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 USA Adult Open Volleyball Championships

      May 29 - June 5, 2010
      Phoenix Convention Center
      Phoenix, Arizona

USA Volleyball has selected the City of Phoenix as the location for its 2010 USA Adult Open Volleyball Championships to be held May 29-June 5. The Phoenix Regional Sports Commission, in partnership with the Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitors Bureau, will serve as tournament hosts.

The 81st USA Adult Open Volleyball Championships will take place at the Phoenix Convention Center. The USA Volleyball Annual Meetings will also take place in Phoenix in the immediate days preceding the USA Adult Open Championships.

Phoenix Regional Sports Commission President Jon Schmieder commended the team effort needed to secure the championships.

"The Greater Phoenix CVB, the Phoenix Convention Center and our area hotels worked well as a team in putting this bid together," Schmieder said. "This is another great example of how entities across the Valley cooperate to achieve a common goal."

"We are very excited that downtown Phoenix has the opportunity to host the 2010 USA Volleyball Adult Open Championships," Greater Phoenix Convention Bureau CEO Steve Moore added. "This event will bring over 6,000 people to downtown, and all of them will get to experience our newly expanded convention center."

Other national USA Volleyball events staged in Phoenix include the 2001 and 2003 USA Junior Olympic Boys' Volleyball Championships and the 2003 USA Volleyball Girls' Invitational Championship. USA Volleyball also hosted the 1994 National Collegiate Men's Division Club Championships in nearby Tempe.

USA Volleyball has showcased its USA Adult Open Volleyball Championships for 80 years since the organization's founding in 1928. Except for 1943 and 1944 during the height of World War II, the Open has been a mainstay celebrating adult volleyball nationally. The event is one of the largest national championships in any sport in the United States, and the Open has featured the sport of volleyball from coast-to-coast.

Source: http://volleyball.teamusa.org/event/event/2245