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Level Two Hertforshire 

I wonder if you would publicise my forthcoming Level 2 Coach award course taking place at St Clement Danes School, Hertfordshire on Jan 3rd, 4th & 11th 2009. I have attached an application form and would be pleased if you could attach it to your website.  Download Entry Form   Thank you for your help in this matter. Regards Paul Westhead p.westhead@ntlworld.com

Cardiff Wildcats 

Cardiff Wildcats Volleyball Club are looking for new female recruits to join their already developing team, whether you have played before or are looking for a fresh challenge this is for you. Our new volleyball club already has an established men’s side and we would like emulate this in our ladies team. This season is primarily focused on developing the skills and techniques involved in the game, with various friendly matches to be arranged during the course of the season. We are hopefully projecting league competition next season, training will be made available from a long time established coach, with assistance being made from our senior men’s squad.  If you are interested in learning more about us then please visit our website where you will find information about the club and on how to contact us further.  www.cardiffwildcatsvolleyball.co.uk Martin Reed reed-m2@sky.com Cardiff Wildcats Volleyball Club

Brighton Volleython 

Volleython Nov 2nd - 1000 points to raise £1000 pounds. To raise money for our charity 'Passing It On' we have a challenge! We need to recruit 20 players who think they can play a game to the best of 1000 points. Teams of 4/side will play continuously with as much subbing in and out as needed.  To enter all you need to do is raise a minimum of £50, which will go straight to the charity, to help build a school in Ghana. Fancy finding out more? Then contact Dan or any of the Yellowave team.  email info@yellowave.co.uk

Bring on the Trumpets 

We’re still hunting for the Sitting Volleyball Stars of the future and you can help to discover them. If you are interested but live too far from Lincoln to travel or even a different county then please contact info@lincolnshiresittingvolleyball.co.uk and we will try to point you to the nearest available facility. I could spend ages telling you how fantastic Sitting Volleyball is but it would be better if you came to experience it yourself. Bring a friend as well!  No special equipment needed just you in a tracksuit or shorts & T-shirt and a drink of water. Young, old, male, female, disabled, non disabled, sporty or not everyone’s welcome. So there is no excuse come and join in. Lincolnshire Sitting Volleyball Association are holding regular weekly training sessions. Tuesday evening from 7.00pm to 9.00pm. http://www.lincolnshiresittingvolleyball.org.uk Keith Hill keith.hill40@ntlworld.com

New Forest Volleyball Club 

The New Forest Volleyball Club is situated on the outskirts of Southampton in Brockenhurst. We are looking for both experienced and college/university players to join our exciting men's and women's teams in Division 3 West.  The club has high expectations and fantastic coaches in place so players of all standards can enhance their game. Our friendly club has a healthy blend of youth and senior players, many of whom represent at Regional and National standard.  Interested?  Contact James Kemp (club president) on kemp_ie@hotmail.com or visit www.nfvc.co.uk

Triangular Fixtures 

Hi, I've just read your article in July's volleyball newsletter regarding triangular fixtures. I'm just trying to schedule a league of triangular matches and have 13 teams taking part - if you have a copy of the 13 team template available, I would be very grateful....... It took a while but we finally tracked down our copy of the 13 team triangular template, it initially looks a little messy but as a number of teams in the original set up were University teams (with limited dates + BUSA) and a few teams had NL fixtures to work around. However it does work and will fit into a Oct - Mar season, a good starting point for anyone who has 13 teams to organise. You can see all the fixture templates at: Triangular Fixture Templates Dave.Reece@VolleyballNewsletter.com

Portsmouth New Beach Courts 

On the weekend of 20/21st September Portsmouth opened its new Volleyball Beach courts at Southsea. As Portsmouth Volleyball Club had been liasing with The City Council on its building, they decided to run an event to promote the completion and opening. They contacted all the other clubs around the area and invited them to the opening with the view to seeing what was available to them and playing matches.  The local paper 'The News' quoted:  There are three courts available much to the delight of players who enjoyed a sun-kissed day of activities with Portsmouth Volleyball Club. Club chairman Ray Sharpe said 'the day went really well, the weather was fantastic and so many people came along to have a go. They couldn't believe it was all free to use. I think it will be a huge success, thanks to the new courts Portsmouth Volleyball Association will be looking into running a summer league and maybe competitions next year.'  The courts, near the bowling green on Southsea Common, are funded by Portsmouth City Council to promote volleyball and other beach sports including beach soccer, rugby and cricket. The Council cabinet member for culture and leisure, Terry Hall, said: 'Beach Volleyball is an increasingly popular sport that was featured in the Beijing Olympics. I'm delighted we are able to provide this great new court that will give players of all ages the chance to take part.' Unquote Portsmouth Volleyball Club ran their normal Saturday junior training on the new facility much to the delight of the kids, this was meant to be for 2 hours but they were enjoying themselves so much it went on for nearly 3 hours. In the afternoon the adults came down and played matches, with everybody staying until the sun went down - a group then turned up on the Sunday and played again. Jayne Sharpe jayneds201@aol.com

