Youth Tournament of SV Dynamo Apeldoorn
VBDC Lions were the first team from England to play at the SV Dynamo Apeldoorn Tournament in Apeldoorn, Netherlands playing an exhausting 8 matches in 3 days.
At the presentation party the team were presented with the “Fair Play” award.
The team had been training hard ahead of the tournament as well as undertaking some fund raising including running a raffle at the recent Super League match between Malory Eagles and Essex Rebels which was hosted at ACS Cobham.
While the boys will be looking to take what they have learnt from this tournament into their respective teams for the second half of the season, VbDC are activly seeking out a suitable tournament for our girls to compete in.
Former VbDC Coaches do battle in CEV Champions League
A rematch between former VbDC coaches is shaping up for early in the new year in Belgium as Greenyard Maaseik Volleyball Club plays host to visitors PGE Projekt Warsaw in the CEV Champions League Mens Pool A. Massiek will be looking to over turn a 3-0 defeat in the reverse fixture.
Outsider hitter for Masseik is Cody Kessel, who has been an assistant coach at an Elite Camp, and the coach for Warsaw is Piotr Graben, who co-led an Elite Camp with Carol Gordon.
Incidentally another team in Pool A has a British connection with Joel Banks, former GB assistant coach now coaching Berlin Recycling also one of Cody’s former teams.
Tickets for the match on Wednesday 15th January can be ordered on the Maaseik website.