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- Training starts for 2010/2011 Season!
Laurent Zeiller - Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Now that September is upon us, it is time to get the trainers out of the closet to get ready for the new season! Tuesday 31st August sees Ladies and Division 1 training start at Birkdale, 19:30 as per last season. Men's NVL and Premier League training has also started on Wednesdays 19:30 at Thornhill. Junior / Open sessions start on 9th September in Brighouse, at the new time of 19:00 and over 2 hours. See you all soon! - Service ACE to finish the NVL season.
Mo - Monday, 12 April 2010- Needing two wins on the last day of the NVL season to secure second place, Boathouse started the day with a disappointing loss against East Midlands Lions. The final game of the season was against local rivals, Leeds. The latter started the match on a high, full with confidence after winning the other encounter of the day. They took a two set lead when coach O'Malley made a tactical switch in the third set. Boathouse won the next two sets which took the match to a 5th set decider. At half way in the final set, Leeds had a 3 point lead (8-5). Boathouse came back to draw 9 all. This was close, nobody wanted to lose. The match was there for the taking at 11 all. Enter Steve Kaye with four excellent serves, the last one a service ace, to win Boathouse the match. This meant that Boathouse finished the season 3rd in the league and also the only other team apart from the League winners, University of Birmingham, to have beaten all the teams in the league at least once. A big thank you to all players, coaches, supporters, referees and helpers.
- Despite the indoor season nearing its end, we will start playing outdoors, weather permitting, very soon and there is always the Friday night indoor session at Hawks in Cleckheaton.
- Amongst many summer tournaments, the Joint Hawks & Boathouse Grass Tournament will be held on Sunday the 20th June in Cleckheaton.
- More details about the summer season will be published on this website.
- Boathouse NVL team top of the league
David Hübner - Monday, 21 September 2009
After winning the first two games of the season, the NVL team is currently positioned at the top of the National League Division 3 North. Team secretary and middle hitter Mo Bucksun expressed his desire to stay at that position. Let's see how long the team will manage to do so...
Thanks to all the supporters on the match day! - Boathouse starting into 2009/2010 season
David Hübner - Saturday, 05 September 2009
The training sessions have started for all teams and the players are getting in shape for their first games. On Sunday, 13/09 there are two friendly games scheduled at Thornhill SC: at 5pm the NVL team challenging local rival Leeds VC and at 7pm the YPW team is competing against Wakefield Polonia. The first league matches will be on Sunday, 20/09 with the NVL team playing home matches against Barnsley and Newcastle Staff 2. All spectators and volunteers are welcome to attend these events. - Boathouse wins Yorkshire Plate competition
David Hübner - Monday, 09 March 2009
The men's Yorkshire Premier League team of Boathouse had to face Menwith Hill in the final of the Yorkshire Plate competition. After comfortably winning the first set, Boathouse was seriously struggling in the second set being blinded but the sun and put off by the low ceiling of the venue and lost the set 26-24. At the same time Mentwith Hill surprised with strong hitting. In the third set Boathouse looked a lot stronger and in the fourth set Boathouse benefited from incredible serves by Tony Iganza. Boathouse's setter Maythem Ali was named most valuable player of the match. - Boathouse Christmas Bonus!
David Hübner - Thursday, 22 January 2009
On 8th December, Boathouse Volleyball Club was awarded a £10,000 grant by the Lottery funded 'Awards for All' scheme. This substantial award has been given for the development of volleyball across West Yorkshire, focusing on Kirklees and Calderdale. The club will provide opportunities for juniors from 10-18 and local ethnic communities to participate in a fantastic, social team sport. The money will aid the clubs' ambitions to make volleyball more accessible and raise the profile of this sport.
Read more... - New net touch rules video presentation
David Hübner - Saturday, 10 January 2009
Here is a very useful video that explains the new rules regarding net-touches of spikers, blockers and setters.
Download it here - NVL team stays close to the top of the league
David Hübner - Thursday, 04 December 2008
The Boathouse National League squad managed to win another two "away games" in Birmingham. Against Birmingham Uni 2 they won in three close sets, against Preston only the first set was given away. With 28 points the team stays on position 3 in the league only 2 points away from the two top teams.