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Cuba handed the United States women's volleyball team its first loss of the Beijing Olympics on Monday.
Cuba swept the Americans, 25-15, 26-24, 25-17, and dropped the United States to 1-1 in Pool A play. The United States will face Venezuela on Wednesday. Venezuela lost to China 3-0 in its first match of the Olympics and plays Japan Monday.
The U.S. Women's volleyball team, with Danielle Scott-Arruda and Tayyiba Haneef-Park from Long Beach State, Nicole Davis from USC and Long Beach's Cynthia Barboza from Stanford, lost to Turkey in five games to open the FIVB World Grand Prix at Kobe, Japan on Friday.
Team USA, ranked fourth in the world, plays Kazakhstan on Saturday and Japan on Sunday.
Scott-Arruda had 13 kills and a block and Davis had six digs for Team USA.
Team USA is playing without Logan Tom and Robyn Ah Mow-Santos, both two-time Olympians, at the FIVB World Grand Prix.



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