The Northern California Volleyball Association’s Boys Junior Red team claimed a gold medal at the USA Volleyball High Performances Championships in Ft. Lauderdale from July 19-23.
NCVA compiled a perfect 9-0 record during the tournament and dropped just five of 32 total sets en route to winning the Youth Boys International Division. After going 7-0 in pool play, NCVA was placed in the top flight Gold Bracket and won its semifinal 3-1 over SCVA Youth International from Southern California.
In the Gold Medal match, NCVA faced Team Canada’s Youth Team and outlasted it despite falling down two sets to none early. After dropping sets one and two by identical 25-19 scores, NCVA stormed back to win three straight, 25-23, 25-21 and 15-12. NCVA’s setter Randy DeWeese, a UC Santa Barbara-bound Natomas Charter-Sacramento grad was named the tournament MVP. Three others were placed on the All-Tournament team “” Kyle Bugee (Homestead-Cupertino ’16), David Lehman (Bentley-Lafayette ’16) and Avery Aylsworth (St. Francis-Mountain View ’15).
Coach Prima Elam, (Core Volleyball) becomes first female head coach to win gold in the International Boys Youth Division. Elam was assisted by coach Aquiles Montoya.
Watch video of the match point, Brendan Fleming (MB), get’s a stuff block to end the match [HERE].