Tara Cross-Battle

Tara Cross-Battle (born September 16, 1968 in Houston, Texas)[1] is a retired female volleyball player from the United States, who won the bronze medal with the USA National Women's Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She played NCAA women's volleyball for California State University, Long Beach,[2] where she helped lead her team to the 1989 NCAA Championship title. In 1990, she won the Honda-Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best female collegiate volleyball player.[3]

Tara Cross-Battle
Personal information
BornSeptember 16, 1968 (1968-09-16) (age 51)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
National team
1989–2004United States
Medal record
Women’s volleyball
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
1992 BarcelonaTeam
FIVB Women's World Championship
2002 GermanyTeam
1990 ChinaTeam
FIVB World Cup
2003 JapanTeam
FIVB World Grand Prix
1995 ShanghaiTeam
2001 MacauTeam
2003 AndriaTeam
2004 Reggio CalabriaTeam
NORCECA Championship
2001 Santo DomingoTeam
1991 ReginaTeam
1993 New OrleansTeam
Pan American Games
1995 Mar del PlataTeam

Cross-Battle competed in four Summer Olympics overall, starting in 1992, after having made her debut in 1990.

Current life

Tara is currently working at Houston Juniors Volleyball Club. She previously coached at Texas Pride in the 2011 club season as the head coach of the top 16s team. In the 2010 season she coached at Texas Tornados Volleyball club as the head 16s coach and took her team to nationals and got 13th place at nationals. The year before that, in 2009, her top 16s team got 9th in the nation.

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Clubs

International competitions
  • 1990 – Goodwill Games
  • 1990 – World Championship (bronze)
  • 1991 – NORCECA Championships (silver)
  • 1991 – World Cup
  • 1992 – Summer Olympics (bronze)
  • 1992 – FIVB Super Four (bronze)
  • 1993 – NORCECA Championships (silver)
  • 1993 – World Grand Prix
  • 1993 – FIVB Grand Champions Cup
  • 1994 – World Grand Prix
  • 1994 – World Championship
  • 1995 – Pan American Games (silver)
  • 1995 – Canada Cup (gold)
  • 1995 – World Grand Prix (gold)
  • 1995 – World Cup
  • 1996 – Summer Olympics (7th place)
  • 2000 – Summer Olympics (4th place)
  • 2001 – NORCECA Championships (gold)
  • 2001 – World Grand Prix (gold)
  • 2002 – World Championship (silver)
  • 2002 – World Grand Prix (6th place)
  • 2003 – World Grand Prix (bronze)
  • 2003 – World Cup (Bronze)
  • 2004 – World Grand Prix (bronze)
  • 2004 – Summer Olympics (5th place)

Awards

College

Individuals
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References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tara Cross-Battle". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
  2. announcement of Cross-Battle being made a coach for Texas Pride
  3. "Tara Cross-Battle, 2017 | Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame". Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  4. http://www.texaspridesc.com/content/texas-pride-volleyball-club
  5. http://assets.teamusa.org/assets/documents/attached_file/filename/28457/Copy_of_GJNC_2010_Results16o.pdf
  6. http://assets.teamusa.org/assets/documents/attached_file/filename/29120/16_O_Final_Standings.pdf
  7. "Volleyball". CWSA. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
Awards
Preceded by
Fernanda Venturini		 Most Valuable Player of
FIVB World Grand Prix
1995		 Succeeded by
Leila Barros
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