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| VOLLEYBALL NEWSLETTER |
| Issue 140 (19/11/2001) - Circulation:
2200 - Regular Items: Letters to the
Editor / Tournaments / International News / Photos of Interest / On-Line
Calendar.
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Hi all - More Volleyball news from the web. I intended to send this newsletter out last weekend but regular visitors to the web site, will have noticed that our sever has been down for the last six days, my services provider decided to switch it off (upgrade their system) without informing us! You should all now find the Volleyball Newsletter web site back on line. Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@ndirect.co.uk |
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
| Leicester Volleyball club website now active!!
Hi Dave, Great News letter! Our website is now active, I would be grateful if you could change the link to reflect this on your site. http://www.leicestervolleyballclub.net/
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| Looking for a Team
Well, I don't have any particular place in U.K, and I am ready to play everywhere they are playing volleyball in U.K. It can be as professional or as amateur, I mean if there is no professional championship I can play while doing a little job. I have a scientific Baccalaureat diploma and I started with chemistry at University but I was faced with many hurdles. Anyway, all I wish is to have the chance to express myself in a stadium. I think that I have a great experience of game. You can ask me any question you need. Keep in touch. |
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| Junior Beach Training
Hello All, Mo Glover and myself will be running a junior training weekend ( age U23 ) at Heyford 30 Nov-2 Dec. If you are interested in training then please contact me with your times of availability over the weekend.
I will send confirmation of training times, food instructions, padlock entry number next week.
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Volleyball Photos
Hi Dave, please could you ask your many readers for any quality action photos.
We require royalty free photos for the design of our web site. |
| VOLLEYBALL EVENTS |
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BRITISH UNIVERSITIES VOLLEYBALL Hi Dave, Could the following go in to the next edition please? The British Universities Home Nations Championships will be held in March
2002. Men's and women's representative teams from English, Welsh, Scottish and N
Irish universities all compete in this prestigious event. Squads will be selected and train in the new year in the lead up to this |
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Junior Development / Coaching conference
- EVA
National Youth Development & Coaches Conference 2001/2. The EVA's Youth Development Commission in-conjunction with the Coaches Commission will be running two one-day Conference's looking at Youth Volleyball issues.
The first will be held in the North of the country, with a repeat in the South in the New Year (Date & Venue TBC), to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to attend. |
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Scorers Course
Dave, could you possibly advertise the following course. There will be a scorers course held at Glasgow Caledonian University on
Wednesday the 21st of November. If any team secretaries could advertise this
to their players it would be appreciated. The time (tbc) will be 19:00-20:30.
To reserve your place or for more info please contact me at the address below. Cheers |
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Level 4 Referees Course Enclosed is the details for our level 4 referees course to run on the 15th and 16th of December in Greater Manchester. We have notified clubs in Greater Manchester, and also sent details to Merseyside, Lancashire and Yorkshire leagues. Please will you advertise this nationally. Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th December 10am - 5pm, To be held at Siddall Moor Sports College,
Newhouse Road, Heywood.
Adam Gillibrand adam@10mytham.freeserve.co.uk |
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2001 JUNIOR VOLLEYBALL FESTIVAL (U11 to U15) HUTTON MOOR LEISURE CENTRE, WESTON SUPER MARE SATURDAY DECEMBER 15th 12.00 to 17.00 This event is being held as part of the SW Mini Volleyball Grand Prix. There will be three other events to be held at Bath Sports Centre on February 3rd, April 20th and a further date to be announced. Local teams may, however, wish to enter only this festival. It is very suited to teams playing their first matches - it is a novice tournament with the refereeing intended to help the players learn the game. We will be particularly pleased to welcome teams from primary schools. Age groups will be U11, U12 and U13 (3 a side), U14 and U15 (4 a side) competitions and played on reduced (badminton) size court. The make up of the divisions will depend on the number of entries. Every effort will be made to provide separate boys and girls sections, but this is often not possible due to a lack of entries. We are normally able to provide play off matches for the top girls teams even if they have to play against boys or mixed teams in the main part of the event. The date for age qualification is August 31st 2001. The entry fees will be £6.00 (3 a side) or £8.00 (4 a side) per team. We hope to see many entries - please help us to encourage junior development. We are grateful to North Somerset Council for their technical and financial support. Last season the festival was very popular with nearly 40 entries. If there are to many teams it will therefore be necessary to turn down entries once we have reached a manageable figure - or ask clubs / schools to merge players into a smaller number of teams. It may also be necessary to combine adjacent age group competitions if the numbers do not work out well. Please therefore apply early for places for your team(s). Ron Richards Rricha7122@aol.com |
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| Information Required Here are your top five search statistics, used on the web site, during the last two weeks. A total of 32 searches carried out. 1st "coaching" / 2nd "guernsey volleyball" / 3rd "armitage" / 4th "knees" / 5th "nepal". If you are organising an events or are running a coaching or refereeing course, make sure your event is well publicised. If your forthcoming event was not listed in our search statistics, you may be lacking Brand Awareness?
