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Hi all - More Volleyball news from the web.

It's a bit quiet at the moment, not to many news items around and the calendar is looking a bit bare. So if you have an event planned, don't forget to get it advertised.

Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Do you have any idea where we can purchase ankle supports in the UK. We are based at the British High Commission in Lagos and cannot find a supplier of these in the UK. If you can please reply to Paul.Esling@fco.gov.uk
Thanks

Paul Esling uk.dlo@mweb.co.za

Hi, I've just arrived in London from Paris and I'm looking for a place to play volley-ball near Angel. Could you please give me a way to get something like a list of clubs or a way to get in touch with the board or league.
thanks in advance.

Benoit Pondicq bpondicq@ifrance.com

Hi Dave, I request some info from your readers, Tuskers will be holding a veterans volleyball tournament next year 27th April. However does anyone want to pass on their thoughts about: Age limits, old rules or today's rules, is there enough women or men's teams or should we have mixed only?

thanks in advance

Jonathan jonathan@tuskers.org.uk

Hi Dave, I am Daniel, 21 years of age and a Ghanaian, I love playing volleyball every where I go. I now want to take it as my profession in life. I am now base in Ghana and play for a team call Peace Sporting Club who are participant in the Greater Accra division one league. I want to have a good training and learn more about volleyball. please if any one knows of any good volleyball Academy in London, U.S.A, Germany, Canada, Australia, Austria, New Zealand and Holland that I can learn and be train very well then kindly write to with the names and address of the Academy at : godvolley@hayoo.com

THANK YOU.
Daniel Osei oseikwamed@hotmail.com

Dave, The website of East Hants Volleyball Club has moved to: http://www.assen.demon.co.uk/ehvc I'd appreciate it immensely if you could update the link on your website.

Thanks a lot.
John McCabe info@easthantsvolleyball.org.uk

Surrey Junior Volleyball 

Tournament

 SATURDAY 28^TH SEPTEMBER 2002

THE ASHCOMBE CENTRE, DORKING, SURREY

3 DIVISIONS:     U18 BOYS                           U18 GIRLS                           U14 MIXED

Each division will consist of 2 pools of 4 teams. Each pool will play a round robin. The top team from each pool will then play a final.
E.V.A. rules apply apart from: sets will be to 15 points maximum, to the best of 3 sets or timed match to 30 minutes. If the score is drawn at the end of 30 minutes then one further rally is played.
A 10 minute warm-up is allowed before each match.
Girls may play in the boy's pools but not visa versa.
U14 Division: must have a least 3 girls on court at all times

Sandwiches and refreshments will be on sale throughout the day.
The sports centre has full changing and shower facilities, and a large car park.

In association with  ASHCOMBE VOLLEYBALL CLUB and Chessington World of Adventures

Click Here for Tournament Entry Form

Change date, Level 3 coaching course (day 4) - date changed from 5th January to 12th January 2003. Ashcombe Volleyball Centre

New
Three SportscoachUK workshops / Fitness and Training / Goal Setting & Planning / Motivation and Mental Toughness to be held consecutively at 9.00am, 12.30am and 4.00pm, Ashcombe Volleyball Centre, Dorking Surrey Saturday 11th January 2003. Cost per workshop to be c £35.

These are required workshops for the level 3 coaching award, but are open to all. For further details contact Ken Edwards, 2 Vale End, Galleywood, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 8NZ 01245-474425, ken.edwards@volleyball.co.uk

ken Edwards ken@edwardskg.freeserve.co.uk

This weeks photos come the opening ceremony of the Women World Championships in Germany, where trampet's, trampoline's and crash mat's are added to the list of required volleyball equipment.

