Team roster of US Boys’ Youth National Volleyball Team revealed – Volleyball news
The USA Volleyball (USAV) High Performance Department has announced the 19-player Boys’ Youth National Training Team today, Friday, April 8, 2011.
These players have been selected through various high performance tryouts, which were held throughout USA over past few months. From the pool of aspiring young stars of volleyball, only 19 athletes paved their way to the National training Team.
The 19-player squad will further squeeze into 12-person team before the official start of 2011 FIVB Boys’ Youth World Championship, which will be kicked off in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August.
The 19-player U.S. Youth Training Team will go through a three-day second tryout at the U.S. Olympic Training Centre in Colorado Springs, Colo. A group of experience coaches will evaluate the players and a team of 12 players will be formed. The alternate
players will also be selected during the tryout.
The final U.S. Youth National Team will be headed by coach, Ken Shibuya. The head coach will be assisted by two other coaches. Dan Friend of Lewis University will join the U.S. Boys’ Youth National Team as assistant coach. The name of second assistant coach
is yet to be announced.
Talking of further team plans, Shibuya stated, “My goal is to make this team as competitive as possible in the short time that we have them. With great effort and dedication, I believe we will be able to prepare these young men to handle the challenges that
await them this summer and for future years ahead.”
The coach expressed his views that it is honourable thing for athletes that they have been selected to represent the country at international level. Now they will be required to give out their best performance. The Youth World Championship will be the real
test of their talents and hard work. At the same time, it will be best opportunity for players to showcase their skills and catch the limelight.
Speaking of the team-line, Shihuya stated that they have assembled a team of best players, who have the potential to cope with the under-pressure situations. The competitive group of players will surely represent the country in a better way.
The members of the Youth National Team have good athleticism, physique, size and positive attitude to their game. He further added that it was a difficult task to shortlist the players for training squad as a number of deserving athletes had to let off.
The names of 19-player U.S. Youth National Training Team are as follows:
Nikola AntoniJevic Dillon Hofman DJ White Scott Rhein Kyle Russell Taylor Gregory Matthew Marsh Matthew West Anderew Sato Austin Kingi Owen McAndrews Ben Patch James Shay Josh Kirchner Greg Petty Michael Mullahey Matthew Tarantino Cody Caldwell Aaron Russell
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