Punta Cana Event dedicated to Comarazamy

Punta Cana Event dedicated to Comarazamy

PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic, September 24, 2018 – The Punta Cana Beach Volleyball Tournament, the fourth stage of the 2018 NORCECA Circuit, will be dedicated to journalist Roosevelt Comarazamy, Communications director of the continental governing body.

Ernesto Veloz, president of the Organizing Committee, made the announcement accompanied by Amos Anglade who is the manager of the tournament.

In dedicating the tournament to Comarazamy, who has been the NORCECA Communications director since 2003, they want to recognize his contribution to the development of beach volleyball and the establishment of Punta Cana as an annual stop in the NORCECA Calendar.

This is the third consecutive year of Punta Cana as part of the circuit and 21 pairs of each gender, representing 16 countires, will be taking part of the competition to be disputed from September 28 to 30.

Cubans Lianma Flores and Leila Martínez and Canadians Julie Gordon and Sophie Bukovec won the previous tournaments in the women’s division while Cubans Karel Peña and Daisel Quesada and United States’ Miles Evans and William Kolinske triumphed in the men’s event.

Evans and Kolinske are registered to defend their crown as also are last year’s runners up Sergey Grabovsky and Fiodar Khazamiaka of Canada. Cuban Karel Peña will partner Luis Reyes for this tournament.

One big attraction will be the participation of former Olympic and world champion Phil Dalhausser of United States who will team up with Nick Lucena.

Women’s Teams

Canada-A (Devon May/Darby Dunn), Canada-B (Nicole McNamara/Megan McNamara), Colombia (Ingrid Lopez/Claudia Polo), Costa Rica (Marcela Araya/Eugenia Ramírez), Cuba (Yanisleidis Sánchez/Arin Hechavarría), Curacao (Cristal Gregorius/Angjeny Tolentino), Dominican Republic-A (Alondra Berroa/Julibeth Payano), Dominican Republic-B (Johana Monegro/Any De la Cruz), El Salvador (Kathya Vásquez/María Vargas), Guatemala (Natalia Girón/Estefanie Bethancourt), Jamaica (Kai Wright/Sashalee/Wallen), Mexico-A (Stephanie Burnside/María Quintero), Mexico-B (Martha Revuelta/Zaira Orellana), Nicaragua (Swan Mendoza/Socorro López), Puerto Rico (Allanis Navas/María González), St Kitts & Nevis (Genelle Howell/Brenda Allen), Trinidad & Tobago-A (Rheeza Grant/Malika Davidson), Trinidad & Tobago-B (Tsyan Selvon/Britney Choon), U.S. Virgin Islands (Cristina Almeida/Melanie Valenciana), United States-A (Betsi Flint/Emily Day), United States-B (Kelley Larsen/Emily Stockman).

Men’s Teams

Canada-A (Sergey Grabovsky/Fiodar Khazamiaka), Canada-B (Jake McNeil/ Gabriel Burlacu), Colombia (Denis Sebastian/Sneider Rivas), Costa Rica (Richard Smith/Bryan Monge), Cuba (Karel Peña/Luis Reyes), Dominica (Florent Yhan/Riviere Lincoln), Dominican Republic-A (Jean Carlos Espinal/Rolphy López), Dominican Republic-B (Alex Medina/Víctor Castillo), El Salvador (Carlos Escobar/David Vargas), Guatemala (Andy Leonardo/Luis García), Jamaica (Triston Hitchman/Noley Ferguson), Mexico (Josué Gaxiola/José Rubio), Nicaragua (Rubén Mora/Dany López), Puerto Rico-A (Cristian Encarnación/Josué Rivera), Puerto Rico-B (Randall Santiago/William Rivera), St Kitts & Nevis (Shawn Seabrookes/St Clair Hodge), Trinidad & Tobago-A (Isaac Theodore/Stephen Enile), Trinidad & Tobago-B (Daneil Williams/Daynte Stewart), U.S. Virgin Islands (Brian Kwasmy/Marc Lomeli), United States-A (Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena), United States-B (William Kolinske/Miles Evans)