2010 will mark the fourth year that the Washington Volleyball Acacademy will be sending a team to Brazil to compete in a volleyball tournament and enjoy an amazing cultural exchange opportunity. We have had the pleasure of hosting the Minas Tenis Clube in Seattle for the past six years. This year's team consists of the following eight players:
OH Miah Diirell (WVBA Mizuno 15)
S/OPP Taylor Dillard (WVBA Mizuno 17)
S/OPP Jade Finau (WVBA Mizuno 15)
Libero Kaitlin Lebon (WVBA 16-Chris)
DS/OPP Melina Seabrook (WVBA Mizuno 15)
MB Sarah Hill (ITVC 16 Asics)
OH Cami Silverman (WVBA Mizuno 17)
MB Lara Linden (PSVBA 15 National)
We are gathering our last items and beginning to pack our bags for a Sunday departure in less than one week.
We have two practices scheduled this week, one on Tuesday and one on Friday. We leave very early on Sunday morning and will be arriving into Recife, in the Northeast of Brazil, early Monday morning.
We will be met at the airport by Maria who has chartered a bus for us and will be allowing us to stay at her family's incredible beach house about 1-1/2 hours south of Recife. We will spend two glorious days and one night at the beach house to recover from our long trip and to begin to adjust to our new environment in Brazil.
Tuesday evening we will board a plane and travel to our destination city of Belo Horizonte where we will meet our hosts from the Minas Tenis Clube. The players will stay with their host families while Dave and Brock and Andrew and Linda will stay at a hotel 2 blocks from the main club facilities. The tournament will be played over four days from Thursday through Sunday.
After a couple of days in Belo Horizonte following the tournament we will fly early on Wednesday morning to Rio de Janeiro to spend a day in this glamorous city before boarding a plane for our return to Seattle on Wednesday evening.
We will arrive back into Seattle on Thursday, August 12th just prior to noon.
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