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Thursday, July 24, 2025

T&T beach vballers off to Guatemala

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Top T&T men and women beach vol­ley­ball pair­ings, Daneil Williams and Fa­bi­en Whit­field, Ayana Dyette and Ma­li­ka David­son will serve off their 2016 Norce­ca Beach Vol­ley­ball Cir­cuit cam­paign when they com­pete in Cay­ala City, Guatemala, from to­mor­row un­til Sun­day.

Both T&T teams will be us­ing the tour­na­ment, the first of the sea­son as part of their con­tin­ued prepa­ra­tions for the Third Round of Norce­ca Con­ti­nen­tal Cham­pi­onship qual­i­fiers to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, lat­er this year.

The third round of the men qual­i­fiers take place in St Lu­cia from May 26-30 and the women's event is card­ed for El Sal­vador from May 12-16 and will in­volve the top teams from the Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion/East­ern Caribbean Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion sec­ond round qual­i­fiers and the top Cen­tral Amer­i­can coun­tries.

Williams and Whit­field left T&T yes­ter­day along with Si­mon Blake and Chris­t­ian Fran­cois which com­prised the T&T men's team that end­ed sec­ond to US Vir­gin Is­lands in the Norce­ca Sec­ond Round Olympic qual­i­fiers held at Cast­away Beach, An­tigua, in Jan­u­ary and will be keen to add to their three bronze medals in tour­na­ment his­to­ry.

Dyette and David­son along with Ap­phia Glas­gow and La Teisha Joseph com­bined to lead the T&T women's team to the gold medal in their Norce­ca Sec­ond Round Olympic qual­i­fiers at Ocho Rios, Ja­maica, last month, and will al­so be out to make an im­pact in Guatemala where the new venue will be in­stalled in Ciu­dad Cay­ala, the largest shop­ping, en­ter­tain­ment and hous­ing com­plex in the city mak­ing it the first in­ter­na­tion­al sport com­pe­ti­tion to be staged there.

Over­all, a to­tal of 32 teams (16 men and 16 women) rep­re­sent­ing 17 coun­tries will gath­er in the cen­tral Amer­i­can coun­try which is the ninth time that Guatemala has host­ed the most pres­ti­gious Beach Vol­ley­ball event in the re­gion. Guatemala is cel­e­brat­ing its tenth edi­tion, grant­i­ng im­por­tant rank­ing points for Pan Amer­i­can, World and Olympic qual­i­fi­ca­tions and launch­ing play­er's suc­cess­ful ca­reers.

T&T, Cos­ta Ri­ca, El Sal­vador, Mex­i­co, Nicaragua, St Lu­cia and US Vir­gin Is­lands have reg­is­tered teams in both gen­ders, while Guatemala and USA States have reg­is­tered two du­os per gen­der; Cana­da has two women teams.

Be­lize, Guade­loupe, Ja­maica and St Kitts & Nevis will par­tic­i­pate on­ly in the men's field and An­tigua & Bar­bu­da, Cu­ba and Hon­duras in women.

The last time that Guatemala host­ed the event in 2014, Cuban Ni­val­do Di­az and Ser­gio Gon­za­lez claimed the men's gold de­feat­ing William Mont­gomery and Stafford Slick of Unit­ed States in straight sets 21-17, 21-15; and Heather Hugh­es with Christal En­gle of Unit­ed States pre­vailed over Karen Cope and Na­talia Al­faro of Cos­ta Ri­ca by 2-1 (21-14, 24-26, 15-0) in the women's fi­nal.

This year, a record 18 beach vol­ley­ball are on sched­uled to be host­ed by Norce­ca with the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion host­ing the fi­nal leg, yet again from No­vem­ber 24-28, in To­ba­go.


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