Two teams seeking their fourth crowns of the year

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, November 12, 2014 – Trinidad & Tobago will host the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit Season Finale for the second consecutive year as the tenth stop of double gender event takes place from November 12-17.

Twenty two men’s teams and nineteen women’s teams hailing from twenty-three countries will take part in the competition.

Mexico’s Martha Revuelta and Bibi Candelas, winners of the female segment in the last two tournaments in Boquerón and Chula Vista, are going after the three-peat and fourth victory of the year as they also won the tournament held in Huixquilucan, Mexico.

USA’s Kimberly McGiven-Dicello, who won three times this year partnering with Tealle Hunkus in Cayman Islands, Antigua Guatemala and North Bay, Canada, will be seeking also for a fourth crown in 2014 now playing alongside with Lane Carico.

Canada’s Melisa Humana and Taylor Pischke and Cuba’s Lianma Flores and Leila Martinez, winners in Manzanillo, Mexico and Varadero, Cuba, respectively, are also registered for the tournament as also USA’s Heather Hughes, who won in Guatemala City with Christal Engle, and now will be playing with Emily Day.

In the men’s division, Cuba’s Nivaldo Díaz and Sergio Gonzalez will go after their fourth gold medal of the season. The Cuban pair previously won two straight events in Antigua Guatemala and Guatemala City and also triumphed in Huixquilucan.

Other men’s teams with victories in this year, who are registered in Trinidad & Tobago, are Puerto Rico’s Roberto Rodriguez and Eric Haddock, who won in Manzanillo, Mexico, Canada’s Josh Binstock and Sam Schachter, winners in North Bay, Canada, and Mexico’s Lombardo Ontiveros and Juan Virgen, who prevailed in Boquerón, Puerto Rico.

Binstock and Schachter recently won the Parana Open and finished second at Doha in the FIVB World Tour.

Women’s Teams

Bonaire (Ione Winklaar/Coffy Shireen), Canada-A (Heather Bansley/Cristina Valjas), Canada-B (Melisa Humana/Taylor Pischke), Costa Rica (Karen Cope/Natalia Alfaro), Cuba (Lianma Flores/Leila Martinez), Dominican Republic (Nairobi Agramonte/Diana Peguero), El Salvador (Kathia Vasquez/Maria Vargas), Guadeloupe (Fannia Katarzynski/Marjorie Imperato), Guatemala (Natalia Giron/Estefanie Bethancourt), Honduras (Christianne Etches/Marissa Brady), Mexico (Martha Revuelta/Bibiana Candelas), Nicaragua (Elia Machado/Lolette Rodriguez), St Lucia (Samantha Mann/Dania Hamilton), Trinidad & Tobago-A (Ayana Dyette/Nancy Joseph), Trinidad & Tobago-B (Rachel Noel/Abby Blackman), Trinidad & Tobago-C (Asia Joseph/Shontel Yearwood), United States-A (Lane Carico/Kimberly McGiven-Dicello), United States-B (Heather Hughes/Emily Day), U.S. Virgin Islands (Jamie Farley/Amber Bennet).

Men’s Teams

Aruba (Eargenell De Cuba/Mitchel Daniels), Antigua (Jamarie James/Jonathon Jupiter), Barbados (Daran Gill/Sheldon Roach), Bonaire (Emanuel Silie/Percy Prudencia), Canada-A (Josh Binstock/Sam Schachter), Canada-B (Chaim Schalk/Ben Saxton), Costa Rica (Diego Alpizar/Julio Alvares), Cuba (Nivaldo Diaz/Sergio Gonzalez), Curacao (Jeandro Tocay/Homi Cathalina), Dominican Republic (Luis Castillo/William Sanchez), El Salvador (Carlos Escobar/David Vargas), Guatemala (Andy Leonardo/Erick Garrido), Jamaica (Ryck McKenzie-Webb/Christopher Walters), Mexico (Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen), Puerto Rico (Roberto Rodriguez/Eric Haddock), St Lucia (Joseph Clercent/Sheldon Descartes), St Vicent & Grenadines (Franklin Cassius/Kemaul Lee), Trinidad & Tobago-A (Daniel Williams/Fabien Whitfield), Trinidad & Tobago-B (Stephan James/Dmytrii Fraser), Trinidad & Tobago-C (Kevin James/Kaleel Yearwood), United States-A (William Allen/Trevor Crabb), United States-B (Jacob Gibb/Casey Patterson).

Past winners in Trinidad & Tobago

2007

W-PUR Annia Ruiz/Yamileska Yantín                 

M- Men’s tournament was not held

2012   

W- USA Emily Day/Summer Ross                                  

M- USA Will Montgomery/Antonio Ciarelli

2013

W- CAN Jamie Broder/Kristina Valjas                

M- CAN Christian Redmann/Maverick Hatch

Winners in 2014 NORCECA Circuit

Cayman Islands

W- USA Tealle Hunkus/Kimberly McGiven-Dicello

M- USA Todd Rogers/Theodore Brunner

Guatemala City

W- USA Heather Hughes/Christal Engle

M- CUB Nivaldo Díaz/Sergio González

Antigua Guatemala

W- USA Tealle Hunkus/Kimberly McGiven-Dicello

M- CUB Nivaldo Díaz/Sergio González

Manzanillo, México

W- CAN Melissa Humana/Taylor Pishcke

M- PUR Roberto Rodríguez/Erik Haddock

Huixquilucan, Mexico

W- MEX Martha Revuelta/Bibi Candelas

M- CUB Nivaldo Díaz/Sergio González

North Bay, Ontario

W- USA Tealle Hunkus/Kimberly McGiven-Dicello

M- CAN Josh Binstock/Sam Schachter

Varadero, Cuba

W- CUB Lianma Flores/Leila Martinez

M- USA Todd Rogers/Theo Brunner

Boqueron, Puerto Rico

W- MEX Martha Revuelta/Bibiana Candelas

M- MEX Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen

Chula Vista, United States

W- MEX Martha Revuelta/Bibiana Candelas

M- CAN Garret May/Daniel Dearing