Volleyball
This sport, a club sport at UNC and invented by JK Rowling, uses a volleyball as the Quaffle.
What is Quidditch?
This animal is said to have 9 lives.
What are cats?
This coach's hobby, outside of volleyball, is Moto-cross.
Who is John Forster?
Greeley was founded as this utopian community who's name now graces the city's Civic Center.
What is Union Colony?
This word means '40 days' in Italian. Thank goodness ours is only 14 days.
What is Quarantine?
The only athlete to have won Olympic Gold in both indoor and beach volleyball.
Who is Karch Kiraly?
In 2019, this school won its record 9th NCAA Volleyball Championship.
What is Stanford?
This coaches favorite volleyball memory is winning the Big Sky Championship in 2014.
Who is Kendra?
In 1870, Nathan Meeker purchased this ranch on which he founded the town that would become Greeley. It is now the name of the Regional Park that hosts the Greeley Stampede.
What is Island Grove?
The male part of Brangelina, he starred with Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys, a movie about a future pandemic.
Who is Brad Pitt?
10 teams have won the NCAA Championship in volleyball, 9 of them multiple times. This PAC-12 school is the only single championship winner.
What is the University of Washington?
UNC sponsors both of these sports, which field 9 players on a side.
What are baseball and softball?
Hazel, Pii's dog, is this breed.
What is a yellow lab?
A prominent newspaper editor in New York, he never lived in Greeley, the city named for him, but donated to help Meeker found his utopian society.
Who is Horace Greeley?
It is a condition where enough of a population is immune through vaccine or recovery to protect non-immune individuals from infection.
What is 'herd immunity'?
She is the only person to have won an Olympic Gold medal in volleyball as both a player and a coach.
Who is Lang Ping?
This reggae legend was born in the village of Nine Mile, Jamaica.
This coach paddled canoes in high school, its a varsity sport in Hawaii.
Who is Guch?
Name one of the two rivers on whose confluence Greeley sits, ideal in Meeker's plan for providing both water and trade opportunities.
What are the South Platte River and the Cache La Poudre River?
He is the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Deceases and has become the face of the effort to fight the corona virus.
Who is Dr. Anthony Fauci?
Invented by William Morgan in Holyoke, MA volleyball was first named this.
What is Mintonette?
This Governor of California starred in the movie Nine Lives are Not Enough in 1941. Forty years later he became the 40th US President.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Lyndsey's first coaching job was as an assistant at this school in Birmingham, Alabama.
What is Samford?
Greeley is ideally situated for a farming town as it sits on the tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad halfway between these two state capitols.
What are Cheyenne and Wyoming?
In Northern Colorado schools and businesses shut down, groceries could only be ordered and picked up curbside, and even churches stopped congregating. Not corona virus in 2020, but due to this pandemic in 1918.
What is influenza (Spanish Flu)?