CAZOVA held its 2025 Congress

February 22, 2025.- On February 16, the Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association, CAZOVA, held their 2025 Online Congress.

During the meeting, presided by CAZOVA President Mushtaque Mohammed, several key points were discussed, which included 2024 reports and achievements, as well as plans for 2025.

CAZOVA 2024 regional events included the U19 Men’s and Women’s Championships held in Jamaica, the U19 Men’s and Women’s Beach Volleyball Championships, which took place in Trinidad and Tobago and the Senior Men’s and Women’s Beach Volleyball Championships in Bonaire.

In addition to these important regional tournaments, CAZOVA hosted the seventh stage of the  NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour in Bonaire and the U23 Men’s Pan American Cup in Suriname.

This year is set to include the following CAZOVA tournaments:

·         U17 Men and Women Championships in Jamaica

·         U23 Women Championship in Trinidad and Tobago

·         U23 Men Championship in Cayman Islands

·         Senior Men and Women Championships in Bahamas

·         U21 Men and Women Beach Volleyball Championships (WCQ) in Cayman Islands

·         U19 Men and Women Beach Volleyball Championships in Jamaica

·         U19 Men and Women Beach Volleyball Championships (WCQ) in Trinidad and Tobago

·         U19 Men and Women Beach Volleyball Championships in Aruba

CAZOVA plans for 2025 will focus on the national federations to take advantage of the FIVB Empowerment Program, have more national federations hosting tournaments, increase the number of teams participating in regional tournaments, improve the administration and governance structure of national federations, workshops, referee development workshops and a beach volleyball strategic planning project (road to 2032).

NORCECA President Cristobal Marte Hoffiz, presented the NORCECA activity report and took the opportunity to acknowledge Bonaire for their excellent hosting of both a NORCECA beach volleyball continental tour event, as well as the CAZOVA beach tournament. Additionally, he praised Suriname for successfully hosting Men’s NORCECA U23 tournament.