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Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Scotland are playing Israel in the CEV "B" championships in Kelvin hall, Glasgow on Saturday 25th May 2002 and against Austria on 15th June 2002 in Meadbank sports centre, Edinburgh. We are looking for prospective sponsors to supplement the support from Glasgow city council and Edinburgh district council.

If you would like to offer some sponsorship then contact me on mike.heaney1@btinternet.com

thanks
Mike Heaney mike.heaney1@btinternet.com
chairman international & special events team

Hi Dave, I'm sorry to announce that there will be no Egham Tournament this year due to problems in the club.

Could you please advise all newsletter readers.

Anna Will Anna.Will@tesco.net

Dave, Could you please advertise the Referees Conference on Saturday September 7th 2002 at The West Midlands Fire Service Training Centre. Dartmouth Road, Smethwick, West Midlands on each of your web sites

Many thanks
Steve Evans sebg24958@blueyonder.co.uk

Hi, I organise a small social volleyball club in Putney (ADT College, Portinscale Road) on Tues evenings (7-9). We need more players and someone suggested the Volleyball newsletter. Can we be included in the next newsletter?

Regards,
Mark Lundberg mark@mlundberg.demon.co.uk

1ST SURREY CUP VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT 11/12 May 2002

at the new Ashcombe Sports Centre

6-a-side competition to include

Women's Cup

Men's Cup

Men's Plate

Women's Plate

Juniors Plate

The tournament will be played indoors (Cup) and outdoors (Plate), and is open for all levels to participate in including a junior tournament. There will be fair ground stalls including roundabouts, a bouncy castle, an inflatable slide, coconut shies, candy floss, barbecue, a children’s side show, food, beer and lots of fun for all.  There will be an end of season party where trophies will be presented to Surrey League clubs on the Saturday Night.  The disco and buffet meal will be included in the tournament entry fee.

Entry fees (per team) for both days, and incl disco and buffet:

· All Surrey League teams: £15
· Additional teams from SVA member clubs: £20
· Teams from non-member clubs within Surrey: £25
· Teams from non-member clubs outside Surrey: £30

Changing rooms and shower facilities will also be available on both days.  For further details please visit our website or contact our tournament organisers.

Surrey Volleyball Club: www.xilef.ltd.uk/sva
Entry Forms: www.xilef.ltd.uk/sva/cupentryform.doc

Sam El-Jouzi: el-jouzis@halcrow.com
Chris Hall: Chris.F.Hall@btinternet.com

Cambridge Volleyball Club proudly presents the

12th Annual Cambridge Volleyball Tournament

6-a-side men's, women's and mixed
2-a-side men's and woman's

25th and 26th May, 2002

Camping, parking, food and facilities all on site

Places are limited, apply now via our Website or email info@cambridgevolleyball.org

Latest News: 

Cambridge Annual Tournament Entries Are Pouring In - Enter Now to be Sure of a Space!

Hello to all beach Volleyball enthusiasts out there, now is the time to start thinking about summer and the beach and we have the perfect tournament down on the world famous Sandbank's Gold Coast beach and the opportunity to play at all levels of beach volleyball. We invite you to join us on the weekend of 15th & 16th June to play on Sandbanks beach:-

If you are unable to make up a team please contact someone on the list of contact's and come down on the day as team's are always looking for players.

Many Thanks
Paula Snow Paula.Snow@jpmorgan.com

SANDBANKS BEACH CLASSIC

 BEACH VOLLEYBALL EVENT

 15th & 16th June 2002

Beach Volleyball Sandbanks presents The volleyball event for all the family With Men’s and Ladies Pairs Divisions Under 12’s/14’s/16’s and 18’s Pair’s Divisions Also mixed fours for all ages Divisions Beach Grand Prix TBC

Plus on Sunday 16th June Semi-finals and finals More Mixed fours for Parent’s and friends Day tournament’s A great weekend of volleyball on one of Britain’s Best Beaches in the South.

Book early to avoid disappointment. Tel/ Sharon Wright/Paula Snow/Julia Stevens, Tel no. 01202 382493/01202 247206/01202 387152

For further information. Deadline Date Saturday 8^th June, Late entries will be excepted

 Email: www.wessextournaments.junglelink.co.uk

  For information on Accomodation phone Poole

Tourism information office 01202 253253

Or website address www.pooletourism.com

Beach Volleyball Croyde presents

The King and Queen of the beach Event.

