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First Day Results at Arafura 2011
Today was the first day of competition and it was great seeing such a full stadium supporting Volleyball!
Our NT Women played against Papua New Guinea – NCD, and despite taking the first set, were unable to win the match, losing 3 sets to 1. The set scores were: 25-14, 13-25, 12-25, 15-25.
The NT Men’s team had two matches today. Their first was against Torres Strait Island, which they won convincingly in 3 straight sets. The set scores were: 25-11, 25-18, 25-17.
In their second game, they were unable to continue their good form losing to Papua New Guinea – NCD in straight sets. The set scores were: 15-25, 18-25, 16-25.
You can find the full results information at the Arafura Games Volleyball Results Page.
Tomorrow we will see the Northern Territory women square off against Torres Macau at 12 noon. The NT Men will again play two games, starting at 9am against defending champions Papua New Guinea. They will hit the courts again at 1:30pm to battle Macau.
A full volleyball program guide can be found here.
2011 Arafura Games
Today the Arafura Games are officially open!
The opening ceremony starts at 6pm this evening.
Tomorrow we will see the start of the Volleyball Tournament. This year we have 8 men’s teams and 6 women’s teams.
The men’s teams are:
Australian Defence Force
Northern Territory
Macau
Papua New Guinea – NCD
Papua New Guinea
South Adelaide
Timor Leste
Torres Strait Island
The women’s teams are:
Australian Defence Force
Northern Territory
Macau
Papua New Guinea – NCD
South Adelaide
Torres Strait Island
The teams will play a round robin during the week before the playoffs on Friday and Finals will be held on Saturday.
The Arafura Games website has a full draw which you can find here.
So if you have some free time, come down and check out the Volleyball.
Each morning we will also broadcast on our facebook and twitter pages the times that the NT teams will be playing.
If you want to come down and support the NT side, then these are the times you will want to be down at the Marrara Indoor Stadium.
Sunday 9th
NT Men: 9 am and 12 noon
NT Women: 3pm
Monday 10th
NT Men: 9 am and 1:30pm
NT Women: 12 noon
Tuesday 11th
NT Men: 8pm
NT Women: 6:30pm
Wednesday 12th
NT Men: 6:30 pm
NT Women: 6:30 pm
Thursday 13th
NT Men: 6:30 pm
NT Women: 6:30 pm
Channel 9 – Team of the Week Competition
Channel 9 is running a team of the week competition and you can enter your team for a chance to win $20,000.
Here is a copy of the letter sent out by Jonathon Uptin and you can visit www.lifestylent.nt.gov.au for more information.
This is a great opportunity to get your team noticed in the community and possibly raise some funds.
DVA is now on Facebook and Twitter!
So the DVA is keeping up with the times, by providing you with more ways to keep up with us.
You can follow us our twitter account: @DVAVolleyball
We also have a Facebook Page that you can “Like” to have weekly reminders about game times right in your news feed!
We will still be posting our regular emails to those people on our League and Social mailing lists.
If you would like to be be added to our mailing lists, send an email to darwinvolleyball@gmail.com asking to be put on our social or league mailing list.
FIVB Level 1 Coaching Course at AIS
An FIVB Level 1 Coaching Course will be run this June at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
The course goes over 13 days at the end of May through the start of June. The costs will be $1452 including accomodation at the AIS and 3 meals a day. Or just $776 for just the meals and no accommodation.
After looking at the FIVB website, I have been unable to find evidence of any clinics run in Australia since 2006. Though there have been reccollections of courses held in 1981 and ’88.
This is a fantastic opportunity to improve your volleyball coaching skills as well as build fantastic connections to the wider Australian Volleyball community.
For more information hit up the links below.
From the AVF [via Ozvolley.org]
