Author Archives: Dave Reece

The first EDVA Men’s Development Tournament will be taking place in Exeter on Saturday 13th February (Riverside LC). In addition to this tournament, a Ladies tournament has also been arranged for Saturday 13th March. Teams will play a number of one set matches (within a half hour time frame), each event is limited to 8 teams.Continue reading “Men’s and Ladies Development Tournaments”

The 13th and 14th September saw the first indoor inaugural Cardiff Open tournament take place, teams entered from across the South Wales and South West area. The EDVA was represented by Kings VC, who combined with Portsmouth for this event. After an action packed weekend in both the men’s and ladies events, it came downContinue reading “Cardiff Open”

Last week was the final round of the 2008 Beach League, in the Ladies, Ali West topped the table with 39 point from 17 matches and the ladies 2008 Most Valuable Player (MVP) award goes to Claire Babbage, who achieved a match average of 2.92 for the season. In the Men’s league, Coolen Peryanaden tookContinue reading “Beach Champions 2008”

A fun night for all at Exmouth Beach on Tuesday evening, for the end of season beach get together, six-a-side volleyball and a bit of food. It has been an excellent summer of beach volleyball this year and thank you to everyone for making this the best beach season to date. We have some veryContinue reading “End of Season Celebrations”

Plenty of games for all teams in the junior event, the day started off with a number of pool rounds (best of three sets matches), with the top two teams from each of the pool rounds qualified for the event final. Results for the U18 Girls: U18 Girls: 1st Kate Pearce & Lauren Powell (Right)Continue reading “More beach Winners”

Volleyball, the second most played sport in the world came to Exmouth on Sunday with the Exmouth Beach Open Pairs Tournament. Teams came from around the Southwest area to challenge the local teams in the Ladies and Men’s beach pairs events and the various junior categories. It was a clean sweep for the Exmouth BeachContinue reading “Exmouth Beach Pairs Open Tournament”

The EDVA was once again represented in the 2008 UK School Games last week, on and off the court, for this competition England is divided up into three regions, England North, Central and England South. The England South squad was led by Head Coach Jurek Jankowski (back row 2nd from right) from Volleyball Taunton, AssistantContinue reading “UK School Games”

National Beach Rankings have now been updated following the last round of the Volleyball England Beach Tour (VEBT) and a number of our local players have improved on last years placing. Exmouth Ladies Pairs League winners Claire Babbage and Laura Wilson have moved up to 44th place in the country this year (81st in 2007),Continue reading “Volleyball England Beach Tour 2008”

In advance of setting up the volleyball on the beach we have put it on Preston Green on a daily basis. It has been in non-stop use – 10 hours a day!! I’m am sure that the youngsters are keen to form a team – they intend to enter a competition at Goodrington, Paignton onContinue reading “Preston Community Partnership”

Week 11: Danny Lewis (jump serving) in this weeks Men’s match. Perfect weather for this weeks round of matches of the Exmouth Beach League, Ali, Clare, Laura and Jess head the Ladies table but are joined by Gosia and Nikki in the Ladies MVP table. Danny heads the Men’s league and the MVP, it’s stillContinue reading “Exmouth Beach League – week 11”