Last updated: 18/02/2018 21:00 pm
For those who want to play Volleyball in Cairns Reefers Volleyball Club delivers indoor volleyball action.
As you all will know Reefers Volleyball Club is the largest Volleyball Club in Cairns and we have some very talented people involved in our club.
We have come up with a idea of trying to use this talent and help School Children with their Volleyball skills, unfortunately getting these people to the schools during school time is very difficult so we would like to offer a Saturday Morning program for your students that are wanting that little bit of extra training. For more information please click here.
At this stage we play Social Beach Volleyball on Monday evenings from 5:30pm at the Esplanade Volleyball courts.
Cairns Volleyball Association Annual General Meeting will be held at some day in April, probably Dolphin Room in 129 Mulgrave Road. Everybody who paid membership last season is eligible to attend to this meeting. It would be great to have some Reefers Members on this committee. There is always an opportunity to improve things. If you think you can make the difference show up and nominate.
Please see our club flyer and pass it on to people you know, add to work noticeboards and lets see if we can increase our membership and teams for the next seasons competitions.
Please print the Reefers Membership form and fill in so that we can keep your contact details up to date on out database. You can also view this form online here. Membership is free.
Learn how to play Volleyball in Cairns. We are now open to beginners as well as A Grade players. Use contact form to start any enquiries. We look forward to hearing from you.
This is not the official website of Cairns Volleyball Association. Although we might mirror some information from them here to help them promoting Volleyball in Cairns. Please see our calendar for information about what is going on in regards to volleyball and for the next sign on night.
Any questions? Use contact form or write an email to play at reefersvolleyball.com.au.
Origin of volleyball
On February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts (USA), William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played (preferably) indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its characteristics from tennis and handball. Another indoor sport, basketball, was catching on in the area, having been invented just ten miles (sixteen kilometers) away in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, only four years before. Mintonette was designed to be an indoor sport, less rough than basketball, for older members of the YMCA, while still requiring a bit of athletic effort.
The first rules, written down by William G Morgan, called for a net 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) high, a 25 ft × 50 ft (7.6 m × 15.2 m) court, and any number of players. A match was composed of nine innings with three serves for each team in each inning, and no limit to the number of ball contacts for each team before sending the ball to the opponents’ court. In case of a serving error, a second try was allowed. Hitting the ball into the net was considered a foul (with loss of the point or a side-out)—except in the case of the first-try serve.
After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College), the game quickly became known as volleyball (it was originally spelled as two words: “volley ball”). Volleyball rules were slightly modified by the International YMCA Training School and the game spread around the country to various YMCAs.
The first official ball used in volleyball is disputed; some sources say that Spalding created the first official ball in 1896, while others claim it was created in 1900. The rules evolved over time: in the Philippines by 1916, the skill and power of the set and spike had been introduced, and four years later a “three hits” rule and a rule against hitting from the back row were established. In 1917, the game was changed from 21 to 15 points. In 1919, about 16,000 volleyballs were distributed by the American Expeditionary Forces to their troops and allies, which sparked the growth of volleyball in new countries.
The first country outside the United States to adopt volleyball was Canada in 1900. An international federation, the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), was founded in 1947, and the first World Championships were held in 1949 for men and 1952 for women. The sport is now popular in Brazil, in Europe (where especially Italy, the Netherlands, and countries from Eastern Europe have been major forces since the late 1980s), in Russia, and in other countries including China and the rest of Asia, as well as in the United States.
Beach volleyball, a variation of the game played on sand and with only two players per team, became a FIVB-endorsed variation in 1987 and was added to the Olympic program at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Volleyball is also a sport at the Paralympics managed by the World Organization Volleyball for Disabled.
Nudists were early adopters of the game with regular organized play in clubs as early as the late 1920s. By the 1960s, a volleyball court had become standard in almost all nudist/naturist clubs.
(Cited from Wikipedia)