Revisiting 2007 FIVB Women's World Cup: Team USA's relative scorers again vs rest of the world 2006

What a difference a year makes: At the 2006 world championships, Team USA finished ninth in order behind Russia, Brazil, Serbia, Italy, China, Japan, Cuba, and the Netherlands. Below, I give the player scoring ranking for that event: Logan Tom's third place scoring this year would fit around the eleventh to twelfth spot in last year's ranking. And look who the leaders were last year. So, yes, the road ahead for Team USA to the Olympic podium in Beijing is yet steep. Incidentally, the source for the previous tables is the "Best Players" right-side tab here. The 2006 results are here. In terms of New Year's resolutions, I'd like to suggest recruiting Cheryl Weaver as numero uno goal for Team USA. She was Haneef Tayyiba-Park's teammate at Long Beach State and the disappointing runner-up to Logan Tom for player of the year in 2001. I was able to follow her career for a while (I lost her in the Amazon forest somewhere), but it sure would be nice to see her play for Team USA. (Searching through Long Beach State's records, it appears that Haneef and Cheryl played their freshman national championship year there with Misty May. And check this: Danielle Scott and former volleyball Olympian Tara Cross-Battle (I am assuming she has retired though I've seen nothing in print) are also Long Beach State alum's. Haneef and Cheryl lost to Logan and Stanford in the 2001 NCAA finals I do believe.

Rank	Shirt	Name	Team	Spike	Block	Serve	Total
1	17	Darnel Neslihan	TUR	190	21	14	225
2	15	Grün Angelina	GER	176	31	13	220
3	1	Wang Yimei	CHN	165	17	20	202
4	11	Gamova Ekaterina	RUS	152	32	6	190
5	12	Metcalf Nancy	USA	160	16	9	185
6	3	Yang Hao	CHN	146	20	15	181
7	12	Flier Manon	NED	149	17	14	180
8	4	Staelens Chaïne	NED	151	22	2	175
	5	Shashkova Lioubov	RUS	150	21	4	175
10	12	Calderon Diaz Rosir	CUB	148	21	3	172
11	3	Djerisilo Ivana	SCG	136	24	7	167
12	5	Takahashi Miyuki	JPN	154	3	9	166
13	3	Carrillo De La Paz Nancy	CUB	126	29	6	161
14	11	Lin Ching I	TPE	148	10	1	159
15	13	Castro Sheilla	BRA	131	15	10	156
16	3	Haneef Tayyiba	USA	135	10	3	148
	7	Bown Heather	USA	110	32	6	148
18	15	Spasojevic Anja	SCG	123	8	12	143
19	1	Ruiz Luaces Yumilka	CUB	123	13	4	140
	12	Kimura Saori	JPN	117	10	13	140
21	12	Carvalho Jaqueline	BRA	128	6	4	138
22	6	Godina Elena	RUS	96	13	28	137
23	7	Hanikoglu Natalia	TUR	117	10	9	136
24	1	Nikolic Jelena	SCG	112	8	4	124
25	11	Araki Erika	JPN	86	29	8	123
	14	Oyama Shuka	JPN	107	10	6	123
27	3	Togut Elisa	ITA	111	8	3	122
28	12	Piccinini Francesca	ITA	103	13	5	121
29	9	Chen Shu Li	TPE	104	11	3	118
30	5	Ozbek Aysun	TUR	99	12	4	115
	17	Thumm Birgit	GER	96	8	11	115
32	17	Xu Yunli	CHN	82	26	5	113
33	15	Visser Ingrid	NED	74	29	2	105
34	1	Oliveira Walewska	BRA	63	34	7	104
	2	Rinieri-Dennis Simona	ITA	93	8	3	104
	9	Claudino Fabiana	BRA	73	25	6	104
