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TURTLE BEACH, Tobago, November 19, 2015 – The seventh and final
stage of the 2015 NORCECA Circuit is set to take place at Turtle
Beach in the island of Tobago with a legion of stars never seen
before in the history of the competition which started in 2007.
The fact that the NORCECA final will count for Olympic
qualification points as well as for participation has brought
here top world teams currently battling for direct berths to the
Rio de Janeiro Games. Teams may use only one Continental Final
as one of their 12 events required for qualification to the
Olympics.
The United States are sending two big men’s teams with Jacob
Gibb/Casey Patterson and Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena.
Gibb/Patterson lead the American men’s teams for the overall
provisional Olympic rankings with 4,320 points while Dalhausser/Lucena,
fresh from winning the silver medal in Qatar, are third with
3,100. The two USA women’s teams are Lauren Fendrick/Brooke
Sweat and Jennifer Kessy/ Emily Day.
Canada is fielding the men’s duos of Chaim Schalk/Ben Saxton)
and Grant O’Gorman/Sam Pedlow and the women’s teams of Jamie
Broder/Kristina Valjas) and Melissa Humana/Taylor Pishcke.
The men’s segment also includes this year’s two-time winners
Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen of Mexico and Cuba’s Nivaldo Díaz/Sergio
González.
The second Cuban team consists of Karell Pina/Daisel Quesada who
won this year in Punta Cana while hosts Trinidad & Tobago will
be represented by three teams including the one formed by Fabien
Whitfield/Daneil Williams who have finished third in the last
two competitions.
Twenty teams per gender will be competing in four pools of five
teams per gender with the top two teams after a round-robin
phase advancing to the main bracket.
Gold Medal Winners in 2015
Cayman Islands
CUB Nivaldo Díaz/Sergio González (M)
USA Jenny Kropp/Whitney Pavlik (W)
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
CUB Karel l Piña/Daisel Quesada (M)
USA Traci Weamer/Kendra Vanzwieten (W)
North Bay, Canada
MEX Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen (M)
USA Irene Hester/Caitlin Ledoux (W)
Varadero, Cuba
CUB Nivaldo Díaz/Sergio González (M)
USA Sara Hughes/Kelly Claes (W)
Tavares, Florida
MEX Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen (M)
USA Kimberly McGiven-Dicello/Kendra Vanzwieten (W)
St. Lucia
USA Trevor Crabb/Taylor Crabb (M)
USA Irene Hester/Caitlin Ledoux (W)
Past Winners in Trinidad & Tobago
2007
PUR Annia Ruiz/Yamileska Yantín (W)
2012
USA Will Montgomery/Antonio Ciarelli (M)
USA Emily Day/Summer Ross (W)
2013
CAN Christian Redmann/Maverick Hatch (M)
CAN Jamie Broder/Kristina Valjas (W)
2014
CAN Chaim Schalk/Benjamin Saxton (M)
CAN Melissa Humaña/Taylor Pischke (W)
Women’s Teams
Canada-A
(Jamie Broder/Kristina Valjas), Canada-B (Melissa
Humana/Taylor Pishcke), Cayman Islands (Jessica Wolfenden/Stefania
Gandolfi), Costa Rica (Yuliana González/Eugenia Ramírez),
Cuba-A (Lianma Flores/Leila Martínez), Cuba-B (Yanileydis
Sanchez/Lidianny Echevarría), El Salvador (Kathia Vásquez/María
Fernanda Vargas), Grenada (Thornia Williams/ Renisha
Stafford), Honduras (Gina Flores/Martha Kerube),
Jamaica (Danielle Perry/Kai Wright), Mexico-A (Ana
Ríos/Martha Revuelta), Mexico-B (Claudia Ríos/Gloria
Santoyo), Nicaragua (Elia Torres/Claudia Machado), St
Kitts & Nevis (Brenda Allen/GenelleHowell), St Lucia
(Skye Mondesir/Dania Hamilton), Trinidad & Tobago-A (Apphia
Glascow/La Teisha Joseph), Trinidad & Tobago-B (Ayana
Dyette/Malika Davidson), United States-A (Lauren Fendrick/Brooke
Sweat), United States-B (Jennifer Kessy/ Emily Day),
U.S. Virgin Islands (Mannika Charles/Amber Bennett).
Men’s Teams
Aruba
(Gino Hodge/ Fransua Angela), Barbados (Elwyn Oxley/Hugh
Sealey), Canada-A (Chaim Schalk/Ben Saxton), Canada-B
(Grant O’Gorman/Sam Pedlow), Costa Rica-A (Richard
Smith/Alexander Villegas), Costa Rica-B (Alejandro
González/ Sebastián Valenciano), Cuba-A (Nivaldo Díaz/Sergio
González), Cuba-B (Karell Piña/Daisel Quesada), El
Salvador (Carlos Escobar/David Vargas), Guatemala (Moisés
Reyes/Erick Garrido), Jamaica (Mark Lewis/Patrico Grant),
Mexico-A (Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen), Nicaragua
(Rubén Mora/Dany López), Mexico-B (Juan Revuelta/Ricardo
Galindo),St Lucia (Agustin Matlo/Joseph Clercent),
Trinidad & Tobago-A (Daneil Williams/Fabien Whitfield),
Trinidad & Tobago-B (Simon Blake/Colin Bernard), Trinidad
& Tobago-C (Kersen Trim/Kevin James), United States-A
(Jacob Gibb/Casey Patterson), United States-B (Phil
Dalhausser/Nick Lucena). |
