A record 528 teams will descend on Dallas, Texas
for the 64th edition of the USA Adult Volleyball Championships, hosted
by USA Volleyball, the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the North
Texas Region, May 25-June 1.
More than 5,200 players and staff will attend
this year’s event, which will be broken into two separate sessions of competition.
The first session runs from Saturday, May 25 through Tuesday, May 28, while
the second wave of competition begins on Wednesday, May 29 and concludes
on Saturday, June 1. The matches will be played on 36 portable courts
within the convention center. The event was also held in Dallas in
1996 and 1960.
There will be 285 men’s teams, 218 women’s
teams, 16 co-ed teams, and nine Special Olympic teams competing for championships
in the Open, Club, Masters (age 30 and over), Senior (age 50 and over),
and Co-Ed divisions. This year, for the first time, the event will
feature a women’s 65 and over tournament.
Many National Team players both past and present
have participated at this yearly event. Olympians including Logan
Tom (2000), Misty May (2000 beach), Jeff Nygaard (1996, 2000), Tom Sorenson
(1996), Paula Weishoff (1984, 1992, 1996), and Laurel Brassey-Iversen (1980,
1988) competed at the event last year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
According to statistics for April 2002, there
are more than 35,000 registered adult members of USA Volleyball.
In addition to the Championships, USA Volleyball
will conduct an International Team Tour Event matching the USA Men’s National
Team against the Czech Republic Men’s National Team. Matches will
be held on the evenings of May 24, 25, 27, 29, and 31 in the Dallas Convention
Center (DCC) Arena. All matches will begin at 7:00 p.m. (CT).
Tickets will go on sale at the DCC Arena Akard Street box office at 5:00
p.m. on the night of the event. The doors to the arena will open
at 6:00 p.m. Tickets will be priced at $10 for general admission
and $5 for senior citizens and students. Children 12 and under are
free.
For more information please contact:
Paul Soriano, Manager of Public Relations and Publications for USA Volleyball
at 719-228-6800.
On The Web:
USA Volleyball: http://www.usavolleyball.org
Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau: http://www.dallascvb.com/
North Texas Region: http://www.ntrvolleyball.org/
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