NORCECA Beach Tournament to start in Aguascalientes

AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico, April 12, 2018 – The 2018 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit gets underway on Friday at San Marcos Island of Aguascalientes with players hailing from thirteen countries.

Sixteen teams per gender have been registered for the competition, with host Mexico fielding three teams per gender.

Cubans Daisel Quesada and Karell Peña have experienced the most success in the history of the tournament among the players registered.  Peña has won 10 gold medals, including five since he has been teaming up with Peña.

The countries represented besides Mexico are: Canada, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands.

El Salvador and St Kitts and Nevis will be represented only in the men’s competition with the other countries registering at least one team per segment.

The 16 teams will be divided into four pools of four teams with the top two teams from each pool advancing to the knock-out round of Saturday and Sunday.

Women’s Teams:

Canada-1 (Marie Christine LaPointe/Charlotte Sider), Canada-2 (Helen Rancourt/Sarah Meunier), Cayman Islands (Maria Harrison/Ileam Powery), Cuba (Leila Martínez/Lidiannis Echeverría), Dominican Republic (Yaniris Miller/Alondra Berroa), Guatemala (Paola Alvarado/María Juárez), Mexico-1 (Claudia Ríos/Paulette Cruz), Mexico-2 (Zaira Orellana/Martha Revuelta), Mexico-3 (Stephanie Burnside/María Quintero), Nicaragua (Swan Mendoza/Patricia Juárez), St Lucia (Prisca Simon/Jamilia Lansiquot), Trinidad/Tobago-1 (LaTeisha Joseph/Suraya Chase), Trinidad & Tobago-2 (Philecia Armstrong/Malika Davidson), United States-1 (Kelley Larsen/Emily Stockman), United States-2 (Caitlin Ledoux/Jace Pardon), U.S. Virgin Islands (Melanie Valenciana/Katherine Wanket).

Men’s Teams:

Canada-1 (Sergey Grabovsky/Fiodar Kazhamiaka), Canada-2 (Mike Plantinga/Aaron Nusbaum), Cayman Islands-1 (Roy Ebanks/Nathan Dack), Cayman Islands-2 (Xasey Santamaria/Jesse Parham), Cuba (Dasiel Quesada/Karell Peña), Dominican Republic (Víctor Castillo/Jamel Alessandre), El Salvador (Carlos Escobar/David Vargas), Guatemala (Luis García/Erick Garrido), Mexico-1 (Josue Cardenas/Josue Gaxiola), Mexico-2 (Franky Hernández/Yasutaka Sanay), Mexico-3 (Germán Osuna/Leonel Garza), Nicaragua (Rubén Mora/Dany López), St Kitts & Nevis (Kemoroy Percival/Rohan Jeffers), St. Lucia (Tevin St Jean/Agustin Faulkner), United States-1 (Avery Drost/Chase Frishman), United States-2 (Eric Zaun/Ed Ratledge).