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The following Newsletter has been forwarded to you, from the Volleyball Newsletter E-Mail list. The UK's leading on line Volleyball News service, providing up to date volleyball information, direct to newsletter members throughout the UK and Ireland. Articles are collected from a variety of sources and credited appropriately. The Volleyball Newsletter uses advertising sponsorship to support our free and non-profit making service to newsletter members. To advertise your volleyball events or products, direct to players, club and league secretaries throughout the UK and Ireland, then please see our web site for details or contact Dave at Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com
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Andrew
Skinner Sitting Volleyball I hope you don't mind me emailing you, but Andrew Skinner a Great Britain Sitting Volleyball Player and above knee amputee is Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise invaluable funds for LimbPower the providers of the Amputee Games. As a direct result of the Amputee Games and other influences a number of Sitting Volleyball Clubs have sprung up around the UK.
The games is a fantastic platform for generating interest in the sport and recruiting new players. The Amputee Games costs the charity £20,000 to run and we can only do this through donations and sponsorship.
If you enjoy sitting volleyball and get something out of taking part, help us promote the sport to the next generation of amputees,
by donating online to help Andrew reach his fundraising target of £3,500.
If each person on this email donated £10 towards Andrew's target he would reach
his £3,500 target. As I know you are hard at training and not drinking Alcohol, you could pretend you are donating the cost of an imaginary round of soft drinks! I promised Matt I would not encourage drinking when you are so close to 2012!
http://www.justgiving.com/Andrew-Skinner Kiera Roche
kiera@limbpower.com
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Devon Women
| To all coaches out there... Devon Women Volleyball Club have steadily progressed through the National League divisions over the last few seasons, and with the retirement of our coach of 5 years, we require a new coach who would like to accompany us as we step into National League Division 1.
We are really looking forward to next season and if you think we are the right club for you, please contact us for more information on
sarahsalt74@aol.com
Sarah Salt sarahsalt74@aol.com
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The Cambridge Outdoor Tournament Is Back!
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The 19th annual tournament is part of the Volleyball England VolleyFest series and
has a brand new location in the middle of the historic Cambridge City centre. The
weekend of the 7th and 8th of August will see teams compete on Parker's Piece in a
6 v 6 format with Men's, Women's and Mixed divisions to suit all levels.
In addition to the main event, Men's, Women's and Mixed pairs competitions
will also be run, starting after the main play on saturday (approximately 4-6pm) and concluding before and after the 6 v 6 matches on
sunday. It is possible to play in both 2 v 2 and 6 v 6! |
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There will also be an Indoor Sitting Volleyball competition running on saturday
7th August in the adjacent Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall (10am-5pm, registration at 9.30am).
Camping with full facilities, bar and disco is available at a nearby site (10 GBP
per adult for the weekend). Discounted (pre-paid only) car parking is available at the tournament site, as well as changing and shower facilities.
Comeand- try-it and coached junior sessions will be running during the weekend
Entry fees for outdoor teams are 50 GBP (55 GBP non-VE afliated), outdoor pairs entries are 6 GBP per
team and Indoor sitting volleyball team entry is only 10 GBP.
Deadline for entries is 31/7/10, get in quick! Further details, contact links and entry forms from:
http://www.cambridgevolleyball.org
and the usual food and t-shirt stalls will be there!
Take the opportunity to visit the adjacent Parkside swimming pool to cool
of, visit the numerous pubs and restaurants nearby or even take a short walk to the river and hire a punt! |
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Jon Clarke jhc30@hermes.cam.ac.uk
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Exmouth Beach Pairs Tournament
Exmouth Beach Fours
Result
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Over forty teams took part in this year's Exmouth Beach 4's tournament.
Teams came from all around the area but it was success for local teams in
both the Ladies' and Men's events.
Fat Bottomed Girls took the top honors in the ladies' event, while
Coolen's Gang took the Men's prize.
Full results are now available and a selection of photos at: Exmouth
Beach 4s 2010 |
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Devon
School's Beach Tournament
A new event this year, the Devon Schools Beach
Championships, the event took place on Exmouth Beach on the 30th June. The
event was well attended with plenty of schools taking part from across the
county on fifteen beach courts.
A selection of photos are available at: Devon
Schools Photos 2010.
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Cardiff Open 2010
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Following the success of last year’s event Cardiff Wildcats are proud to announce that we
will be running our annual Cardiff Open on the 11th and 12h September 2010. The Open is an
indoor 6-a-side tournament and will be staged at the sports complex at Cardiff University’s
Talybont campus on Western Avenue, Cardiff. |
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Cardiff Wildcats Volleyball Club, in conjunction with the University, are organising their
second unique 4 court competition to be held in Wales!!
The club made the decision to stage the tournament in September, as they felt it was an ideal
opportunity for regional and NL teams to 'test the water' with friendly matches, before the
season proper starts.
We hope you see the benefits of such an event and decide to enter.
Entry is £65 per team .... you may enter as many teams as you wish, download the
Entry
Forms
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRY - AUGUST 21st |
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We are targeting regional and NL div 3 levels specifically.....but if you wish to enter and are
undecided about your team’s level, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Entry
Forms are available on our website (see below)
Should you require any more information we have email addresses for you to contact too.
Come along ..... visit the wonderful City of Cardiff, see the sites, enjoy your time here
and PLAY SOME GREAT VOLLEYBALL !!!
