How volleyball was invented

The original creator of volleyball was William G Morgan. He originally created volleyball, also called mintonette, in 1895 in Springfield, Massachusetts. At that time William G Morgan had just befriended James Naismith, who at that time just invented basketball in 1891. William G. Morgan at that time was a YMCA physical education director. As a director of the YMCA it was his responsibility to create activities for the students, and one of the ideas he got was creating volleyball, also known as mintonette. He also wanted to create a sport that had less interaction with basketball. Since basketball had just came out people were also very interested in that, so William also wanted to create a sport.

Also in 1900 the first ever volleyball was created for that sport. Before the first volleyball was made at that time they were using a basketball. He used different items from other sports to create volleyball. For example volleyball was a combination of baseball, basketball, handball and tennis. Volleyball has also been played for more than two centuries now and is one of the most popular sports to ever be played. There are also six different volleyball positions: they are called the outside hitter,  opposite hitter,  setter,  middle blocker,  libero, and the defensive specialist. Each position has a different job as they play. For example, the libero is the only player with a different uniform color and they can rotate without subbing anyone out. 

According to olympics.com it says that, “Volleyball has witnessed a particularly impressive growth spurt over the last two decades, fueled by the expansion of international competitions such as the FIVB World Championships, the FIVB World League, the FIVB World Grand Prix, the FIVB World Cup and the FIVB Grand Champions Cup, not to mention of course the Olympic Games, where both the indoor and beach versions now enjoy huge popularity.” Also according to volleyball1on1.com it says, “He chose to call it mintonette simply because his new sport was also similar to badminton.” Though later on William G. Morgan changed it to volleyball and just stuck with that. Also according to volleyball.com it says, “Today there are more than 46 million Americans who play volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play volleyball at least once a week,” which means that since volleyball was invented it has grown and became more popular to play to this day.