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Volleyball Hall of Fame Honorees
1985
William G. Morgan- USA - Inventor/Leader
1986
Dr. Harold T. Friermood- USA - Leader
1988
Leonard Gibson- USA - Leader Flo Hyman- USA - Player Eugene Selznick- USA - Player Jane Ward- USA - Player Harry Wilson- USA- Coach/Leader Court of Honor: 1980 U.S. Women's Olympic Team | 1984 U.S. Men's Olympic Team
1989
Douglas Beal- USA - Coach Glen Davies- USA - Leader Kathy Gregory- USA - Player Michael O'Hara- USA - Player Court of Honor: Young Men's Christian Association
1990
Col. Edward DeGroot- USA - Coach Alton Fish- USA - Official Mary Jo Peppler- USA - Player Court of Honor: United States Volleyball Association
1991
Dr. George J. Fisher- USA - Leader Thomas Haine- USA - Player Rolf Engen- USA - Player Catalino Ignacio- USA - Leader
1992
Dr. James Coleman- USA - Coach Merton H. Kennedy- USA - Leader Jon Stanley- USA - Player Ron Von Hagen- USA - Beach Player
1993
Mike Bright- USA - Player Al Scates- USA - Coach Court of Honor: Federation Internationale de Volleyball
1994
Patty Dowdell- USA - Player Marv Dunphy- USA - Coach John Koch- USA - Official/Leader Larry Rundle- USA - Player Court of Honor: The American Volleyball Coaches Association William G. Morgan Award: ASICS
1995
Debbie Green- USA - Player Robert L. Lindsay- USA - Leader C.L. "Bobb" Miller- USA - Leader Arie Selinger- USA - Coach Court of Honor: Special Olympics International William G. Morgan Award: Spalding Sports Worldwide
1996
Patricia Bright- USA - Player Donald Shondell- USA - Coach Court of Honor: Springfield College Mintonette Medallion of Merit: Sally Kus
1997
Andy Banachowski- USA - Coach Albert Monaco Jr.- USA - Leader Pedro "Pete" Velasco- USA - Player Court of Honor: United States Armed Forces Mintonette Medallion of Merit: Richard Caplan
1998
William Baird- USA - Leader Craig Buck- USA - Player Dusty Dvorak- USA - Player Yasutaka Matsudaira- Japan - Coach Steve Timmons- USA - Player Paula Weishoff- USA - Player
1999
Wilbur H. Peck- USA - Leader James G. Wortham- USA - Player Court of Honor: 1988 U.S. Men's Olympic Team William G. Morgan Award: Volleyball Festival, Inc. Mintonette Medallion of Merit: Corporators of the Volleyball Hall of Fame
2000
Hirofumi Daimatsu- Japan - Coach Inna Ryskal- Russia - Player Takako Shirai- Japan - Player Yuri Tchesnokov- Russia - Player/Coach Harold Wendt- USA - Player
2001
Karch Kiraly- USA - Player Regla Torres- Cuba - Player Jean Gaertner- USA - Player Mintonette Medallion of Merit: Karen Keirstead
2002
Lang Ping- China - Player Tomasz Wojtowicz- Poland - Player Vyacheslav Platonov- Russia - Coach Court of Honor: 1990-1998 Italian Men's National Team William G. Morgan Award: Volleyball Magazine Mintonette Medallion of Merit: Kirk Kilgour
2003
Givi Akhvlediani- Russia - Coach Jungo Morita- Japan - Player Sinjin Smith- USA - Beach Player Julio Velasco- Italy - Coach William G. Morgan Award: PeoplesBank Mintonette Medallion of Merit: Alex Stetynski
2004
Karolyn Kirby- USA - Beach Player Mireya Luis- Cuba - Player Josef Musil- Czech Republic - Player Seiji Oko- Japan - Player William G. Morgan Award: Holyoke Gas & Electric
2005
Bernard Rajzman- Brazil - Player Eugenio George- Cuba - Coach Stanislaw Gosciniak- Poland - Player Cecilia Tait- Peru - Player Konstantin Reva- Russia - Player Ron Lang- USA - Beach Player William G. Morgan Award: Holyoke Medical Center
2006
Bernie Holtzman- USA - Beach Player Endre Holvay- Hungary - Leader Jackie Silva- Brazil - Beach Player Edward Skorek- Poland - Player Nina Smoleeva- Russia - Player Shigeo Yamada- Japan - Coach Court of Honor Award:The Japan Volleyball Association (JVA)
2007
Bob Ctvrtlik- USA - Player Andrea Gardini- Italy - Player Carlos Nuzman- Brazil - Leader Kerri Pottharst- Australia - Beach Player Yuan Weimin- China - Coach Dimitar Zlatanov- Bulgaria - Player William G. Morgan Award: The Dowd Group Mintonette Medallion of Merit: William "Ron" Collamore
2008
Sinan Erdem- Turkey - Leader Andrea Giani- Italy - Player Masae Kasai Nakamura- Japan - Player Yuri Poyarkov- Ukraine - Player Vladimir Savvine- Russia - Leader Randy Stoklos- USA - Beach Player Court of Honor Award: The City of Holyoke
2009
Ana Moser - Brazil - Player Nikolay Karpol - Russia - Coach Holly McPeak -USA - Player Paul Libaud - France - Administrator Ivan Bugajenkov - Latvia - Player Siegfried Schneider - Germany - Player Mintonette Medallion of Merit: Francis G. Hamel
2010
Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar - Brazil - Players Gabriella Kotsis - Hungary - Coach Gabriela Perez del Solar -Peru - Player Aleksandr Savin - Russia - Player Hubert Wagner - Poland - Coach William G. Morgan Award: Mountain View Landscapes and Lawncare, Inc. - Stephen Corrigan Mintonette Medallion of Merit: Richard (Rick) Lajoie
2011
Lorenzo Bernardi - Italy - Player Magaly Carvajal - Cuba - Player Hugo Conte - Argentina - Player Rita Crockett - United States - Player Vladimir "Vanja" Grbic - Serbia - Player Dr. Frantisek Stibitz - Czech Republic - Leader William G. Morgan Award: Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C. - Howard Cheney Mintonette Medallion of Merit: John O'Donnell
2012
Peter Blangé - Netherlands - Player Lyudmila Buldakova - Russia - Player Mike Dodd - United States - Beach Player Maurício Lima - Brazil - Player Georgy Mondzolevskiy - Russia - Player Jeff Stork - United States - Player William G. Morgan Award: California Beach Volleyball Association Mintonette Medallion of Merit: Patricia "Pat" Demers Court of Honor: 1991-2000 Cuban Women's National Team