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Hi all, More news from the web.

Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

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We are holding a Grade IV Referees course in Taunton on the 9th and 10th of December.

Full details can be found at www.blackbrookvolleyballclub.co.uk/RefereesCourse.asp

Grade IV referees course in Taunton.
Cost £25 Pounds, closing date 27th November. Venue Richard Huish College, South Road, Taunton, TA1 3DZ

ENTRY FORM - DOWNLOAD HERE

Thanks

Ian Sidwell iansidwell@btinternet.com
Secretary
Blackbrook Volleyball Club

I would like to inform you that the new website of Reading University Volleyball Club is: http://ruvc.org.uk/

Please update the correct link in your directory. Thank you for your time.
Nick Kritsilis RUVC President ruvc@reading.ac.uk

EVA Division two women's match between Devon Women v Cleobury is now available on line at the Volleyball Newsletter web site.

		Devon Women v Cleobury
		EVA Women's Division Two (07/10/2006)

To watch the match, go to the Volleyball Newsletter web site and select the match video link or click on the direct link below:

Devon Women v Cleobury

I was wondering if it would be possible to include a link to our club website on your website.
The link is : http://southhantsvolleyballclub.gotwebsitesonline.com/

Our Club in called South Hants Volleyball Club and we are based at Purbrook / Portsmouth, if you need any more information, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Many thanks.
Blanka Bittmanova blankabittmanova@hotmail.com

G'day guys, I am an ex State Indoor/Beach Volleyball Coach from Australia who is now living in China. I am seeking any assistance you may be able to provide in regards people, websites etc about Chinese Volleyball players.

I have recently started a blog site on Yahoo 360 http://au.360.yahoo.com using my name (muir_ray) and also a website http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/Chinesewomensvolleyball

hoping to hear from you

Ray MUIR muir_ray@yahoo.com.au

Details of an interesting fundraising tournament for the Canadian olympic team.

The fundraiser volleyball tournament promises to be your access to contributing to the lives of the athletes that will be representing Canada in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China!

BEACH FOR BEIJING
Coed Beach Volleyball Tournament
Sunday, Oct 29th (8:30am-2pm)

Location; BEACH BLAST (15 Leswyn Road, Toronto)
Format; 3-males 1-female
Cost; $100/team plus a minimum of $100 raised in pledges per team.

BONUS PRIZES

First team to raise $2008 in pledges plays against Olympians and get to attend Olympian practice session.

Second, third, and fourth teams to raise $2008 in pledges plays against Olympians.

The tournament will also feature Conrad Leinemann, Mark Heese, Ahren Cadieux and Rich Vanhuizen who will be giving two 20 minute motivation subjects (ie. mindset of a winner, courage, no pain---no gain, what it takes to compete at the Olympic level, your own personal story/journey, breakthrough performance, being a team player, competitive drive, performing under pressure, creating possibilities....to name a few).

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South Hants Ladies who have had a good start to their EVA Division Two seasion, with three wins from five matches and currently fourth in the division.

More info on the team at: http://southhantsvolleyballclub.gotwebsitesonline.com/

UK interest focuses on Sheffield University women as sole entrants from UK, University College Dublin, winners of the EVA Student Cup, are also competing.

IFIUS is an organisation that arranges an annual event for individual universities in a number of sports. It started in the late 90s with men's football, then took in women's football. Futsal, indoor football, followed. Last year basketball was added, and 2006 sees men's and women's volleyball added.

In all there will be nearly 1300 athletes descending on Dublin for four days of intense competition.

In volleyball there will be teams from as far apart as Chicago (USA), Dublin (IRE), Sheffield (ENG), Antwerp (BEL), St Petersburg (RUS), Sannio (ITA) and Azad (IRN) to provide a wide variety of cultures and experiences to the event.

The standard looks like being high with the team lists showing a great number of players in top divisions, and a good sprinkling of full and junior international players.

Matches will be played at University College Dublin on Tuesday - Friday 10-13 October with match start times of 1000, 1200, 1400 and 1600.

More details about IFIUS can be found at www.ifius.com/dublin

IFIUS World Inter University Championships, Dublin - Day 4.

Final day of competition, and the level of intensity undiminished. Four hard days, five or six matches for the teams and a hard social life to manage as well!

Sheffield women played their final match against University College Dublin. Familiar does from EVA Student Cup encounters, neither team wanted to lose this match.

