Falcons Girls to Represent Australia
A big congratualtaions goes out to Sophie Paine, Jaimee-Lee Morrow, and Monique Stojanovic for being selected to represent Australia in the Junior team in the upcoming Arafura Games in Darwin.
The Arafura Games is a leading international sporting competition for emerging champions of the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Since 1991, Arafura Games has been held every two years in the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory, Darwin. Unlike other Games, Arafura Games is not designed for current world beaters or Olympic champions, instead it provides a high quality stepping stone for athletes as part of their journey to compete at the highest level.
Arafura Games 2009 has an exciting line up of events across 27 sporting disciplines. For the first time at Arafura Games will include the sports of Darts and Muaythai.
After the success of the inclusion of Oceania Paralympic Championships in Arafura Games 2007, Arafura Games 2009 will again host Paralympic Events in eight sports.
The Northern Territory looks forward to welcoming sporting neighbours from around the world to the forthcoming Arafura Games 2009.
For more information, check out http://www.arafuragames.nt.gov.au/
Well done girls! We are wishing you the best of luck for the competition!
Draw for 2009 Vic Champs is out
The draw for the 2009 Vic Champs tournament this coming weekend (4th & 5th April) has been released. You can find the details for all Falcons Teams below:
Mens:
| Falcons Honours | Falcons Div 1 | Falcons Masters |
| Saturday | Saturday | Saturday |
| 10:10am v Masters | 9:00am v H’Berg | 10:10am v Falcons |
| 1:30pm v R’Gades | 11:20am v Cossacks | 2:40pm v Heidelberg |
| 3:50pm v Eastside | 1:30pm v R’Gades | 5:00pm v Cossacks |
| 5:00pm Duty | 3:50pm Duty | 6:10pm Duty |
| Sunday | Sunday | Sunday |
| 11:20am Duty | 9:00am Duty | 9:00am v Eastside |
| 12:30pm v Cossacks | 12:20pm v W’Bool | 10:10am Duty |
| 2:40pm v Heidelberg | 2:40pm v M’gton | 1:30pm v R’gades |
| 3:50pm 3rd v 4th | 3:40pm 3rd v 4th | 3:50pm 3rd v 4th |
| 5:10pm 1st v 2nd | 5:00pm 1st v 2nd | 5:10pm 1st v 2nd |
Womens:
| Falcons Honours | Falcons Div 1 | Falcons Div 2 Navy | Falcons Div 2 Gold |
| Saturday | Saturday | Saturday | Saturday |
| 9:00am v Eastside | 9:00am v M’gton | 9:00am Duty | 10:10am v Monash |
| 11:30am v R’Gades | 10:10am Duty | 11:20am v R’Gades | 12:30pm v Eastside |
| 12:30pm Duty | 1:20pm v Cobras | 2:40pm v Falcons Gold | 2:40pm v Falcons Navy |
| 2:50pm v Monash | 4:00pm v Monash | 5:00pm v Cossacks | 3:50pm Duty |
| 4:00pm v Eastside | 5:00pm Duty | 6:00pm Duty | Sunday |
| Sunday | 6:00pm v Cossacks | Sunday | 10:10am v R’Gades |
| 9:00am v R’Gades | Sunday | 11:20am v Monash | 11:20am Duty |
| 10:10am Duty | 11:20am v Yarra | 12:30pm Duty | 2:40pm v Cossacks |
| 11:30am Duty | 3:30pm v R’Gades | 1:30pm v Eastside | 3:50pm 3rd v 4th |
| 12:30pm v Monash Uni | 4:40pm Duty | 3:50pm 3rd v 4th | 5:00pm 1st v 2nd |
| 2:00pm 3rd v 4th | No Finals | 5:00pm 1st v 2nd | |
| 5:10pm 1st v 2nd | Top 2 determined by ladder |
All players should support the club and watch as many games of other Falcons teams as possible. Lets get the Falcons name back up there where it should be!
Good luck to all our teams playing in the tournament!
2009 FIVB Rule Changes
Well there have recently been a number of changes to the rules made by FIVB and we will experience these changes in the 2009 State League season.
The rule changes are as follows:
- Players may now touch the opponent’s court with any part of their body above the feet, provided they do not interfere with play, i.e. the foot/feet must still be in contact with or directly above the centre line.
- Player contact with the net outside of the antenna is now the same as touching the ropes, post or other objects, i.e. it is permitted as long as it does not interfere with play
- Contact with the net is no longer a fault unless it interferes with play. The rule book contains definitions of ‘interfering with play’which I suggest you read. The main one to note, is that contact with the top band of the net and the top 80cm of the antenna during the action of playing the ball is always considered to be interference
- Substitution procedure. The actual request for substitution is the entrance of the player in the sub zone. The scorer acknowledges the sub by pressing the buzzer and the 2nd refere authorises with the whistle.The second referee stands between the post and the scorer, i.e. the 2nd referee no longer goes to the attack line to control the sub.
- There can now be 2 liberos per team. The coach must designate one as the ‘acting’libero and one as the ‘reserve’. The coach can change the libero at any time during the match, but can only do so once. Once the ‘acting’libero has been replaced, they can no longer partake in the game. If the ‘reserve’libero is then injured, the coach can only use one of his/her players on the bench at the time of the injury as a replacement libero (which is the existing rule for replacing the Libero). Since VVL is not an FIVB World Competition, the maximum number of players (including Liberos) per team is still 12 (at FIVB World Level, the Liberos can be extra).
- Both the 1st and 2nd referee can now call illegal back court blocks and attacks.
