Carico looks to continue successful streak in NORCECA

CHULA VISTA, California, October 2, 2013 - USA Volleyball will welcome beach volleyball teams from 13 different countries when it hosts the 2013 NORCECA Beach Circuit event on Oct. 4-6 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista.

Sixteen men’s teams and 16 women’s from countries in North American, Central American and the Caribbean are registered to compete.

The United States is sending the women’s teams of Lane Carico and Heather Hughes along with Sarah Day and Kaitlin Nielsen. It is sending the men’s teams of Nick Lucena and Theo Brunner along with Tri Bourne and John Hyden.

Carico joined Sara Hughes to claim the gold medal at the previous NORCECA event held in Boqueron, Puerto Rico two weeks ago. Carico also had won the bronze medal one week earlier playing alongside with Heather Hughes in Mazatlan, Mexico.

Heather Hughes and Summer Ross finished third at the 2013 NORCECA Circuit event in Toluca, Mexico while Heather pocketed the 2012 Chula Vista tournament with then-partner Emily Day. Bourne finished second at the 2013 Chula Vista tournament with Will Montgomery.

It is the third timed in the past four years that USA Volleyball has hosted the event, which has attracted more teams each season.

The competition will begin with pool play at 9 a.m. on October 4. The top two teams from each pool advance to the single elimination bracket. The event concludes on Sunday with the semifinals and finals.

Registered Teams

Women

Canada-A (Claudia Seguin/Brandie Wilkerson), Canada-B (Victoria Altomare/Julie Gordon), Cayman Islands (Jessica Wolfenden/Cristin Alexander), Costa Rica-A (Karen Cope/Natalia Alfaro), Costa Rica-B (Katherine Quesada/Eugenia Ramirez), Dominican Republic (Diana Peguero/Nairobi Agramonte), El Salvador (Laura Molina/Ivonne Soler), Guatemala-A (Nadia Galán/Lourdes Ramírez), Guatemala-B (María José Orellana/María Andrea Orellana), Honduras (Gina Flores/Martha Euceda), México-A (Martha Revuelta/Bibi Candelas), México-B (Vanessa Virgen/Stephanie Burnside), Puerto Rico (Dariam Acevedo/Vanessa Vélez), St Kitts & Nevis (Brenda Allen/Shanicia Dyer), United States-A (Heather Hughes/Lane Carico), United States-B (Sarah Day/Kaitlin Nielsen).

Men

Canadá-A (Ryan Vandenburg/Andrew Hinchey), Canadá-B (Michael Plantinga/Cameron Wheelan), Costa Rica (Julio Alvarez/Diego Alpizar), Dominican Republic (William Sanchez/Aneruris Polanco), Guatemala (Julio Recinos/Erick Garrido), Honduras (Luis Coto/Manuel Serrano), México (Mario Barragán/Julio Manrique), Nicaragua (Ruben Mora/Gerson Contreras), Puerto Rico (Roberto Rodríguez/Héctor Soto), St Lucia (Julian Bissette/Joseph Clercent), Trinidad & Tobago (Daneil Williams/Simon Blake), United States-A (John Hyden/Tri Bourne), United States-B (Theodore Brunner/Nicholas Lucena), US Virgin Islands-A (Marc Lomeli/Anthony Pippen), US Virgin Islands-B (Cullen Diehl/Austin Pitten).

Winners in 2013

Place                          Men                                        Women

Cayman Islands         Rodriguez/Haddock, PUR           Broder/Valjas, CAN

Boca Chica, D.R.        Ontiveros/Virgen, MEX              Fopma/Sweat, USA

Guatemala                Ontiveros/Virgen, MEX              MacTavish/Whitaker, CAN

Toluca, Mexico          Jennings/Slick, USA                  Day/Pavlik, USA

Varadero, Cuba         Ontiveros/Virgen, MEX              Humana/Pischke, CAN

Mazatlan, Mexico       Ontiveros/Virgen, MEX              Revuelta/Candelas, MEX

Boqueron, P. Rico      Ontiveros/Virgen, MEX              Hughes/Carico, USA