2012 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup

    Hi all,


    Today starts 7th edition of Men's Pan American Volleyball Cup taken place in Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic. I haven't seen any thread destined for it so I opened new one. There were a discussion somewhere on forum about the foul schedule of Women version of Pan-American Cup, which starts few days later but this year everyone are concentrated on Olympic Games and I agree most teams will not be interested at all so it only depreciate rank of this tournament .Big teams like USA, Brazil, Argentina have already sent their 2nd or even worst squad, but also Canada came with amateur team gathered in hurry. All in all it is going to be a real training field and great place to search out for new potential young talents. I'm pleased to invite everybody to share their thoughts about this competition (squads/ players performance :hit: and have a fruitful discussion afterall. Here is the schedule:



    Pool A



    Jul 09 Argentina v Canadá



    Jul 09 República Dominicana v Trinidad & Tobago



    Jul 10 Argentina v Trinidad & Tobago



    Jul 10 República Dominicana v Canadá



    Jul 11 Canadá v Trinidad & Tobago



    Jul 11 República Dominicana v Argentina





    Grupo B



    Jul 09 Brasil v México



    Jul 09 Estados Unidos v Venezuela



    Jul 10 Estados Unidos v México



    Jul 10 Brasil v Venezuela



    Jul 11 Venezuela v México



    Jul 11 Brasil v Estados Unidos
    :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

    Argentine Roster:


    Setters:
    CAVANNA, Maximiliano - 02/07/1988 - La Unión de Formosa
    ARAYA, Alejandro - 21/08/1994 - Ciudad de Buenos Aires


    Opposite players:
    LAPERA, Gonzalo - 13/05/1993 - Ciudad de Buenos Aires
    ASSAF, Cristian - 26/11/1994 - Bolívar


    Middle players:
    GAUNA, Maximiliano - 29/04/1989 - Boca Juniors
    MARTÍNEZ, Esteban - 09/05/1993 - Bolívar
    LLANOS, Mauro - 04/05/1993 - Bolívar


    Wing spikers:
    GIUSTINIANO, Mariano - 04/04/1986 - Buenos Aires Unidos
    QUIROGA, Gonzalo - 25/02/1993 - UCLA, Estados Unidos
    NÚÑEZ, Ramiro - 15/03/1993 - Sonder
    LAZO, Nicolás - 16/04/1995 - Ciudad de Buenos Aires


    Líbero:
    WEBER, Martín - 07/06/1994 - River

    U.S. Men’s Pan American Cup Team


    No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)


    1 Dylan Davis (MB, 6-9, Corona Del Mar, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
    2 Matt Rawson (MB, 6-7, Los Angeles, Hawaii)
    4 Carson Clark (Opp, 6-5, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Irvine)
    5 Garrett Muagututia (OH, 6-5, Oceanside, Calif., UCLA)
    6 Murphy Troy (Opp, 6-8, St. Louis, Mo., USC)
    7 Jordan Dufault (OH, 6-4, Lakewood, Calif., UC Irvine)
    9 Daniel McDonnell (MB, 6-6, Glendale, Ariz., UC Irvine)
    12 Tony Ciarelli (OH, 6-6, Huntington Beach, Calif., USC)
    13 Ryan Ammerman (S, 6-8, Parker, Colo., UC Irvine)
    14 Dustin Watten (L, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Long Beach State)
    22 Taylor Sander (OH, 6-4, Huntington Beach, Calif., BYU)
    24 Kawika Shoji (S, 6-3, Honolulu, Stanford)


    Head Coach: Shawn Patchell
    Assistant Coach: Tim Johnson
    Team Manager: Nicholas MacRae
    Athletic Trainer: Chad Eichten

    Dominican Republic squad for PA 2012:



    José Cáceres (c), Kelvin Campechano (1), Elnis Palomino (2), Elvis Contreras (3), Wilfrido Fernández (4), Edwin Peguero (5), Pedro Luis García (6), Eduardo Concepción (7), Francisco Abréu (10), José Cáceres (11), José Castro (12), Enmanuel Lara (13), Anaury Burgos (14), Henry Tapia (15) y Miguel Vargas (16).

    Canada
    Canadian team named for the Pan American Cup men’s volleyball tournament July 9-14 in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic (name, school or club, hometown)


    Alberta
    Lucas Ban Berkel, Trinity Western University, Edmonton
    Ciaran McGovern, National Training Centre, Grande Prairie
    Jay Blankeneau, University of Calgary, Calgary
    Blair Bann, National Training Centre, Edmonton


    British Columbia
    Steven Marshall, Trinity Western University, Abbotsford


    Manitoba
    Dane Pischke, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg


    New Brunswick
    Jacob Kilpatrick, National Training Centre, St. John


    Newfoundland and Labrador
    Max Burt, National Training Centre, Gander


    Ontario
    Sander Ratsep, National Training Centre, London
    Reid Halpeny, National Training Centre, Grand Bend


    Quebec
    Chris Hoag, University of Calgary, Sherbrooke


    Saskatchewan
    Braden McLean, University of Saskatchewan, Birch Hills


    Staff:
    Head coach: Lawrence McKay
    Assistant coach: Stephen Michael Leknois assistant-coach
    Assistant coach: Tilen Kozamernik
    Athletic therapist: Luc Campbell
    Team manager: Sophie Gadoury

    Team Mexico


    -Pedro Rangel
    -Reynold Rangel
    -Edgar Herrera
    -Jorge Barajas
    -Leonardo Manzo
    -Richar Lazcano
    -Ismael Guerrero
    -Daniel Vargas
    -Marcos Macias
    -Jesus Perales
    -Guerson Acosta
    -Nestor Orellana

    Quote from Bartek

    Where is Puerto Rico? In that case Holland will play vs. Venezuela?





    Puerto Rico and Cuba refused to take part in the tournament.
    The teams would play against the Netherlands will be the best remains of the Dominican, Mexico, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago

    Quote from hen

    good work guys. who should be favorite ? brazil and ? argentyina sent a very young team, canada has a little older team.

    Brasil and USA

    Quote from Betvolley.pl

    For me Venezuela can be black horse here


    May be. Also Dominicana as hosts can probably win a bronze. Too bad Víctor Batista is not in the roster. Did he retire from NT?