Beach Volleyball returns to Mazatlan
MAZATLAN, Mexico, September 11, 2013 – The seaside city of
Mazatlan in the Pacific coast of Mexico will host the sixth leg
of the double-gender 2013 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit from
September 13-15.
Mazatlan is not strange to hosting beach volleyball
international events as the city was the site of the final stage
of the inaugural Continental Cup towards the London Olympic
Games when capacity crowds watched the action.
The local organizers have been giving the final touches to the
set-up of three temporary courts while their colleagues from
NORCECA Confederation are expected to arrive on Wednesday.
Mexico will be represented by serious contenders in both genders
with Lombardo Ontiveros and Juan Virgen competing in the men’s
tournament and Martha Revuelta and Bibi Candelas in the women’s
event.
Ontiveros and Virgen have won three gold medals this year in
Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Cuba added to their silver
medal in Toluca, Mexico.
Revuelta and Candelas won a bronze medal in the previous stop in
Varadero, Cuba preceded by a silver medal when the event took
place in Toluca.
Women’s Teams
Canada-A
(Melissa Humana/Taylor Pishcke), Canada-B (Kacie
MacTavish/Caleigh Whitaker), Costa Rica-A (Karen Cope/Natalia
Alfaro), Costa Rica-B (Katherine Quesada/Eugenia Ramirez),
Guatemala (Maria Jose Orellana/Lourdes Ramirez),
Honduras (Gina Flores/Martha Euceda), Mexico-A
(Martha Revuelta/Bibi Candelas), Mexico-B (Diana
Estrada/Paola Estrada), Puerto Rico (Dariam Acevedo/Vanessa
Velez), Trinidad & Tobago (Paulina Woodrofe/Elki Phillip),
United States-A (Heather Hughes/Lane Carico), United
States-B (Allison Fleming/Traci Weamer).
Men’s Teams
Canada-A
(Grant O’Gorman/Sam Pedlow), Canada-B (Josh Binstock/Samuel
Schachter), Costa Rica (Esteban Escobar/Jonathan
Guevara), Guatemala (Julio Recinos/Luis Garcia),
Mexico-A (Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen), Mexico-B
(Juan Revuelta/Ricardo Galindo), Nicaragua (Gerald Umaña/Dany
Lopez), Puerto Rico-A (Roberto Rodriguez/Hector Soto),
Puerto Rico-B (Victor Rivera/Erik Haddock), St Kitts &
Nevis (Shawn Seabrookes/St Claire Hodge), Trinidad &
Tobago (Fabian Whitfield/Colin Bernard), United States-A
(William Montgomery/James Avery Drost), United States-B
(Kevin McColloch/Derek Olson), US Virgin Islands (Marc
Lomeli/Anthony Pippen). |