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GROS ISLET, St Lucia, October 15, 2015 – The sixth stop of the
2015 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit will take place in St
Lucia from October 16-18, with sixteen teams per gender divided
into four pools taking part in the competition.
St Lucia is hosting a NORCECA Beach Volleyball event for the
third time with the two previous tournaments held in 2012 and
2014 dominated by USA teams on each occasion. Eighteen countries
are fielding teams.
This season’s two-time winners Lombardo Ontiveros and Juan
Virgen of Mexico have been registered to participate in the
men’s segment and were scheduled to arrive on the eve of the
tournament on Thursday. The successful Mexican duo won the stops
in North Bay, Canada and Tavares, Florida.
The list of men’s teams registered also include Trinidad &
Tobago’s pair of Fabien Whitfield and Daneil Williams who
claimed the bronze medal in Tavares this year as well as the
home St Lucia’s duo of Joseph Clercent and Augustin Flaukner.
Clercent won a bronze medal won two bronze medals with Julian
Bissette as his partner in 2012.
The participants in the women’s event include USA’s Irene Hester
and Caitlin LeDoux, who took home the gold medal in North Bay
this year, as well as Costa Ricans Karen Cope and Natalia Alfaro
who won the bronze medal in the last two events held in Varadero,
Cuba and Tavares.
The general technical meeting will take place on Thursday
evening chaired by Brian Louisy, president of St Lucia
Volleyball Federation who presides over the Organizing
Committee.
Women’s teams:
Antigua:
Mali Peters/Rosemarie Simon; Canada-A:Megan
Nagy/Marie-Christine LaPointe; Canada-B: Tori
Cowley/Kerry Smit; Costa Rica: Karen Cope/Natalia Alfaro;
Dominica: Zahidu Henry/Marcia Gustave; Grenada:
Deanne John/Shakira Collymore; Guatemala: Maria Jose
Orellana/Natalia Girón; Mexico: Estephanie Burnside/Zaira
Orellana; Nicaragua: Lolette Rodríguez/Elia Torres; St
Kitts & Nevis: Brenda Allen/Michelle Demming; St Lucia-A:
Kerin Neptune/Dala Noel; St Lucia-B: Kashima Noel/Solange
Alfred; Trinidad & Tobago-A: Ayana Dyette/Malika
Davidson; Trinidad & Tobago-B: Elki Phillip/Shenelle
Gordon; United States-A: Heather McGuire/Amanda Dowdy;
United States-B: Irene Hester/Caitlin LeDoux.
Men’s teams:
Antigua:
Jamarie James/Adrian Constant; Barbados: Elwyn Okley/Ronald
Rice; Canada: Sergiy Grabovckyy/Gabe Burlacu; Costa
Rica: Richard Smith/Rooper Espinoza; Dominica: Deon
Vidal/Yahri Florent; Dominican Republic: Luis
Castillo/Wilton Junior Marte; El Salvador: Carlos
Escobar/David Vargas; French St Martin: Guillaume Greaux/Fabrice
Ange; Guatemala: Andy Leonardo/Luis García; Mexico:
Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen; St Kitts & Nevis: Everson
Browne/Stedroy Collins; St Lucia: Joseph Clercent/AugustinFaulkner;
St Vincent & Grenadines: Cassius Franklyn/Rodall Fraser;
Trinidad & Tobago: Fabien Whitfield/Daneil Williams;
United States: Taylor Crabb/Trevor Crabb; U.S Virgin
Islands: Gustavo Cintrón/Brian Kwasny.
Winners in 2015
Cayman Islands:
USA Jenny Kropp/Whitney Pavlik –W; CUB Nivaldo Díaz/Sergio
González –M.
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic:
USA Traci Weamer/Kendra Vanzwieten –W; CUB Karel Piña/Daisel
Quesada –M. North Bay, Canada: USA Irene Hester/Caitlin
Ledoux –W; MEX Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen –M. Varadero,
Cuba: USA Sara Hughes/Kelly Claes –W; CUB Nivaldo
Díaz/Sergio González –M; Tavares, Florida: USA Kimberly
McGiven-Dicello/Kendra Vanzwieten –W; MEX Lombardo
Ontiveros/Juan Virgen –M.
Past Winners in Saint Lucia
2012:
USA Kathryn Babcock/Traci Weamer –W;
USA Will Montgomery/Jonathan Mesko
–M.
2013:
USA Heather Hughes/Lane Carico –W; USA David McKensie/Austin
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