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Yeovil Volleyball Club web site is now at a new web location. You can find it at http://www.yeovil-vc.org.uk. Regards, Jason pr@yeovil-vc.org.uk

White Eagles are celebrating their 30th anniversary on 9th September 2006 with a tournament for past and present players as well as others who we have crossed paths with over the years. Following the tournament we are planning a party late into the night.

If you have a connection to the club and are interested in joining us in September, please e-mail us on WhiteEaglesVC@hotmail.com and let us know how you were involved to receive more information.

David Jenkinson david@davenkat.co.uk

Great club needs good players! Wednesday 8pm—10pm (Training) St Bede’s Monday 8pm—10pm (Matches) Brighton University http://www.eastbournevolleyball.co.uk. Contact, Ruth McAtamney rmcat@hotmail.co.uk

Barry Island Beach Volleyball Championships 2006 Friday 4th August 2006 - Junior Championships (to be confirmed) Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th August (main Championships)

Contact: Carl Harwood at carl.harwood@bibvc.co.uk or download application form direct from our website: http://www.bibvc.co.uk

Valerie Barrett valerie.barrett@ntlworld.com
B I B V Club Treasurer

We return to the refurbished Cambridge Rugby Club Grounds for the 16th edition of this popular tournament.

The Volleyball All on grass courts. 6-a-side for men, women, mixed, each in 3 divisions (social, local league and national league levels). 6-a-side boys, girls age group 15-17 yrs, 4-a-side for age group 12-14 yrs. A 2-a-side competition for men, women, mixed will run in addition to the main 6-a-side volleyball.

The Facilities On-site parking, camping, toilets, showers, bar, food and a disco Saturday night. Tournament t-shirts. Tournament venue is 20 minutes walk from Cambridge's city centre.

Further Information You can find further information, contact details and entry forms on the tournament website. website: http://www.cambridgevolleyball.org/tournament email: tournament@cambridgevolleyball.org or tel: 01223 709757

J.N. Jacquet jnj20@cam.ac.uk

The biggest beach volleyball championships to be staged in Britain this summer is set to serve up some fantastic action at Sandbanks on 15-16 July 2006 as the annual Beach Volleyball Classic.

With nearly 400 players from across Europe and Australasia to play and backing from Rockley Water Sports and also Fitness First again this year’s Sandbanks Classic promises to be another premier sporting event in Poole that Dorset can be proud of.

Fitness First are a leading Fitness Centre and are pleased to support the event. “We are proud to be involved in what is now a popular Olympic sport in our home town. “The Sandbanks Beach Volleyball Classic has been successfully run for nearly a decade, inspiring many young local people to take up the sport. This year promises to be no exception, I wish all of the players a successful weekend.”

Geoff Allen, Chairman of Wessex Volleyball Indoor club adds: “The Club are delighted to have Rockley Water Sports and Fitness First as a sponsors over the last two years and also would like to encourange any other prospective sponsors who would like to be part of the Sandbanks Classic for the first time this year. We would like to thank them for their invaluable support, which is vital to the survival of the event.”

A wide variety of competitions will be played for across both days, including men’s and women’s pairs and four-a-side for Divisions I through to III. Both tournaments promise to be closely fought affairs with capacity entry already reached in all divisions. Local favourites from last year in the men’s game include Poole’s Jody Gooding, who has consistently managed a top four finish in recent years and former top Wessex Junior. There are also last years runners up Randall and White who will also be the ones to watch.

In the women’s game last years winner Wessex indoor player, Helen Brown from Poole and partner Liane Herbert, and partner are sure to feature considering their performance last year.

There will also be a lot of new Wessex Junior teams who traditionally do well on home ground throughout the junior competitions, which will include under 12’s, under 14’s, under 16’s and under 18’s.

Over twenty-five courts will be erected for the duration of the tournament, stretching from the Beach office towards the Sandbanks Ferry. Plenty of parking is available in Sandbanks and Shore Road car parks. Play starts at 9:30am on Saturday and continues from 9:30am on Sunday with the Division I finals due to be held around 2pm, women playing first.

For more info and entry forms etc please visit the tournament web site: http://www.wessextournaments.co.uk

Paula Snow Paula.Snow@jpmorgan.com

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In the first Masters of the NESTEA European Championship Tour 2006, namely the Turkish Masters, Swiss Markus Egger/Martin Laciga beat the Italian team Riccardo Lione/Matteo Varnier to secure gold in the mens competition, whilst European Champions 2005 Vassiliki Arvanity/Vassiliki Karadassiou from Greece kept the upper hand facing Norways Nila Ann Hakedal/Ingrid Toerlen.

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Another interesting part of the Volleyball Passion weekend will be the coaches’ forum on Sunday 18th, where all the coaches will be able to discuss their ideas, and to listen to the experience of the two teams’ coaches. The Italian and English head coaches will present to the audience how they prepared the Saturday match and what tactics and strategies they considered. The results will be shown in the statistics they collected during the match. What were they able to guess? What did not work? What did their staff scout?

