Dominican Team announced for FIVB Women’s World Cup

 

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, August 28, 2019 – The Dominican Republic Volleyball Federation announced the women’s team that will participate in the FIVB World Cup to be played from September 14 to 29 in several cities of Japan.

 

The twelve participants are the top two world ranked teams from each of the five FIVB Confederations besides host Japan and Serbia as current world champions.

 

The other ten squads are:

 

United States and Dominican Republic (Norceca), Brazil and Argentina (South America), Russia and Netherlands (Europe), China and South Korea (Asia) and Cameroon and Kenya (Africa).

 

The event will follow the format of previous editions, with the 12 participating teams involved in a single round-robin competition over 11 match days. Three games will be played at each venue each match day.

 

The Dominican team will travel on September 2 and will establish a training base in the city of Okayama where they will train and play exhibition matches with local teams.

 

The members of the Dominican team are:

 

Niverka Marte and Camil Dominguez, setters; Jineiry Martínez, Lisvel Eve, Annerys Vargas and Candida Arias, middle blockers; Bethania de la Cruz, Prisilla Rivera, Yonkaira Peña and Brayelin Martínez, outside hitters; Gaila Gonzalez and Gina Mambru, opposite hitters; Yaneirys Rodríguez and Larismer Martinez, liberos.

 

The coach Marcos Kwiek will be assisted by Wagner Pacheco and Wilson Sanchez with Cesar Villalona as therapist, Yeivic Jiménez, as statistician and Ricardo Oliboni, as delegate.

 

The Women's World Cup will start with groups in Yokohama (Yokohama Arena) and Hamamatsu (Hamamatsu Arena) over five match days, before teams travel to Sapporo (Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Centre) and Toyama (Toyama City Gymnasium) for three more matches. The competition wraps up in Osaka's Maruzen Intec Arena and Edion Arena.