Final Results for WC Qualifier

At the end of the World Championship Qualifier, Belize managed to receive 3rd place award coming in behind St. Lucia who got 2nd and Curacao who got 1st. When it comes to individual awards, none can be gained alone. Below is a list of individual awards and the people who won them.

Best Scorer - Christine Anthony from Curacao
Best Spiker - Christine Anthony from Curacao
Best Blocker - Lianne Jamanika from Curacao
Best Server - Shantell Arnold from Belize
Best Digger - Durenne Rosalia from Curacao
Best Setter - Tanesha Encalada from Belize
Best Receiver - Neysa Hooi from Curacao
Best Libero - Esther Middleton from Belize

Looking at team Belize, our best scorers were: Tichele Solis; Shantell Arnold and Sherylee Thurton. Best spikers were: Tichele Solis, Sherylee Thurton and Shantell Arnold. Best blockers were: Zaire Garbutt and Shantell Arnold. Best servers were: Shantell Arnold, Sherylee Thurton and Tanesha Encalada. Best diggers were: Esther Middleton, Sherylee Thurton and Tichele Solis. Best Setters were: Tanesha Encalada and Analisa Habet. Best Receivers were: Sherylee Thurton, Tichele Solis and Esther Middleton. And we only have one Libero :-).

As you can see, St. Lucia clearly got away! But such is life, you live and you learn. Better luck next time team Belize. Here are some pictures.

INDIVIDUAL AWARD WINNERS

BELIZE'S AWARD WINNERS

TEAM BELIZE

Bronze Medal Match

Belize has won the bronze medal match against Antigua. I'm happy to say that we received 3 individual awards. Best setter was Tanesha Encalada, Best libero was Esther Middleton and Best Server was yours truely, Shantell Arnold. I will update the blog with pictures tomorrow. Gwen go bash right now!!!

Belize vs Curacao

It's somewhat a bittersweet moment for us today. We lost the game against Curacao in 3 sets and this means we don't get a chance to play for the gold medal. Scores were: 1st set: 11-25; 19-15 and 11-25. However, we do get a chance to play for 3rd place. We go up against Antigua again tonight at 6pm. Wish us all good luck. Also, there will be individual awards and Belize has been doing really well with serving and blocking so we might get someone up there.

CURACAO

Belize vs St. Lucia

Ok guys, I'm kinda sad that I don't have good news for you tonight. We lost in 4 sets against St. Lucia; however, we played really well. The scores were as follows: 1st set: 26-24; 18-25; 24-26 and 17-25. We hope to dominate against Curacao tomorrow. Sorry I haven't been uploading pictures; here is the team photo of Belize before our first practice and Team St. Lucia.

BELIZE

ST. LUCIA

Belize vs Antigua

It is with great pride for me to announce that Belize has won its first match of the World Championship Qualifier tournament. We defeated Antigua in 4 sets. First set, we started out with a bang! Don't know what happened in second set but we were a bit slow and didn't speed up in time. We did however gained back our momentum for the third set and it lasted until the end of the fourth set. The scores are as follows: 1st set: 25-11; 2nd set: 18-25; 3rd set: 25-18 and 4th set: 25-13. We play against St. Lucia this evening at 6pm. Wish us luck guys :-)

ANTIGUA

BELIZE

We've arrived safely in Curacao

Hey ya'll! Just informing you that we have arrived safely in Curacao yesterday, we had our first practice which went really well. On Saturday, we play our first game at 9:00am against Antigua. We play our second game at 6:00pm against St. Lucia. On Sunday, we play our third game against Curacao at 11:00am and then we should play our 4th game at 8pm for the gold medal. We look forward to having an interesting tournament.

Curacao, Here we come!

Ok my fellow followers, the time is here, the National Senior Female Volleyball Team will be travelling to Curacao on Wednesday for the 2nd round of World Championship Qualifier. We have been training hard ever since we returned from Costa Rica  and improving each workout so we stand a really good chance. Not sure if I said this before but we will be playing against Antigua, Curacao and St. Lucia. That's all for now, wish us luck! :-D