We don't have bulletins from USA and Dominican Republic, so we don't know anything about individual awrds. From news on NORCECA i found out that Gina Mambru was chosen as MVP in Pool P 
Pool S - Bulletin #4
Meanwhile in Canada tonight we'll have final: Canada - Mexico
During this week we'll have last qualification tournament in NORCECA zone in this round - participants: Puerto Rico (host), Barbados, Costa Rica, Saint Lucia.
First trainings start tomorrow, first matches on Thursday.
Fortunately I found last bulletins from USA and Dominican Republic:
Pool O - USA - Bulletin #5
Pool P - Dominican Republic - Bulletin #5
Individual awards in USA: - Americans were subbed so often, so they didn't get as many awards as they could 
MVP - Kelly Reeves (USA)
Best Scorer - Blanca Recinos (Guatemala)
Best OP - Katherine Taju (Panama)
Best OHs - Blanca Recinos (Guatemala), Diana Arias (Guatemala)
Best MBs - Mariajosse Diaz (Honduras), Angela Evans (Panama)
Best S - Lauren Plum (USA)
Best L - Kristen Hahn (USA)
Best Receiver - Kristen Hahn (USA)
Best Digger - Walda Maldonado (Guatemala)
Best Server - Kelly Reeves (USA)
Individual Awards in Dominican Republic:
MVP - Gina Mambru (Dominican Republic)
Best Scorer - Gina Mambru (Dominican Republic)
Best OP - Gina Mambru (Dominican Republic)
Best OHs - Brayelin Martinez (Dominican Republic), Adriana Flores (El Salvador)
Best MBs - Candida Arias (Dominican Republic), Sylvia Sidney (Guadaloupe)
Best S - Niverka Marte (Dominican Republic)
Best L - Ana Binet (Dominican Republic)
Best Receiver - Ana Binet (Dominican Republic)
Best Digger - Ana Binet (Dominican Republic)
Best Server - Gina Mambru (Dominican Republic)
Dominicans had no competiton there, because of it Mambru got 4 awards, Binet got 3 awards and 3 other awards also were given for Dominicans - Arias, B.Martinez and Marte 
if brayelin plays OH, does that mean she has to receive serves? or do they have the OPP pass?
about christine anthony, if she's such a phenomenon, does she play abroad professionally? and i bet the netherlands really wish they could have her in their NT...
if brayelin plays OH, does that mean she has to receive serves? or do they have the OPP pass?
about christine anthony, if she's such a phenomenon, does she play abroad professionally? and i bet the netherlands really wish they could have her in their NT...
Brayelin Martinez played as regualr OH, but she didn't have to receive less than 20% of all b*lls Gina Mambru which is Dominican OP didn't receive at all.
Canada defeats Mexico 3-0 (25-16, 25-19, 25-17) to qualify for the World Championships.
Right now the teams in the playoff round are:
Trinidad & Tobago
Nicaragua
Mexico
Panama
And to complete last weeks' qualification tournaments there's Bulletin #5 from Canada
Individual Awards in Canada:
MVP - Tabitha Love (Canada)
Best Scorer - Andrea Rangel (Mexico)
Best OP - Andrea Rangel (Mexico)
Best OHs - Tabitha Love (Canada), Brittney Page (Canada)
Best MBs - Lecia Brown (Canada), Sasha Lee Wallen (Jamaica)
Best S - Jennifer Lundquist (Canada)
Best L - Tesca Andre-Wasylik (Canada)
Best Receiver - Tesca Andre-Wasylik (Canada)
Best Digger - Lizeth Lopez (Mexico)
Best Server - Simone Asque (Jamaica)
Love as MVP, while in Poland she played so poorly and stayed of bench in last matches
Page played for Canada as OP, but received quite often in order to relieve Love a bit
Due to health problems Stephanie Enright (OH) and Karina Ocasio (OP/OH) won't play in qualification tournament.
She'll be replaced by Michelle Nogueras (S) and Legna Hernandez (OH), so they have 3 Setters in 12-roster now 
maybe one of them will play on wing if necessary...
S: Mojica, Valentin, Nogueras
OP: Velez
OH: Cruz, Rosa, Santana, Hernandez
MB: Oquendo, Morales, S.Ocasio
L: Seilhamer
Canada defeats Mexico 3-0 (25-16, 25-19, 25-17) to qualify for the World Championships.
just found this, was this posted before?
It wasn't, thanks 
Puerto Rico will be probably the last one team from NORCECA which will advance in this round. Comparing with other Pools in NORCECA this tournament is also so predictable 
Host beat Costa Rica in first game 3-0 (25-20 25-14 25-19), while today they beat Saint Lucia also 3-0 (25-4 25-9 25-10) 
Their last opponent before final will be Barbados and later in final it's rather obvious that they'll meet Costa Rica again...
