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| Issue 179 (27/12/2003) - Circulation: 2800 - Regular Items: Letters to the Editor / Tournaments / International News / Photos of Interest / On-Line Calendar. |
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Hi all, more news from the Volleyball Newsletter First I would like to wish everyone a happy and successful volleyball new year. It may be coming up to mid winter but we have been adding plenty of beach dates to the calendar this week, if you have an event that is not listed, then please let us know. Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com |
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| VOLLEYBALL EVENTS |
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| VOLLEYBALL REFEREE COURSE 2004
TYPE OF COURSE EVA Grade IV Application Form also available via the on-line calendar. Tim Barzycki barzycki@lineone.net |
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PHOTOS OF INTEREST |
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| VOLLEYBALL ON TV |
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European Olympic Qualification Tournament 2004
120 HOURS LIVE TV FOR THE EUROPEAN OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENTS !
For a full TV listings etc, visit the CEV TV page at http://www.cev.lu/mmp/online/website/news/755/1713/1130_EN.html |
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McGivern's teen spirit puts Icelanders on the rocks Mark McGivern helped Scotland book their place in the finals of European Volleyball Championship C Division finals by easing them through their qualifying group at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall. The teenager, playing in his first major tournament for Scotland, was given a starting place in the side’s make-or-break match with Iceland. McGivern, arguably the most-improved player in Scotland in the past 12 months, did not let the team down and slotted in well as the Scots won through 25-16, 26-24, 25-11. "Mark has come on a lot in recent weeks and has improved through working with coach Colin McGinlay at Team Fife," said Scotland coach Tommy Dowens. "He is definitely one for the future and I’ve no doubt he will be a big player for us." He was joined on court in the second set by City of Edinburgh’s Paul Glissov, who made a couple of important hits as Iceland threatened to take the set at 24-21. But some superb serving from Kilmarnock’s Stuart Edgar pulled Scotland through as they bounced back from Saturday’s shock defeat by the Faroes 25-20, 25-23, 25-18. Bon Accord’s Stevie Milne was brought in to replace Glasgow Ragazzi veteran Kenny Milne at the key setter position and the move paid dividends. The Faroes went on to be surprise winners of the tournament as they edged out Luxembourg in their final match 25-19, 19-25, 25-20, 19-25, 15-11 to complete their programme unbeaten, although it was an experienced side with four of their players currently playing in the Danish First Division and one in Norway’s top league. Scotland now advance to the finals in Luxembourg in June with the aim of winning back a place in the B Division. Scotland lost in the women’s international against England 25-13, 25-16, 25-14 and Team Falkirk College’s Mel Coutts played a starring role as England captain. |
| English Premier League Update |
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The next event will be in Warwick on the 1st February (in association with Warwick District Council) . We had 250+ on the first public staging of the Premier League in Leicester (in association with Leicester Volleyball Club, Cannons Health Clubs, The Prince's Trust and English Volleyball Association). Our thanks to first stage sponsors - Cannon's Health Club, Four Walls Interiors, Compass Software, Arjo Wiggins, and Goldeneye Executive Resourcing. For the first event each team has won one & lost one. Who is going to champion the next event? Come and join the fun - the schedule for Sunday 1st February will consist of:
All photo enquiries, please email me Jon McGugan jon@mcgugan.co.uk |
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European Champions’ League
December 2003-March 2004: Indesit European Champions’ League 2003-2004. WORLD’S STRONGEST CLUB COMPETITION READY FOR ACTION |
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Ennisillen Honours
Southern visitors took the honours in this weekend's 16th annual Blockbusters Volleyball Blitz Club tournament in the Fermanagh Lakeland Forum Enniskillen. The men's final saw a powerful display by Trinity College Dublin who beat Aer Lingus 3-0 and Trinity's Hugh Nohilly was named MVP. In an exciting semi final Aer Lingus had beaten the Northern Sharks, the Northern Ireland International training squad who play in their first European championship tournament at the end of the year in Andorra.
