Sarah Reaves Commits To Arizona State
 Junior
Sarah Reaves, a 5-10 outside hitter for the 18-Garra team and a
member of Zia for the past three years has accepted a scholarship
to play volleyball in 2007 for the Arizona State Sun Devils.
Reaves, who was a second team All-State selection and the Desert
West Region Player of the Year was eyed by several schools including
Cal-State Fullerton, Concordia University, Washington State University,
UNLV and New Mexico to name but a few.
Reaves is the first Zia athlete to play
in the PAC-10 conference, considered the best volleyball conference
in the nation. She will join Garra assistant coaches Margie Giordano
and Giovanna Melo who are also with the team; Giordano as an
outside hitter and Melo who is the team’s volunteer Assistant
Coach.
Congratulations to Sarah for her accomplishment and best wishes
to her in the future!
Zia Garners Scholarships for All Recruits
Cementing its claim as the leader in volleyball in the west valley,
Zia is exceptionally proud to announce that ALL of its recruits
for the 2006 season have signed letters of intent to play college
volleyball.
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Senior setter Aumee Barrett has signed
a letter of intent to play with Phoenix College next season. |
| Joining Aumee will be opposite hitter
Shellie Parks who also will join first year coach Karen Sitkiewicz
in the Bear Den. |
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| P.C. had already signed Zia athletes
Lisa Doremus and Michelle Burrola and they all join Zia alum
Jenny Chamberlin on next year’s roster. |
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Finalizing Zia’s success in the
recruiting arena was Senior Kelly McDonald who has signed
to play for Coach Pay Mooney at South Mountain Community
College. |
They join seniors Ashley Getz who has
signed with Embry-Riddle University and Nicki Wanninger who
signed with Yavapai College, both schools in Prescott.
Congratulations and best of luck to these
wonderful Zia girls in their future volleyball careers. |
Zia Coyote Camp Begins Registration
The Zia Coyote Camp, run in cooperation with the Centennial Volleyball
program has begun accepting campers for its 2006 camp.
The Underclassman camp will be July 31 st through August 2 nd
and the Upperclassman camp will be August 2 nd through August 4
th. Both sessions will be held at Centennial High School and instructors
will include members of the ASU Volleyball team.
Only 60 campers will be taken per session. We will NOT exceed
60 campers in order to keep the coach camper ration low and the
campers a high amount of reps.
To download the brochure, go
here.
By a REAL popular demand, the Zia Juniors program which introduces
young kids to the sport of volleyball is back. For more information,
click here. Kids from 7-12 are welcome, but space is limited.
For information on Zia’s volleyball league set to start
the third week in May, go to our website at www.clubziavball.com and
click on the link for the ZVL. With only 36 teams being taken,
spots are limited. Get your registration in today.
 The
Early Bird has a Place to Play!!!
For those who are up and atom early on Mondays, Wednesday’s
and Fridays, Zia Coach Bob Levardo hosts a volleyball pick up game
from 6:00 a.m. till 7:30 a.m. at the L.A. Fitness located at 83
rd Ave north of Bell in the WalMart shopping center. If you want
to play, you need to be a member of LA Fitness OR pay their one
time workout fee. For more info, you can e-mail Bob at rlevardo@hmslandscape.com.
All are welcome.
 Region Beach is Back!!!
The Arizona Region’s Junior
Beach program is back for its third year. The program has become
a model for other regions across the country and this year promises
to be even better!
In addition to 9 regular tournaments
in which the top point earners will have their entry into USAV
Jr. Beach Nationals paid for, there is also a High Performance
tournament wherein the winners will receive free entry into the
USAV Beach High Performance Camp, a Father/Daughter tournament
on Father’s Day, a coed tournament and a tournament for female
college players, past and present!
To download the 2006 Beach brochure,
go to http://www.azregionvolleyball.org/beach/BeachBrochure06.pdf.
For a schedule of times and events, go to http://www.azregionvolleyball.org/beach/index.html.
AVP Here This Weekend.
The biggest volleyball event in Arizona is this weekend at Tempe
Beach Park as the AVP pro beach volleyball tour makes its yearly
stop.
Whiles several of Zia’s athletes
will be involved this weekend, whether at clinics, volunteering
or scorekeeping, the event figures to draw over 25,000 spectators
in its 3+ days. For more information, directions or to buy tickets,
go to www.avp.com.
Annihilators Hit the Wall!!!
The 14-Annihilators recently hit the wall…literally. The
team went rock climbing as a team bonding exercise before Regionals.
On the left, Nicole shows off her guns scaling the wall while on
the right, Kayla (dark shirt) laughs, thinking about whether she’s
going to let Tory drop or not.
The Arizona Region High
Performance Camp is filling fast, but there is still spots that
remain. To find out more information or to register for this
special clinic, go to http://www.azregionvolleyball.org/juniors/girls/hp/HPCampInfo.html
and
follow the instructions.
Finer Points Volleyball will again be offering small class clinics
in a variety of volleyball topics taught by current and former
Division 1 NCAA athletes. Included in the topics is middle hitting,
outside hitting, setting and playing libero. To sign up or for
more information, go to www.finerpointsvball.com
Summer Fitness-Getting Ready for In Season
 In
order to prepare yourself and/or your daughter and son for the
upcoming volleyball seasons this fall, here are some options
to help you out through the summer.
FitLife is offering a summer volleyball conditioning
package.
SUMMER
VOLLEYBALL STRENGTH & CONDITIONING PROGRAM
FitLife is also offering a speed camp.
2006
SPEED & CONDITIONING CAMP
Also, our friends at Velocity Sports
in Scottsdale would like to offer Zia athletes and their parent’s
introductory free sessions to tryout their facilities and programs.
Go to http://www.velocitysp.com/scottsdale/ to
visit their website and click
here to
see all the specialty camps Velocity offers over the summer.
Ask for Joe, he’s worked with Zia for years.
Fury Celebrates Prom Week
In Style
The 17-Fury took time out of practice last week for in impromptu
Prom night reenactment…without the boys. The girls wore
their dresses that they wore to prom the week before. Adorning
the court is from right to left Jenny, KimBERLy, Dani, Ashley,
Samantha, Trisha and Megan.
 Boys, Boys, Boys
Zia continues to follow up on its
commitment to growing the game of boy’s volleyball in the west valley. To download
a brochure of opportunities and options for boy’s players
over the summer, click here.
If
there is anything you would like to hear about, see or learn about in next
months ZIAp date, please e-mail Eric at erichbke@msn.com. We'll
do our best.
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