2015-16 SW Vets Champions – Saga Louts (Torexe)

2015 Review

All teams played everyone else and at the end of this there was only 1 point separating the top 3 teams, with last year’s winners Wiltshire Mavericks just losing out on a final place. The event often throws up a surprise or two, this years star performers were the Torexe based Saga Louts, as well as a positive attack, they had by far the best scramble defence of any team on the day which saw them through to victory in this years final against last years runners up Yeovil.

Top Three form 2015 SW Veterans Tournament

• 1^st Saga Louts – Torexe
• 2^nd Yeovil
• 3^rd Wiltshire Mavericks

The Winners of the Tenby Beach Tournament are as follows:

• Mixed 4’s Cup – Broken Bones;
• Mixed 4’s Plate – Broken Bones;
• Mixed 2’s Cup – Team Barrett (Yeovil);
• Mixed 2’s Plate – Serving Private Ryan;
• Ladies 2’s Cup – Martzia and Tammy;
• Men’s 2’s Cup – Pokaball;
• Men’s 2’s Plate – Stavros and Aris; Men’s 2’s
• Bowl – Beach Bums.

A collection of photos and videos available at: 
Tenby-beach-2016.html

Plymouth Mayflower Volleyball Club has been awarded a groundbreaking award from Samworth Brothers Sports Opportunity Fund to expand its sports provision in the region.

The funding grant will be used to back a three-year programme to ensure that more than 2,400 new participants from a range of backgrounds will get to experience volleyball and sports activity.

With few opportunities in Plymouth or the wider South West area for young people to play volleyball on a recreational play as you play basis, Andrew Potter of Plymouth Mayflower wanted to break down the prohibitive barriers – and get more people active.

“This grant will enable us to reach our potential to engage more people with sport and activity, through the creative delivery of Go Spike community volleyball, sitting volleyball and new glow in the dark UVolleyball, said Andrew.

We are incredibly grateful to Samworth Brothers for their belief in our dream,”

The project will see the creation of extra-curricular volleyball for up to 17 secondary schools and their cluster primary schools. It will also fund teacher training and facilitated learning, culminating in School Games competitions as well as four semi-permanent Go Spike volleyball courts in outdoor spaces, which will offer free volleyball throughout the summer months.

Samworth Brothers Sports Opportunity Chairman Stephen Draisey said; “We are delighted to be able to support volleyball in the South West. The purpose of the Sports Opportunity Fund is to help young people, who may not have had the best start in life, develop better life skills through sport. We are always on the look out for clubs and organisations in the South West that might fit our criteria.”

This three-year programme will specifically target school children, inactive adults and pan-disability groups in areas of high deprivation.

For further information on the Samworth Brothers Sports Opportunity Fund please contactsportsopportunityfund@samworthbrothers.co.uk

It is the fourth time that the Olympic speed record for servining was broken or tied at the Rio 2016 women’s tournament, after her Serbian teammate Brankica Mihajlovic opened the bidding at 99kph on the very first day of competition, last week against Italy.

Nineteen-year-old Boskovic became the first player in Olympic history to break the 100kph mark at exactly that speed against China – only to see that record fall again in the same day with a 101kph serve by Italy’s 17-year-old Paola Egonu against USA.

Coming into Rio 2016 the Olympic serving speed record stood at 97 kph, held by Turkey’s Neslihan Demir from London 2012.

from FIVB

SW Player registration for the 2016-17 season start on the 1st September, Clubs, Coaches and Players can now register via the SW Registration Page.

To take part in any SWVA organised event (adult or junior) you need to be a member of a Volleyball England registered club and Registered with the South West Volleyball Association (name, club, contact email, DOB if under 18). The team contact, the club secretary or the club coaches are responsible for registering all players and presenting the “SWVA Team Sheet” to the match or tournament officials.

Players can also register themselves using their club user ID, player registration is from 1st September to the 31st August.

Once registered, players names will appear on the appropriate team list, registration numbers will appear once the registration has been approved.

Fans not lucky enough to be on Copacabana Beach for the men’s and women’s finals of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games beach volleyball tournament will still have the chance to experience it through a fully immersive virtual reality broadcast. Live 360-degree video will be streamed live from the iconic arena for both finals, with camera systems located in strategic locations on the field of play as close as possible to the action, providing a mix of viewing angles.

The Olympic Broadcasting Service, who are organising the broadcast, will produce more than 85 hours of footage across all sports at the Olympics. The FIVB is no stranger to virtual reality, with several hubs at the Volleyball House – located a few hundred metres from the beach volleyball venue – giving guests the chance to experience volleyball and beach volleyball through 360-degree video.

With the beach volleyball venue already established as the place to be at Rio 2016, more fans around the world will be able to experience the unique atmosphere from Copacabana.

from FIVB