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Posted by devo on November 21, 2008
2009 BEACH VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP U/19 AND U/21
SQUAD SELECTION CAMP
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST SOUGHT
The Australian Volleyball Federation (AVF) is seeking expressions of interest from both athletes (male and female) and coaches to be part of the selection camp for 2009 Beach Volleyball World Championships (Under 19 and Under 21).
See all the details at Volleyball Australia
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Posted by devo on November 20, 2008
There are events coming up over the Summer that you need to be registering for now.
Australia’s largest multisport festival is coming to Geelong, from 20 February – 1 March 2009. Why not take part with your friends and family and enjoy a summer holiday? The 12th Australian Masters Games is a ten day sports and entertainment festival open to people over the age of 30, regardless of sporting background or ability. Geelong will come alive with over 10,000 people from Australia and overseas participating in 70 sports across 80 different venues in the Geelong region.
| Indoor Volleyball Details: Dates: Thurs 26 Feb – Sun 1 Mar Venue: Leisuretime Centre 262 – 264 Anakie Road, BELL POST HILL Male, Female & Mixed Sections. Minimum age 30 |
Beach Volleyball Details: Mon 23 Feb – Thurs 26 Feb Venues: Vic Beach Volleyball Centre - Eastern Beach 1a Crown Street, Ritchie Boulevard, SOUTH GEELONG Male, Female & Mixed Sections Minimum age 30 |
Find out more information at: www.AustralianMastersGames.com or call the Games Office on 1300 725 266. Registrations Close on 5th December 2008
The Slam Festival is an all day Beach Volleyball Tournament held on 8 beaches around Australia over the Summer. The event is aimed at 18-32 year olds and is a fantastic day for amateur players, professionals and everyone in between to get a team together and be involved in some friendly competition. The day is set to a backdrop of DJ’s and Festival activities and there are three finals categories to compete in so that all skill levels have a chance at a trophy. Teams are even invited to dress up to a theme with prizes given for best dressed! Tournaments conclude approx 5pm, however, the festivities continue on into the night.
Registrations are now open. You can check out venues, dates and costs at www.slamfestival.com.au SLAM is also happy to give volleyball clubs the chance to promote themselves at the festival. Contact Slam at slam@popcornevents.com.au
Posted in Australian Beach VB, Australian Volleyball, Sports, State Volleyball, Volleyball | Tagged: Australian Masters, Slam Festival | No Comments »
Posted by devo on November 10, 2008
UPDATED: originally posted 9/11/08
I was really happy with most of my play throughout the day, getting a lot of points on serve and blocking and hitting reasonable well. However in the last 10 minutes of the final I struggled with my reception, passing the ball right to the net 5 times in a row making it really tough for Greg to set me (slipped back into indoor mode there!) - - - Luke, get some tips from Phill! more
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Aussie indoor centre player Luke Campbell is playing in the 1st leg of the Triple Crown on the Victorian Beach Tour at South Melbourne Beach in Melbourne today .
Over the last month or so I’ve been doing some training for beach and it certainly is a different sport to indoor, although a lot of skills do overlap. I must say I’m really excited to get out there with my partner Greg Dury and see how we will go as we haven’t trained or played together before. more
I’d love to hear from anyone who sees the big guy play. Does he make the transition? Certainly will be a big block.
Luke has decided to stay in Melbourne rather than head overseas again this year. I have decided to stay in Melbourne with my family and friends. The longer I have spent here the harder it is to leave such a vibrant city, and seeing my family and friends full time is something I have really missed over the past 10 years. more
Posted in Australian Beach VB, Sports, State Volleyball, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: Luke Campbell | 5 Comments »
Posted by devo on November 10, 2008
Mt Lofty Community Sports Centre and Mt Lofty League Volleyball Club played host to four visiting teams from interstate for Round 3 of the Australian Volleyball League (AVL) Mens series 2008 on the weekend.
In usual Mt Lofty style, the venue and atmosphere was both electric and professional in every respect, with teams and spectators alike very complimentary about the way in which the round was delivered.
The Australian Volleyball Federation Events Manager, Susan Diver-Tuck, who was over to officiate the weekend, commented that, “Mt Lofty has set a very high standard in event presentation, and they are clearly the leaders so far this year in delivering AVL. I know that Queensland have taken some serious note of what they have experienced this weekend, in the hope of doing something similar in round 4 in Brisbane, which they will be hosting in 2 weeks time. Mt Lofty appeared to just take it in their stride, with years of experience and the history of a very passionate and dedicated club behind them, making sure the weekend ran error free.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Aust Volleyball League, Australian Beach VB, State Volleyball, Volleyball, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: Brian Kempe, Mt Lofty | 2 Comments »
Posted by devo on November 9, 2008
fivb picture - click to enlarge
The final day of the Phuket Beach tournament, featuring Tamsin Barnett and Becchara Palmer playing for bronze, is streaming live.
