The final NORCECA Beach Volleyball Qualifiers towards the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China will take place in Carolina, Puerto Rico on April 12-13. Twelve pairs will be battling for the last two places of a total of six per gender granted to NORCECA Confederation for the beach competition in Nanjing. Representing Antigua and Barbuda female will be NATASHA BEST and JENNA GREER. Teams from the four zonal associations within NORCECA -ECVA, CAZOVA, AFECAVOL and CENTRAL- have already qualified boys and girls teams to the Olympics in previous regional competitions. The girls teams with tickets to the Nanjing event are: St Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, United States and Guatemala while the boys teams are: St Vincent, Jamaica, Canada and Guatemala. The girls event features players from Suriname, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Antigua, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. The teams competing in the boys tournament are Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Bahamas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominica, St Lucia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Arnaldo Sanchez, technical director of the tournament, said the competition format consists of a pool play preliminary phase with the top eight pairs advancing to a single elimination bracket. The Beach Volleyball events of the Youth Olympic Games will be held in the Nanjing Youth Olympic Park from 17 to 27 of August.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 04:09:36 +0000
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