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| Issue 222 (31/10/2007) Circulation: 3200 - Regular Items: Letters to the Editor / Tournaments / International News / Photos of Interest / On-Line Calendar. |
Hi all, more news from the web.
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Dulwich Knights Volleyball Club
Could you please add Dulwich Knights Volleyball Club to your directory. We are based in south East London and have longstanding members with over 20 years experience along with beginners and developing players. www.knightsvolleyballclub.moonfruit.com
Many thanks.
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Level 2 Volleyball Coaching Course
Venue: Bournemouth University Sports Centre, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset. BH12 5BB Cost: £33 ~ Including: All equipment, qualified Volleyball tutor, delegate pack, the compulsory 24 hours of English Volleyball Association Level 2 Coaching Award taught over 3 days, using a mixture of sports hall and classroom sessions. Tutor ~ Geoff Allen Please contact the course organiser – Kevin Cole (kevincole@thepursuitsclub.co.uk) for an application form
Many thanks Kevin Cole kevincole@thepursuitsclub.co.uk
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SW Grand Prix photos
I have uploaded the photos from todays event to: http://www.cig.canon-europe.com/a?i=CsjBae3qIm, please feel free to look at them.
If you would like a higher resolution copy of any of them, please email me with the number(s) you want. Please let me know of any problems - this is the first time I have used this particular programme. Ron Richards RRicha7122@aol.com
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Level 2 Coaches Award Course
Could you publicise my forthcoming Level 2 Coaches Award Course on your newsletter. It will run on the dates 5th, 6th & 12th January 2008 at St Clement Danes School in Chorleywood, Herts. Interested parties can contact me at p.westhead@ntlworld.com application forms are available from me there.
Regards
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England NVL 1 Ladies Action
Jon McGugan has been out and about with his camera, checkout the action from a couple of Recent NVL 1 Ladies games at: www.mcgugan.co.uk/volleyball
Jon McGugan
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Quick'n'easy way to promote beach volleyball in the UK !!
After another summer of frustration of not being able to play much beach volleyball in his area, Patrick Chancelier has decided it's time to act.
If you would like to help, support or assist in moving this concept forward, then please contact Patrick at p_chancelier@yahoo.com or visit the BeachVB.net web site. There is also a dedicated Facebook Group at: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2390843280
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City of Bristol v London Malory
An excellent five set match which went right down to the last point.
City of Bristol:
London Malory:
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Plymouth v Dulwich Tuskers
Dulwich Tuskers, set out on Saturday for their Southwest Sunday match, with an overnight stay in Plymouth arranged, the players should have been relaxed and fighting fit for the mid day match. However a car breakdown on the way resulted in part of the team returning to London. With only six players available and a chance of promotion this year, conceding the match was not an option, two players (plus three young kids) caught the 11pm over night coach, arriving in Plymouth at 5am. Just enough time for a taxi to the B&B for breakfast, a short kip and then on to the sports hall.
Plymouth: 2 A. Schulz, 6 A. Gutmann, 7 T. Summerfield, 9 T. Sanders, 10 L. Luckraft, 13 R. Thorpe, 15 H. Semonin, 21 Z. Martakova Dulwich: 1 N. Strachman, 4 P. Nichol, 6 J. Wright, 7 C. Roberts, 8 D. Szmidt, 11 S. Williams.
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UUJ Volleyball Campaign Ends
Latvian strongmen Riga ended the University of Ulster's European Volleyball Cup season last night at Jordanstown. The powerful visitors beat Ireland's only representatives 25-16, 25-17, 25-12 in the 2nd leg 1st round match and go thru to the next round on a 6-0 sets scoreline. The men from the Baltic were too tall and powerful and overcame a UUJ side filled with Northern Ireland Internationals and bolstered by USA World Student Games players Dave Smith and Will Strickland, GB International David Hamilton and Californian Coaches Tom Johnson and Alan Knipe. Team captain Nick Wright confirmed this was the last international volleyball match to be played at the hall as it does not meet full European Confederation (CEV) specifications. A new hall on site does and UUJ look forward to competing once more in Europe he added. mauricecolmantourghlay@msn.com
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Spot Light on Martinus
One club to keep an eye on this year, is the Dutch club of Martinus, as well as their men's first team being made up of the British Olympic team, the womens team will be competing in the Indesit European Champions League. Hopefully we can bring you regular reports on their progress. For more information check out the following links:
The Martinus women also play their first home game at 13th October against Rijnmond Volleyball. Both games are played consecutively in the Bankras Sportshall in Amstelveen. We welcome all spectators to an evening packed with Martinus Volleyball entertainment. The Men’s game starts at 18.30. Come and see!! A new season for Martinus, after a successful summer program the Martinus Women’s Volleyball team have returned to their Club. The players, who won the World Grand Prix with the Dutch National Team, will now start preparing for the regular Club season. After a week of rest to recuperate from the European Championships, in which the Dutch team ended on a slightly disappointing 5th place, the players are now preparing for the regular volleyball season. In their opening game on Sunday they won with a clear 3-0 the Super Cup against Longa from Lichtenvoorde. Following the Super cup the Volleyball Gala was held in Zieuwent in Gelderland. This event honours the best Dutch players and coaches from the previous season in which Martinus won the Dutch league title and the Cup competion. Several female players from Martinus have been nominated in various categories: in the category "Female player of the year" Manon Flier and Caroline Wensink are two of the three nominees. For "Rookie of the year" Nikki Hoevenaars is one of the nominees and Avital Selinger is nominated in the Category "Coach of the year".