With Three Men’s and Two Ladies Divisions

Plus on Sunday 23^rd June SW Junior Grand Prix

U12 (3’s), U14 (3’s), U16 (2’s) U18 (2’s)

 Sat 22nd June. Individual play with six different partners to crown the winner in your division

 Sun 23^rd June. Pool play with your partner with a minimum of three matches in your pool followed by semi’ and final matches

A maximum weekend of volleyball and fun at North Devon’s biggest Ocean Festival. Book early to avoid disappointment.

 Tel/Fax Denise Austin 01271 890676

For further information. Deadline Tuesday 18^th June. Email:austin@seabirdsbandb.freeserve.co.uk

Tournament Entry Form

European News & Photos

I am active as a trainer in Holland and as a players agent for Ozzie players mainly. I regularly "refresh" my site  www.elteevolley.com with news / pictures of matches I attend in Holland, Belgium and Germany.  Last week I went to Italy to take pictures of Modena-Milan and Milan-Modena, the results of which you can see on my website  www.elteevolley.com Lex Thevissen lexthv@wxs.nl

These camps are for juniors 11-18, who are interested in learning about beach volleyball and to help promote the South West Junior Beach Grand Prix.

Please contact:
Weston-Super-Mare, Ron Richards, Rricha7122@aol.com
Exmouth, Ros Sutherland, ROSSUTH@aol.com
Plymouth, Graham Pearson, Gpearson@Eggbuckland.plym.sch.uk

Or Denise on austin@seabirdsbandb.freeserve.co.uk

Two British companies, SNTV and Reuters TV will be in charge of the production and distribution for the major international television channels. ESPN, holders of the broadcast rights for the championship assured the FIVB that their coverage will be at the highest level, and that 36 of 90 matches will be transmitted live, the others to be transmitted on time delay. 

The championships had the potential to reach a television audience of 500 million, We will be broadcasting in 170 countries and 250 million viewers and additional negotiations with other countries could double that figure.

ESPN will provide exclusive high quality coverage of all 72 games, plus the opening and closing ceremonies of the Championships from Sept. 28 to Oct. 13. They are being played in six cities throughout Argentina - Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Mar del Plata, Santa Fe and San Juan. 

Twenty-four of the world's elite volleyball teams have qualified for the tournament. Hosts Argentina are joined by Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Tunisia, U.S.A., Venezuela and Yugoslavia. 

The Championships are FIVB's premiere international men's competition in 2002. The Women's World Championships are being hosted by Germany from Aug. 30 to Sept. 15.

The England Junior Women International Tournament at Buckmore Park and The Ashcombe Centre, takes place from the 5th to 10th May 2002. Taking part will be the Junior National Squads from England, Finland & Sweden. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. The match schedule is as follows:


Date Match Time Venue

Sunday England Juniors v Finland Juniors 18:00 Buckmore Park
5th May

Monday England Juniors v Finland Juniors 12:00 Buckmore Park
6th May Sweden Juniors v Finland Juniors 20:00 Buckmore Park


Tuesday Sweden Juniors v Finland Juniors 18:00 Buckmore Park
7th May England Juniors v Kent County Squad 20:00 Buckmore Park

Wednesday England Juniors v Sweden Juniors 16:00 Buckmore Park
8th May 

Thursday England Juniors v Sweden Juniors 14:00 Ashcombe Sch
9th May 

Running alongside the tournament will be a training camp for players born 1986 to 1988 or younger, who have the ability and athletic profile to become future England Junior Squad players. This camp will provide a great opportunity for cadet players to see reasonably high standard junior
volleyball and will let them see the performance levels they will be expected to be able to achieve.

For further information about the tournament or the training camp please contact me at: peter_e.brooks@virgin.net

Peter Brooks peter_e.brooks@virgin.net
Joint Head Coach
England Junior Women

Dear All, I know this is the cup final weekend and I apologise to those of you who are playing. Good luck to you all and have a great weekend in Sheffield. Unfortunately I cannot reschedule as we have a gold medal coach from Northern Island who has a conference this weekend and is giving up his time to come and work with the juniors.

