Sports

1. Choose a sport to research: (Football, Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, etc.)
Volleyball

2. Identify your favorite team or athlete for your sport. Search the Internet and find a picture of mascot or photo of the athlete. Save the image to your student folder. Make a new folder called “Sports Exploration” in your student folder to save all of your files for this project. (10 points)

3. Find the most recent rankings for one team or athlete. Include a list of the top 5 teams or athletes for your sport. 
- The Woodlands (Texas)
-St. James Academy (Lenexa Kans.)
-Granite Bay (Calif.)
-Bellarmine Prep (Tacoma, Wash.)
-East Troy (Wis.)

Base your rankings from an official ranking for your sport (like Hollinger Power Rankings). Not your opinion. (20 points)
Ranked No.1 in 2013 AVCA preseason pol

4. Provide a summary of one team or athlete’s season performance. The summary should include the following: 

1. Wins, losses (5 points)

2. Did the team make playoffs? If there are no playoffs, name the major tournaments that your team or athlete competed in? (10 points)
Semifinals

3. Who won the top prize or top tournament for your sport last year? (5 points)
Penn State

5. List three important rules for your sport. (10 points)
- keep the ball up
- no out of bounds
- no third hit 

6. List three examples of jargon for your sport and explain what they mean in words non-sport followers could understand. (10 points)
- Kill: a point-scoring play
- Free Ball: a ball that is passed over the net because no attack was possible
- Joust: opposite teams members jump to try and push ball over net

7. What is an example of sports cliché associated with your sport or athlete? What is another way you could say it without using a cliché? (10 points)


8. Name an athlete who is a legend for setting records for your sport? Provide a brief biography about the athlete that 
Misty May-Treanor

• birth place- Los Angeles CA

• school attended- California State University

• teams played for-  49ers, Newport Harbor High School USA National Volleyball Team in the Olympics

• records set- won three straight Olympic gold medals