Puerto Rican coach Jose Mieles switches players so often, only Deborah Seilhamer and Vanessa Velez are playing all time. Seilhamer is only one libero (they don't need another one ^^), while Velez just doesn't have a backup here, because Karina Ocasio isn't here (couldn't they find a backup OP 
they could take Alvarez, Ferrer, Ruiz, Jimenez, Collazo or even Wingate (convert her for a while) instead of Nogueras as 3rd Setter ).
It seems that Velez with Seilhamer will get some individual awards here 
MVP, best server, scorer, OP, receiver, digger, L, ...
there are so many to take 
just look what did Dominicans at home - mostly Mambru with Binet
Final tomorrow as expected: Puerto Rico - Costa Rcia
Puerto Rico smashed Barbados 3-0 (25-4 25-8 25-8], these tournaments in NORCECA are such a nonesense
Puerto Rico qualified as last team in 2nd Round of NORCECA qualifications beating Costa Rica 3-0.
Pools' Update:
POOL A - Roma:
Italy, Dominican Republic, Germany, Argentina, Croatia, Tunisia
POOL B - Verona:
Brazil, Serbia, Turkey, Canada, Cameroon, Bulgaria
POOL C - Trieste:
USA, Russia, Thailand, Netherlands, Kazakhstan, NORCECA Play-Off (Trinidad&Tobago, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica)*
POOL D - Bari:
Japan, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Belgium, Azerbaijan
So there's one place left, 3 main contenders seems to be Mexico, Costa Rica and Trinidad & Tobago.
Individual Awards in Puerto Rico:
MVP - Vanessa Velez (Puerto Rico)
Best Scorer - Vanessa Velez (Puerto Rico)
Best OP - Vanessa Velez (Puerto Rico)
Best OHs - Aurea Cruz (Puerto Rico), Verania Willis (Costa Rica)
Best MBs - Lynda Morales (Puerto Rico), Thonya Joseph (Barbados)
Best S - Natalia Valentin (Puerto Rico)
Best L - Deborah Seilhamer (Puerto Rico)
Best Receiver - Deborah Seilhamer (Puerto Rico)
Best Digger - Sancha Isidore (Saint Lucia)
Best Server - Vanessa Velez (Puerto Rico)
As I predicted Velez got 4 awards like Mambru meanwhile Seilhamer got only one less award than Binet 9 awards overall for Puerto Ricans - Cruz, Valentin and Morales also got awards.
Tournaments in NORCECA were so predictable, no we'll have fight for last spot in Trinidad & Tobago between 2nd and 9th June.
Participants:
Trinidad & Tobago (host), Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica)
Winner will play in Pool C in upcoming WCH.
wonderful. so mexico gets to go to the WCh but not korea or poland? something is wrong with this picture!
wonderful. so mexico gets to go to the WCh but not korea or poland? something is wrong with this picture!
Totally agree, NORCECA has at least one spot too many which should be given to CEV or AVC
well, kondzio, i think part of the problem is that some top NORCECA teams are highly ranked (like US, DR and until recently cuba) so that would give them extra spots. but there's a steep drop-off in quality after these 3 teams and PR from the rest. problem is like much of the rest of the developing world that women's sports is not given much support. look at tunisia and egypt, if they only supported their women's teams as much as the men's. even australia, they have a great men's team but a sucky women's team. or iran. you'd think that many developing countries should be great women's teams since VB is about the only sport women can do in their countries.
also, i guess nobody expected kazakhstan to beat korea in the qual. (is there a vid of that match? i can't find it on YT.) maybe if there was an extra spot for asia, we would be complaining about kazakhstan being in the WCh? i don't know. sure it's not a perfect system but the quality of NORCECA after the top 4 is sad.
Did someone understand where pools E and F will play? ...I mean, in which cities both pools will be held in?!
Did someone understand where pools E and F will play? ...I mean, in which cities both pools will be held in?!
Milan will be the host of the finals. I guess that Pool E & F will be held in Milan and Modena (don't know which Pool where), but it's just my guess, they should announce these pools with venues earlier
Milan will be the host of the finals. I guess that Pool E & F will be held in Milan and Modena (don't know which Pool where), but it's just my guess, they should announce these pools with venues earlier
They say this in the article "The top four teams of each pool will advance to the second
round (in Bari, Trieste, Verona and Modena), where the 16 teams will be split
into two pools of eight ..."
Looks like four cities will host Pools D & E, but they don't say the specific cities for each pool... I need to organise my trip to Italy and so far FIVB isn't helping ... 