Best/Strongest LEFT handed hitters?

  • Please select and explain why/examples...


    Sarah Noriega (USA)


    Nancy Metcalf (USA)


    Nelly Fonova Alisheva (Russia)


    Sarah Pavan (Canada)


    Leila Barros (Brazil)


    Regla Bell (Cuba)


    Demir Darnel Neslihan (Turkey)


    Antonina Zetova (Bulgaria)


    Enia Martinez (Cuba)


    Lia Castro (Juliana) (Brazil)


    My apologies (recently added with due respect to these wonderful athletes)


    Virginie de Carne (Belgium)


    Elles Leferink (Netherlands)


    Motoko Ohbayashi (Japan)


    Please ask if you don't know some of them.. :serve:

  • ı don't know why but ı have an interest for left-handed volleyball players.It has always been a pleasure to watch those players mentioned above.My favourite ones are Neslihan Darnel and Nancy Metcalf.
    The way Neslihan jumps and how strongly she spikes the ball impresses me every time she hits the ball.Especially her jump serves impresses me a lot and ı haven't watched any other left-handed hitters who jump serves as strongly as her.



    These are my favourite videos of Darnel
    First two videos are from the game Murcia-Tenerife(btw they were a great team when Rosner-Logan-Nesli-Visser-Fernandez-Lamas and Esther were together)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCz0aY51aRE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60WOkCHv1A0
    Those are the videos that her fans made for her.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTOsTKeLS3s
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFKPVxcUWi4
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ5bgP2biIk


    Nancy Metcalf is another very good left-handed player.She has a very strong arm and she uses it very well.


    Another left-handed player who got my attention is Sarah Pavan.I am sure she is going to be among the best hitter in a few years.I also remember from the days she played for Beşiktaş that Noriega is a very hood hitter .


    I don't know Nelly Fonova Alisheva and Lia Castro.

  • I don't know Nelly Fonova Alisheva and Lia Castro.

    Alisheva is the Opp player from Russian club Dinamo-Yantar,Lia Castro is the Opp player from Brazilian club Finasa/Osasco,just add one more player to this list,the new name of USA NT,and now play in Turkish club Besiktas-Heather Hughes!

    Lloyd + Naz + Wołosz + Hanke + Smutná + Mori
    Bokan + Zakrievskaja + Bricio + Vilponen + Jupïter + A.Lazić + Stepanova + Marković
    Onyejekwe + N.Dimitrova + Crkoňová + de Kruijf + Truškina + Thibeault + Omelčenko + Schauss
    Rourke + Bošković + Fabris + Kajalina + Collar + Simić + Miklai + Vasilantonaki
    Courtois + Venegas + Gaído + Castillo + Gómez + Kiselyova

  • Nelly Alisheva (Russian: Нелли Алишева; born December 20, 1983 in Lipetsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She is 204 cm tall and plays as center. She plays for Dinamo-Yantar Team since 2003.








    Scoring ability found below..


    Dinamo-Yantar Kaliningrad 3 - 1 Samorodok Khabarovsk


    Parciales: 25-23 ( 25 min. ), 26-28 ( 28 min. ), 25-18 ( 22 min. ) y 27-25 ( 26 min. ).



    DINAMO-YANTAR: Nelly Alisheva 29, Maria Egorova 3, Elena Ponomareva 13, Olga Mustafaeva 1, Olga Zhitova 6, Olga Sazhina 11. Maria Bazanova (L); Natalia Nazarova, Anna Kiseleva.


    SAMORODOK: Anna Makarova 28, Marina Manyuk 9, Alina Elizarova 6, Yuliana Kiseleva 13, Xeniya Peshkina 8, Marina Akulova 4. Natalia Kuznetsova (L); Anna Lobadina, Anna Pligunova 1, Natalia Kulikova 2.



    If someone has a clip of her, please post :-)

  • She is 204 cm tall and plays as center.


    She seems to be a good and scorer player.ı'd like to watch a video of her.Also that's the first time ı see a left-handed central player they always play as opposite ,why?


    As Jo11 said De Carne is certainly among the bests.


    Elles Leferink was also a very good spiker,also she was a very good jump server.She was the best server of the 1998 WCH and 2003 ECH.


    I don't believe Hughes is a good attacker.She is strong but she does not use her strength well.Maybe she changes my opinion today when she is playing against Fenerbahçe Acıbadem.

