Three straight-setters marked the opening day of the 2023 NORCECA Senior Women’s Volleyball Continental Championship at the PEPS’ Amphitheatre Desjardins-Universite Laval in Quebec City, Canada. With seven teams vying for continental honours, the competition is set to continue until 3 September, when the 2023 champions will emerge.
Eight-time title-holders the USA, as well as Volleyball Empowerment beneficiaries Canada and the Dominican Republic mastered 3-0 sweeps of their matches against Costa Rica, Mexico and Cuba, respectively.
The Americans were emphatic in Tuesday’s Pool B opening match. They produced a 3-0 (25-3, 25-13, 25-5) victory over Costa Rica in 46 minutes of play time. Star opposite Jordan Thompson delivered the match high of 16 points, with Dana Rettke, Haleigh Washington and Jordan Larson also reaching double digit scores.
Dominican Republic’s Isabel Pena in attack (Photo credits: norceca.net)In the next Pool B game, three-time champions and winners of the last two editions the Dominican Republic outpaced the most decorated team in the history of the competition, 13-time champions Cuba, to celebrate a 3-0 (25-14, 25-17, 25-16) victory. Cuba’s Greisy Fine was the best scorer of the match with 10 points, while Brayelin Martinez led the winners with nine. Las Reinas del Caribe, as the Dominican women’s national team is known, have so far been allocated a total of CHF 510,000 of coach support through Volleyball Empowerment.
Hosts Canada have never won the continental title, but benefitting from Volleyball Empowerment assistance, which includes CHF 514,000 worth of coach support for their women’s national team and a CHF 65,000 Gerflor-Performance floor, they hope to break the spell and claim a historic title this time. The home team opened Pool A with a 3-0 (25-20, 25-18, 25-20) win over two-time champions Mexico. Alexa Gray led the scorers with 15 points, while Emily Maglio impressed with six kill blocks towards a 14-point total. The team of Puerto Rico is also in that pool.
The Canadian fans in Quebec were pleased with the home team victory (Photo credits: norceca.net)The two pool winners will advance directly to the semifinals, while the two pool runners-up will face the two third-placed teams in a quarterfinal round. Additional classification matches will be played to determine the full final standings from first to seventh place.
It is the 28th edition of the NORCECA Championship. It has been organised biennially since 1969 and Canada is hosting it for the third time, after 1991 and 2007.
2023 NORCECA Senior Women’s Volleyball Continental Championship results
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