The Aussies lost the first set 14-21, but are more competitive in the second set. The Germans - Guerther & Banck - move ahead towards the end of the second set to win 18-21
Posted in Australian Beach VB, FIVB World Tour, Sports, Volleyball Australia, Volleyball Video | Tagged: Becchara Palmer, Tamsin Barnett | No Comments »
Posted by devo on November 6, 2008
Women’s Volleyball Olympian Nicole (Sanderson) Hannan traveled all the way from Australia to Pepperdine University to receive her award as a 2008 Hall of Fame inductee.
“Nicole traveled half-way around the world to convince me to pay for her education to play volleyball for the Waves,” said women’s head coach Nina Matthies. While at Pepperdine Hannan became one of the first players in history to earn All-West Coast Conference first team honors four times. She graduated from Pepperdine in 1997 with a degree in sports medicine. She competed in the 2004 Athens Olympics for her native Australia and finished fourth in Beach Volleyball. “I came to Pepperdine from the other side of the world and made new friends, family and teammates,” said Hannan. “Nina always believed in me and taught me to believe in myself.” more@pepperdine
Posted in Aussies Overseas, Australian Beach VB, Australian Volleyball, Olympics, Sports, Volleyball, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: Pepperdine, Nicole (Sanderson) Hannan | No Comments »
Posted by edbinnie on November 6, 2008
The Provisional calendar for the 2009 World Tour has been set and released on the FIVB site.
To my surprise, there was no mention of Adelaide! There is hope in the article - “The calendar is subject to change by the FIVB, with decisions pending on a few double-gender events that need to confirm date and/or location.”
Maybe Adelaide is one of these?
http://www.fivb.org/viewPressRelease.asp?No=18280&Language=0
For those that were involved - playing, refereeing, working, or just watching - the 2008 event was fantastic. I know a huge amount of work went in behind the scenes, and it would be a shame if this all fell apart after 1 year.
So does anyone have an inkling as to what is going on?
Rumours abound last year’s event of heavy fines, poor ticket sales, needless to say the level of work required. Having run it once, I’d have thought that Year 2 should be significantly easier, and achieve better spectator volumes.
At the time, I thought it an “interesting” time to take on the new project, with a new WAVL, no MAVL, a new VTAW programme, large staff changes, and a new National Beach Tour Promoter and Sponsor. 2009 also offers its share of challenges, especially with still no definite details for the National Beach Tour - http://www.avf.org.au/index.php?id=774.
The Provisional National Tour Dates have a final event listed in Adelaide, hopefully gearing up to the World Tour, so let’s hope that the only reason for not mentioning it in the FIVB release is a date confirmation being required!!!
Posted in Australian Beach VB, Australian Volleyball, FIVB, FIVB World Tour, Sports, Volleyball, Volleyball Australia | 12 Comments »
Posted by devo on November 1, 2008
… the keenest watchers of women’s beach volleyball (at the Olympics), according to the survey, were men aged 50 and above. In fact, as many as 70 per cent of males in this age group watched the sport during the Olympics, compared with 44 per cent of females in the 16 to 29 group. The proportion of older men tuning in may have been even higher than this, since some who watched may well have been too embarrassed to admit it in the survey. Was this the perv factor at work? Probably. What else could it be? How else can you explain the fact that more men aged 50 and over watched women’s beach volleyball at the Games - a sport few of them would have known much about … full article at SMH
I feel I have to defend myself. As a newly retired 55+ I watched a lot of the Olympics - I had the time to do it. And I watched a lot of the beach volleyball - even though regular readers would be aware that I am not a great fan of the sandy variety of the game. Does that make me a “purve”?
I chose the best - in my opinion - viewing at the time. This was usually the beach volleyball (okay, I was a little interested, and I had to tape it for Mrs Devo). The Sydney Morning Herald article does go on to conceed that … nearly all sports at this year’s Olympics had their biggest TV audiences in Australia in the 50-plus age range. The statistics were high because this was the biggest viewing group. We were the ones at home during the day. But the media have an obsession with combining beach volleyball with sex.
Surely it’s time for the media to get over the purve image of the beach game? It’s becoming monotonous - even for me. And I’m sure insulting for the athletes that play.
