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Commissioner’s IREVA OFFICERS 2007 Welcome Commissioner Patty Blacklock Patty Blacklock Vice President Fall 2007 I’d like to welcome all of the returning Jim Webber and new Iroquois Empire Volleyball Association members to the 2007-2008 Treasurer volleyball season and urge that each and Jim Bishop Inside this Issue everyone of us do whatever we can to contribute in making this one of the best Secretary Commissioner’s seasons ever! Chris Symes 1 Welcome While I am still a relatively new Registrar-Systems Reviewer 1 Ireva Officers 2006 Commissioner, our Board is full of Cameron Erickson exceptional volunteers who, like myself, The 518 Junior Nationals 2 have been part of the Iroquois Empire Registrar – Adults & Junior Boys 3 NCAJ Explosion region for many years and have the best interest of the membership and the sport Joni Blacklock USA Junior Olympic 3 of volleyball at heart with each and Championship Registrar – Junior Girls & every issue that is brought to their 4 Lakeside “Beachbums” attention. So please, come to us with Associated Adults Freedom Junior your ideas and become aware Susanna Ashline 5 of/involved with the committees that we Olympics Insurance and Grievance have available to promote policies and 5 Junior Development Blaise Agnew Camp progress in the sport of volleyball 9 Dig Into It within our region and beyond! Tournament Coordinator Schenectady 50’s Betsy Marsh 9 In looking at the initials of our region’s 10 Blue Karma name (IEVA), I see a message to Competition Chair 11 Jackass Involve Everyone in Volleyball Cameron Erickson Schenectady 55’s Activities 12 Referee Chair 12 Serve-ivors and I believe it is up to all of us to make those invites to everyone that we know Paul Vink-Lainas 13 Legion Red so that more people are getting involved Scorekeeper Chair 14 Pacmen with the sport and increasing their level Mike McNeil 14 Zero Gravity of involvement with each and every 15 Kilgore invite that they accept. Adults Chair 16 Hack Fu The volleyball community is one of the Betsy Marsh 17 Slaughterhouse few that consistently demonstrates (on Juniors Chair and off the court) the values and Goonies Hazel Goldstein 18 importance of teamwork, commitment, 19 UVA dedication, camaraderie, appreciation of Communications Chair 20 Legion others, and the willingness to help Ben Rosenthal others when in need. So, let’s continue to expand that trend beyond our Regional Office Manager individual teams and clubs to work Anna Turner together as a region sharing resources, talents, ideas, facilities, etc. to Referee Assignor ultimately grow the life-long sport of Howard Veater volleyball for participants at all levels . Fall 2007 (recreation to AA), genders, and age larger sport, The Great Lakes, Southern success, beating them with set scores of divisions (youth to golden masters), as California, and Hawaii is always 25-18, 25-27, and 15-10. The boys took well as, implement programs to develop interesting. Unfortunately day one their momentum and rolled it right into players to their maximum potential results were not so good. We started off the match against Capital City thereby improving the national against SOVA providing a challenge but Volleyball beating them in two sets, 25- representation of the Iroquois Empire came up short 21-25 and 19-25. The 17, and 25-21. Due to a schedule region at all levels of competition. first set was a heartbreaker with SOVA misprint our court had gotten started regaining momentum from a big run in late so our hour break scheduled for this In closing, I will ask you again, to the first set. We were up 17-14 and point had completely disappeared. please, join me, and the dedicated board finally sided back out for 18-21. Fortunately we were able to negotiate a members that I will be working with, to Getting ready to play High Line the minimum of thirty minutes to eat before make our region grow with increased coaches were pretty confident that our our third match in a row but this proved numbers of tournaments, teams, team could pull out a win. They were to be inadequate for the match against officials, and exposure of novices to the very competitive in the last match the top team in the pool, Tool City 18- various levels of the wonderful and fun against a much better team. During this 2s, and we went 16-25, 25-22 and the sport of volleyball! match, we regressed to a team that third set was lost with a very tense 13- could not serve the ball consistently. 