Animal Windfest SWVA Junior Invitational

 

The First SWVA Animal Windfest Junior Beach Invitational Volleyball tournament took place at Sandbanks Poole over the weekend of the 13/14th.  The event is one of several new junior beach events added to the calendar this summer,  in the build up to the first SW Junior Beach Tour in 2009. All player qualified for the end of season junior event via the Sandbanks Junior Grand Prix and the SW Junior Beach Championships help at Exmouth earlier this summer. More details at: http://www.swva.org.uk/beach/index.html

U18 Girls   Winners - Phoebe Jeffery and Sophia Speigal Runners Up - Helena Lumley and Annie Tinker   U18 Boys   Winners - Tris Dampney and Oli Kimber Runners Up - Ashley Yeo and Jack Walker

U16 Boys   Winners - Matt Hunter and Ryan Stout Runners Up - Tyler and Richard Yates   U14s Mixed   Winners - Matt Hunter, Ryan Stout and Ryan Palmer Runners Up - Joe Garrett, Tom McArther and Connor Duggan U12s Mixed   Winners - Sam Walrond, Joel Roberts and Ben Torrens

Cardiff Wildcats 

The 13th and 14th September saw our first indoor inaugural tournament take place, we received entries from across South Wales, the South West and even as far as Birmingham take part in our event. After an action packed weekend in both the men’s and ladies events we of course came down to two clear winners, Bridgend Men took the men’s challenge title with 51 points and Wiltshire Mavericks Ladies 2 winning the ladies event on 31 points with local opposition Cardiff Ladies coming in a close second with 20 points. After careful deliberation we decided (by voting really!) that the most valuable players of the tournament were: Ben Fairweather (Portsmouth Kings) and Rosie Kirk (Wiltshire Mavericks). We promise next year’s event will be even bigger and better and are looking forward to seeing all participating teams again next year. See you again soon Martin Reed reed-m2@sky.com Cardiff Wildcats Volleyball Club

More Photos at : www.cardiffwildcatsvolleyball.co.uk/page2.htm

Bridgend Men

Wiltshire Mavericks

MVP Ben Fairweather (Portsmouth, Kings)

MVP Rosie Kirk (Wiltshire Mavericks)

European Gold Badge 

World Volleyball FIVB’s new President Jizhong Wei of China pointed out a new way he was going to run the body in the wake of the often controversial Mexican Ruben Acosta. Speaking to delegates at the European Congress including British representatives Richard Calicott and Lisa Wainwright of England, Marie and Patrick Murphy of NIVA and Scotalnd's Colin McGinlay and Margaretann Fleming.  Mr. Wei promised to respect and to co-operate with the CEV and vice versa. Mr. Wei said he intends to change the way FIVB has worked with both the Continental Confederations and the National Federations. “You will all be expected to play a much more important role than in the past, be aware that FIVB respects the right of all National Federations to freely express their opinions on the various topics related to volleyball competitions. And much more, you are also entitled to criticize the FIVB President, which is the very first that has to be constantly controlled and supervised by his partners”.  The British Volleyball Presidents Rich Calicott, Patrick Murphy and Colin McGinlay were presented with the new European Confederation’s Gold Badges by CEV President and FIVB Vice President Andre Meyer of Luxembourg to honour their work in the British Isles.  Colman Tourghlay mauricecolmantourghlay@msn.com

New South London League 

The South London Volleyball League (fully endorsed by our partners Pro-Active South London, Sport Richmond and Volleyball England) will start on Monday 6th October 2008. The league has created 9 new teams and in total will comprise of 14 teams across 2 divisions.  All the matches will be played at Richmond College on Monday evenings from 7.00 to 10.00pm. Some teams are still looking for a couple of players so if want to get involved or fancy some extra games contact the league ASAP.  More info at: http://www.richmondvolleyball.co.uk/southlondonvolleyball/league.shtml David Rijvers dr@goldeneye7.freeserve.co.uk

The New Mikasa Ball 

The 2008 Beijing Olympics saw the launch of the fantastic looking new Mikasa Volleyball. With only 8 panels as opposed to the normal 18, it is expected that these balls will move more smoothly through the air and rumors are that there is less float on the ball…  Personally I have not seen the new ball yet but I know several clubs who are already using the ball, does anyone have any feed back or opinions (good or bad) which they would like to share with us. Dave.Reece@VolleyballNewsletter.com

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