Richmond Winter Beach Series starts 24th October

Martin Rees on October 5, 2021 in Beach Volleyball | Events | News Archive

The summer might be over, but we’re pleased to announce that registration to our popular series of winter beach tournaments is now open.

Taking place once a month between October and March, these tournaments are aimed at all levels and are fast paced – with maximum of 8 teams on 3 courts, this means you get lots of games with minimum amount of breaks. The format is 2v2 and there are mixed and single-gender events.

There are medals to be won for each event and prizes for the overall series winners.

In the last two years the series was unfortunately cut short due to the national lockdowns, but hopefully this year we can complete the series.

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Fantastic First Weekend

Martin Rees on October 4, 2021 in Leagues | News | NVL Men

Well done to all our players this weekend. Richmond Bucks brought home a 3:0 win on Saturday, October 2nd, in their first-ever Division 1 match against Miners Doncaster. This was a debut for the team in Division 1, following their promotion from Division 2. With five players aged U18, what a fantastic result!  (25-20 | 26-24 | 25-18). MVP of the game was Peter Soczewka with an amazing 71% effectiveness in attack. Well, done team, we’re really proud of you!

Saturday was also the first game of the season for our Super League Richmond Docklands team. It was a tough 4-set match against Durham who won 3:1 (24-26 | 25-16 | 25-13 | 25-21). Thank you to Durham for hosting.

 

On Sunday, October 3rd, the Super League team were victorious against Sheffield Hallam without dropping a single set (25:19 | 25:19 | 25:15). MVP went to Andrea Ivanov whilst the Black Knight was awarded to Tomasz Wysocki.

The Upcoming matches…

Richmond Docklands play their first home match of the season on Saturday 9th October against AVC London in round 2 of the Men’s KO Cup.  Please come and support the team at Kingston College Arena, first serve at 16:30.

The following weekend it’s the turn of our Women’s Division 1 team to have their first match of the season as they travel to Sunderland to play Team Sunderland on Saturday 16th October. 

Also Richmond Bucks will be hosting a home game at Kingston College Arena where they will face City of Bristol Team.

Whilst the Men’s Super League Richmond Docklands team travel to the University of Essex Sports Centre to play Tendring. 

Good luck to all our teams!

National League matches return for the first time in 18 months

Martin Rees on September 29, 2021 in Leagues | News | News Archive | NVL Men

Richmond’s top-level teams have a busy start to their NVL campaigns this weekend.

On Saturday the men kick off their Super League season with a tough trip to Durham.  That’s followed by a visit to Sheffield on Sunday.  

Richmond Bucks also head north on Saturday to face Miners Doncaster in their first-ever Division 1 fixture.

After such a long break all our teams are excited to see some on-court action again. 

Come on Richmond!

Witches of the Orient – Watch the film and earn money for our club!

Martin Rees on July 15, 2021 in News Archive

With the Olympics just around the corner, Modern Films approached Richmond Volleyball Club see if we would could help them promote a film on volleyball and also raise money for the club. We said why not!

The film is called “Witches of the Orient”, and is about the Japanese Women’s Volleyball team and their journey to beating the Russians at the 1964 Olympics. These “Witches” were also the inspiration behind the Manga/Anime series Haikyu which many of our Juniors love!

It is a very interesting watch and Modern Films will also give a portion of the proceeds of each ticket to the club so tell your family and friends to watch!!

Also, our own Katie and Anna Keefe will be in a live Facebook Q & A session with the Film Director, Julien Faraut and hosted by the Telegraph Women’s Sport journalist Fiona Tomas this Thursday evening at 6 pm.

Make sure you tune in!

Interesting Factoid: Our Club Chairman, Vera Kenyon, was coached by one of the players on the 1964 Russian team who played against these “Witches”!! She is excited to find out what it was all about!

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