  • Elles Leferink was also a very good spiker,also she was a very good jump server.She was the best server of the 1998 WCH and 2003 ECH.


    Elles was a good spiker and server,really hard serve, she made many points for her clubs and NT.


    For now the Netherlands has Maret Grothues,a left handed spiker in Dela Martinus.

  • .Also that's the first time ı see a left-handed central player they always play as opposite ,why?


    As a lefty attacking in the centre is tougher, because you have to let the ball pass your body before you can hit the ball. It's also a different set, so it makes things more complicated for the setter. Playing on the right side however, being left handed is an advatage, because you don't have to let the ball pass your body. Plus you know that your body should make a 90 degree angle with the net right? So if you're right handed and playing on the right side the front of your body is facing away from the court and you must see the set coming over your shoulder. Now there's ways around this, I mean there are a tond of good right handed diagonal players, but it is tougher.


    Also in the middle if you need to letthe ball pass your body it makes the combination slower... unless of course you attack on a set behind the setter. That's what I know about it anyway.


    PS: I'd be interested to see this left handed 204cm tall girl play as well, videos anyone?

  • Elles Leferink




    Elles Maria Leferink (born November 14, 1976 in Weerselo,Overijssel) is a female volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, finishing in fifth place.Leferink was a leading youngster in the Netherlands women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1995 European Championship by defeating Croatia (3-0) in the final.Among other awards she was elected "best player of Europe" aged 19 in 1995 and "best server" at the World Championship 1998 and the European Championship in 2003.She retired in 2007 becoming a mother.http://undefined


    1995 CEV "European Volleyball Player of the Yearhttp://undefined
    1998 World Championship "Best Server"http://undefined
    2003 European Championship "Best Server"


    http://www.cev.lu/mmp/online/w…24/2226/2229/1452_EN.html



    Elles Maria Leferink (born November 14,1976 in Weerselo, Overijsse) is a female volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, finishing in fifth place.Leferink was a leading youngster in the Netherlands women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1995 European Championship by defeating Croatia (3-0) in the final.Among other awards she was elected "best player of Europe" aged 19 in 1995 and "best server" at the World Champinship 1998 and the Europen Championship in 2003[b][/b]



    [b]Individual Awards[/b]*
    1998 World Championship Best Server
    2003 European Championship Best Server


    http://www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyb…ar_profiles/ELeferink.asp

    World - RESULTS Women. CUBA Women 1998 Champion of the World Cup. Regla Torres Herrera of CUBA named World's Best Player. Antonio Perdomo of CUBA named World's Best Coach. CUBA named World's Most Fashionable Team. Congrats to the Cuban team for retaining the World Championship Cup after a 3-0 win over China. Here is the final standings:' 1st - Cuba, 2nd - China, 3rd - Russia, 4th - Brazil, 5th - Italy, 6th - Croatia, 7th - Netherlands, 8th - Japan Individual Awards World Best Player Regla TORRES HERRERA Cuba US$ 100,000 World Best Scorer Barbara JELIC Croatia US$ 50,000 World Best Spiker Ana FERNANDEZ VALLE Cuba US$ 50,000 World Best Blocker Regla TORRES HERRERA Cuba US$ 50,000 World Best Server Elles LEFERINK Netherlands US$ 50,000 World Best Digger Hiroko TSUKUMO Japan US$ 50,000 World Best Setter Maurizia CACCIATORI Italy US$ 50,000 World Best Receiver Hiroko TSUKUMO Japan US$ 50,000 World Best Coach Antonio PERDOMO Cuba US$ 25,000 World Most Fashionable Team CUBA US$ 10,000


    Scoring abilities:
    Top in Dutch national team
    http://www.jva.or.jp/oqt2000/pdf/match019.pdf


    Second next to the great Henrriette Weersing
    http://cnwvt.server101.com/ms/moq00chnned.pdf

  • for me it is Katarina Barun (Metal Galati)

  • I think;


    Nancy Metcalf (USA)
    Nelly Fonova Alisheva (Russia)
    Regla Bell (Cuba)
    Demir Darnel Neslihan (Turkey)
    Enia Martinez (Cuba)
    Virginie de Carne (Belgium) :heart:


    excellent ;) so I think; De Carne is a phenomenon. Certainly

  • virgine de carne and neslihan demir

  • Nataly Korobkova,Russian opposite is the best scorer of the Turkey league at the moment. She is playing in Dyo Karsiyaka Izmir.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQsBdoYnamY