 Player of the Year awards in 1977, 1979 and 1982.In international competition the US national team again failed to qualify for the 1980 Summer Olympics, this time held in Moscow in 1980.The United States had boycotted the games, making the failure to qualify a moot point, but it was clear that the teams the US put together following the USVBA nationals were no longer adequate to compete on the international level.