Posted in Australian Beach VB, It's not volleyball but ..., Olympics | Tagged: SMH | 1 Comment »
Posted by devo on September 9, 2008
You are invited to attend trials for the 2008/09 Victorian Junior State Team Beach Program.
TEAMS:
There will be Six Squads, U17 Boys & Girls, U19 Men & Women and U23 Men & Women. It is our intention to have a Head Coach for each Squad, with players trialling for teams in each age group.
AGE GROUP:
Under 17 (born 1992 or later) Under 19 (born 1990 or later)
Under 23 (born 1986 or later)
TRIAL VENUE & TIMES:
Sunday, 14th September & Sunday, 21st September, 2008 State Volleyball Centre, 270 Stud Rd, Dandenong Nth:-
U17 Boys & Girls – 9am to 11am
U19 Men & Women – 11.30am to 1.30pm
U23 Men & Women – 2pm to 4pm
more info @ Volleyball Victoria
Posted in Australian Beach VB, Sports, State Volleyball, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: Volleyball Victoria, trials, beach team | 10 Comments »
Posted by devo on September 7, 2008
The Australian pairing (and number 3 seeds) avoided the second upset of the day - the Brazillians lost earlier. They smashed a 15-6 win in the third to make it through to the quarter finals, but the Dutch Sophie Van Gestel and Michelle Stiekema, who came through the qualification rounds, knocked off Palmer and Rohkamper of Australia in the quaterfinals in two close sets to progress to the semi-finals.
Palmer and Rohkamper entered the Brighton Beach competition as one of the top teams after claiming the silver medal at the 2007 SWATCH-FIVB Junior World Championships in Modena, Italy. A year earlier in Bermuda, Palmer and Rohkamper won the gold medal at the SWATCH-FIVB Youth World Championships for players under the age of 19. more@fivb
Palmer-Rohkamper AUS [3] def Cowley-Janssen CAN [19] 2-1 (17-21, 21-15, 15-6)
Palmer-Rohkamper AUS [3] lost to van Gestel-Stiekema NED [23] 0-2 (19-21, 19-21)
The Australian pair of Boehm and McHugh took the first set, but the Polish pair fought back to level their contest at 2 sets all in a tight second set. The Polish pair of Kadziola and Szalankiewicz were too strong in the 3rd set and advanced to the quarter finals.
Kadziola-Szalankiewicz POL [17] def Boehm-McHugh AUS [12] 2-1 (18-21, 22-20, 15-10)
Posted in Australian Beach VB, FIVB World Champs, Sports, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: Palmer-Rohkamper, Boehm-McHugh | No Comments »
Posted by devo on September 6, 2008
Aussie Junior beach volleyballers at the FIVB World Juniors in Britain. more pictures-men ~ more pictures - women ~ pictures courtesy fivb: click to enlarge
12:29 Aussie, Aussie, Aussie is bellowing from Centre court, but the Canadian fans are not to be out done - they have flags and whistles! The cheerleaders are flying also; splits, pyramids, Herkies…they’ve got all the moves! more@BrightonBeachVolleyball
Posted in Australian Beach VB, FIVB World Champs, Sports, Volleyball Australia, Volleyball Video | Tagged: Alice Rohkamper, Becchara Palmer, Sam Boehm | No Comments »
Posted by devo on September 6, 2008
UPDATED: originally posted 5/09/08
In a close encounter, Boehm-McHugh AUS [12] lost to Penk-Walkenhorst GER [24] 0-2 (20-22, 21-23), to go 0-2 in the pool round. Then, in their last pool match, they defeated the number one ranked pair.
Sheaf-Sheaf GBR [1] lost to Boehm-McHugh AUS [12] 0-2 (16-21, 11-21). This was enough to carry the Aussie boy’s through to elimination round one matches where they will meet the 17th ranked Polish pair of Kadziola-Szalankiewicz later today. more
In the women’s draw Palmer-Rohkamper AUS [3] defeated Goricanec-Sciarini SUI [10] 2-1 (16-21, 21-15, 15-13) to go 3-0 in pool play. They will meet the 19th ranked Canadian pair of Cowley-Janssen later today in elimination round one matches. more
Led by Becchara Palmer/Alice Rohkamper of Australia and Marleen Van Iersel/Daniëlle Remmers of the Netherlands, 16 women’s teams advancing here Friday to the single-elimination phase at the SWATCH-FIVB Junior World Championships by Nivea Sun for players under the age of 21.
Only 10 of the tandems advancing to the elimination rounds were seeded among the top 16 teams in the 2008 SWATCH-FIVB Junior World Championships presented as the first two days of the Main Draw schedule featured pool play at the Nivea Sun Yellowave, the first permanent beach sports venue in the United Kingdom.
