Volleyball Achievements

Team photo of the Australian men’s volleyball team competing in the Asian qualification tournament of the 2010 FIVB Men’s Volleyball World Championships
The Australian men’s volleyball team competing in the Asian qualification tournament of the 2010 FIVB Men’s Volleyball World Championships. Photo source FIVB.

Since the program's relocation to the AIS main campus in Canberra, notable achievements include:

  • The Australian Men's Volleyball team won the 2007 Asian Volleyball Championships in Indonesia. This was the first time Australia had won the tournament. 
  • Australia came 8th in the FIVB World Cup, which featured the top teams from the world, held in Japan in 2007.
  • These fantastic results have lifted Australia in the World Rankings from 24th to 11th in the World (as at Jan 2008) in less than a year.
  • The AIS/Volleyball Team Australia men's team qualifying for the 2006 World Championships in Japan.
  • The AIS Team winning the National Volleyball Challenge in 2007 and in 2005 & 2006 the Australian Volleyball League (AVL) Championship.
  • The AIS/Volleyball Team Australia men's team qualifying for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens
  • The Australian Youth Men’s Team (with 10 AIS scholarship holders) finishing 8th at the 2003 World Youth Championships.
  • the AIS/Volleyball Team Australia men's team finishing nineteenth at the World Championships in Argentina in 2002, second at the Asian Championships in 2001 and eighth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
  • the AIS/Volleyball Team Australia women's team finishing twenty-first at the 2002 World Championships in Germany, sixth at the Asian Championships in 2001 and ninth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
  • 22 AIS athletes are playing professionally on contracts in Europe and the America's. 

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Australia is one of only two nations to have competed in every modern Summer Olympic Games.