Mens Pre-season Training
After a great turnout and solid session at the first of the mens pre-season trainings tonight, the boys are ready to take on another big year! For the remainder of pre-season, trainings will be as follows:
- Monday 7pm – Ivanhoe Grammar – The Ridgeway, Ivanhoe
- Thursday 7pm – Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre – Albert Park
These are for the Seniors in the mens program. Junior training will start on Tuesday nights at Luther College in a few weeks.
See you there!
Falcons Men name new Head Coach
We are proud to announce Phill DeSalvo as the new Head Coach for the Mens program in 2010.
Phill joins the club after representing Australia as Libero in the senior team for 150 games and junior team for 100 games. During this time he competed in the 2003 Youth World Championship (ranking 5th as individual best digger in the tournament), 2006 World Championships, 2007 World Cup, and was also part of the team who were 2007 Asian Champions and also 2007 Commonwealth Champions. This national team was also ranked 11th in the world in 2007. He was also part of the Olympic Shadow Squad in 2004 and 2008.
Over the recent years Phill has been playing professionally in Germany and the Czech Republic. He played for:
- Sonneberger Volleyball Club – Germany (2nd Bundesliga)
- Volleyball CZ Kladno – Czech Republic (Czech Superliga)
- Volleyball CZ CZU Praha - Czech Republic (Czech Superliga)
- Volleyball SG Eltmann – Czech Republic (1st Bundesliga)
Phill has now come back to Melbourne for study, and has great plans for a revamped Mens program in 2010. This year Falcons should be represented in Honours, Division 1, Division 2 and Junior State league in the mens competition.
Falcons win Silver at National Junior Beach Titles
Falcons girls Jamie-Lee Morrow and Monique Stojanovic (“Team Falcon“) won Silver in the Girls U19 competition in the National Junior Beach Volleyball Titles last week in Adelaide.
In the U17 boys competition, young Sam “Vegas” Brisbane also won Silver.
Congratulations to all the Falcons who competed in Adelaide! Hopefully this is the start of a great year!
Time to take on the 2010 season!
Well its now that time of the year to start getting back onto the hard court. Both the Mens and Womens programs will be starting preseason over the next few weeks so it’s time to get back into shape (if you over-enjoyed your Christmas season, like me) and get ready to take on the 2010 State League Season.
Please check out the following documents for all the latest information:
Mens Program
Womens Program