The eighth annual SWATCH-FIVB Junior World Championships, which also features men’s competition, will stage two rounds of single-elimination bracket play Saturday for both genders to determine the “final four” teams for Sunday’s semi-finals and medal matches.
While the women played only one round of 12 pool play matches Friday, each men’s team competed twice on Brighton Beach with damp and windy conditions. In addition to capturing gold medals Sunday, the winning teams will be awarded “wild card” berths at a future SWATCH-FIVB World Tour events in either 2008 or 2009.
The third-seeded Palmer and Rohkamper, who claimed the silver medal at the 2007 SWATCH-FIVB Junior World Championships after losing the three-set finale to Lili Maestrini and Barbara Figueiredo Seixas of Brazil in Modena, Italy, captured their pool with a 3-0 record win wins over teams from Poland, Norway and Switzerland. more@fivb
Posted in Australian Beach VB, FIVB World Champs, Sports, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: Alice Rohkamper, Becchara Palmer, Boehm-McHugh | No Comments »
Posted by devo on September 5, 2008
The Aussie girls have started well with two wins. The guys are going to have to lift their game if they are to continue in the competition.
Palmer-Rohkamper AUS [3] def Paszek-Galek POL [22] 2-0 (21-13, 21-16)
Palmer-Rohkamper AUS [3] def Solvoll-Westerlund NOR [15] 2-0 (21-12, 21-14)
Boehm-McHugh AUS [12] lost to Habr-Monik CZE [13] 0-2 (17-21, 14-21)
Posted in Australian Beach VB, FIVB World Champs, Sports, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: Boehm-McHugh, Palmer-Rohkamper | No Comments »
Posted by devo on September 4, 2008
Unfortunately, Australia has not qualified a third team into the FIVB beach Junior world championships. Women’s teams from France, Germany, Netherlands and Poland earned Main Draw berths. more @fivb
| Pool A | ||||||
| 21 | 03-Sep | 14:00 | Ross-Mowen AUS [1] | Hansen-Landsnes NOR [8] | 2-1 (21-15, 12-21, 15-11) | 0:50 |
| 17 | 03-Sep | Paszek-Galek POL [9] | Seed #16 | |||
| 13 | 03-Sep | Hansen-Landsnes NOR [8] | Seed #16 | |||
| 9 | 03-Sep | 12:10 | Ross-Mowen AUS [1] | Paszek-Galek POL [9] | 1-2 (11-21, 21-18, 5-15) | 0:43 |
| 5 | 03-Sep | 10:30 | Hansen-Landsnes NOR [8] | Paszek-Galek POL [9] | 0-2 (10-21, 6-21) | 0:28 |
| 1 | 03-Sep | Ross-Mowen AUS [1] | Seed #16 | |||
Featured teams in the women’s Main Draw will be Australia’s Becchara Palmer/Alice Rohkamper and Marleen Van Iersel/Daniëlle Remmers of the Netherlands. Palmer and Rohkamper claimed the silver medal at the 2007SWATCH-FIVB Junior World Championships after losing the finale to a team from Brazil in Modena, Italy.
Palmer and Rohkamper also won the 2006 FIVB U19 title in Bermuda where they defeated Van Iersel and Remmers of the Netherlands in the finals.
As well as the usual fivb sites, there is a dedicated Brighton site for the tournament. The main draw begins today
Posted in Australian Beach VB, FIVB, FIVB World Champs, Sports, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: Alice Rohkamper, Becchara Palmer, Brighton, Junior World Beach, Ross-Mowen | No Comments »
Posted by devo on September 3, 2008
The international Beach Volleyball schedule this week is highlighted by the eighth edition of the SWATCH FIVB Junior Beach World Championships for players under the age of 21 in Brighton, England. more@fivb
You can follow the efforts of Chris McHugh and Sam Boehm on the fivb site. In the womens, Palmer and Rohkamper are straight through to the main draw, Ross and Mowen will be going through qualifying. You can follow the girls here.
Competition gets underway tomorrow.
Posted in Australian Beach VB, FIVB, FIVB World Champs, Sports, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: Chris McHugh, Mowen, Palmer, Rohkamper, Ross, Sam Boehm, SWATCH FIVB Junior World Championships | No Comments »
Posted by devo on August 21, 2008
11 days to register for EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT to this year’s Coaches Symposium
Check out http://www.avf.org.au/index.php?id=965 to get all the information you need for this year’s conference.
