WA State Team travel is back!
The 2019 Australian Volleyball League saw the WA Steel teams compete in three rounds interstate and two rounds in WA between October and November. Since November 2019, the WA Steel, Volleyball WA’s Senior State Teams, have not had the opportunity to travel or compete.
March 2020 marked the final interstate trip for any VWA State Team post the commencement of COVID-19, when the Youth Beach State Teams travelled to Coolangatta, QLD for the Australia Youth Beach Volleyball Championships. Twenty months later, the WA Steel will become the first VWA State Team to travel interstate once again on the 13-14 November, where they will compete against the Tasmania Echidnas in replacement of the Australian Volleyball League, which was cancelled for a second year in a row due to COVID-19.
Prior to the teams departing for Tasmania, they will compete in home exhibition games on the 6-7 November at Warwick Stadium. This event will also serve as a fundraiser for the teams travelling to Tasmania with $5 entry at the door, which puts fans into the running for multiple gift baskets to be raffled off on Saturday night. The schedule is as follows.
Saturday 6 November
- WA Steel Men – 5:00pm
- WA Steel Women – 7:00pm
Sunday 7 November
- WA Steel Men & Women – 11:00am
The teams have been training within a larger squad since June of this year. For the Men’s exhibition game, the WA Steel Team that is travelling to Tasmania will compete against a separate team that plays in other WA competitions together, made up mainly of a mix of WAVL State League players. The Women remain as a large squad of 19, therefore they will compete in a Black vs Gold intra-squad match.
WA Steel Men – Coached by Ben Gray, Mitch Collins and Rachel Trent
Caleb Watson
Lewis McDonald
Daniel Piggot
Maksim Bacovic
Tristan Watts
Ryan Slater
Ky Landers
Ben Murray
Kable Monck
Daniel Sutton
Aditya Joshi
WA Steel Women – Coached by Pauline Manser, Laurel Wentworth and Gareth Whitehead
Team Gold
Jackie Tamburri
Tessa Browne
Christina Da Rui
Shelby Maher
Jasmine Serra
Elysse Hislop
Biancka Morton
Amelie Warburton
Caitlin Whincup
Denae Walters
Team Black
Sophie Alchin
Elizabeth Alchin
Yun Han Wong
Victoria Wells
Keete Kreen
Jess Burton
Rachel Tausem
Alexia Zammit
Momoka Haddrell
Come out and support the WA Steel teams this Saturday 6 November for their first games in two years, at Warwick Stadium from 5:00pm – 9:00pm.