After a successful training camp, Dominicans are ready to match Germany

ROME, Italy, September 22, 2014 - After closing their training camp in Slovenia, the Dominican Women’s National team is ready to play their first match at the FIVB Women’s World Championship.

They played their last scrimmage match against Serbia in Liubljana last weekend. Many of the players who attended to this training camp have a lot in common as well as the representatives of the German team that will match the Caribbean squad on Tuesday.

The training camp reunited some familiar faces like Tijana Malesevic and Stefana Veljkovic, who played at the FIVB Youth Girls World Championship in Baja California in 2007 as well as some Dominicans did it.

On the same way, the match between Germany and Dominican Republic will bring back some memories of an odissey lived in Northern Mexico five years ago. In 2009 Dominican Republic and Germany played for the Gold Medal in Mexicali, Mexico at the FIVB Women’s Junior World Championship.

Germany claimed the crown after a 3-0 victory (28-26, 26-24, 25-16). It was and Age Group competition, but with some familiar faces, considering that Lenka Dürr, Lena Möllers, Laura Weihenmaier and Anja Brandt, were part of the roster at the time. Now, they are part of the senior team.

However for the Dominican squad this was the beginning to a successful road for a brilliant generation of athletes like libero Brenda Castillo, Mariane Fersola, Candida Arias, Camile Dominguez, Ana Yorkira Binet, Erasma Moreno and Niverka Marte, who was the captain during the Junior World Championship.

These players conformed the silver medal winning team of 2009 and have worked together with the rest of seniors who have a combined and balanced experience in Continental, Pan American and World Grand Prix competitions, as well as Central American, Pan American and Olympic Games.