What are your thoughts on these changes?
Falcons IQ Test Results
Well thankyou to all those who participated in our first Falcons IQ Test. We will have more trivia to come.
Here are the answers to the first test: (more…)
FALCONS IQ TEST
Think you know the club pretty well? Put yourself to the test against your friends and take on the Falcons IQ Test. It consists of 15 questions relating to the club, it’s history, and its current program and players.
Go ahead, give it a go!!
IQ Test Now Closed…
As results come in, they will be added to the leaderboard below:
| Name | Result (Out of 18) |
| Jaimee-Lee Morrow | 18 |
| The President | 17 |
| Erica Bruderlin | 17 |
| Amazing | 16 |
| Pet Rice | 16 |
| Sketch | 16 |
| Renegades Girl | 14 |
| Big Ren | 13 |
| Aaron Morrow | 12 |
| Dave | 12 |
| Old Man River | 12 |
| Alison Loft | 11 |
| Chips | 11 |
| Craigo | 11 |
| Simon | 11 |
| Dunnt | 10 |
| Renee Podlewski | 10 |
| Taz | 10 |
| Tony | 10 |
| Jess Lampe | 9 |
| Micah | 9 |
| Monique | 9 |
| Bob | 8 |
| Dylan Ryan | 8 |
| Lee Baker | 7 |
| Know Nothing | 7 |
| Sarah Paline | 4 |
and by the way, only your first attempt counts….
Poll Discussion Time!! CLOSES FRIDAY 20TH MARCH
Well it’s currently a tight contest between the season being the right length and the season being too short. Also we have some people who have thrown out the donkey vote, or those who seem to have stumbled on this page lost haha.
It’s time for some discussion about peoples votes. What did you vote and why?
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Falcons women get promising results at Warrnambool
The Labour Day long weekend sees the city of Warrnambool once again hosting the Annual Seaside Volleyball Tournament. This year Falcons sent 3 Womens teams to compete, while our Mens teams headed to Wonthaggi for a preseason training camp.
The results:
Womens Division 1: Gold (3-1)
Womens Division 2 Navy: Silver (2-3, and 14-16 in the 5th set)
Womens Division 2 Gold: Bronze (lost semi-final 2-1)
Elsie Rodgers was awarded the Most Valuable Player award in Div 2
Well done girls, we’re looking forward to a great season in 2009!
Australian Junior Women Europe Tour
The Australian Junior Womens Team, including Melbourne Falcon Lena Skipper has set off for its first tour of Europe, with the hope of making this pilgrimage annually in the years to come.
Good luck to Skip and all the girls for the rest of the tour, I’m sure it will be great experience for all of you.
If you would like to check out their progress, go to the Tour Website to keep up to date.
Falcon wins bronze in Canada
Congratulations to Melbourne Falcon Luke Reynolds for taking Bronze in the 2009 CIS Men’s Volleyball Championship. Luke was playing for the Brandon Bobcats alongside friends and fellow Melbournians Paul Sanderson and Cam Blewett.
First Team All-Canadian Sanderson produced a Man of the Match performance with an explosive 29 Kills and 2 Blocks.
See the full report here on the CIS website
Good stuff Big Ren!!! when are you coming back to play for us? It’s going to be a good season this year!
EDIT: Another Melbournian Tony Valena was playing for the Alberta Golden Bears, who took out the Championship. Good stuff Tones!!
Mens Team Trainings Update
Unfortunately we will have to put Wednesday night training on hold for the moment. Currently we will go ahead with juniors training every tuesday from 6 till 7:30 at Luther, and Seniors training on Fridays from 7 till 9 at Ivanhoe Grammar starting next week.
Until we get back up and running with our Wednesday night training, Seniors will need to attend another session on Tuesdays at Luther from 7 till 9.
Any questions, contact Robbo.
Falcons make VSSSA squad
Congratulations to falcons: Aaron Morrow, Elsie Rodgers and Sarah Tecklenburg for being chosen to represent the Victorian Secondary Schools’Sport Association at the School Sport Australia Volleyball Championships in NSW in August 2009.
Full team lists can be found here: http://www.vsssa.org.au/
2009 Victorian Representatives
Again the boys and girls from Falcons prove their skills by again obtaining a number of Victorian State Team call-ups.
Congratulations to the following:
| BoysUnder 15
Luke Brisbane Angus Legg Tom Ross Liam Sketcher (Coach) Bill McHoul (Assistant Coach) Under 17 Samual Brisbane David Fletcher Jordan Richards Under 19 Daniel Plowman Dylan Ryan Bill McHoul (Coach) Liam Sketcher (Assistant Coach) Grace Sobolewski (Assistant Coach) Under 21 Ramsay Wilmott |
GirlsUnder 15
Elsie Rodgers Grace Harries Under 17 Hayley Pringle Stephanie Topp Ella Tromp Under 19 Grace Billing Angelique Doulgeris Sarah Johns Jess Lampe Jamie-Lee Morrow Sophie Paine Monique Stojanovic Alice Ritchie Under 21 Jacinta Cook Petrice Fatchen Danielle Horne Hannah Martin Lena Skipper |
Update for Training on 3rd March
Training for Juniors on Tuesday the 3rd March will go ahead as usual from 6pm till 7:30 at Luther.
Since we have our camp this weekend there will be no training for Seniors on Friday night, so all Seniors will be required for a 7pm till 9pm session on Tuesday 3rd March at Luther.
If you have any questions, let Robbo know on 0433 339 449.
Details for the Camp this weekend will be up soon.