An early injury to Cassie Guess caused a problem for Sheffield, losing the first set to 17.

Passing issues returned and the efforts of Jenna Stevens-Smith and Kris Heemskerk in attack were undone as the set was lost to 19.

Third set saw a Sheffield revival, competing to 20, but final errors cost defeat 25.23.

Su Sondergaard, Sheffield setter said "it has been a great week. It might have been early season for us, and not as well prepared as we would have liked, but it is a fanatstic experience to play against such teams, and make good friends with so many people."

Sannio (ITA) defeated Morraine Valley (USA) 3.1 28.30, 25.17, 25.20, 25.17 to seal the Championship.

UCD men lost in straight sets to Sannio (ITA) to finish in sixth place.

Islamic Azad University (Iran) were the best team at the Championships and confirmed this when they took on St Petersburg (RUS) in a showcase match.

Both teams played some top level volleyball. St Petersburg had the better of the early exchanges, leading at 18 in the first set, but Azad, with 8 Junior and 2 Senior Internationals were unrelenting and unfazed. They clawed back each point and closed the set to 22.

Azad had a fine passing platform enabling some complex and explosive to be run, commiting the middle blocker, for a clear power hit outside. This proved devastating and the controlled the set, winning to 16.

St Petersburg rallied in the third set, matching Azad and leading at 19. However four consecutive service errors proved fatal as Azad came from behind to win 25.22, and take the title in front of a large, vociferous crowd.

A strong field, quality matches and enjoyed by all. The inaugural IFIUS Championships were a great success.

Check out all the results for volleyball, mens and womens football, futsal and basketball on www.ifius.com

Lenny Barry lenny.barry@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk lenny.barry@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk

For the first-time since the start of the 2003 season, the United States captured a pair of gold medals in a double gender SWATCH-FIVB World Tour event as reigning Olympic champions Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh won the women’s title here Sunday afternoon in the finals of the US$400,000 Corona Open on the Playa Tamarindos.

Norwegians Nila Ann Hakedal and Ingrid Torlen after capturing their first-ever SWATCH-FIVB World Tour medal. Validating their country’ s first-ever appearance by a women’s team in a SWATCH-FIVB World Tour “final four”, Nila Ann Hakedal and Ingrid Torlen of Norway claimed a bronze medal here Sunday morning by upsetting Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca of Brazil at the US$400,000 Corona Open on the Playa Tamarindos.

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As you would expect, plenty (well more than 4000 the last time I looked) of thirty second volleyball video clips on www.YouTube.com

However this clip may be of interest to you, its from Athens 2004 - Men's match Poland versus Argentina and shows a player retrieving the ball from the other side of the net, a move which you don't see too often, all part of an amazing rally.

Direct Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3JSThlwiQA&search=mens%20volleyball

Making it three wins in a row over the reigning Olympic champions, Americans Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal slipped past Brazil’s Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos in three sets here Saturday afternoon to earn the gold medal in the finals of the US$400,000 Corona Open on the Playa Tamarindos.

Seeded fourth in the 32-team Main Draw in the men’s season finale on the 2006 SWATCH-FIVB World Tour, Gibb and Rosenthal posted a 19-21, 21-16 and 15-13 win in 73 minutes over the second-seeded Brazilians to share the $32,000 first-place prize enroute to their first international gold medal finish in six Beach Volleyball starts this season. Prior to Saturday’s gold medal victory, Gibb and Rosenthal had posted a pair of semi-final wins over Emanuel and Ricardo in Europe and South America in their only two other meetings with the Brazilians. After defeating Emanuel and Ricardo in the Paris and Vitoria semi-finals, Gibb and Rosenthal finished second in both events, losing to teams from Brazil and Germany.

“I thought the key today was our steady play today,” said the 30-year old Gibb, who was the 2005 SWATCH-FIVB World Tour co-rookie of the year with Matteo Varnier of Italy. “We were fortunate to get a lucky roll on a crucial point at the end of the third set along with the Brazilians making a couple hitting errors. It’s good to end the season with a win. It will make the upcoming holidays and off-season very enjoyable.”

Rosenthal, who is a leading candidate for the 2006 SWATCH-FIVB World Tour co-rookie of the year award, was named the SWATCH most outstanding player for the Corona Open. “I am honored,” said the 26-year old Rosenthal. “However, it takes two players to win a match and Jake is one of the best players at the net. ThIs is terrific and I’m almost speechless.”

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