Aer Lingus IIs won the men's Plate beating University College Dublin and Artane Redcats of Dublin beat Derry's Maiden City Memories for the women's Plate. |
| More Reasons to Date a Volleyball Player
Dave, here's my top 10 reasons to date a volleyball player: If you can add to this, please let us know and we will add then in the next issue Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com |
| BUSA NEWSLETTER
The latest BUSA newsletter which include the latest BUSA volleyball, news and competitions from the world of student sport is now free online at www.busa.org.uk The 2003-2004 BUSA Handbook with all the BUSA rules and regulations is
also available on the BUSA website as well as in hard copy. |
| 2004 World Olympic Qualification Tournaments The AVC have chosen the teams who will be participating in the 2004 World Olympic Qualification Tournaments, scheduled for May, 2004 in Japan. They are the top four finishers from the 12th Asian Senior Men's Championship held in Tianjin of China: Korea, China, Iran and Australia. Japan, as host to the WOQT, will also compete in the tournament to be held from May 22-30 in Tokyo, Japan. As for the women's tournament, since China, winner of the Asian Senior Women's Championship held in Ho Chi Ming City of Vietnam, has already qualified for the Olympic Games as the winner of the World Cup, the top placers after China are: Japan (host), Korea, Thailand and Chinese Taipei who all qualify for the WOQT scheduled for May 8-16 in Tokyo, Japan. Up to now, four men's and four women's teams have earned their tickets to the Olympic Games. They are Greece as host, World Cup top three finishers China, Brazil, and the United States for women. For the men, the four teams are Greece (host) and top three placers in the World Cup, Brazil, Italy and Serbia & Montenegro. A total of 12 teams each for women and men are to compete at the volleyball tournaments of the Olympic Games. The remaining berths are to be decided through the WOQTs. For the men, the following teams will qualify for the Olympic Games: the winners of the Europe, NORCECA, South America and Africa Continental Qualification tournaments; the winner and the best Asian team (counting for Asian Continental winner) of the WOQT in Japan, and the winners of the WOQTs to be held respectively in Madrid of Spain and Porto of Portugal. Meanwhile the following women's teams are to take part in the volleyball tournaments of the Olympic Games: the winners of the Europe, NORCECA, South America and Africa WOQTs, the winner of the WOQT in Japan, best Asian team (counting for Asian Continental winner), the best ranked team after the winner and the second best ranked team after the winner in the Japanese WOQT. AFRICAN OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENT DRAWING OF LOTS The drawing of lots of the African Olympic qualification tournaments men and women was held on the final day of CAVB board of Administration meeting and congress here in Cairo, Egypt. Five countries will participate in the Men’s competition which will be held in Tunisia January 3-10, 2004; Tunisia, the African champions, Egypt the last All Africa Games Gold medalist, Algeria African Nations semifinalist, Nigeria the silver medalist in All Africa Games and the new emerging South Africa. The favorites, Tunisia and Egypt will meet in the final day of the competition to determine one team which will qualify to the finals in Athens 2004. The women’s qualification Tournament will be held in Nairobi, Kenya January 7-10 2004 with four participating teams; Nigeria the last All Africa Games gold medalists, Egypt the Champions of the last African Nations’ Championship, Kenya the vice champions of the last African Nations and the new emerging Seychelles. Egypt will meet Nigeria in the opening day where Egypt will try to take the revenge from their opponent after they lost the final of the last All Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria last October. Men’s Qualification Tour January 42004: Technical meeting January 5: South Africa vs. Algeria Tunisia vs. Nigreia January 6: Nigeria vs. Egypt Algeria vs. Tunisia 7 January : South Africa vs. Egypt Algeria vs. Nigeria January 8: rest January 9: Egypt vs. Algeria Tunisia vs. South Africa January 10: Nigeria vs. South Africa Egypt vs. Tunisia. Women’s Qualification Tour January 72004: Techical meeting January 8: Nigeria vs. Egypt Seychelles vs. Kenya January 9: Nigeria vs. Seychelles Egypt vs. Kenya January 10: Egypt vs. Seychelles : Kenya vs. Nigeria. |
| World Cup Figures
The world cup 2003 competition has been clearly won by Brazil. In the next table are presented some performance characteristics.
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It is shown that there is in near all play compartments a great difference between the leading teams and the teams ranked at the bottom. Attack and block are very much associated with ranking while service results and libero performance are less clearly related. Brazil and Italy are near a class part with excellent figures for attack and block and leading performance with serve and libero. There is a next cluster of teams with the USA Serbia/Mont and France. The Serbs show less good serving and libero performance. The USA show overall good performance in spite of the defeat against Serbia and Mont. Canada and Venezuela show similar performance in attack and block with clearly less good results for Venezuelan serving and libero performance. The three Asian teams show similar performance with Japan showing more aces in services but also clearly more errors. The ranking of Korea is exceptional as viewed from general performance. The Koreans won as a surprise against all expectation the match against France. Finally the North African teams show similar but poor performance in all play compartments. The Olympic background may justify a large continental participation for the quality of the tournament however the participation of those teams is to be reconsidered. leo van hal leovh@wanadoo.fr |
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Mike Halse Mike.Halse@devon.gov.uk |
| 10/11 | Jan | 04 | LEVEL 2 COACH AWARD, BATH |
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David Rijvers dr@goldeneye7.freeserve.co.uk | |
| 1 | Feb | 04 | LEVEL 2 COACH AWARD, CHESHIRE |
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Veronica Parkinson V.Parkinson@mmu.ac.uk | |
| 7/8 | Feb | 04 | LEVEL 1 COACH AWARD, MELKSHAM |
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Sue Pierce pierces@corsham50.fsnet.co.uk | |
| 7/8 | Feb | 04 | LEVEL 2 COACH AWARD, CHESHIRE |
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Veronica Parkinson V.Parkinson@mmu.ac.uk | |
| 14/15 | Feb | 04 | NATIONAL STUDENT CUP FINAL, LEEDS |
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Ade McGraa adriennemcgraa@aol.com | |
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