Indesit European Champions League However, just before the end of the dead line RTV Noord-Holland guaranteed in continuation of last year: live television coverage of the home games. NOS Studio Sport will show the highlights. The Champions League home games will be played in the Emergohal in Amstelveen. Here the Dela Martinus Women will compete against three renowned top clubs. Tuesday 2nd November they meet Dynamo Moskou, ranked number 2 in Europe. Thursday 20th December they play against Post Swechat from Austria and in their final game on Thursday 24st January Spar Tenerife Marichal will be the opponent. The Ticket Presale will soon be announced on this website, don’t miss it! From www.martinus.org Carlien Banks-van de Kreeke
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Volleyball Opportunities in Dubai
I am trying to get a league going here in Dubai. The league would be opened to all but I need to spread the word over the volleyball community around our small world. Is there any chance you could help with this? We are looking for 4-6 teams, men and women. If you are interested to join, or have a team to enter, please contact us at: info@ekvolleyballclub.com
Currently we have a site that has been created by one of our fellow enthusiastic volleyball player www.ekvolleyballclub.com. Other than the address therein, information can be fetched at this email address: lricher@hotmail.com. Please ensure “Volleyball in Dubai” appears in the subject line or else the email will go directly to my junk mail folder.
Thanks in anticipation for your help.
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Photos of Interest
Our recent local league fixture meeting, took place at the local social club, with everyone crowded into one small room around one table and some cold coffee left over from a previous meeting. However if you are arranging the draw for this years European Champions League, you appear to have a slightly bigger budget that our £15 room hire fee.
The drawing of lots and the official presentation of the 2007/2008 Indesit European Champions’ League, held in the City Hall of Vienna (AUT) rounded up by a Volleyball Gala. The eighth edition of the Indesit European Champions’ League will include the best 24 men’s and 20 women’s club teams in Europe, representing 18 national federations - the highest number of participation since the first edition in 2000/2001. The competition format foresees a period of eleven weeks for the men and likewise eleven weeks for the women. Whilst the men will kick-off the League Round matches in October 2007, the first League Round encounters in the women’s draw will not start until the end of November. The men and the women will both complete six League Rounds before the playoffs in February and March 2008 decide the Final Four teams.
The ‘European Volleyball Gala’ was broadcast all over Europe thanks to the collaboration of ORF and the TV channels partnered with the qualified teams in 2007/08.
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Do you have a volleyball web site
If you do then why not have the Volleyball Newsletter RSS news feed live on your web site. Keep all your members up to date with all the current news etc. Java scripts to do this have been around for a while but to date they have always been full of unwanted adverts etc, however Peter Carvell has found this excellent free to use script Java script at www.rss-to-javascript.com
Got to www.rss-to-javascript.com and select one of the design options, enter our RSS newsfeed URL: "http://www.volleyballnewsletter.com/rss/volleyball.xml" (adjust the formatting options as required) and generate Java Script, copy and paste the resulting html text into your web site.
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Champions League on Eurosport 2
From the first week to the last of the Indesit European Champion’s League 2007/08, 25 million homes in 43 different European countries will therefore have the opportunity to tune in on Eurosport 2, the new generation’s sports channel, and watch every two live matches of the most prestigious European Volleyball competition every Wednesday night. From the 17th of October to the 30th of January, 10 meetings will be broadcasted weekly on Eurosport 2 from 17.30hrs to 22.30hrs, and will give spectators the chance to follow the best women and men’s teams of the 2007/08 Champions’ League, distributed into 5 pools of 4 in the women competitions (20 teams in total) and 6 pools of 4 teams for the men (24 teams in total). Starting on the 12th of February 2008, Eurosport 2 will also broadcast weekly the playoffs, bringing together the best men and women teams out of the qualifications, and identifying the participants to the finals which will unfold on 29th and 30th March and 5th and 6th of April 2008. This new TV platform will thus offer a highly attractive program, as confirmed by Mr. André MEYER, CEV President, who declared : « We are extremely satisfied to have finalized this new contract with the group Eurosport, and more particularly with Eurosport 2, which offers through the live broadcasting of a major European volleyball competition a real opportunity for our sport to position itself next to the basket-ball and handbool European Leagues. This new weekly editorial positionning on Eurosport 2 confirms the « prime time » strategy desired by Eurosport. Mrs. Katharina POGGIOLI, Responsible for Acquisitions with Eurosport, confirms the “growing success of this new channel which focuses its programming on the live broadcast of the whole season of the main team sports European competitions.”
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