Visit CARDIFF WILDCATS WEBSITE: www.cardiffwildcatsvolleyball.co.uk
or contact Steve Marshall steven.marshall60@ntlworld
or Martin Reed reed-m2@sky.com |
Martin Reed reed-m2@sky.com
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Watch the GB Sitting Squads in action
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Both Great Britain Sitting Volleyball teams are in action today on the first day of competition at the World Championships in Oklahoma. |
The men are facing Morocco and the women are up against China (2008 Beijing Paralympic Champions). The matches are being broadcasted via the following link
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/worlds-testing
Item from the VE web site
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Save Our Olympic Dream
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Great Britain Women’s Volleyball Team are challenging themselves to the limit when they travel on their bikes for 4 days (Friday 23rd July to Tuesday 27th July) in a 320 miles route from Sheffield to Central London to raise an immediate £500K funds after the cash-strapped sport forced to cut their programme for the next nine months (in preparation for London 2012).
Before cycling to their final destination (Buckingham Palace and Earls Court) their final stop will be through
Richmond-upon-Thames (South West London) where Richmond Volleyball (Pro-Active London Sports Club of the Year 2010) will be welcoming the GB team and invites club members, schools, general public, the media and local businesses to challenge the GB team in a match.
Date: Tuesday, 27th July, 1.30pm to 2.30 pm, Richmond Green
David Rijvers dr@goldeneye7.freeserve.co.uk |
HOW YOU CAN HELP!
· Sponsor the Cycle Ride at £100 per mile
· Sponsor a leg of the journey or a series of miles close to your business
· By getting fully behind the team and exploring the mutually benefit partnership opportunities associated with the team for 2010-20
For further information contact Pete Rhodes – pete@allforgood.co.uk or 07956 408578
www.gbwomenvolleyball.co.uk
The story so far……..
With only two years to go before London 2012, the GB Women’s Volleyball team have received a severe blow to their Olympic prospects. Due to insufficient funds, their winter training programme (from August 2010 to May 2011) has been compromised and only a limited competitive programme will take place next summer.
Read the full story, at: http://www.volleyballnewsletter.com/rss/258-09.html
British Volleyball is represented by David Welch Management. www.davidwelchmanagement.com
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Euro
League 2010
| Ponds Forge 3/4 July 2010 CEV Euro League
Got here very early as offered a lift (thanks) so was able to sample
the food and drink at Ponds Forge again. still very edible and drinkable
at a very reasonable price. Even tried a latte this time.
Due to no more matches for a while I have cropped, to my tastes, these
photos.
The women's second match against Serbia showed how well GB can play.
CEV Euro
League GB Women v Serbia 0-3 (19-25 20-25 23-25) 4th July 2010
The men's second match was a very straitforward win for Spain with GB only
looking close in the third set.
CEV Euro
League GB Men v Spain 0-3 (12-25 17-25 22-25) 4th July 2010
GB Women v Serbia showed a determination and the fighting spirit of GB
Women but wasn't until set three they managed to get it all together to
really worry Serbia. For all you (ex-)international players and very high
level coaches perhaps you can answer this question:
The first photo is a composite showing two sets by Serbia. Can the
players read this in advance and if they can can they do anything with the
information. For what it is worth GB didn't/couldn't. follow up question
does anyone believe players can be taught to read this and be quick enough
to use the information.
As I take lots of sequence photos it has become apparent, even at GB
men's level, you can tell a tip is coming, as yet I haven't analysed the
timing info in the photos to work out how much time ahead of the actual
contact there is to try and work out if it is usable. Of course I am
talking about viewing from the side which isn't a viewpoint the opposition
get but the arm swing is also different which may be discernable from
across the net. It is certainly true that photos of attacks from the back
end of defense court don't show anything.
CEV Euro
League GB Women v Serbia 0-3 (15-25 11-25 20-25) 3rd July 2010
GB Men not able to get a set despite pushing hard. Spain claimed it was
virtually the side, bar 1, that would represent them in the finals so on
that basis a good performance.
CEV Euro
League GB Men v Serbia 0-3 (23-25 20-25 17-25) 3rd July 2010
Some photos of the line judges from both days
CEV Euro League
GB Line Judges 3-4th July 2010
K2 Crawley 19th June 2010 CEV Euro League
Women's match sadly very one sided. I think reflected by the photos.
CEV
Euro League GB Women v Bulgaria 0-3 14-25 14-25 14-25) 19th June 2010
First visit to K2 but failed to sample the cappuccino, other than that it
is a good venue (well it would be if they had more lighting). GB Men
started indifferently losing the first set but then played the next 3 much
more as we expect from them now.
CEV Euro
League GB Men v Romania 3-1 (21-25 25-18 25-18 25-16) 19th June 2010
Jon McGugan |
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Beach Tournament Web cams
| Over the last few years, beach web cams have improved quite a bit, from
the selection available this year, we have chosen the Croyde and
Montpellier webs cams for a few interesting volleyball snap shots.
The early morning view of the 2010 Croyde Beach Tournament... |
The web cam in the main square of Montpellier ( France) gave us
a good view of their city centre event.
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GREEN -
Out Door Tournaments / BLUE
- VB
Events / ORANGE -
Beach Tournaments / RED
- In
Door Tournaments
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