Hyman is an American black athlete and a famous attacker of the world women's volleyball team. She is 1.96 meters tall, with good bounce, high hitting point and fierce spike. She is known as the world's first "heavy artillery" player, and won the best spike award and excellent player award in the third World Cup.
Hyman1954 was born on July 29th in a railroad worker's family in California, USA, with eight brothers and sisters, and she ranked the last four. 10 years old, her height has reached 1.80 meters. Because of her poor constitution, the PE teacher instructed her to exercise and improve her physical fitness. She participated in track and field, basketball and volleyball training, and later fell in love with volleyball under the influence of her sister. /kloc-started formal volleyball training at the age of 0/5. After entering the university, she not only joined the school volleyball team, but also used her spare time to play in a private volleyball team to earn some tuition.
From 65438 to 0976, the famous American coach Salinger reorganized the American national team. Hyman gave up the elementary course and signed up for the American national women's volleyball team. Under the guidance of coach Salinger, she trained hard and made rapid progress in physical fitness and volleyball skills. She raised her hand and touched it as high as 2.25 meters, jumping more than 60 centimeters in situ. Because of her studious study and hard training, she not only mastered the attack technique, but also greatly improved her quick attack, blocking and defense techniques, and finally became an excellent athlete with comprehensive attack, blocking and defense techniques.
As the main force of American women's volleyball team, she participated in two World Cups, two World Championships and one Olympic Games from 1977, which made the ranking of American women's volleyball team in these world competitions keep rising. The American women's volleyball team ranked seventh from 65438 to 0977 in the second World Cup, and the eighth World Women's Volleyball Championship rose to fifth from 65438 to 0978. 198 1 The third World Cup, the United States ranked fourth. 1982 and 1984, the American women's volleyball team won the runner-up in the 9th World Women's Volleyball Championship and the 23rd Olympic Games respectively. Hyman has made great contributions to the rise of American women's volleyball team and its entry into the world's top teams.
In the 3rd Women's Volleyball World Cup held in 198 1, Hyman won the Best Spike Award and Excellent Player Award. At the 23rd Olympic Women's Volleyball Competition held in 1984, she was named the best spiker and was selected as the best team.
After the Los Angeles Olympic Games, Hyman and a group of veterans who revived the American women's volleyball team left the national team one after another. According to the contract, Hyman returned to the women's volleyball team of Dai Rong Company. She signed the contract in June 198 1. Dai Rong Company is a famous Japanese supermarket. It wants to form a team with foreign players in order to get a good ranking in domestic leagues. Salinger agreed to Dai Rong's request to send Hyman and klock to Japan for "study abroad" for three years, so as to prepare for the Los Angeles Olympic Games, and let the two main attackers of the American women's volleyball team learn from Japan's strict defense. When the contract expired in June 1985 and June 10, Rong Da Company extended the contract for another year in order to win the Japanese League.
1986 65438+1On the afternoon of October 24th, the match between Dai Rong and Hitachi in the Japanese National Women's Volleyball League was held in Songjiang Gymnasium in Shimane Prefecture, and the two sides fought fiercely. At 7: 30 pm in the third game, Hyman, who had just been replaced, suddenly fell to the ground and was immediately taken to the hospital for rescue. At 9: 36 that night, Hyman's heart stopped beating, and the doctor diagnosed that she died of acute heart organic disease. In this way, the world-renowned "heavy gunner" of the women's volleyball team dedicated his life to the cause of volleyball.
Hyman has participated in more than 300 international competitions in his volleyball career for more than ten years, and made great contributions to the rise of American women's volleyball team and the silver medal in the Olympic Games, as well as to the development of women's volleyball in the world. In order to commemorate her, the United States established the Hyman Foundation, and named the auditorium of Inglewood University when Hyman just learned to play volleyball as the Hyman Memorial Hall.