Volleyball Club Galina December 2014 VOLLEYNEWS

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Every Wednesday evening from 4:00-5:15 in the Turnhalle of Primary School , Volleyball Club Galina offers training for primary school aged children. Currently, coach Mariah Mandelbaum has a large group of 25-30 children, coming from Ruggell, , and . and

Every Tuesday evening from VolLIE 5:15-6:30 evening in the Since October 2013 Volleyball Club Galina has been teaching Turnhalle of Primary School volleyball to the primary school children of Liechtenstein. Schaan, Volleyball Club Galina Our coach, Mariah Mandelbaum, visited 47 third, fourth and offers training to primary fifth classes in 12 schools amassing a total of 834 children. school aged children. Since August 2014 Volleyball Club Galina has already visited Currently coach Vreni Marti has 10 of the 13 primary schools, 24 classes totaling 413 children a group of 8 children, coming from Schaan, Vaduz and with the rest of the schools and many more classes already Sevelen. Every Thursday from booked for the rest of the 2014/2015 school year. 5:15-6:30 in the Turnhalle of The goal of Volleyball Club Galina through the project of Primary School Ebenholz coach Esther Vetch has a VolLIE is to improve the culture of sport and volleyball as group of children, coming well as increase the number of volleyball playing and from and Vaduz. physically active children in Liechtenstein. In order to further our efforts to accomplish this goal we started with one evening training, in Vaduz, offered to all primary school aged free of charge. Today Volleyball Club Galina now offers four In the beginning of November evening trainings in Ruggell, Schaan, Vaduz and Triesenberg Volleyball Club Galina added a with the addition of trainings in , Triesen and training every Friday afternoon from 3:15-4:30 in the Turnhalle Schellenberg coming soon. of Primary School Triesenberg. Because of the enormous interest in volleyball from the

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children of Liechtenstein, this has led to the founding of Volleyball Club Galina-Ruggell and Volleyball Club Galina- Schellenberg.

Volleyball Sch0ol Liechtenstein Overall, the youth teams of VBC Galina had quite a successful 2013/14 season. The girls U19 team won the regional championship and qualified for the national championship Player Spotlight: where they reached, sixth place. The girls U23 team won the Alina Büchel regional championship as well and reached round 2 in the national “Interliga”. The girls U17 team finished second in the “I really enjoy playing regional championships and the second girls U19 won the title volleyball and it is always very in the second regional league. Three boy’s teams (U15, U17 and fun. I really like that we have U19) finished third in their regional leagues. such a large group kids in training and especially that Our youngest athletes – the volley kids – take part in the there are many more children Bündner Minitour and get introduced playfully to volleyball. from Schellenberg that also play volleyball in Ruggell.” VBC Galina organizes one stop of the Bündner Minitour in -Alina Büchel Schaan every year. With more than 200 kids (up to the age of 14) participating, the tournament is a special highlight for Alina Büchel is one of our athletes and spectators. VBC Galina organized a total of six young promising athletes that rounds of the regional youth championships during the comes from Schellenberg. She 2013/14 season. is 10 years old and enjoys to participate in many various Besides training and competition, the youth athletes are sports such as soccer, ski offered many more activities. For the first time, a training jumping and volleyball. camp for all the teams together took place in this year Alina has been playing as well as the VBC Galina youth Christmas party. Many hours volleyball with Coach Mariah of exhausting in Ruggell since early April of trainings as well as 2014 and she has a natural other exciting feel for the game. “One of my experiences made favorite things about Alina is the training camp she is always giving 100% in a huge success for training, and always with a our youth athletes. huge smile on her face” says Coach Mariah. “She has a This year, many natural feel for our game and youth players took works very hard to learn the part in the CEV very different and techniques beach volleyball of volleyball and she has satellite in Vaduz, excelled very quickly. I am again under the excited to see how good of a guidance of VBC player she can be.” Galina.

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