USA Women’s Volleyball is getting attention, deservedly. As a team and an organization it ranks among the most innovative in the U.S.
- A US Olympic Committee TeamUSA.org article takes a close look at how the team first gained team chemistry and then kept working on it as the team won the 2014 FIVB World Championship.
- The Portland Tribune documented the path Kim Hill took from multi-sport high school athlete to world-class volleyballer, including the USA Volleyball open tryout where she dominated among 240 participants and caught the attention of coach Karch Kiraly.
- USA Volleyball has a recent Q&A with team captain Christa Dietzen on the occasion of the visit she made to her old high school in western Pennsylvania.
The Best Things I Read Last Week
- Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions Stanford University Computer Science … A course project leads to an advance in systematic object recognition in digital images that will also classify those images. Progress toward auto-tagging video through frame-by-frame object and gesture recognition.
- Paper: NFL athletes are seeking unproven stem cell treatments Rice University News & Media … According to the report there are more than 700 stem cell clinics serving medical tourists, a group that includes a substantial number of professional athletes.
- What Powerlifting Tells Us About The Effects Of PEDs Five Thirty Eight … Superb analysis of the strength gains that powerlifters can expect from PED use.
- Analytics level playing field in identifying football talent FT.com … A look at how Premier League teams on coming to depend on technology systems and personnel that can provide an edge in talent scouting. [site requires user registration]
- Fueling Facts Running Times … Quality nutritional advice for runners (and athletes who run a lot) presented in the contexts of experts and scientists to provide evidence. It is sound information that is not at all preachy.