Bulletin No 1 3rd Round Women’s Group -O, Colorado Springs, USA

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 * MiĂŠrcoles, 14 de mayo 2014

Colorado Springs, Colorado U.S. Olympic Training Center May 13-19, 2014

Guatemala

Honduras

Panama

United States

VOLLEYBALL • Team composition 2014 Women's World Championship 3rd Round

HON • Honduras PLAYERS Shirt no

Last name

First name

Shirt name

Birthdate

1 3 4 6 8 9 10 C 14 15 L 16 17 19

Romero Mejia Leiva Campos Midence Flores Duron Rivera Rivera Flores Diaz Sarmiento

Lilibet Dulce Catarine Sergy Lesby Tessa Estela Monica Andrea Adriana Mariajosse Dania

ROMERO MEJIA LEIVA Campos MIDENCE FLORES DURON M.RIVERA A.RIVERA D.FLORES DIAZ SARMIENTO

6/21/1990 6/24/1992 7/30/1972 12/6/1995 7/20/1994 3/22/1986 11/8/1989 2/7/1994 12/1/1994 9/15/1994 3/2/1994 2/25/1995

OFFICIALS Team manager: Head coach: Assistant coaches:

Ubaldo, Jose (HON) Tejeda,Marcos (CUB) Ulloa, Marvin (NCA)

Weight Height [kg] [cm] 58 58 83 55 52 72 56 76 60 64 77 57

Spike [cm] 270 264 272 237 240 280 265 268 262 265 284 239

National selections

Block Club [cm] 265 263 260 234 238 270 264 258 249 255 284 238

UNAH UNITEC GLOBAL Global UNITEC VIP GLOBAL GLOBAL UNAH VIP UNAH VIP

COLORS Main: BLUE 2nd: WHITE 3rd:

Doctor: Therapist/Trainer:

VIS, version 1.96 (Build 582, 16 pools), © 1992-2012 FIVB

170 167 180 162 165 181 171 176 169 172 181 164

Highest reach

5/14/2014 11:58

WC

OG

Oth

Tot.

-

-

4 19 38 8 41 16 1 16 27 16

4 19 38 8 41 16 1 16 27 16

STATISTICS Data Age Height Spike 2-hand block National selections

Minimum

Average

Maximum

18.4 162 237 234

23.1 172 262 257 16

41.8 181 284 284 41

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Strong USA Team Favored in NORCECA Third‐Round Pool O

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 14, 2014) – The United States will be the heavy favorites as it hosts Guatemala, Honduras and Panama in the FIVB Women’s World Championship NORCECA third‐round Pool O qualification tournament May 15‐18 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Host United States, ranked second in the world by the FIVB, received a bye directly into the third‐round qualification tournament based on their ranking. Guatemala and Panama each won their second‐round groups to advance to this week’s third round, while Honduras finished as the highest ranked‐third‐place team to move to the third round.

The Pool O winner earns a berth into the 24‐team FIVB Women’s World Championship that will be held Sept. 23 to Oct. 12 in six Italian cities. The second‐place team in Pool O, along with the other four second place teams in third‐round pools, will compete in a final playoff June 2‐9 at Trinidad & Tobago to determine NORCECA’s sixth and final spot into the World Championship.

The Women’s World Championship, in its 17th edition, is held every four years and is the premier event for the FIVB. A total of 141 national federations, including 36 from NORCECA, have taken part in the FIVB Women’s World Championship qualification process.

Guatemala Head Coach David Aldana: “For the last five months we have not had much preparation, just training with our men’s team and not much match preparation. Among the teams of Guatemala, Honduras and Panama, I see our team as the top team. We have five very experienced players and this should help us. We are looking to finish second and advance to the final playoff round.”

Honduras Head Coach Marcos Tejeda: “Our number one goal is to qualify for World Championship. We look for strong competition among Panama and Guatemala. We know USA is way ahead of the others technically and tactically. We realize playing with USA is a way to get more experience against the best in the world. We went to Trinidad & Tobago and we feel we did well finishing third. All these qualifiers have provided us with new vision on how far behind we are and the need to grow to become one of the best teams. The fact we are located in a very strong region with USA, Dominican Republic, Cuba and others is very limiting. But playing with the big ones will make us a big one eventually.”

Panama Head Coach: Reynaldo Ortega: “We have been in training for six months. We are working on our power and jumping skills. We know we are facing three very tall teams who play fast games. We are going to try to use our blocking versus their fast attacks.”

United States Head Coach David Hunt: “This team is young, but they have put in a lot of work in our Winter Training Block. They are hungry to play against competition other than themselves in Red‐Blue scrimmages. For a lot of these players, this is their first chance to play for USA at the senior international level. Being this is my first tournament serving as a head coach, I am probably just as excited as they are and I am really excited for this group.”