All the coaches who come to the University of Birmingham will be able to watch the Italian training session, whose goals will be explained at the beginning by the head coach Mr. Giancarlo Mazzola. The forum will start at the end of the session. The Italian and English staffs will be available to answer all the questions and be happy to discuss their ideas with the audience. The range of topics is wide and you can send your suggestions or requests to info@volleyballpassion.co.uk. We will wait for your emails.

Italy and England have a different background and it will be very interesting to discover the different approaches to volleyball. The past decades were leaded by different “schools”:

• In the 60’s it was the Japanese
• In the 70’s it was the Russians
• In the 80’s it was the Americans
• In the 90’s it was the Italians

In the current decade the Brazilian way of playing volleyball is becoming very important. The last Olympic Games in Athens showed extraordinary performances of the Brazilian players. It was amazing and beautiful to watch them.

In Europe the Italian school is still much appreciated and we can notice that by looking at the European national teams “benches”:
The head coach of Russia Seniors Women is Giovanni Caprara.
The head coach of Germany Seniors Women is Giovanni Guidetti.
The head coach of Spain Seniors Men is Andrea Anastasi.
In Spain, France and Austria the National Champions teams have been leaded by Italian coaches.

The head coach of Italy select Lega Serie B is an experienced coach who leaded his team to the CEV Cup final in 1994. Surely he will tell us a lot of interesting anecdotes.

You can find more details about Volleyball Passion at http://www.volleyballpassion.co.uk
Book your tickets dropping an email to info@volleyballpassion.co.uk

Come on… get involved and SPREAD the VOLLEYBALL PASSION!!!

Team of the week: Southampton University who are on a short European tour this summer, with tournaments in Denmark and Belgium, dropped in to Exeter the other week for a quick Ladies Tournament.

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Volleyball Passion: ENGLAND select vs. ITALY select (Lega Serie B)

The University of Birmingham and Redhill Stourbridge volleyball clubs, together with support of the English Volleyball Association and University Sport Birmingham, are organizing a big feast of volleyball. The event is called “VOLLEYBALL PASSION” and it will be on the 17th and 18th June. The main attraction of Volleyball Passion is a big match between ENGLAND Seniors Women Select and ITALY select (Lega Serie B). This select of young players in Serie B represents the best semi-professional players Under 20 who will play in Serie A in a few years, after having developed an experience in this category.

• Saturday the 17th June will focus on involving children new to the sport from around the Black Country in Stourbridge.
• Sunday the 18th June at the University of Birmingham targets a more mature and informed audience.

Volleyball Passion will offer the chance to beginner children to play volleyball. They will learn playing together with the England and Italian Champions who will teach and show them the basics of this sport. An exciting experience which they will never forget.

Coaches will attend a clinics led by the Italian staff. The Italian staff will provide information about 4 different arguments with 4 different people. They can answer your questions regarding seniors training, juniors training, marketing in sport and prevention/injuries. The clinics will be focussed on your needs, so write us your requests at info@volleyballpassion.co.uk We will collect all the arguments and questions, and we will forward them to the Italian staff. The clinics are free and you can access the sport hall showing the ticket for the match.

You can find more details about Volleyball Passion at http://www.volleyballpassion.co.uk. Book your tickets sending an email to info@volleyballpassion.co.uk.

Come on… get involved and SPREAD the VOLLEYBALL PASSION!!!

Fabrizio Marrama fabrizio.marrama@libero.it

With her victory in the Cuervo Gold Crown Huntington Beach Open last weekend, Misty May-Treanor became just the second AVP Women to surpass $1,000,000 in career earnings. Misty and Kerri Walsh have won all four AVP events this year, dropping just five games along the way.

Entering 2006, just one American Women, Holly McPeak, had earned more than a million dollars. But by the time this season comes to a close, the seven figure group will have two more members.

Elaine Youngs, who has finished second in the last two AVP events with partner Rachel Wacholder, should join Holly and Misty in the million dollar club by the end of June. Meanwhile, Kerri Walsh should become the fourth member near the end of the summer.

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The mens 2006 SWATCH-FIVB World Tour continues this week in Italy while the women take a two-week break before resuming play for the first Grand Slam event of the season in Switzerland for both genders.

The US$200,000 Easy Living Italian Open, presented by Abruzzo, is the first open mens SWATCH-FIVB World Tour event in Italy since 2001 as Palabeach Lido Azzurra in Roseto degli Abruzzi hosts the third of 15 events on the 2006 schedule. Lignano was the site of the last mens SWATCH stop in Italy where Argentinas Mariano Baracetti and Martin Conde won the 2001 gold medal.

The Argentineans, who also captured the SWATCH-FIVB World Championships in 2001 at Klagenfurt, Austria, return to defend their 2001 Italian Open title. Baracetti and Conde, who placed ninth at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, have placed fifth and ninth in the first two events this season in China and Croatia, respectively.

