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 Mexican
girls training hard in preparation for NORCECA
Tournament
TIJUANA, Mexico, April 20, 2010 – The U-18 Girls
Mexican National Team is training at full speed
and playing scrimmage matches against Cuba in
preparation for next week’s NORCECA Continental
Tournament in Guatemala where one ticket to the
Youth Olympic Games in Singapore and three spots
for the 2011 FIVB Youth Championships are at
stake.
Mexico is currently the No. 1 ranked team in
NORCECA based on the points obtained in the
previous regional event in 2008 in Puerto Rico
where they finished second and their ninth place
at the 2009 FIVB World Championship in Thailand.
The group of players has been training for the
last three weeks and the friendly matches
against the invited Cubans, who are not taking
part in the NORCECA competition, have the
objective of fine tuning the final selection.
Mexico is first seeded in Pool A of the 10 team
event alongside of Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago
and Jamaica. Pool B consists of Guatemala,
Puerto Rico and El Salvador and Pool C is
composed by five-time champions USA, Dominican
Republic and Canada.
Teams will compete in a preliminary pool round
and the two pool winners with best points-ratio
will advance directly to the semifinal phase,
while the third first place team will play in
the quarterfinals against the second place
sides.
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