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Beach Youth Worlds - Update No. 2

Sun Jun 26 19:47:00 -0400 2011

Friday was rough at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch Youth (U-19) World Championships... Really rough! Both of our men's teams lost both of their matches in two. What's frustrating, yet also encouraging, is that they both stayed with their opponents point-forpoint in the first set of every match.… Read More

Beach Youth Worlds - Update No. 1

Thu Jun 23 22:26:00 -0400 2011

This may be one of the best FIVB sites ever. We are in Umag, Croatia for the U19 World Championships. The site is an ATP tennis stadium in the middle of a beautiful vacation "colony" on the Adriatic, not far from Trieste, Italy. The weather has been perfect... sunny and lower 80s with very little… Read More

Ali in Alanya - Final

Fri Sep 24 12:31:00 -0400 2010

Ali Wood Lamberson, USA Volleyball's Director of Beach Programs, is the team leader for the junior beach volleyball teams competing for the United States at the SWATCH FIVB Junior (Under-21) World Championships in Alanya, Turkey. Sept. 22, 2010 We are making the long trek back from Turkey after… Read More

Ali in Alanya - Sept. 16

Fri Sep 17 12:45:00 -0400 2010

Ali Wood Lamberson, USA Volleyball's Director of Beach Programs, is the team leader for the junior beach volleyball teams competing for the United States at the SWATCH FIVB Junior (Under-21) World Championships in Alanya, Turkey. Sept. 16, 2010 The travel to Alanya, Turkey from Los Angeles is not… Read More

Beach Volleyball Players See Many Sides of Russia

Fri Aug 20 17:54:00 -0400 2010

Ali Wood Lamberson is one of the team leaders on a 16-day SportsUnited Bi-Lateral Presidential Exchange with Russia for young beach volleyball players. We are at the halfway point of our 16-day SportsUnited Bi-Lateral Presidential Exchange with Russia sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, and… Read More

World University Championships Provi …

Thu Jun 17 18:55:00 -0400 2010

The World University Championships, or WUCs as they are called, is an event run by the same group that runs the World University Games, the Federation Internationale of Sports Universities or FISU. Athletes must be current college students or have graduated within the last year to be eligible. They… Read More

Roenicke, Ross Blog from Australian Youth Festival

Sat Jan 17 09:54:00 -0500 2009

Jan. 17, 2009 On our flight to Sydney, Australia we were upgraded to Business Class due to our amazing connections with "Tony the Pilot." We had so much room to sleep. Our seats reclined completely flat, and we had our own private 14" TVs with touch screen access… Read More

Ali Wood's Olympic Report - Aug. 22, 2008

Tue Sep 02 11:25:25 -0400 2008

We got to sleep in a bit yesterday because the gold medal match was not scheduled until 11 am.  This was a blessing as Kelly (our physical therapist), Troy (Misty and Kerri's coach) and I did not get back from the indoor men's match until 1 am.  Well worth the late night… Read More

Ali Wood's Olympic Report - Aug. 17, 2008

Thu Aug 21 06:33:05 -0400 2008

What an exciting 48 hours of volleyball!!! After the women's indoor team took a thrilling 5 game victory over China, (my ears are still ringing from the crowd noise!) we had an early morning of matches and training yesterday. Because Misty-Kerri and Todd-Phil will play all early matches (for… Read More

Ali Wood's Olympic Report - Aug. 10, 2008

Sat Aug 16 13:35:04 -0400 2008

BEIJING (Aug. 10, 2008) - Today the mood today has been understandably somber.  We are all so saddened by the tragic attack on Wiz and Hugh's family, and praying for her mother's speedy recovery.Yesterday the temperature soared to over 95F and what seemed like 99% humidity in the… Read More

Ali Wood's Olympic Report - Aug. 11, 2008

Sat Aug 16 13:29:44 -0400 2008

BEIJING (Aug. 11, 2008) -- After all the events of the last 72 hours, I am finally getting a chance to reflect on the Opening Ceremonies.  What a night!  After we met Dubyah, who has a very firm handshake and is apparently a big bvb fan and more specifically a big Misty May fan,  we… Read More

Ali Wood's Olympic Report - Aug. 15, 2008

Fri Aug 15 21:28:41 -0400 2008

The beach volleyball schedule is a challenging one for any country that has more than one team. We have 4, the max allowed. Only Germany and Brazil have the same amount of teams and more staff than we do. One of the drawbacks of being from a country that has the largest delegation besides host… Read More

Ali Wood at the World University Cha …

Fri Jul 04 20:17:51 -0400 2008

What a change from yesterday…it poured all night last night and all day today.  The temp was about 56F, pouring non-stop!  Luckily there is a large dining hall area for the volunteers that they decided to open up for the athletes and staff.  I have to say the organizers did a… Read More

Ali Wood at the World University Cha …

Fri Jul 04 02:46:47 -0400 2008

I wish I had a whole lot of fun (in addition to volleyball) to report, but these international beach events last all day, from 8:30 am to 7:30 pm, so it is all we can do to crawl back to the hotel, which is actually a hostel, and try to get some sleep.  Did I mention that there are no curtains… Read More