JUNIOR BEACH COACHING/TRAINING

If you are looking to play beach volleyball this summer and want to get a kick start with some beach coaching and training please contact me.

I will be running a junior beach weekend at Heyford on 12-14th April, its open to 15-22yr olds also any interested coaches who may want to learn about coaching beach volleyball.

The sessions will run from 6-8/8-10 Friday, 930-1130/1130-130/130-330 on Saturday Sunday 9-11/11-1
On Saturday afternoon we have Phil Moreland coming to run a strength and conditioning workshop Phil was the gold medal coach to Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst who won the gold medal at Bondi Beach at the Sydney Olympics. He is now working in Northern Island and is keen to work with the junior beach squads, he has a conference at Loughborough on Fri/Sat and is coming down to work with us afterwards.

If you would like to come along then please contact me by email to confirm what days and times you can come. Each session is £4 per person £15 for the weekend. You will be required to bring along you own food and sleeping bag for the weekend.

Yours in Volleyball 
Denise and Nick Austin austin@seabirdsbandb.freeserve.co.uk

The club initiated Beach Volleyball at the Balancing Lakes and in Lurgan Park in recent years when weather allowed and has benefitted from coaching by two top International Volleyball figures Ralph Hyppolyte of France (formerly GB coach) and Californian Alan Knipe of Team USA. It is currently host to the centre of excellence for the NI Women's squad. More details from Paul McIlwaine 07808 395530 

Best 
Paddy Murphy paddy.murphy@doeni.gov.uk

The FIVB Board of Administration on Wednesday officially approved the introduction of a smaller court for Beach Volleyball competitions and new scoring system to promote a more dynamic game.

Wednesday's formal Board approval now formally puts into effect measures that were introduced on an experimental basis last season. They will now apply to all competitions through to and including the Olympic Games in Athens.

The new court size (8m x 16m) is to be implemented immediately for competitions from 2002 to 2004. In line with the new court size, the net is to be adapted to a length of 9 m.

Also approved is the "Rally Point System", which, after testing last year, has produced a more dynamic game and has created more marketable time packages for television. 

In the new format, the first two sets are played to 21 points, with an eventual third set tie-breaker to 15 points. There is a two point winning margin for each set.

On the Net: www.fivb.org

The FIVB has approved the introduction of a new volleyball discipline with the provisional name of Challenge Volleyball. The new game, which is already extremely successful in Brazil, imposes a height restriction on players, thus opening the way for a vast majority of the world's population to enjoy competition.

Challenge Volleyball is for men under 1.85m and women under 1.75m.
 
"According to demographic studies, some 97 percent of men and 95 percent of women in the world's population are under these height limits," commented Dr. Anne Peytavin, President of the FIVB Medical Commission. "This means volleyball in it's present form is only catering for a small section of the population," she added. Presently only extremely tall players are successful at the top end of competition.

"This competition has been very successful in Brazil and it is attracting a lot of interest," said FIVB Board Member, Mr. Ary Graca Filho of Brazil.
 
Executive Vice-President Mrs. Rebecca Howard of the U.S.A. proposed that the new discipline be called "Challenge Volleyball", which the Board provisionally approved. FIVB President Dr. Ruben Acosta supported the suggestion, saying: "I recommend that the National Federations use this new category as a promotional tool."

www.fivb.org

"The World League finals, following the example of Beach Volleyball, provided excellent facilities with entertainment and side events that attracted packed stadiums. All this was possible even though Poland was not in the final four," Dr. Acosta told the Board.

This year, Brazil will play host to the final round of the 13th edition of the World League (Aug. 13-18), offering total prize money of over USD 15 million. Some USD 75 m in prize money has been distributed in the premiere FIVB event over the past 12 years.

Teams from 16 countries - Argentina, Brazil, China, Cuba, France, Greece, Italy (defending champion), Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Yugoslavia and Venezuela contest the World League. Fourteen of the teams are ranked in the world's top 20, according to official FIVB rankings (Jan. 15, 2002)

Some 650,000 spectators will see the competitions live during the six weekends of the Intercontinental round (June 28-29 to August 2-4), with television coverage reaching 750 million viewers globally. 