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| THIS WEEKS PHOTOS OF INTEREST |
| Grand Champions Cup 2001 |
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The triumphant Chinese team after defeating Korea that secured the tournament win. |
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China finished a dream run Saturday to claim its first major world volleyball title in 15 years by defeating Korea in three easy sets 25:13, 25:15, 25:12. With still one day of competition left, China, with a perfect record of four wins and on 8 points, cannot be caught by the other five teams in the single round robin competition. Regardless of results on Sunday, they will collect the winner's cheque of US 300,000 dollars. |
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| 18 November, 2001 - China finished a dream run on Sunday to stamp its authority on its first major world volleyball title in 15 years by defeating South American champion Brazil 25:21, 25:17, 21:25 25:23, to keep its perfect record of 5 wins and collect the US$300,000 first prize cheque. Russia finished second, Japan third with Brazil, USA and Korea finishing fourth, fifth and sixth respectively. |
| NEWS ITEMS |
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European Champions League
With the support of prestigious sponsors such as INDESIT and CHAMPION and the performances of the best European men and women club teams, the most exciting indoor club competition will indubitably impart to European volleyball an original dimension. |
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2002 Saudi-British Volleyball Program
Deputy President of the General Presidency for Youth Welfare (GPYW), Dr. Saleh ibn Nasser, will be chairing the 11th Joint Higher Committee meeting with senior British government officials, together with the sporting committees from the UK and Saudi Arabia, to review activities undertaken as part of the ongoing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on sports between the two countries. “Last year produced a record number of activities - and the committee is hoping to report a similar success this year,” commented
Callicott. The overall program is wide ranging and the variety of events that took place over the last year included international volleyball
matches. |
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3.8m (12ft 6in) Blocker Required
A couple of photos from this Sunday's Torexe v Portsmouth (0 - 3) Cup match, with Portsmouth's 2.1m (6 foot 11 in) attacker Marcus Russell warming up before the match.
Not very scientific but Torexe now have a vacancy for a 3.8m (12ft 6in) blocker, if you can fulfill this roll, then please contact us. Dave Reece |
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More on Hard Balls
From the last issue: Doug Paul tyree@nbnet.nb.ca
Volleyball Canada has the idea that for Canada to be competitive at the international level they need to use a harder ball. There was some convoluted explanation that harder balls will mean harder spikes which will mean learning to dig harder balls. I believe it went something like that.
Mikassa is the official ball of FIVB and is very hard. So when Tachikara got the official sponsor role they were asked to make a
hard ball. So they have done just that. Victor E. Lindal viclindal@shaw.ca |
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Volleyball Vacations
Just thought you folks here might like to know about our program, which is called "Volleyball Vacations"
( www.volleyballvacations.com
). For those of you not familiar with Volleyball Vacations, it is NOT a "Volleyball Camp" like atmosphere. It's basically a more relaxed vibe
with lots of partying, competitive "pickup" play, some tournaments and most importantly games with and instruction from top AVP beach pros. |
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Four Days by Train, then mop floor, fix door and windows After three postponements, India's biggest sports extravaganza will finally get rolling here on Monday with a glittering ceremony
signaling the start of the 31st National Games. The twelve-day Games originally scheduled to be held last year to mark the tercentenary celebrations of Khalsa but postponed
twice due to various reasons, will see competitions in 27 disciplines spread over six cities. MANISH KUMAR |
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World Grand Champions Cup Stats The analyses after the second round of the World Grand Champions Cup for
women show a net improvement in receiving performance. The percentage error
which in1999 and 2000 for the world cup competitions amounted 4.57 and 5.05
% has decreased to 3.69 %; this appears mainly the result of the efficient
use of the libero's. The error percentage of the libero's amounts only 2.14
against 4.57 for the remainder of the stoppers. |
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New U.S. Professional Volleyball League The East Dundee, Ill.-based U.S. Professional Volleyball League is building a professional volleyball players association. The league plans to launch 20 or more teams in major U.S.
cities. The league's launches its inaugural full-year season in 2002, when professional teams will play in four U.S. cities. In 2003, the league plans to add four more exhibition
teams. |
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Players Commitment - rsv Coaches, This season, I had a lot of trouble getting my players to commit to coming
out to games and practices. The other downfall to this is that I only had
7 girls on the team. At the start of the season, each girl noted that because the team was small that they all had to commit to coming to every
game. I had to cancel two games this week, plus one make-up game and have
had to cancel a couple of practices due to lack of commitment. It also doesn't help when my co-coach has the same problem. |
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Advantages of playing in Europe
- from the Leicester VC web pages |
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| RULES OF THE GAME
- FIVB
Some of the more interesting volleyball rules from the FIVB Casebook. Did you know that......
4.9 The Netherlands was playing Cuba in the Men's World Cup. At one point the dramatic
Cuban spiker Joel Despaigne was a back row player. He received a set which was in
front of the three meter line. He jumped from behind the three meter line, made a
sensational attack and landed with his heels on the centre line, but with most of
his foot on the feet of the Netherlands blocker Ron Zwerver. Zwerver made an
attempt to play the next ball but could not move rapidly enough to get to the ball.
Zwerver appealed to the second referee for interference, but the second referee
ignored his appeal. Similar confrontations occurred numerous times during the match
and were ignored each time by the second referee. Is this a correct ruling by the
second referee? |
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