Coach Required - Birmingham

The University of Birmingham requires a level 2 plus coach for intermediate to advanced level players, within the University team. The job involves four hours coaching per week plus matches. The rate of pay is £15 per hour, depending on qualifications. For more information contact Richard Gwyn (Recreation Officer - Performance Services) on 0121 414 7678 or email: r.h.gwyn@bham.ac.uk

Yours Faithfully, 
Richard Gwyn r.h.gwyn@bham.ac.uk

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Italy on Sunday vaulted into the volleyball history books to become 2002 Women's World Champion for the first time ever with a thrilling 3-2 victory over the USA before a capacity crowd of 9,070 in the Max-Schmeling-Halle in the German capital Berlin.

The final was a nail-biting five set thriller where USA took first blood with a 25-18 in the opening set. The Americans took in their stride having star attacker Prikeba Phipps on the bench. Phipps caught a ball in her eye during training on Saturday and sat out the match while captain Tara Cross-Battle replaced her on the court.

Italy was quick to respond to the early American offensive, winning the second and third set comfortably. Traditional American fighting spirit then kicked in and the USA pulled back to take the fourth set and force the tiebreaker.

The two teams shadowboxed their way through the decider and were all square at 9-9. Then Elisa Togut delivered three power attacks to give Italy a three-point advantage. Togut was the finest player on the court during the final.

Again the Americans responded and got back in the match. But it was too little too late and Italy went on to take the title when a spike by Togut gave her team the title. It was their best ever result in Volleyball after placing fifth at the 1998 championship in Japan.

"This victory is a great success," Italian coach Marco Bonitta said. "We were prepared to play against USA with Phipps. When she was not on the court, we had to adjust our game. It took us one set, but then we knew what to do."

The US head Coach also played tribute to the Italian team.

"Italy is the right World Champion," the US head coach Toshiaki Yoshida said. "They deserved to win, because the team is well balanced and has good players on all positions. We kept fighting and I am proud that my team came so far," Yoshida said.

Neither team had ever made it through to a World Championship final before and neither was among the pre-tournament favorites.

It came as no surprise that Togut was named "Most Valuable Player" of the 2002 Women's World Championship and she was also best scorer with 32 points. She also closed out four of Italy's last six points. American Tayyeba Haneef was the best scorer for the USA with 21 points.

On Saturday, Russia grabbed the bronze medal after defeating China (3-1).

Earlier on Sunday Cuba and Korea played off for fifth and sixth place with the young Cuban side emerging victorious to close off what has been for this new generation of Cuban players, a creditable World Championship.

Cuban Yumilka Ruiz was overall best scorer with 217 points. Russian Elizaveta Tichtchenko was the best attacker, while US Daniella Scott was nominated as the best blocker. The 16-years old Cuban Nancy Carrilo was the tournament's best server. The Korean libero Ki-Lan Koo won two individual awards as best receiver and best digger. Brazilian Marcelle Rodriguez was the best setter of the event. The Italian libero Paula Cardulo received the Credit Suisse Fair Play Award.

The 2002 Men's World Championship will start on Saturday 28 September in Argentina, when the 24 best men's teams in the world fight for the World Title. The final of the men's event is scheduled for Sunday 13 October in Buenos Aires.

Results Sunday 15 September:

FINAL: USA - ITA 2-3 (25-18, 18-25, 16-25, 25-22, 11-15)
Classification 5-6: CUB - KOR 3-2 (21-25, 25-19, 25-11, 22-25, 15-10)

Final Ranking: 1. ITA; 2. USA; 3. RUS; 4. CHN; 5. CUB; 6. KOR; 7. BRA; 8. BUL; 9. NED; 10. GER, GRE, PUR; 13. JPN, ROM, DOM, POL; 17. CZE, CAN, ARG, THA; 21. MEX, EGY, KEN, AUS.

