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Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Hi man, my name is Alberto and I come from Brazil and I was looking for team to play here in England, I live on the Richmond area, I wonder if there is something nearby and you could put me in touch with the people that run this or these teams.

Thank you very much, Alberto Landgraf albertolandgraf@hotmail.com

Hi there, Just wondering if you could tell me where I could find a list of leagues and teams? I'm trying to see if there are any local matches available in the West Cumbria area.

Thanks Konrad Hansen konradhansen@msn.com

Hi Dave, Was just checking out your site and noticed you have an out of date link to our club site. The site can now be found at: 
http://www.gla.ac.uk/clubs/volleyball

Thanks, Ewan Borland ewan.borland1@virgin.net

Dear Dave, I have just read the volleyball newsletter (Issue 103) and I am wondering if you have had any replies to the question ' are there any indoor beach centers still in business? I am an Ultimate frisbee player and recently beach ultimate has become extremely popular, I am therefore looking for a venue to play beach ultimate indoors. If you know of anywhere that these facilities are available I would be grateful if you could let me know.

Many Thanks and Best Wishes Sarah Davison sarah@trovell.fsworld.co.uk

I am living in Croydon and I want to join a volleyball club. I came from Hungary to learn the English language. At home I played volleyball in an amateur sport club, twice a week. I am a 22 years old boy and I am in school from 12 to 15 every weekday.

Please let me know some addresses to join them.

Thank you very much Márton Zaymus zmarton81@freemail.hu

Hi Dave,
please can you put in the newsletter a note for a ref level 4 course, taking place At Whitby High School, Wirral, Merseyside, on 17th and 18th JAn 04, Cost £25, any one interested to email me on adriennemcgraa@aol.com

Cheers
Ade Adriennemcgraa@aol.com

PHOTOS OF INTEREST

Not something we see in the UK but in some domestic European leagues, they take every opportunity to get maximum TV exposure for their sponsors adverts. Shirt and banner advertising around the court is common practice in most sports and they still leaves plenty of space on the screen to watch the game.  In some counties, it seems to be the practice to fill the venue (and hence the TV screen) with adverts and play the match on and in front of them. In this match, only the front court area was left free from adverts.

The above photos are from this weekends Polish league match between Pamapol Azs and Mostostal Azoty, an excellent five set match. You can keep up to date with the Polish volleyball scene (Saturdays 1-3pm) on channel 4 Nazywo, a free satellite channel available in the UK on Eutelsat and on some cable systems.

Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

12-14 March British Universities Finals Loughborough University lennybarry@aol.com

20-21 March British Universities Manchester University lennybarry@aol.com
Home Nations Championships

5-6 April Civil Service Festival Loughborough University lenny.barry@hmce.gsi.gov.uk

1-2 May Civil Service Invitational Leeds University lenny.barry@hmce.gsi.gov.uk

lenny lenny.barry@hmce.gsi.gov.uk

In the Men's Plate finals, the University of Ulster's Coleraine team was the surprise winner 2-1 beating holders UCC. The University of Ulster gave a special Tournament Award to their captain and organiser Nick Wright a boost ahead of his leading Northern Ireland into the European Senior Men's Championships qualifiers in Andorra after Christmas.

The Craigavon Aztecs Club held a very successful mixed (male/female) Christmas tournament at the weekend. The competition, comprising 7 teams from Queen's University, Ards, Lisburn and the Craigavon area, was played in good spirit and provided many hard fought, close matches. In the Main competition final the two Aztecs teams went head to head. Portadown settled best and and took the final 2-0. 

POMurchu. padymurphy@aol.comMurphy

I was watching the woman's Olympic qualifying today and noticed that balls were rolled down near the sidelines during rallies. Wouldn't this put the players off. When I was watching today a player was diving for a ball at the same time as a ball rolled past nearby. If I had seen that ball out of the corner of my eye I think I would have been a little distracted. Can't they find another way?

Strangiato nochance@youmustbejoking.com

No. The game requires a high level of concentration just to play the ball. I usually couldn't tell you if Charlize Theron walked by in the nude during a play (and this happens sometimes - I wish). This is why you always hear "ball on!" when a ball rolls onto the court - no one's looking for it, and they're all usually looking up.

It's intriguing how basketball players couldn't care less when a volleyball rolls into their game from the next court in the open gym. Either they just don't care or they're looking down much of the time and can see the thing.

Raptor me@attbi.com

Ball retrievers are typically instructed to try to transfer balls only during dead ball time if possible. However, in televised matches, dead ball time is something that (for production reasons) everyone attempts to keep to a bare minimum. Now, for that goal to occur, the ball retrievers have to make sure there's at least one ball at each end of the court to feed to the next server immediately after the prior rally ends. So there you have a bit of a catch 22. Most facilities are big enough for this transfer to occur a safe distance from the court boundaries, otherwise you do the best you can. 

And typically ball retrievers are volunteers, so you don't always have the benefits of people who have a lot of experience at it. 

Best Regards, Todd Haverkos tdh@vbref.org

While watching the NCAA Final Four, we noticed the "ball persons" were occasionally rolling the balls near or onto the court. This didn't appear to distract the players but it did lead to delaying the service call from the ref a few times each match.

JRS altitudevb-newsgroups@yahoo.com

1 CYP - CYPRUS 3 3 0 6 9 0 MAX 225 146 1.541 

2 AND - ANDORRA 3 2 1 5 6 5 1.200 248 229 1.083 

3 NIR - NORTHERN IRELAND 3 1 2 4 4 7 0.571 219 241 0.909 

4 IRL - IRELAND 3 0 3 3 2 9 0.222 189 265 0.713 

London lays out its venues, transport and finance plans, most of London's venues are expected to be located in the east of the city. The hub of the games would be in a 500-acre tract of parkland in the Lower Lea Valley stretching from Hackney Marshes to the river Thames. London has also listened to warnings from the International Olympic Committee not to miss the chance to hold some events in the city centre - hence the beach volleyball planned for St James' Park.

In May 2003 Cabinet Minister Tessa Jowell announced the Government would “back London to the hilt” and set aside £2.375 billion to pay for the staging of the Games. Regeneration could create around 40,000 jobs, 30,000 homes and 1,000 businesses while transforming large swathes of contaminated and derelict land. The funding of the Games will be divided between London council tax payers, the Lottery and the London Development Agency. The cost of the bid itself is put at £30m, which will be met by business.

The Olympic bid board says the £2.3 billion original cost, which is after revenue from television rights and sponsorship, has not increased significantly. The final decision on who will host the Games will be made by the IOC’s 128 members meet in Singapore in July 2005. 

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