Evan Bettles, a regular participant at VBDC performance camps for the past two years, has been awarded a scholarship to play volleyball at Quincy University in Illinois starting this autumn. Besides training regularly at VbDC camps, Evan has taken part in the VBDC Lions tournament travel team, for which he was libero. He also plays for Thames Valley High Performance and Tonbridge Volleyball Club. The Qunicy University Hawks are an NCAA Division 1 team competing in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association against university teams such as Loyola in Chicago, Rockhurst in Kansas City and Barry in Miami. Quincy is a historic riverboat town on the Mississippi River, with a population of 40,000 about 220 miles southwest of Chicago. It is the hometown of three-time Olympic volleyball athlete Caren Kemner.