37	2	Scott Danielle	USA	80	20	3	103
38	11	Fürst Christiane	GER	59	35	8	102
39	2	Lin Chun Yi	TPE	74	23	4	101
	9	Sugiyama Sachiko	JPN	73	25	3	101
	11	Citakovic Vesna	SCG	63	31	7	101
42	8	Wilkins Katherine	USA	63	25	9	97
43	7	Kou Nai Han	TPE	83	8	4	95
44	8	Dumler Cornelia	GER	74	7	10	91
45	6	Chen Mei Ching	TPE	58	21	10	89
46	4	Liu Yanan	CHN	67	13	3	83
	10	Gonzaga Welissa	BRA	72	5	6	83
48	5	Krsmanovic Natasa	SCG	48	28	5	81
49	16	Merkulova Yulia	RUS	49	27	4	80
50	7	Zhou Suhong	CHN	72	3	4	79
51	1	Borodakova Maria	RUS	40	26	12	78
	8	Blom Alice	NED	74	3	1	78
53	11	Wensink Caroline	NED	52	23	2	77
54	2	Santos Allegne Yanelis	CUB	45	19	12	76
	18	Ssuschke Corina	GER	59	15	2	76
56	10	Paggi Paola	ITA	53	17	5	75
	12	Gumus Esra	TUR	57	9	9	75
58	6	Ramirez Echevarria Daimi	CUB	56	8	8	72
59	5	Anzanello Sara	ITA	44	21	4	69
60	16	Stam Debby	NED	51	9	6	66
61	4	Gonzalez Dias Yenisei	CUB	27	28	8	63
62	3	Steinbrecher Marianne	BRA	48	10	1	59
63	5	Gattaz Caroline	BRA	34	12	1	47
64	2	Feng Kun	CHN	23	17	2	42
65	4	Ozcelik Ozlem	TUR	34	6	1	41
66	10	Ognjenovic Maja	SCG	14	18	5	37
67	1	Bouagaa Atika	GER	31	2	2	35
	7	Guiggi Martina	ITA	21	12	2	35
	9	Centoni Nadia	ITA	31	3	1	35
70	16	Kozuch Margareta	GER	29	5		34
71	14	Fledderus Riëtte	NED	15	7	8	30
72	1	Ortolani Serena	ITA	24	1	4	29
	2	Rankovic Aleksandra	SCG	17	10	2	29
	11	Mesa Luaces Liana	CUB	21	5	3	29
75	3	Takeshita Yoshie	JPN	9	7	12	28
76	6	Fiorin Valentina	ITA	23	3	1	27
	17	Colombo Renata	BRA	26	1		27
78	15	Ochiai Mari	JPN	22	3	1	26
79	7	Molnar Brizitka	SCG	25			25
	14	Lo Bianco Eleonora	ITA	9	8	8	25
81	9	Joines Jennifer	USA	18	6		24
	18	Akulova Marina	RUS	6	16	2	24
83	15	Erdem Eda	TUR	19	3	1	23
84	7	Safronova Natalia	RUS	17	2		19
	7	Horai Makiko	JPN	16	3		19
	15	Wu Hsiao Li	TPE	3	5	11	19
	18	Zhang Ping	CHN	16	3		19
88	6	Brakocevic Jovana	SCG	17	1		18
	11	Ah Mow-Santos Robyn	USA	4	12	2	18
90	10	Crawford Therese	USA	12	4	1	17
	14	Agca Elif	TUR	6	7	4	17
92	6	Orsel Mirjam	NED	9	3	3	15
93	7	Souza Helia	BRA	5	3	5	13
	16	Tokatlioglu Seda	TUR	10	2	1	13
95	6	Li Shan	CHN	8	4		12
96	4	Pequeno Paula	BRA	9		1	10
	8	Ortiz Charro Yaima	CUB	10			10
	14	Carcases Opon Kenia	CUB	8	2		10
99	1	Yeh Hui Hsuan	TPE	8			8
	6	Benecke Christina	GER	8			8
101	2	Weiß Kathleen	GER	3	3	1	7
	9	Vesovic Jovana	SCG	6		1	7
	10	Kirdar Gozde	TUR	6	1		7
104	17	Kulikova Natalia	RUS	5	1		6
105	4	Bruntseva Maria	RUS	4	1		5
106	12	Sheshenina Marina	RUS	1	3		4
	12	Song Nina	CHN	1		3	4
	13	Simanic Maja	SCG	1		3	4
	13	Tseng Hua Yu	TPE	4			4
110	1	Staelens Kim	NED		3		3
	5	Chu Jinling	CHN	1		2	3
	9	Sanchez Perez Rachel	CUB	2	1		3
	9	Meijners Floortje	NED	3			3
	9	Hakyemez Deniz	TUR	3			3
115	1	Mert Bahar	TUR	1	1		2
	2	Albuquerque Carolina	BRA	2			2
	10	Takahashi Midori	JPN	1	1		2
	16	Juan Pei Chi	TPE			2	2
119	3	Hart Tanja	GER	1			1
	11	Li Juan	CHN	1			1
	12	Schlüter Cathrin	GER	1			1
	18	Busse Cassandra	USA		1		1
Total Tournament				6639	1293	525	8457