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Toshi Yoshida
 Toshi
Yoshida is in his fourth year with the U.S.
women's national Volleyball team and he already
has to his credit a silver medal at the 2002
World Championships, gold and bronze World Grand
Prix medals (2001 & 2003 respectively) and a
bronze medal at the 2003 World Cup.
In November 2000, Yoshida was named the head
coach of the USA women's national Volleyball
team, replacing Mick Haley. Yoshida served as
the assistant coach of the USA women from
1979-83 and again from 1998-2000 where he helped
the team improve from a No. 10 world ranking to
a fourth-place finish at the 2000 Sydney
Olympics. During his head coach tenure, Yoshida
has taken the U.S. to number one in the world
rankings following their great success in the
World Grand Prix and World Cup. They currently
sit second behind China.
Yoshida brings with him a wealth of experience.
He was a star player in Japan before becoming
the trainer for the Hitachi Club Team in 1976.
The Hitachi Club formed the nucleus for the 1976
gold medalist Japanese women's Olympic team.
He joined the USA women's national Volleyball
team in September 1979 as an assistant coach
before returning to Japan in 1983 to lead the
Hitachi Ltd Club to the 16th Japanese League
title in 1982-83. From 1983-97, he was head
Volleyball coach and associate professor at
Tokyo Gukugei University. He also served as the
head coach of the Japanese World University
Games teams in 1985 (gold) and 1995 (silver).
Yoshida spent two years as the head coach of the
Tierp Volleyball Club of Sweden before rejoining
the USA women's national team staff in 1998. |
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USA
28 July-01 Aug.