Colombia was in the final over USA last year
Last year's roster was meeeh! This year USA has very good roster. I'll be surprise if they can't win with that roster!
NORCECA Events
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Last year's roster was meeeh! This year USA has very good roster. I'll be surprise if they can't win with that roster!
against Colombia? Probably… but against DOM? Nah
I’m curious what Canada and Argentina can do. Even Puerto Rico is better -
I read in a site that 3 americans injured during trainings
One of them was VJP it seems bajema was another cause she isn't on the final list
S: Sydney Hilley, Jenna Gray
Opp: Taylor Mims, Stephanie Samedy
OH: Sarah Parsons, Logan Eggleston, Simone Lee, Brooke Nuneviller
MB: Serena Gray, Madeline Gates, Kayla Haneline, Danielle Hart
L: Zoe Fleck, Kendall White
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Go Zozo Fleck!
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Look here. They came with only 9 players, Cuba and Suriname didn't come at all
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Look here. They came with only 9 players, Cuba and Suriname didn't come at all
Cuba had visa issues (thanks usa)
suriname is just Cristobal being the worst... their flight got stuck in Guyana so they were going to miss their originally intended 10am game today.. Cristobal told them if they missed the game, they were going to be fined $40,000. so they withdrew all together.
also, Puerto rico isnt streaming the event
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pan am cup gives points to the ranking
Argentina won 2 points in victory over mexico
But colombia 0 points in victory over canada
It must be a mistake
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Great performance by Logan, against Costa Rica. Particularly passing % and # digs is really outstanding. Hope she keeps going on like this.
Kills
Taylor Mims: 13k (.379), 4 blocks
Logan Eggleston: 13k (.276), 1ace
Danielle Hart: 8k (.750), 3 blocks, 2 aces
Simone Lee: 7k (.875), 1block
Serena Gray: 5k (.714)
Brooke Nuneviller: 4k (.273), 1block, 2 aces
Digs
Zoe Fleck 12, Taylor Mims 10, Logan Eggleston 10, Sydney Hilley 10, Brooke Nuneviller 4, Simone Lee 2
Passing (excellent %)
Logan: 70% (1 error/10 attempts)
Brooke: 59% (0 errors/17 attempts)
Simone: 38% (0 errors/8 attempts)
Zoe: 60% (0 errors/5 attempts)
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Zozo Fleck!
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USA and DOM are into the semifinals, no surprise there
Simone Lee looks very good.
Brittany Abercrombie got hurt
or something she isn’t playing
Colombia look so bad… I don’t know what happened to them
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Colombia look so bad… I don’t know what happened to themI read that Colombian players + Rizzola (HC) have a serious argument against their federation. He spoke out some weeks ago that this year his players and him have suffered more than the last year, as well as many problems in logistics and organization. Likewise, the team was not complete (the professional staff) at the beginning of the season, the infrastructure wasnt ready either, etc, so they had to travel from one city to another in Colombia. Plus, Rizzola denounced that the come back trip after the Challenger Cup was a total odyssey: their federation has cut down the budget for trips, so they had to sleep at the airport (from 15h to 9h of the following day). They didnt even have money for the lunch and dinner, the players had to pay for it themselves and well, we all know how tall the players are, it was super uncomfortable to sleep there. At the last: their best player (Marin, the setter) is severe injured since some months, but she had to play cuz there was anyone who could replace her.
After the death of the former president (Lloreda, during the pandemic cuz of COVID), Colombian Volleyball federation has totally lost the north. They have even not presented a squad for the youth/junior South American championships some times. And this is why he said there is no replacement. There is a big gap between their "golden" generation and the rest.
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the groups for the NORCECA championships are
A: Canada (hosts), Mexico, Puerto Rico
B: USA, DOM, Costa Rica, Cuba
group winners get byes to the semifinals... 2/3 go to quarterfinals
Only 7 teams?
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Only 7 teams?
tbh, i dont hate it.
let the lesser teams focus on zonal and regional competition... its a waste of everyone's funds/time to send teams like Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Suriname, etc to major championships.
Let them compete in their zone/region for one/two bids and build their teams against competition that's appropriate for their level.
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tbh, i dont hate it.
let the lesser teams focus on zonal and regional competition... its a waste of everyone's funds/time to send teams like Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Suriname, etc to major championships.
Let them compete in their zone/region for one/two bids and build their teams against competition that's appropriate for their level.
IMHO it should be a 8 teams tournament.
USA, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Porto Rico, Cuba and Canada should be automatically qualified, and the last 2 spots should go to teams coming from the zonal competitions. It would give some kind of importance to all this smaller competitions somehow.
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IMHO it should be a 8 teams tournament.
USA, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Porto Rico, Cuba and Canada should be automatically qualified, and the last 2 spots should go to teams coming from the zonal competitions. It would give some kind of importance to all this smaller competitions somehow.
That's where the money issue comes in.
Most of these teams dont have the funding. Or they want to focus on other tournaments.
Or they're like Suriname and got fined by Cristobal
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Cristobal...
He's just adding meaningless tournaments no one - except DR - cares about to send the A team, like the Norceca Pan American Cup Final Six, just to give his country tons of gold medal every summer.