15. There was no time to recuperate Very sloppy play left us with another from this before the fourth match. It loss, 19-25, 20-25. This second loss left became immediately apparent that the The 518 Junior us in a precarious situation; if we were boys had nothing left to throw at our to lose the third match as well, we forth opponent Panther City 18s so we Nationals would be relegated to the bottom half of used this opportunity to rest up some of the tournament. The first set against our starters. The sets went 21-25, and Chris Aiello Quicksets was a nail biter that we lost 20-25. 23-25, the second set offered hope as The 518 Volleyball Club embarked on nd we dominated the entire time to win 25- Day four was the highlight of our trip; its 2 Junior Olympic Boys’ Nationals 20, but in the third we seemed to have the day before the team had begun to appearance. We traveled to Atlanta, nothing left and lost 8-15. play cohesively and figured many of our Georgia to compete against some of the issues out, but lack of depth in a few top teams in the nation. The 518 18’s Day two dawned with fresh hope. We positions meant that we did not have the team had had some great showings at came out fighting and lost the first endurance to cope with the schedule. various tournaments all season, as well match: 20-25, 25-23, 11-15 to Diablo Starting off the day in Flight 4, we beat as retaining the regional championship Fujinaga. This team went on to win our Missouri Thunder 25-19, 22-25, and 15- and everyone looked forward to the pool, which is severely disappointing 10. In the next match against tough competition to come. when you play them that close. We BOOMERS the team repeats the played the second match of the day as if performance, taking set one easily 25- Coming into the first day of games, it was already lost from point one and 16, playing set two too close and losing mixed feelings arose. Some players this resulted in a massive loss 18-25, 24-26, but pushing on in set three to win were there for the first time, others their and 17-25, almost completely due to 15-11. This places us in the final match second, and three for their third. The unforced errors. We remembered how of our bracket poised to be the first 518 excitement was there, but not apparent to play with some heart in match three team to leave nationals with a win in until we reached the convention center. and took it 25-15, 22-25, and 15-11. their last match. The 518 Volleyball Many of the first timers had stunned This late day win picked up everyone’s Club delivers another close match for looks upon their faces as they caught the spirits tremendously and the team the crowd, barely beating SHOTEN 24- first glimpse of the vast amount of seemed to remember how to close out a 26, 25-17, and 15-10. Thus we finished volleyball underway. It was nice to match. out the day 3-0, winning Flight 4, and finally have a tournament where we got finishing 45th overall. to play in the second wave and the The schedule on day three was brutal. players got to sleep in a bit. We were seeded in a five team pool on The 2007 Boy’s Nationals was a great two courts and we had pulled a short experience for the entire 518 team. Our The pool the first day included some straw: we worked first and then played seniors finished out their junior careers stiff competition from SOVA 18 Gold, four matches straight with a one hour with an impressive finish and our High Line 18 Red, and Quicksets 18B break in the middle, no matches off. younger players gained some great Black. Playing against these teams Our first match was against Shoten and experience for the coming years. from areas where volleyball is a much we continued from the previous night’s 2 . NEWSLETTER all of our players’ eyes when they tried winning the gold medal at their first NCAJ Explosion to emulate some of the players they saw tournament and ended by winning the while they competed in the games, so I gold division at the Iroquois Empire Linda Wagner know they have the fever and they now Regional Volleyball Championships in believe that it is possible for them to Syracuse, NY. The North Country Albany Juniors 14s work hard and reach great heights with team, Explosion, earned a bid to this wonderful life-long sport of Members of the Explosion team who participate in the 2007 USA Junior volleyball. I just hope they remember attended Nationals were Libby Bjork, Olympic Girls’ National Volleyball their individual shining moments, Sarah Bjork, Hattie Burgher, Brigit Championships in Minneapolis from because each of them had them Diamond, Emily Gillich, Brigit June 28th-July 2nd.