sitenoise who is this she looks huge and she got hype right now
Alondra Tapia MB from Furukawa HS. 190+cm not sure about her exact height atm since they reported during Haruko that she's still growing.
Japan Women's NT 2022
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Alondra Tapia MB from Furukawa HS. 190+cm not sure about her exact height atm since they reported during Haruko that she's still growing.
Where is she from? or was she born in Japan?
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Where is she from? or was she born in Japan?
Dominican Republic. I don't know when she came to Japan. Her dad is an automotive designer for Lexus and is currently based in Nagoya.
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Dominican Republic. I don't know when she came to Japan. Her dad is an automotive designer for Lexus and is currently based in Nagoya.
Does she intend on staying in Japan to play pro?
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Where is she from? or was she born in Japan?
Here's an article that talks about her scholarship to play with Furukawa through 2023 and says she will also play "with a Japanese
League contracting team during the 2023, 2024 and 2025 seasons under conditions to be discussed with their home federation"
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Here's an article that talks about her scholarship to play with Furukawa through 2023 and says she will also play "with a Japanese
League contracting team during the 2023, 2024 and 2025 seasons under conditions to be discussed with their home federation"
Interesting.
They should turn her into an OH, she's got a good swing and a decent vertical. A little slow but she's only a sophomore so that can be corrected easily.
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Here's an article that talks about her scholarship to play with Furukawa through 2023 and says she will also play "with a Japanese
League contracting team during the 2023, 2024 and 2025 seasons under conditions to be discussed with their home federation"
Where is Daichi Saegusa now? he's no longer listed under JVA's staff. I remember he worked with Seitoku's ancient volley sensei. He was one of the pro-height coaches and was always keen on scouting the tallest girls.
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Where is Daichi Saegusa now? he's no longer listed under JVA's staff. I remember he worked with Seitoku's ancient volley sensei. He was one of the pro-height coaches and was always keen on scouting the tallest girls.
I guess he left when Aihara took over. The anti-height or more like work-with-what-you-have coach
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I thought they were all there already but I guess YOLO was absent. I didn't find that video, but I did watch one with Sarina. I'm happy with how grown up she seems now. I'm going to bracket out the fact that with four other NT (3 Olympian) members and a BCS she couldn't lead her team to the Final Stage in V.League and still believe she's going to be a great NT Captain
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I guess he left when Aihara took over. The anti-height or more like work-with-what-you-have coach
lol
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Here's an article that talks about her scholarship to play with Furukawa through 2023 and says she will also play "with a Japanese
League contracting team during the 2023, 2024 and 2025 seasons under conditions to be discussed with their home federation"
Alondra is eager to reach the top, saying, "I want to be the best in Japan. I want to do my best to practice for that." She will be the core of the team in both offense and defense, and will call for victory on the national stage.
https://hochi.news/articles/20211031-OHT1T51011.html?page=1
Tapia said the exact same thing as Valdes
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I guess he left when Aihara took over. The anti-height or more like work-with-what-you-have coach
lol smack down
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I guess he left when Aihara took over. The anti-height or more like work-with-what-you-have coach
Wasn't it Saegusa who was in-charge of the U18, and Abo, before Aihara, U20?
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Wasn't it Saegusa who was in-charge of the U18, and Abo, before Aihara, U20?
Yes. He was in charge of JVA's tryouts until early 2020 when NSSU's coach took over along with Mayumi Saito before she left Taiiku Daigaku.
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Seitoku's legendary coach Yoshiki Ogawa aka The Starmaker. He watched all of Mayu's I mean Toray's home games this season.
Did he ever coach for the NT?
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Seitoku's legendary coach Yoshiki Ogawa aka The Starmaker. He watched all of Mayu's I mean Toray's home games this season.
Did he ever coach for the NT?
No. He always said that he was primarily a GUTS coach. Guts is the Japanese term for fighting spirit. Ogawa believes in nurturing the youth than guiding players who are already at their peak or reaching peak. And as he got older, there were younger coaches who were fighting to coach the U-squads.
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NEC had a send off video posted last April 12 where they showed their players leaving, and riding the car to go to the NT Training Camp. Haruna Soga is with them.
I think she was there at day one. Up there could be wrong
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Phoenix can you elaborate on those tryouts? I've seen V2 teams announcing tryouts but I wasn't aware that JVA had it too.
It's an open program/development program that goes by JVA Elite Academy but it was under a different division when former Olympic flops Hideyuki Otake and Masa Ogino ran it after the 2008 Olympics. That was the period of drought for men's volleyball so the program was initially a project focused on discovering potential among young boys. Otake is still there btw. They're usually joined by board members, with the only exception being Yoko Zetterlund who was never part of the board of directors.
Mayu Ishikawa auditioned for it. And the now defunct Sendai Belle Fille was formed from the girls that auditioned there with their coach Nobu Kuzawa another NT staff who was part of the scouting team.
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I think she was there at day one. Up there could be wrong
I think that's all right now, Yokota has short hair these days, and it illuminates the tall one as Yamanaka
