April's Beach Volleyball Log

Jackie Silva: Coaching Volleyball

Jackie Silva Institute further conducts seminars for Teachers who work with Volleyball in low-profit communities.

Volleyball courses, from initiation to Training, are performed in partnership with various Municipal Sports and Leisure Departments. Read More.

Volleyball Technique and Skills:Defense Series

The champion Jackie Silva presented on September 26, 2002 her sports project that serves approximately 4000 children in 30 different communities as a tool for prevention of abuse of chemical and drug dependence in the Forum that is being held in Montreal, Canada. It is an initiative of WADA, World Anti - Doping Agency, and relies on the participation of illustrious names of the research on the fight against drug abuse in sports." Here's More.

Jackie Silva: Team Captain, Leader

As reported on about the AVP@AVP.com - Info provided by Beach Volleyball Database.
"In 1986 Brazilian Volleyball Champions, like Renan, Badá, Montanaro, William, Jackie Silva, Isabel Salgado, Vera Mossa, Regina Uchoa, along with the 1984 Olympic Volleyball Champion, Pat Powers and the King of the Beach, Sinjin Smith become leading figures in the world-wide growth of Beach Volleyball."

"The WPVA holds its first Women's Professional event in Newport Beach, California on May 16-17. Linda Chisholm and Jackie Silva win the event and split $300 in prize money. Chisholm dominates the inaugural season winning eight out of nine tournaments with two different partners, Jackie Silva (seven) and Nina Matthies (one)."

Volleyball Serving Strategies and Techniques

Jackie Silva: Philanthropist

This past year in 2006 Jackie Silva was inducted into the United States Volleyball Hall of Fame.

Although Silva has dedicated most of her life to volleyball, she is also an accomplished philanthropist. The Jackie Silva Institute runs an anti-drug abuse sports project that serves approximately 4,000 Brazilian children in 30 different communities.

Volleyball Serving Strategies and Techniques

The institute also collects tennis shoes for impoverished Brazilian children. Although more than 200 pairs have been donated since the program started, Silva has personally delivered each pair to a child in her country. Read More

Jackie Silva Institute further conducts seminars for Teachers who work with Volleyball in low-profit communities.

Volleyball courses, from initiation to Training, are performed in partnership with various Municipal Sports and Leisure Departments. Read More.

Volleyball Technique and Skills:Defense Series

The champion Jackie Silva presented on September 26, 2002 her sports project that serves approximately 4000 children in 30 different communities as a tool for prevention of abuse of chemical and drug dependence in the Forum that is being held in Montreal, Canada. It is an initiative of WADA, World Anti - Doping Agency, and relies on the participation of illustrious names of the research on the fight against drug abuse in sports." Here's More.