grand Prix medals including gold medals in 2001, 2010, 2011 and 2012 in addition to bronze medals in 2003 and 2004.

With 400 International roster appearances Danielle was a three-time AVCA All American at Long Beach State in addition to being named the 1993 Player of the year and winning the NCAA Division I Championship title.

Danielle Scott Arruda
Professional Player

2001 A.D.C. BCN
2002 Pioneer Red Wings
2003, 2005 Pallavolo Chieri
2007 Cimed Macae
2007-08 Finasa
2008 Florens Castellana

From Lady Vol to Legend: Coach April Honored At UTK Champions Weekend

Lady Vol volleyball legend and record holder Coach April Chapple a University of Tennessee, Knoxville Hall of Fame Inductee, 3-time All American, 3-time SEC Champion, SEC Tournament MVP, 2-time All SEC Team is celebrated with her 1984 SEC champion teammates at Neyland Stadium during Champions Weekend on November 1-2, 2024.

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Tennessee Hall of Fame inductee, Coach April Chapple is

the first First Round Draft Pick for the first American pro indoor women's league
named to the first First Team All-Pro team for Major League Volleyball in USA volleyball history
former USA National team member
one of the few American women players named as an Italian Pro League D-I Championship Finalist, Italian Cup Finalist and Cup of Cups Tournament Finalist

April Chapple The first First round Draft Pick For Major League Volleyball the first American Women's Pro League Honored At Athlete Unlimited Pro Volleyball Match

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Serving slang is not just about individual techniques; it also relates to overall game strategy. A coach might instruct a player to serve a "short serve" or a "deep serve" to target specific areas of the opponent's court or exploit weaknesses in their serve receive formation.

Ari, my private training client and I are working specifically on serving on jump float cross court serves ...short to Zone 2

There's so much we work on to get to this point where she can contact the ball with

the same toss height and same toss location
the same armswing speed
the same timing for when her serving hand contacts the ball
the middle of the hand contacting the middle of the ball every single time
getting use to watching her serving hand contact the ball at the highest point of her jump ...before she starts to land
and finally contacting the ball in the precise spot on the ball so it goes where the coach wants the player to put it so in this case ..a short serve in the farthest short right corner on the court also called Zone 2.

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Tommi Stockham All Big West Conference sophomore former Coach April Chapple private client 3 years

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Tennessee Athletics Honors April Chapple at Champions Weekend for Legendary Volleyball Achievements

From Lady Vol to Legend: Coach April Produces Powerful Passionate Players...is that you?

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Congratulations to my seven Boys-18s Vegas Volley club players who played in two state championship finals yesterday, the 3A and 5A State champinship finals at Sunrise Mountain High School.

TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS!

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In It To Win It Tournament

May 2 - 4, 2025 Tournament

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18s Premier Division

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Making A-1 Vegas Volleyball history as the very first TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS! In the In It To Win It Tournament, May 2-4, 2025 Tournament, A-1 Vegas Volleyball Club Gold Medalists, 18s Premier Division