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| Issue 170 (20/05/2003) - Circulation: 2800 - 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. Don't forget to send us your tournaments details, full calendar listing available on the web site and in the newsletter. Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com |
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
| Training Required Am looking for a coach in the Somerset/Avon area to improve my setting skills, do you know of anyone? Tina Ainslie Ainsliecam@aol.com |
| Wiltshire club
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Hi I'm looking for a club in Wiltshire, I live in the Trowbridge area I
had loads of emails before but they have been wiped so I got no contact details can anyone help. |
| Surrey Club Required
My girlfriend used to play volleyball for her local town in Poland a few years back but since has been very keen to take up coaching. I was hoping that maybe you have an ideas on coaching facilities in the area. You help in this will be much appreciated. Thank you very much |
| VOLLEYBALL EVENTS |
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Ashcombe Volleyball Tournament 2003 THE CHAMPAGNE TOURNAMENT Sunday 29th June 2003
The Ashcombe Volleyball Tournament annually attracts over 100 teams of all levels and is played on outdoor grass courts at The Big Field, Brockham, near Dorking, Surrey. Matches begin at 10 am and play finishes at about 6:30 pm. Entry Fee £30 pounds, Under 16 & 19 only £10 pounds. Plus Free Camping ON-SITE overnight Saturday. [The AGM of the English Volleyball Association is to be held at the Ashcombe Volleyball Centre, Saturday 28th June 2003] Entry Forms: http://ashcombevc.tripod.com/tournament.html More info from http://ashcombevc.tripod.com |
EXMOUTH BEACH VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
The event is run in conjunction
with our hosts EAST DEVON DISTRICT COUNCIL who have also agreed to sponsor
the Junior events, enabling us to give FREE entry to all junior teams
entered. Junior Teams are required to pay a deposit of £5 per team which is
then refunded to all participating teams on the day. |
| Plymouth Lifestyle Festival
Four - A - Side Outdoor Volleyball Competition at Plymouth Hoe (part of the Half Marathon festivities). Open Tournament (all ages) Sunday 25/05/03 Junior Tournament (U16 on 31/09/02) Monday 26/05/03 Start time for both days 11:30am - finish 4:30pm, cost Free (£20 pounds deposit refunded on the day). Format: 4-A-Side for both days with group games followed by knockout stage (main competition and plate depending on the number of entries). Down load your entry form from www.volleyballnewsletter.com Graham Pearson GPEARSON@eggbuckland.plym.sch.uk |
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Found this on my hard drive the other day, my apologies to the artist, as I have no idea where or who I got it from. If anyone knows, can you please let me know, it appears to be one of a collection of four cartoon I have, more in the next issue. |
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LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY SET FOR
SPARKLING WEEKEND OF SPORT
For ticket information, please call 01509 222224, or email publicity@lboro.ac.uk |
| Golden Cow spreads Northern Ireland Volleyball Campbell College Belfast Is often described as having produced the Cream from Ulster schooling. This Saturday (10 May) Top dairy Producers Golden Cow Spread their goodness. To local youth Volleyball In the 2003 Golden Cow Youth Games And the Volleyball Tournament at Campbell College, Belmont Road, Belfast. Local Volleyball officials swear they are not buttering up to the sponsors But all the young volleyballers toast Golden Cow and co-ordinators the NI Sports Council. POMurchu. padymurphy@aol.comMurphy |
| 2012 Olympic Beach Volleyball in
Regents Park Britain Backs London's 2012 Olympics Bid. London joined New York and Madrid in the race to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, in what is shaping up as a big-city battle for the games. Leipzig, Germany, and Cuba have also announced plans to bid. Moscow, Paris and the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo are also possibilities. Countries wanting to bid for the 2012 Summer Games have until July 15 to select a city and apply. The International Olympic Committee will make its final decision in July 2005. Tessa Jowell, secretary of state for culture, media and sport, announced government backing Thursday in the House of Commons. London mayor Ken Livingston, sports minister Richard Caborn and officials of the British Olympic Committee are also supporting the bid. "I am delighted to be able to inform the House ... the government has decided to give their wholehearted backing to host the Olympic Games and the Paralympics in 2012," Jowell said. A decision to pursue the bid was delayed several times, sparking concern about the government's support. Government estimates put the cost of hosting the games at £4.4 billion pounds, half of which the government would be expected to underwrite. Prime Minister Tony Blair described the government's support as a "really good thing to do," as he met with rower Steven Redgrave, who won gold in five straight games. "We have always been strong supporters of the Olympic movement as one of only three countries to send teams to every modern summer and winter games. Yet we have not hosted the games in over 50 years," Blair said. "London will enter a hotly contested race against other world class cities, but I hope that everyone in the country can join me in giving their full support to the UK's campaign."
London hosted the Olympics in 1948 and 1908. "London will be a front-runner if it tackles the challenges well, finds a good leader and puts all the components in place."
Preliminary plans call for an Olympic stadium, warmup track and athletes village to be built in
Stratford and beach volleyball at Regents Park. [To date, I have been unable to find out where the planed indoor volleyball stadium is going to be built, currently waiting for a reply from the British IOC (if anyone already knows, could you please let us know]. |
The 2003 AVP Tour
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~10835~1402895,00.html Photography by Michael Stevens |
European Championship 2003 Girls Under-18
RUSSIA TAKES TITLE AGAIN
Russia only had some difficulties in the second set of the final, played in the Dom Odbojke (house of volleyball) stadium in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. After Russia won the first set easily, the Polish team came back and grabbed a 24-20 lead in the second set.
This was not enough to level the match. After Poland spoiled five chances to win the second set, Russia took a 2-0 lead on the first occasion. The Russian block was at that moment too strong for Polish attacker Marcel Gromadowski, after the final awarded as best attacker of the tournament.