It is natural to ask: Is this conference really for me? I am just a high school coach? I am just a volleyball coach? The answer is definitively YES! YES! YES!
What is presented will help you raise the level of performance of your team or school program. The sessions will allow you ask questions and get answers from coaches who do this professionally. This is a great Professional-Development opportunity. If you are a junior elite coach, state coach, AVL coach, or state league coach this symposium is a natural fit in your professional development as a coach.
Posted in Australian Beach VB, Australian Volleyball, It's not volleyball but ..., School Volleyball, Sports, State Volleyball, Volleyball, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: volleyball symposium | No Comments »
Posted by devo on August 16, 2008
AUSTRALIANS Andrew Schacht and Josh Slack have bowed out of the Olympic beach volleyball competition in the round of 16 with a straight-sets loss to the Dutch Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil: 2-0 (21-16, 21-14).
The Aussies fell behind early, trailing 8-2 in the first set in the blink of an eyelid, and were never able to bridge the gap. After conceding the first set, Schacht and Slack opened up a 4-1 lead in the second before the European champions ran away with the set and booked a berth in tomorrow’s quarter-finals. more@FoxSports ~ more@sportal
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Posted by devo on August 15, 2008
Natalie Cook
Aussie beach volleyballers at the Olympics, Natalie Cook and Tamsin Barnett, continued on their winning way and into the quarter finals after a surprisingly hard-fought victory over Greece in hot and sunny conditions at Beijing’s Chaoyang Park complex. There was very little to separate the two sides, with attack successes and errors virtually identical on either side of the net. more@SBS ~ more@ABC
15-Aug: Barnett-Cook AUS [10] def Koutroumanidou-Tsiartsiani GRE [16] 2-1 (22-20, 19-21, 15-12) in 56 minutes.
They will meet either Maaseide-Glesnes NOR [12] or Talita-Renata BRA [6] in the quarter finals on Sunday (Photo courtesy AFP: Thomas Coex)
Posted in Australian Beach VB, Olympics, Sports, Volleyball Australia, Volleyball Picture | Tagged: Natalie Cook, Tamsin Barnett | No Comments »
Posted by devo on August 13, 2008
Channel 7 have confirmed on air that Aussie beach volleyballers Josh Slack and Andrew Schacht’s last pool match will be televised tonight. Although the Aussies have already qualified for the round of 16, they will be wanting to knock over the number 3 ranked Brazilians to gain a better draw position. The game is scheduled for 11pm AEST.
UPDATE: The Aussies went down to the Brazilians 2-0 (21-14, 21-17)
| Pool C | ||||||
| 33 | 13-Aug | 21:00 | Ricardo-Emanuel BRA [3] | Schacht-Slack AUS [10] | 2-0 (21-14, 21-17) | 0:43 |
| 27 | 13-Aug | 14:00 | Geor-Gia GEO [15] | Fernandes-Morais ANG [22] | 2-0 (21-14, 21-13) | 0:39 |
| 21 | 11-Aug | 10:00 | Schacht-Slack AUS [10] | Fernandes-Morais ANG [22] | 2-0 (21-15, 21-9) | 0:39 |
| 15 | 11-Aug | 13:00 | Ricardo-Emanuel BRA [3] | Geor-Gia GEO [15] | 2-0 (21-19, 21-17) | 0:45 |
| 9 | 09-Aug | 14:00 | Schacht-Slack AUS [10] | Geor-Gia GEO [15] | 2-0 (21-17, 21-19) | 0:46 |
| 3 | 09-Aug | 13:00 | Ricardo-Emanuel BRA [3] | Fernandes-Morais ANG [22] | 2-0 (21-8, 21-13) | 0:36 |
Posted in Australian Beach VB, Olympics, Sports, Volleyball Australia | Tagged: Andrew Schacht, Josh Slack | No Comments »
Posted by devo on August 12, 2008
Natalie Cook talks about the progress of beach volleyball in this Reuters post.
The international tour has also blossomed since an exhibition event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
That year, there was one women’s event with $50,000 prize money while the men had $820,000 over five tournaments. By the Atlanta qualifiers the total prize money had jumped to $3 million and is now above $8 million. Sponsorship and domestic tours add to the pot although the total is still small change in comparison to the likes of soccer.
Cook wants beach volleyball to fix more big tournaments on an annual basis to keep up the Olympic momentum, adding to the biannual world championships and shifting world tour. “We have no real fixed facilities. We just put up stands on a beach or tip sand into a tennis court which means it’s expensive to set up tournaments,” she said. “I’ll keep beating that drum, but even with the Olympics we may not hit the really big time in my lifetime.” more@Reuters
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