IPFW advances to Final Four again

Ohio State loses another championship game. This time it's the MIVA final to IPFW in Columbus. The 10th ranked Mastodons are hot having won their last 6 matches 3 to 0. The Final Four will be held in Columbus this year and it is now the fourth year in a row that the host of the MIVA tourney has lost.

The game was broadcast on CSTV and there were a decent amount of IPFW fans at the game, although it was sparce overall. The experts aren't expecting IPFW to actually win the Final Four this year but they do benefit from having five starters who played in last year's Final Four, and they have gained some confidence in Columbus, which they will need when the dominating West Coast teams come to Ohio.

Team Formation

Here is an example of Fair Play Volleyball at its best. Every season I form 5 to 15 teams of individuals looking for teams to join. It's a way that the league has been able to grow. This is a Wednesday night team that called themselves "Random Selection" who started out slow, but ended up winning the Winter "B" tourney at Spiece. The team was made up of 5 individuals who didn't know each other before (one player found a friend for the 6th spot) but just needed to meet and took care of business on all fronts after that...

Chipping Course May Be Ready In Late May

While a fire burned down a clubhouse adjacent to the Lakeside Golf Course I chose to ignore it and got a new shot of the River City Links course at the River City Complex. As you can slightly see, work has begun on the deck of the River City clubhouse.

School Teams Welcome to Use Beach Courts

Last year Harding, Northrop, Luers and Norwell used the beach courts for free practice. It was ok in previous years as well. I am starting to see players who used the courts for these practices show up in the leagues so at this time it will still be ok. I just need waiver forms signed by everyone involved and support of beach tourneys & leagues offered at River City or some other future support of Fair Play programs given the generosity of this allowance.

Norwell's high school volleyball team has already claimed some dates for summer as seen at this link. If any college or junior high or younger teams are interested then that is also being allowed.

If you are in the Fort Wayne area and are interested contact me at fairplaybeach@yahoo.com . Times slots available are from 9 am to 5 pm any day of the week.

Club V- Tampa Bay Volleyball

This is the largest beach volleyball facility on the continent. Alan Hafaz went to the city... Getting no help he spent more than 3 million dollars on his 18 court lighted Club V in Clearwater. The A.V.P. now has tournaments there.

I didn't find out about this until I got back from Florida. It looks very familiar plus 15 courts or so...





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