WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENT GROUP A

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1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENT GROUP A Aruba Bahamas Martinique

2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENT CAZOVA Men Group A Schedule ROUND ROBIN SET Result per set (points) No. Date Time Teams Oct 19:00 MQE vs ARU 2 23-Oct 10:00 BAH vs ARU 3 22-Oct 17:00 MQE vs BAH

3 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENT Practice schedule CAZOVA Men Group A October 2016 Teams ARU BAH MQE Day Teams Time Venue 22-Oct-16 MQE 08:00 GYMNASE of Riviere Salee 22-Oct-16 BAH 10:30 GYMNASE of Riviere Salee

4 FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE VOLLEYBALL O-1 UNIFORM COLOURS Couleur de l'uniforme CITY: Ville: Forte De France DATE: 10/21/ :30 TIME: REGISTERED COLOURS / Couleurs enregistrées : Heure: (ONLY SHIRT COLOUR - seulement la couleur du maillot) POOL/PHASE: 1 White Royal Blue Blue - - Groupe/Phase Group A 2 Blue White White DATE: BON MQE FIVB DECISION Team Equipe Team Equipe 1st CHOICE 1er Choix LIBERO UNIFORM Décision de la FIVB A A B A B A B A B 23/Oct/ MQE ARU White Blue Blue White 23/Oct/ BAH ARU Blue White White Blue 22/Oct/2016 MATCH SCHEDULE TEAMS CHOICE (1-2 OR 3) Calendrier des matches Choix des équipes (1-2 ou 3) No. Match AUA BAH 3 MQE BAH Blue White White Blue FIVB Official forms - O FIVB version 17

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8 Coaches ready for CAZOVA/World Championship qualifiers CHEM TRENELLE, RIVIERE SALEE, MARTINIQUE, OCTOBER 21, 2016:Eddy Erialc of Martinique and Bahamian Covanc Mortimer, two of the three coaches at the helm of teams for the Men Group A of Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association (CAZOVA) /FIVB World Championship Qualifiers both stated they were confident and ready to play. The matches will take place at the Palais Des Sports, Des Riviere Salee Both countries will be joined by Aruba which was due to arrive late after being stranded in St Maarten for the first round of qualifiers which also serves as a qualification tournament to the Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Championship 2017 to be hosted by two-time reigning champions Trinidad and Tobago next year. Already through to the CAZOVA eight-team finals in Port-of-Spain are seventh ranked regional team Haiti, which topped a four-team round-robin series on home soil in early July ahead of fellow qualifiers, fifth ranked Curacao, while US Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands were third and fourth respectively and did not qualify. Bonaire was expected to be the fourth team, but pulled out of the competition due to financial reasons brought on by Hurricane Matthew last month. On paper it is expected to be a battle between former CAZOVA champions, Martinique and Bahamas, being the two most experienced squads for the places up for grabs, however, the youthful Aruban squad is mostly unknown and willing to spring a surprise. Speaking on the eve of the competition, Martinique coach, Eddy Erialc said his team was ready to use the energy of the home crowd to get past its opponents. For me the team to beat in this group is Bahamas and with the help of our home support and good volleyball it will help us to overcome them. We have been preparing since June and while some of our best players are with their clubs and are not available we have a good group of locally-based players who have the experience. Erialc also hinted that he may change his tactics due to Bonaire opting out of the tournament. With only three teams involve and not four there is less room for slips up, so while we had hope to give everyone on the team some playing time, we may be forced to stick to our key players. For Bahamian coach, Covanc Mortimer this will be his first tournament in charge of his country s national team since taking over after the untimely death in December 2015 of then coach De Vince Smith. A former coach at St Augustines University, Raleigh, North Carolina, from 2007 to 2011, Mortimer said his team s preparations had been a little bit troubling. We had some issues with Hurricane Matthew which displaced us with regards to our training so we had to prepare as best as we could.

9 We have a few key players also out through injury, which has forced us into some positional changes in the team as well, but we still have our core players and once we play to the best of our ability we should be able to get the job done," added Mortimer. For the last FIVB World Championship to Poland 2014, Bahamas reached as far as the penultimate round of qualification after it finished third, behind Mexico and Puerto Rico in their four-team pool. Martinique, meanwhile was ousted at the first hurdle after a third placed finish behind Guatemala and Suriname while Aruba reached the Second Round of qualification. Also, the Control Committee headed by Warrenton Dixon conducted its preliminary enquiry of both teams present after which the Technical Meeting was held. At the Technical Meeting, Manuel Petricien, President of the Martinique Volleyball Federation explained the different possibilities of the scheduling of the two days of competition should or should not the Aruba team, coached by Daan Kleinbussink, which was stuck in Saint Martin enroute to the qualifiers. Dixon in his address, praised the efforts of Bahamas to get to the competition despite the problems suffered due to Hurricane Matthew, as well as host Martinique for all it has done to get to host the event, especially in terms of securing finances and putting its credibility on the line Men s First Round Qualifying Groups: October 21-24: Martinique (host) Group A: Bahamas-3, Aruba-8, Martinique-9,