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Mireya Luis, Cuba's Olympic Outside Hitting High Jumping Superstar

At 5' 10" Cuban Olympian hitter, Mireya Luis was one of the smallest elite outside hitters in the world and led the Cuba women to win 3 Olympic gold medals.

Alejandina Mireya Luis Hernández, often referred to as Mireya was born on February 25, 1967 in Camagüey.

She helped her country and club where she played to win several trophies with her main position as a wing spiker.

Volleyball Player Profile Mireya Luis

At 5' 10" Mireya was one of the smallest elite world class outside hitters in international competition.

She was known for her tremendous jumping ability having 36 inch vertical on a bad day, and on good days jumping closer to 40 inches.

Volleyball Accomplishments

Volleyball Player Profile of an
Olympic Volleyball Player

A member of the first Olympic women's team in history to win three gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games.

1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona - Gold

1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta - Gold

2000 Olympic Games - Gold

Volleyball Player Profile
Cuban Volleyball Player

World Championship Experience

1985 World Championships u20 Most Valuable Player
1986 World Championships
1985 World Cup - Best Spiker
1989 World Cup - Most Valuable Player
1989 World Cup - Best Spiker
1991 World Cup - Best Scorer
1993 World Grand Prix - Best Spiker
1994 World Grand Prix - Best Spiker
1994 World Championships - Best Spiker
1995 World Cup - Best Spiker
1995 World Cup - Most Valuable Player

Watch the 1995 World Cup match between Cuba and Japan.

Major International Competition

1983 winner of Pan American Games with Cuban National team
1986 World Championships - Silver medal with Cuban National team
1990, 1994 and 1998 World Championships - Gold Medal with Cuban National team

1991 first ever gold medal at the World Cup in Mexico

2004 inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame

Volleyball Player Profile
Professional Volleyball Player

Mireya competed professionally in Cuba for a number of years before venturing outside of her country to play in Japan for the top Daiei-Hitachi team before playing in Italy for Bergamo Volley, the same team Francesca Piccinini played for.

Watch as Paula Weishoff and Mireya Luis compete together on the same team in Japan.

1994-1995 champion Top Volley International with Camaguey

1993-1994 fifth place club world championship with Camaguey

1998-1999 Italian Serie A1 Champions with Bergamo Volley

1998-1999 third place top Volley international with Bergamo Volley

1998-1999 European volleyball champion league winners

1998-1999 fifth place Italian cup with Bergamo Volley

1998-1999 Italian Super Cup champion with Bergamo Volley

2000 retirement

Five Fun Facts about Mireya

Did you know that Mireya....

Started playing volleyball at the age of 10

Was a starting outside hitter for the Cuban National team at age 15

Luis is known for her spectacular jumping power reaching 3.39 meter 936 inch), more than any other player, though being only 1.75 meter tall. (5' 10")

She earned numerous "best scorer", "best spiker" and "best player" awards at world, Olympic and continental championships.

Mireya helped lead her Cuban National team to a silver medal just weeks after having her baby girl

Volleyball Quotes and Motivational Words

When asked about the Olympic experience

2000 Sydney Olympics: “Many teams had a lot of chances to be champions at that time, we faced the Russians in the finals and we were down by two sets against them,” she recalled. “Everybody thought we would lose but we did not quit. In the end we won the next three sets and the effort was worth a lot.”

Sources

Revolvy Mireya Luis

Mireya Luis Volleyball Movies Indoor Tournaments

Wikipedia Mireya Luis

Volleywood Mireya's Hope for Cuba

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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
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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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