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We have a Volleyball level 2 arranged for 3, 10 and 17 June 2007 @ £75 pounds.

Also, the Injury Prevention and Management workshop on 4 June 2007 6.00 - 9.00pm @ £30 pounds as this is a requirement for the full award.

Both courses will be held here at the Alsager campus of Manchester Metropolitan University.

Thank you
Veronica Parkinson
V.Parkinson@mmu.ac.uk

BSc (Hons) Sport Science Programme Administrator
Manchester Metropolitan University
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/c-a/exspsci//csp/education

On a wintry December afternoon, it seems hard to imagine Beach Volleyball being played at the London 2012 Olympic Games at Horse Guards Parade. Yesterday, 19th December, press met with the two newly appointed coaches and some of Britain’s top players as they looked out at Horse Guards Parade with a certain sense of anticipation and excitement.

Jörg Ahmann, an Olympic medallist in Beach Volleyball for Germany and a top coach helping player’s break into the international scene, will be leading the programme here in the UK at Bath University where two indoor and outdoor Beach Volleyball Courts will be erected.

Picture of Jorg and Jeff and players left to right, Zara Dampney, Lucy Boulton and Shauna Mullin

“Britain is in the same place as Germany was with Beach Volleyball a few years ago. With a new programme and coaches in place, it’s exciting how British players will develop…I am excited about getting started next year” says Jörg Assisting Jörg will be Jeff Alzina, an experienced coach from the US, who has coached numerous Olympians, fine tuning their game skills, will be coaching the top pairings over in the states at Hermosa Beach. “The players will be training over in Hermosa Beach, the starting place of Beach Volleyball. There they will be training six days a week, high intensity with the US national squads where some NBA and AVP players train, in both group and individual training” said Jeff.

“I worked for the Greek national team after Athens 2004 had been announced and they were ranked in the 60s, after working with the players they qualified for Sydney 2000 and were ready for Athens. I can’t wait to start working with Lucy and Denise and hopefully more pairs next year” he added.

Lucy Boulton, 20 from Hornchurch Essex, had just returned from her success in Australia, where her and Denise Johns played at a Vodafone Beach Tour event over the weekend, coming in at an impressive second place beating some of Australia’s Beach Volleyball Olympians. Zara Dampney, 20, from Bournemouth, Shauna Mullin, 22 from Scotland and two young male beach volleyballers Luke and Jake Sheaf, 16 and 18, from Eynesford, were on hand to answer some questions from the press and check out the venue they aspire to play at.

With the founder of Volleyball in England Dr Don Anthony opening the address, members of the British Volleyball Federation along with Volleyball England celebrated the appointment of Jörg and Jeff and looked forward to the development of the GB Beach Programme.

Richard Callicott, President of British Volleyball, said “Our dreams for Volleyball are becoming a reality, it is extremely exciting and we look at Horse Guards Parade with anticipation”.

Rebecca Lee rlee@eng-volleyball.demon.co.uk

We have recently set up a website please see the link at www.havantpumas.co.uk

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Kay King kay.king7@ntlworld.com
Havant Pumas Club Secretary

Beach Volleyball action has resumed for the 2007 season with the domestic tours in New Zealand and Australia launching the competition prior to the start of the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour in May. The 2007 SWATCH-FIVB World Tour schedule will feature 18 women’s and 19 men’s events highlighted by the SWATCH-FIVB World Championships July 24-29 in Gstaad, Switzerland. The international season begins May 1-6 in Shanghai, China and concludes October 31-November 4 in southeast Asia with stops in Phuket, Thailand (women) and Bali, Indonesia (men)

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BBC Sport's Mike Bushell tries his hand at Sepaktakraw, Malaysia's national sport, at the Asian Games. From news.bbc.co.uk Click image to view...

The sixth annual SWATCH-FIVB World Championships for players under the age of 19 will be held from 10th – 15th July 2007 in Myslowice, Poland, the same venue as last year’s under 21 competition.

The SWATCH FIVB Junior World Championships offer dozens of young athletes a first taste of international Beach Volleyball competition and a chance to compete on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour – Beach Volleyball’s international circuit offering 8.75m dollars prize money. The two winning teams for men and women receive a wild card entry for one competition on the tour so that they can test themselves against the world’s top professional teams. Many young athletes establish themselves on the international circuit after competing in the annual junior World Championship events (see table on next page for previous winners who now play on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour).

Last year, the SWATCH FIVB U19 World Championship was held at Horseshoe Bay in Bermuda and saw 47 entrants from 19 countries. Australia’s Becchara Palmer and Alice Rohkamper – the only non-European team to reach the final four for both genders – took the 2006 women’s gold medal. In the men’s competition, U20 European champion Jonathan Erdmann from Germany teamed up with Marvin Klass to capture the title after finishing fourth in 2005.

The Polish Volleyball Federation will be hoping to build on the success of the U21 World Championships, which were staged in Myslowice last year, to develop young beach volleyball talent in the country. Local boys Tomasz Sinczak and Rafal Szternel were beaten by Brazil’s Pedro and Bruno in the final and 23rd-seeded Piotr Marciniak and Krzysztof Orman took the bronze medal, making Poland the first country to claim two SWATCH FIVB U21 World Championship medals in the same event.

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NESTEA's Beach Volleyball engagement has been no secret over the past few years. For four years now the beverage producer's logo has adorned anything and everything associated with the NESTEA European Championship Tour. 2007 marks the fifth anniversary, this season again with six tournaments.

But NESTEA is not done yet. As NESTEA's Marketing Manager Europe Peter Hatzfeld indicated in an interview a few weeks ago, the brand will increase its sponsorship in Beach Volleyball: NESTEA will become the main sponsor of the Grand Slam of the Swatch-FIVB World-Tour from 10-15 July 2007 in Berlin.

This demonstrates the role Beach Volleyball plays in NESTEA’s marketing and communications activities. „The sport is still in an early development stage so that our brand can occupy the sport early on and grow further together with it", Peter Hatzfeld had declared in an interview and also said, that „additional sponsorship activities next to the NESTEA Euro Tour and the Beach Volleyball involvements on a national level are also imaginable."

This is now fact in Berlin. NESTEA will present itself as a partner of Beach Volleyball in the German capital. Four Grand Slam tournaments are part of the Swatch-FIVB World Tour 2007 featuring the world's best men's and women's players with a total of 600,000 US$ each in prize money. The Berlin event will be especially important this year. It is the last Grand Slam and therefore the final major test for the teams prior to the World Championships in Gstaad (Switzerland) from 24-29 July 2007.

For Christian Scholbrock, Managing Director at Global Sports Marketing, the Zurich based agency that markets and organises the NESTEA European Championship Tour since 2003 and works also in the same capacity for the Grand Slam in Berlin, NESTEA's Beach Volleyball expansion is proof of the good cooperation: „NESTEA is well aware of the impact of this sport sponsorship for their brand. Beach Volleyball’s lifestyle character and the values of the NESTEA brand just go together perfectly."

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