The schedule of matches for the first round of the 2002 Men's Volleyball World Championship was announced on Wednesday in Lausanne. The opening match of the 24-team World Championship, between Argentina and Australia, will be held at 20:00 hrs on Saturday 28 September 2002 in Buenos Aires following the Opening Ceremony. Italy will start its defense of its World Championship title in Pool B against Croatia on Sunday 29 September 2002 in Santa Fe. 

The first round will consist of 36 matches over 4 days (28,29,30 Sep and 1 Oct). 
San Juan will host matches of Pool A (Argentina, Australia, China, Portugal), whilst other host cities of the first round include Santa Fe (Pool B - Italy, Korea, Canada, Croatia), Buenos Aires (Pool C - Russia, France, Bulgaria, Tunisia) Mar del Plata (Pool D - Yugoslavia, Spain, Japan, Kazakhstan), Cordoba (Pool E - Brasil, USA, Venezuela, Egypt) and Salta (Pool F - Cuba, Netherlands, Greece, Czech Republic). 

The second round will be held in the cities of Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Santa Fe and Salta, with the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals held in Buenos Aires and Cordoba. The gold medal match will be held on 13 October 2002 in Buenos Aires. 

ESPN is the host broadcaster of the 2002 Men's World Championship. 

www.fivb.org

To learn more about European events, we have decided to adopt a team, Asterix Kieldrecht from Belgium and follow their progress in European events.

Asterix wins the Belgian Cup, for the fifth time in seven years.

With our neighbours from Melsele, we had an unexpected opponent in the cup final. They won, surprisingly, from Herentals and Tongeren. A team in the winning mood is always a dangerous opponent, so our girls had to concentrate hard during the preparation for this game. And also the supporters had a job to do. There were 300 of them, all dressed in the same T-shirts. With 10 drummers and several cheerleaders, the stands were a noisy ocean of our red-and-white colors. To show their solidarity with the supporters, the team also wore the same T-shirts during warming up.

The game itself was probably the most relaxed cup-final we ever played. Our setter Irina was ready to play, despite a back injury, and she led her attackers like a real general. We saw some nice rallies, and Melsele survived only one set (25-20). In the second set, Martina Schwobova reduced their reception to rubble (10-1), and the second set ended in a 25-10 score. The third set was a pure demonstration, and the commentator on national TV concluded that Asterix put a merciful and to Melsele’s suffering after exactly one hour (25-16 and 3-0). 

Security did not let the supporters on the field to congratulate the players, so the team went up into the stands to celebrate. And of course, the party was continued in the village of Kieldrecht until dawn!

Next week, we are free, and then we have the semi-finals of the championship play-offs against Charleroi (best of three) and hopefully the finals in a best of five, starting on Saturday April 20 in Kieldrecht.

And then we start preparing for our international outdoor tournament, in the weekend of 17 and 18 August. 

Look on our site http://go.to/kieldrecht for more details.

5.13 After winning a rally, the Brazilian Women's Team formed a huddle to discuss strategy for the next rally. The first referee allowed time adequate for the players to move to their positions, had they not huddled, and then blew the whistle and charged Brazil with a delay warning because they were not ready to serve. Is this a correct decision by the first referee?

This was a correct decision by the referee. There is no requirement for the referee to allow more than a reasonable time for the players to move to their positions for the next play. The referee must use good judgment in this case. He must allow for appropriate enthusiasm and cheering but cannot allow the game to be delayed. Rule 17.1.2, 17.1.5

5.14 A player refused to play because of a wet place on the floor caused by a member of his team diving for a ball. What is the proper response of the first referee?

The referee must consider many facts. The "quick moppers" should have mopped the wet spot on the floor. Players may also use their own small towels to mop the floor. In matches in which there is a Control Committee, the Game Jury may authorize the second referee to allow extra mopping if the wet patch is large and the temperature is above 25 degrees Centigrade and the humidity is above 61%. On the other hand, the control of the match is always by decision of the first referee. If there is no Control Committee and the referee deems it necessary for extra mopping of the floor, he may choose to do so. If, in the final analysis, the team refuses to play, the referee can sanction the team with either delay or default penalties. Rules: 1.5, 5.1.2.2, 6.4.1, 17.2

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