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Schools Volleyball Clinics

Andrew Shears, the Volleyball Victoria Coaching & Development Manager, will conduct 10 clinics for 4 local schools for about 275 years four to six children in Morwell and Traralgon next Thursday & Friday.

By Latrobe Valley Volleyball Inc. - 8th October 2003 - Back to News

"The clinics are part of the Latrobe Valley Volleyball association’s plan to help schools with the introduction of Volley Stars, the modified version of the game for younger players" said association secretary Howard Williams. The children will introduced to the three basic volleyball skills and began playing Volley Stars games within 20 minutes.

"It is very impressive and I'm sure that the children will get a lot out of the experience and also the teachers and Latrobe Valley coaches who will all able to learn from Andrew and be able to follow up his work." Mr Williams explained. Andrew will also present a teacher’s clinic at the Morwell Leisure Centre at 3.30PM on Wednesday.

Danny Anderson and Diane Bosma-Lindgren, coaches from the Edison Mission Energy Gippsland Academy of Sport volleyball program will also be looking for exceptional talent to develop athletes for the 2008 & 2012 Olympics. "Volley Stars could be the start of a promising indoor or Beach volleyball career. Australia is moving up in the world rankings and following the gold medal won by Kerri-Ann Pottharst and Natalie Cook in Sydney the level of interest has exploded," said Danny Anderson.

"This is the second stage in a series of school clinics, we have more schools who are interested so we will have Andrew here again as soon as possible." Mr Williams said.

The children will given information about the association’s current junior competitions in Churchill, Morwell and a new competition to start in Traralgon soon but the long term goal is to establish school-based Volley Stars competitions for years 5 to 8 in each Latrobe Valley town. For further information contact Howard Williams on 0407 361 222

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