Individual awards: Most Valuable Player: Elisa Togut (ITA)
Best Scorer: Yumilka Ruiz (CUB)
Best Attacker: Elizaveta Tichtchenko (RUS)
Best Blocker: Daniella Scott (USA)
Best Server: Nancy Carrilo (CUB)
Best Digger: Ki-Lan Koo (KOR)
Best Setter: Marcelle Rodrigues (BRA)
Best Receiver: Ki-Lan Koo (KOR)
Credit Suisse Fair Play Award: Paula Cardulo (ITA)

Much more on the Web: www.fivb.org

Almost 750 journalist at Women's World Championship

Almost 750 journalists are accredited for the 2002 Women's World Championship in Germany. These media representatives come from 22 countries worldwide.  This high number of journalists indicates that the event has global coverage and is recognized one of the major sporting events of the current European summer.

Many more, but incalculable, journalists are covering the event from their home office through www.fivb.org . Muenster, where host country Germany is playing their opening matches, is, with 155 accredited journalists the busiest city at this moment. Host broadcaster, West Deutsche Rundfunk is working with a staff of 110 people in Muenster. 

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The above data appear hence the justification that some teams use their libero for improving the receiving results. The spread in performance amongst the liberos is very large and as will be shown in the next section not all teams do have either have a good libero or do not make good use of him.

Libero receiving data.
The following table shows the performance of the libero’s. The data ranked according to percentage errors. In view of the time spread between the various matches some team have taken occasion to play with more than one libero. As not all matches have been checked on this aspect some of the data may not be fully correct. It is shown now that there is a very large difference in performance. The error percentage increases from Valido Alexis from 3.13% with 70% excellence to 13.13% error and 34.36. % excellence. It will now also be clear that all the liberos with an error percentage lower than the tournament average will probably have contributed to their team performance but that the libero’s with the higher percentages are not improving their corresponding team result.

A specific remark has to be made that the tournament has not been played as a round robin competition. There were 4 different sub groups. In one of them three of the four best serve results are grouped with Germany Russia and the Netherlands. Those teams may have suffered mutually from extreme high service pressure which could explain the higher error percentage and below average performance.

Team Results.

The poor performance of the last four teams in the ranking which were all in the same pool may have been influenced by very strong service pressure.

Comparison of team and libero results.
From the data in the following table it becomes clear that the libero here has contributed positively to the team result in obtaining both lower errors and better precision. Five of those teams will participate in the final round. The % L table is indicating the percentage of receipts the libero has taken from all receipts in the team. The Polish example is indicating that a very high contribution is hence not necessarily an indicator of too high load.

On bases of preliminary results it was postulated that a decrease of libero performance could have been due to a too large participation in the receiving leading to distortions and hence lower efficiency. The Italian contribution is most probably in error, the team having used a second libero, which has escaped from the analyses.

The results for Argentine, France and Portugal are neutral. The performance of the liberos corresponds about to the team performance. China Germany and Russia score near the same results for the libero and the team, the absolute values however are very high for the errors and both libero and team results are far above the average performance. The only two teams where the libero clearly does not contribute to a better team result are Greece and the Netherlands.

In many teams the libero is the leading player in service reception. As indicated in this article as long as the libero performances are good this is a healthy principle. In similar way most teams do show a good distribution of resources, by which is meant that the best stoppers take maximum part of the receipts. Only in this way can the overall amount of errors be reduced. There are some poor examples for Cuba and Russia where the receipt leader has not lowest error percentage and where other players do score clearly lower error. Their contribution in overall receiving is to be increased to lower the overall amount of errors.

leo van hal leovh@wanadoo.fr

SPECIAL CASES

9.4 In a World Cup match between the women's teams of Cuba and Peru, a floor wiping towel from one of the Cuban players fell from her uniform and landed on the floor between the blockers of Peru. Play continued with the Cuban team winning the rally. What is the correct ruling in this case?

PRINCIPLE:
This is a judgment of the first referee to decide the degree of influence which the towel had on the play. Since the towel fell between active blockers of the opponents, the towel had the potential to influence the outcome of the rally and perhaps cause an injury. Therefore the rally should have been replayed. If this were intentional or a repeated occurrence, other sanctions would apply. Rule 18.2

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