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| Too Little Knee Stiffening Leads to High Injury Rate In Women Study of NCAA athletes shows why women are eight times more likely to get ACL knee injuries than men. Specific exercises may protect women's knees from injury and re-injury, the findings suggest. The ACL is the anterior cruciate ligament. It's one of two ligaments that crisscross in the knee, making it stable. When a person jumps in the air and then comes down on one leg as he or she cuts off in a new direction, the ACL can rupture. It's a common knee injury in basketball, soccer, and other sports that require jumping, pivoting, and cutting. Women who play such sports are much more likely to have ACL knee injuries than men. Edward M. Wojtys, MD, medical director of the sports medicine program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, wondered why. He asked for help from 12 women and 12 men who play NCAA Division-I basketball, volleyball, and soccer, and from 14 women and 14 men who play endurance sports -- bicycling, crew, and running. Wojtys and colleagues designed a contraption that simulated a pivoting maneuver when landing on one foot. It also measured how well the athletes could stiffen their knee muscles. Even when male and female athletes were matched for age, height, weight, shoe size, activity level, and body mass index, the men were able to stiffen their knee muscles more than the women. "Historically, training has been the same for both men and women," Wojtys says in a news release. "This may not be the correct approach." The problem isn't that women can't develop knee-stabilizing muscles. Surprisingly, women who engaged in non-pivoting sports could voluntarily stiffen their knee muscles better than women in pivoting sports. They could even do it better than men in non-pivoting sports. This suggests that it would be possible to decrease women's ACL knee injuries by training them to strengthen protective muscles. Wojtys says coaches and trainers should rethink their muscle-training programs to account for the differences in the ways women and men use their knees. Wojtys and colleagues report their findings in the May issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. SOURCES: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, May 2003. News Release, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. |
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Asterix Kieldrecht Volleyball club To learn more about the ups and downs of professional Volleyball and European events, we have decided to adopt a team, Asterix Kieldrecht from Belgium and follow their progress in National & European competitions. |
| For the first time in six years, Asterix did not win either the Belgian
Volleyball Cup or the national title. And we did not make it to the final
four of the European Cup either. Three near misses ! We just finished a nail biting play-off final, with five super games. Pictures on our website : http://users.tijd.com/~tdn02345/seizoen20022003/commentaar20022003.htm |
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Most of our players have decided to leave Asterix.
Some received an offer they could not refuse from foreign teams (Julie goes to Villebon Paris, and Lies may go to Italy), Tico wants to have children, some other players have too much work in their jobs and cannot make enough time available. |
| So we have been very active during the transfer period. New players come from Serbia, Germany, Poland and France (some of them were playing in Belgium before), we include two young talented players in the team, and we welcome back three players who left us one or two years ago (Tania Zhmakova, Irina Pavlova and Liesbet Van Breedam). |  |
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Finally, some news about our international tournament on 23 and 24 august. It is the 30th time that we organise it, so it will be special. Teams from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, the UK, but also from Estonia, Nigeria, Turkey and Serbia have already registered. Look on the website of Asterix http://users.tijd.com/~tdn02345/etornooi.htm or send an email to kieldrecht@email.com. Two days of great volleyball and two (or more) nights of great fun and parties, in a truly international setting. |
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See you all ! From: Asterix Kieldrecht Volleyball kieldrechte@coollist.com |
| RULES OF THE GAME |
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SPECIAL CASES More examples in the next issue.... |
| ON-LINE CALENDAR from the VolleyballNewsletter.com web site. |
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Dave Grundy DaveGrundy@aol.com | |
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PLYMOUTH LIFESTYLE FESTIVAL 4-A-SIDE |
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Graham Pearson GPEARSON@eggbuckland.plym.sch.uk |
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PLYMOUTH U16 JUNIOR 4-A-SIDE |
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Graham Pearson GPEARSON@eggbuckland.plym.sch.uk |
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ADUR DOUBLES & TRIPLES, BRIGHTON |
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Natasha Moroney natasha.moroney@adur.gov.uk |
| 31/1 | May | 03 | LEVEL TWO COACHING COURSE, DORKING |
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Freda Bussey sport@thebusseys.freeserve.co.uk | |
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ADUR DOUBLES & TRIPLES, BRIGHTON |
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Natasha Moroney natasha.moroney@adur.gov.uk |
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COAVER FUN 4'S (HANDICAPPED), EXETER |
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Martin Oram MOram@Devon.gov.uk |
| 7/8 | Jun | 03 | CEV EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS, LOUGHBOROUGH |
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COAVER OPEN TOURNAMENT, EXETER |
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Martin Oram MOram@Devon.gov.uk |
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EXETER JUNIOR OPEN TOURNAMENT, EXETER |
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Martin Oram MOram@Devon.gov.uk |
| 8 | Jun | 03 | WEYMOUTH LADIES TOURNAMENT |
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| 14/15 | Jun | 03 | SCOTTISH OPEN TOURNAMENT |
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| 14/15 | Jun | 03 | BOURNEMOUTH BEACH GRAND PRIX |
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| 21 | Jun | 03 | VETVO 2003, BRENTWOOD |
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KING & QUEEN BEACH TOURNAMENT, CROYDE |
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Denise austin@seabirdsbandb.freeserve.co.uk |
| 22 | Jun | 03 | JUVO 2003, BRENTWOOD |
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| 22 | Jun | 03 | ILKLEY CHALLENGE TOURNAMENT |
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| 28 | Jun | 03 | TUFFLEY JUNIOR TOURNAMENT |
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ASHCOMBE TOURNAMENT, DORKING |
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Freda Bussey sport@thebusseys.freeserve.co.uk |
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