Two days after becoming the first U.S.  team to win the 2008 FIVB World League title, members of the U.S. Men’s  National Volleyball Team were enjoying an Olympic Games sendoff party at the  ESPN Zone restaurant in Anaheim,   Calif.

As has become the pattern during the summer of 2008, there wasn’t much time  to reflect on their accomplishment before looking forward to the next  challenge.

But U.S. Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand), who watched  his team go from a three-set defeat at the hands of Serbia to a four-set  victory over the same team to win the title, wasn’t ready to set aside his  team’s World League trophy just yet.