'09 World League - Catania II
by Rob Browning / June 22, 2009
USA v. Italia in Catania
CATANIA, Italy (June 21, 2009) - A packed house-standing room only-in Catania for the second match of this weekend's pair in Italy. The crowd is fantastic. They were all in here an hour before singing and dancing and fired up for the match.
USA started by playing their best of the 4 matches thus far in World League 2009. Set 1 was all good, but the 2nd set the level dropped off a bit for USA. The 3rd set was great and if you watch a couple of video clips on YouTube, you'll see the last two points and how much the crowd was into it. In the 4th USA did a great job and Evan Patak in particular had a great game-not just hitting, blocking and serving either-he had a couple of good first ball contacts that set up winning points for us.
Andy Hein has been as steady as can be in all four of these matches. He has a great presence at the net attacking and blocking. He looks like a veteran out there. He had a couple of very good sets in this match also.
The 4th set was pretty much all USA. A great road trip for a fairly young USA team against two very good opponents. A big congrats to the players and also to the GREAT staff of Alan Knipe, Gary Sato, John Hawkes, Chris Jackson and the invaluable Aaron Brock who is the best trainer a team could have.
Go USA!!
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Rob Browning is the women's volleyball coach at St. Mary's College and has also served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Men's National Team. He is traveling with the U.S. Men to the 2009 World League as the team leader.
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Comments RSSOn June 22, 2009 Claudio Micci wrote
Hi boys! My name's Claudio, I'm italian boy and I leaves in Messina. Yesterday I saw the match us Italy, in Catania. I'm very happy for this match and your team is very very very good and able. I take a liking to USA team volley. The players are very very very socials and colloquials. I got one memory of this match: an player's USA gym shoes. I'm very very very very very happy for this memory. Thanks to the player who gave me the memory and thanks to the executive who fetched this memory. For any answer, my e-mail is micciclaudio@alice.it . Thanks for all!
On June 23, 2009 Sabrina Postiglione wrote
Hi Rob, I would like to say that the WL had been a wonderful experience for me. I don't know if you can believe this, but me and Daniele were your supporters in the match! P.S: I'm sorry but I've forgotten to wish you a good father day (to you and all the other fathers of the Team) (when I'm deeply moved I'm often self-absorbed) wish u all the best, in volley and in life Sabrina
On June 24, 2009 Claudio Micci wrote
Hi Rob! I saw your videos. It's so beautiful!Very compliment!
On June 24, 2009 Claudio Micci wrote
Excuse me, can I contact the team's members? Please answer to me in my e-mail: micciclaudio@alice.it
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