Since its beginning over a century ago‚ basketball has evolved from a simple form of exercise with only a few rules to a highly competitive and complex national sport. Basketball was invented by James Naismith at a YMCA in Springfield‚ Massachusetts‚ in 1891 (Fox 11-13). It began as an activity for the “‘ball-game’ void” months of winter (Hanson 65)‚ and Naismith had five standards for the game. He wanted a ball that could be handled by a player’s hands; no one was to run with the ball‚ and anyone
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What are my thee primary strengths as a student while starting my college career? My three primary strengths as a student would be my determination‚ my need of this experience‚ and my will to participate. I feel that the most important strengths within a person are due to the way you think and the way you perceive things that happen to you in your life. Take my determination for instance‚ it stems from a place in my life here I thought I would never do anything. The way I perceived that time in my
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importance of reflecting on the community service that I performed and actually taking something away from the experience. This semester my team and I had the opportunity to participate in community service activities at The Village at Carver Family YMCA at 1600 Pryor Road. We had the pleasure of working with a wonderful and enthusiastic staff and mentoring some of the local youth. The youth that we mentored ranged from kindergarten to the 8th grade. It is my plan to give an outlook on my time spent
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The history of volleyball began way back when the sport was invented in1895 by William G. Morgan‚ an instructor with the YMCA in Holyoke‚ Massachusetts. The history of volleyball reveals that on July 7th 1896‚ at Springfield College the first game of "volleyball" was played. In regards to comparing volleyball participation rates to every other sport in the school offered throughout the year‚ volleyball is the third least participated sport just in front of tennis and basketball. This fact means that
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played preferably indoors and by a number of players. The characteristics of the game came from tennis‚ handball and another indoor sport basketball. 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
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needed for tournament play‚ and thus the USVBA (United States Volleyball Association) was formed in 1928. (William G. Morgan) Pioneer of the game Volleyball In 1895‚ William G. Morgan‚ an instructor at the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke‚ Mass.‚ decided to blend elements of basketball‚ baseball‚ tennis‚ and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball. He created the game of Volleyball (at that time called
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high school basketball coach‚ and with the vision of being a college coach one day‚ I thought that it would be interesting to write about the founder of basketball. In December 1891‚ Canadian-born James Naismith‚ a physical education teacher at the YMCA training school‚ took a soccer ball and a peach basket into the gym and invented basketball. In 1893‚ James Naismith replaced the peach basket with iron hoops and a hammock-style basket. Ten years later came the open –ended nets of today. Before that
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exist among Lady Ath-Elite but the intensity will not be great. There are several gyms in Huntsville‚ Alabama; the largest gyms are the University Fitness Center‚ Gold’s Gym‚ Riviera Fitness Centers‚ Bender’s Gym‚ Curves‚ Empire Fitness‚ and the new YMCA in Madison‚ Alabama (Yellowpages.com‚ 2012). Riviera Fitness Center will offer competition because one of its two branches‚ like Lady Ath-Elite is for women only. There are also the following gyms for women: Real Life Fitness for Women‚ and as previously-mentioned
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1. History Volleyball has come a long way from the dusty-old YMCA gymnasium of Holyoke‚ Massachusetts‚ USA‚ where the visionary William G. Morgan invented the sport back in 1895. It has seen the start of two centuries and the dawn of a new millennium. Volleyball is now one of the big five international sports‚ and the FIVB‚ with its 220 affiliated national federations‚ is the largest international sporting federation in the world. a. Founder William G. Morgan was the inventor of volleyball
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ROUGHNESS ON SHEAR STRENGTH OF JOINT IN GRANITE Introduction Shear strength is the extreme shear strength where a material can support before rapture. Based on Lama and Vutukuri (1978)[1]‚ it is one of the critical aspects used for designing purpose. There is no doubt that joint is a main factor that leads to failure in every rocks type including granite. In granite‚ shear strength is one of the main characteristic that needs to be determined in order to classify its strength and stability The measurement
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