Volleyball Centre of Excellence
Richmond VB boys won the U16 National Final gold medal match 3-0 (25-23; 25;19; 25-20) against Ernest Bevin College Greenhouse at the National Volleyball Centre, Kettering.
The team came to Kettering to make history and they did it! This group are the current U15 National Champions and this year was the Boys’ 2nd season in the National League competing in NVL Men’s Division 3 South.
Richmond Volleyball & South London League will be starting the 2016 Summer Beach Volleyball season w/c 11th April 2016 and will run weekly programmes until September 2016 held at Broom Rd, Teddington (next to Teddington School).
https://www.richmondvolleyball.co.uk/beach-volleyball/teddington-sports-centre
Please check the appropriate web links re full dates and schedule.
We will be running the following programmes:
(1) Schools
(2) Juniors
(3) Adults
For the first time in our history we had two girls teams in the U16 Last 8s. The B team were in a very tough group with Beach Academy, Tameside and Boswells and even though they didn’t win a match they acquitted themselves extremely well.
The A team, trying to reach their second final in 2 years, topped their group without dropping a set against Black Country, Westminster and Taunton to set up a best of 3 set semi-final against Tameside. After winning the first set 25-17 our girls took an early lead in the second only to lose narrowly 25-23. Tameside then broke away in the decider to win 15-9. Well done to all 21 girls, it was great weekend!!!!
Junior Development Centre Announcement
This Sunday, the 31st of January, Kingston College Arena is not available for RVB Development Centre sessions due to College events. We apologise for a short notice. Below are the dates for the Girls alternative sessions and we hope that players will be able to attend:
29 January, Friday, 7:30pm-9:00pm – girls normally training at 11 am session on Sundays + u15 teams competing on Saturday
5 February, Friday, 7:30pm-9:00pm – girls normally training at 9:30 am session on Sundays
Alternative dates for Boys will be announced later.
Richmond U16 Girls made history today with both the A and the B teams qualifying for the last 8 of the National Cup, beating Newcastle Staffs and Ashfield Vipers!!! Congratulations to all the girls but especially to the B team who showed real character to overcome Ashfield from a set down to finish second in the pool.
