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06th
March 2010
Independence
Cup, a battle to the end
After
staging two successful tournaments in St.Lucia
under the NORCEA banner, The St. Lucia Volleyball
Association is at it again, keeping the ball
flying across court. Dubbed a successful season
in 2009, SLVB recently captured the prestigious
title of Association of the Year at the National
Sports Awards held at the Gaiety.
On Sunday 6th March 2010 SLVB will be hosting
its most talked about Annual Independence Knock
- Out Cup Tournament. The event which was initially
scheduled for Sunday 28th February was postponed
due to concerns over the availability of water
at the Beausejour Indoor Facility on that day.
The showpiece is scheduled to commence at 9:30
am with a short opening ceremony, with the first
match – up spiking off at 10:00 am on
the buzzer.
According to Dania Hamilton all the participating
teams and clubs are from around the island as
they competed in the 2009 Bank of St. Lucia
(BOSL) Guy Brown Memorial League Tournament
and will bring that much added flavour and kaleidoscope
under one roof.
In the male division, defending league champions
Jetsetters Volleyball club will compete against
runners up Le Club Volleyball and Evolucian
Volleyball, Turtle Beach Ballers and the Dig
Set Point volleyball club. One can almost be
certain that this tournament will be no walk
in the park for the defending champions, as
President of the Association Brian Louisy, has
returned to the coaching arena and is now trying
to guide his former Club Team, Le Club Volleyball.
Former national coach Terry Verdant will lead
Dig Set Point Volleyball club who did not compete
in the 2009 BOSL Guy Brown Memorial League Tournament.
In the female division, champions Le Club will
do battle with runners up Jetsetters Volleyball,
Dig Set Point Volleyball, Evolucian Volleyball
and the veterans of the Le Club Volleyball team.
The Le Club veteran team or the “Le Club
Mothers” as they call themselves has promised
to make this tournament a very exciting one
as they have vowed to come back even better
than before.
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Interestingly amongst the
list of players included are former national
players and 2007 Senior Female Volleyballer
of the Year Samantha Mann, Deputy Permanent
Secretary in the Ministry of Social Transformation,
Youth and Sports, Joanna Reynolds- Atherton,
former national setter and Captain Rebecca
Flemius, Gifta Dujon and Carol Faucher two
long time leading players and Valarina St.
Helen will be part of the line up.
Le Club will feature their slew of current
national players like 2008 and 2009 St. Lucia
senior female Volleyballer of the year and
2009 nominee for sportswoman of the year Dania
Hamilton, the dynamic sister duo; 2008 junior
Volleyballer of the year Sancha Isidore and
2008 youth and 2009 junior Volleyballer of
the year Petal Isidore. Other outstanding
players will include Saralee Williams, Ulanda
Antoine, Tramaine Edward and Emma Edgar.
The names mentioned above certainly carry
Volleyball credentials. Service, Set, Spike,:-
this Independence Knock – Out Cup will
be a battle to the end at the BIF.
Sunday’s event is in a knock-Out format
where teams will be seeded according to the
2009 BOSL Guy Brown Memorial League final
standings. In the event of an odd number of
participating teams, the winner of the 2009
BOSL Guy Brown Memorial League Tournament
(Le Club Volleyball in the female division
and Jetsetters Volleyball in the male division)
will receive a bye into round two. Where six
teams are participating, a re-seed will take
place after the first round, giving the team
with the best margin a bye into the final
round of the tournament.
Discuss
Story
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