VOLLEYBALL

Top ranked local duo, Ayana Dyette and Malika Davidson will spear-head this country’s women’s beach volleyball teams quest for a spot at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in Brazil to be held in August when the Third Round of NORCECA Women’s Continental Beach Volleyball Olympic qualifiers begin.

After 36 matches of a challenging 2015-2016 Bundesliga volleyball season, the multiple champions Vfb Friedrichshafen tangled with their archrivals Berlin Recycling Volleys losing 3-1, 3-2, before surrendering their title in a tame 3-0 defeat (26-24, 25-16 and 25-21).

Former top T&T women’s NORCECA representatives Elki Phillip and Nancy Joseph turned back the clock when they topped the second of three women’s T&T Volleyball Federation beach wolleyball qualifying tournaments on Saturday at the T&TVF Beach Volleyball Development Centre, Saith Park Park, Chaguanas.

International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) President Ary S. Graça will stand unopposed for re-election for the next eight years at the 35th World Congress in Buenos Aires in October, it has been announced today.

FABIAN WHITFIELD and Daneil Williams suffered a heart-breaking defeat when the second leg of the 2016 NORCECA (North, Central America and the Caribbean) Beach Volleyball Tour served off Friday in Guaymas, Mexico.

TODAY is the second of four consecutive days of action in the FLOW Premier Volleyball League at Mayaro Indoor Sports Complex. There are only women’s matches in the $250,000 tournament during the Easter weekend, and after were featured yesterday, two more will take place today.

European-based T&T senior professional volleyball quartet, Krystle Esdelle, Channon Thompson, Sinead Jack and Marc-Anthony Honore will be the marquee players when the Flow-sponsored T&T Volleyball Federation Premier League serves off next week.

Trinidad and Tobago’s male beach volleyball players continue their march towards Olympic qualification when they commence the second round of the Continental Cup Men’s Inter- Zonal Beach Qualifiers which serves off on Castaways Beach, Antigua, today.

David Thomas Jr, coach of the national men and women beach volleyball teams says he sees no reason why the men’s quartet of Daneil Williams, Fabien Whitfield, Christian Francois and Simon Blake should not win gold when the second phase of the Caribbean Zonal Beach Volleyball Tournament, a qualifier to the NORCECA Continental Cup takes place in Antigua from Friday.