One of nine mens players to compete in all three Beach Volleyball Olympics, Conde has played in eight of the previous 11 Italian SWATCH events for men with four medals. He also won the 1997 Lignano event with Eduardo Martinez, his 1996 and 2000 Olympic partner.

With Initial entries exceeding 100 teams from 37 countries, the Easy Living Italian Open starts Tuesday with country quota matches to set the lineup for Wednesday qualifying rounds to determine the last eight spots in the Main Draw. The money rounds begin Thursday with the final two teams competing Sunday for the $32,000 first-place prize.

Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos, the reigning Olympic gold medalists and 2003 SWATCH-FIVB World Champions, have also won the Italian events, but with different Brazilian partners. Emanuel, who has won 56 SWATCH gold medals in 23 different countries, captured events in Lignano in 1996 with Ze Marco de Melo and 1999 with Jose Loiola. He also placed second in 1997 with Ze Marco, along with a pair of bronze medals with Loiola in 1998 and Tande Ramos in 2001.

Ricardo, who has won 36 international titles, won the 2000 Lignano stop with Ze Marco before the pair finished second at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Ricardo and Loiola were also second in 2001. Brazilians have captured 15 of the 33 Italian podium spots to date with six gold medals to their credit.

Teams from Brazil, China and United States won the medals at last weeks SWATCH-FIVB World Tour stops in Athens and Zagreb. Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos claimed the top prize in Croatia as two American mens team placed second and third.

Ricardo was named the SWATCH most outstanding player in Zagreb as he and Emanuel downed Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers 21-14 and 21-17 in the finals. It was the Brazilians 20th FIVB gold medal together since forming their partnership at the end of the 2002 SWATCH season.

In Greece, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh duplicated their 2004 gold medal performance at the Olympic Beach Volleyball Stadium by defeating Wang Lu and Ji Linjun 21-14 and 21-14 in Sunday evenings final. Walsh was named SWATCH most outstanding player as she and May-Treanor won for the 22nd-time on the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour since 2001.

This weeks event is the second of six-straight mens SWATCH-FIVB World Tour stops in Europe. Mens action continues next week in Portugal for another $200,000 tournament in Espinho. The two genders return to the same site for seven-straight weeks starting with back-to-back Grand Slam stops in Switzerland (Gstaad, June 20-25) and Norway (Stavanger, June 27-July 2).

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Following this weeks action, the womens SWATCH-FIVB World Tour takes two weeks off while the men compete in Italy and Portugal. The two genders return to the same site for seven-straight weeks starting with back-to-back Grand Slam stops in Switzerland (June 20-25) and Norway.

2006 SWATCH-FIVB World Tour Leaders
Through May 28, one mens and two womens events

Mens Rank, events, titles, earnings

• 1, Marcio Araujo/Fabio Luiz Magalhães, Brazil, 1, 1, $32,000
• 2, Franco Neto/Pedro Cunha, Brazil, 1, 0, $22,000
• 3, Christoph Dieckmann/Julius Brink, Germany, 1, 0, $16,000
• 4, Emanuel Rego/Ricardo Santos, Brazil, 1, 0, $12,000
• 5, Eugenio Amore/Andrea Tomatis, Italy, 1, 0, $10,000
• 5, Martin Conde/Mariano Baracetti, Argentina, 1, 0, $10,000
• 7, Harley Marques/Benjamin Insfran, Brazil, 1, 0, $8,000
• 7, Andrew Schacht/Josh Slack, Australia, 1, 0, $8,000
• 9, Linyin Xu/Penggen Wu, China, 1, 0, $6,000
• 9, Kristjan Kais/Rivo Vesik, Estonia, 1, 0, $6,000
• 9, Jorre Kjemperud/Tarjei Skarlund, Norway, 1, 0, $6,000
• 9, Martin Laciga/Markus Egger, Switzerland, 1, 0, $6,000

Womens Rank, events, titles, earnings

• 1, Larissa Franca/Juliana Felisberta Silva, Brazil, 2, 1, $48,000
• 2, Jia Tian/Jie Wang, Brazil, 2, 0, $38,000
• 3, Xi Zhang/Chen Xue, China, 2, 1, $35,000
• 4, Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh, United States, 1, 0, $22,000
• 5, Vasso Karadassiou/Vassiliki Arvaniti, Greece, 2, 0, $20,000
• 5, Shelda Bede/Adriana Behar, Brazil, 2, 0, $20,000
• 7, Ying Zhang/Man Zuo, China, 2, 0, $16,500
• 8, Renata Ribeiro/Talita Antunes, Brazil, 2, 0, $14,000
• 8, Maria Clara Salgado/Carolina Salgado, Brazil, 2, 0, $14,000
• 10, Rieke Brink-Abeler/Hella Jurich, Germany, 2, 0, $12,000
• 10, Elaine Youngs/Rachel Wacholder, USA, 1, 0, $12,000
• 12, Doris Schwaiger/Stefanie Schwaiger, Austria, 2, 0, $11,000

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