Last event of Beach Season in Trinidad & Tobago

MARACAS BAY, Trinidad, November 28, 2013 – The eleventh and final tournament of the 2013 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit serves off on Friday at Maracas Bay, Trinidad.

Mexicans Lombardo Ontiveros, who set a new record in Costa Rica by winning their sixth men’s gold medal of the season, will be trying to add another title during the weekend.

The duo Ontiveros/Virgen won this year in Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Cuba, Mazatlán (México), Puerto Rico and Costa Rica.

In the women’s division, USA Lane Carico will be seeking her fourth gold medal of the year and the third playing with partner Heather Hughes.

Carico won with Sara Hughes in Puerto Rico and the triumphed with Heather Hughes in Chula Vista (USA) and St. Lucia.

Sixteen women’s teams have been divided into four pools while 19 men’s teams will play in six pools. The top two teams from each pool advance to the single elimination bracket.

The composition of the women’s pools is as follows:

Pool A (USA-A, LCA, SKN, TRI-B), Pool B (CAN-A, TRI-A, JAM, USA-B), Pool C (MEX, CAY, ISV, CAN-B), Pool D (CRC, PUR, BAR, VIN).

The composition of the men’s is as follows:

Pool A (MEX, BAR, CAY), Pool B (CAN-A, ARU, JAM), Pool C (USA-A, ESA, TRI-B), Pool D (PUR, DOM, SUR), Pool E (TRI-A, CRC, CAN-B), Pool F (GUA, LCA, USA-B, NCA).

Women Teams

BAR: Shari Matthews/Anicia Wood), CAN-A (Jamie Broder/Kristina Valjas), CAN-B (Heather Bansley/Caleigh Whitaker), CAY (Cristin Alexander/Jessica Wolfenden), CRC-A (Karen Cope/Natalia Alfaro), ISV (Jamie Farley/Laurie Bachler), JAM (Shedeiky Hamilton/Kai Wright), LCA (Samantha Mann/Dania Hamilton), MEX (Marta Revuelta/Bibiana Candelas), PUR (Dariam Acevedo/Vanessa Velez), SKN (Brenda Allen/Shanicia Dyer), TRI-A (Nancy Joseph/Ayana Dyette), TRI-B (Apphia Glascow/Kinicia Marshall), VIN (Nikita Campbell/Shanique Deshong), USA-A (Heather Hughes/Lane Carico), USA-B (Sarah Day/Kaitlin Nielsen).

Men Teams

ARU (Mitchel Daniel/Eargenell De Cuba), CAN-A (Chaim Schalk/Benjamin Saxton), CAN-B (Christian Redman/Maverick Hatch), CAY (Richard Campbell/Duncan Hamann), CRC-A (Esteban Escobar/Jonathan Guevara), CRC-B (Brian Mongue/Zltako Piskulich), DOM (Luis Castillo/William Sanchez), ESA (Franklin Flores/Luis Morales), GUA (Julio Recinos/Erick Garrido), JAM (Shavar Bryan/Rojey Hutchinson), LCA (Coen Caesar/Joseph Clercent), MEX (Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen), NCA (Ruben Mora/Gerson Contreras), PUR (Roberto Rodriguez/Hector Soto), SUR (Clyde Akaamba/Roberto Joval), TRI-A (Daneil Williams/Simon Blake), TRI-B (Fabien Whitfield/Colin Bernard), USA-A (Nicholas Lucena/Theodore Brunner), USA-B (James Drost/William Montgomery).

2013 Winners

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)            S. Hughes/Carico (USA)

Chula Vista, USA           Brunner/Lucena (USA)              H. Hughes/Carico (USA)

St. Lucia                       McKensie/Rester (USA)            H. Hughes/Carico (USA)

Costa Rica                    Ontiveros/Virgen (MEX)            MacTavish/Whitaker (CAN)