6 of our VK Juniors travelled down to Sandbanks on Sunday to take part in the annual Beach Volleyball Festival.
Ryan and Josh paired up and took part in the U18s competition, as part of their England Cadets Beach Squad development, facing some strong opposition from both home and overseas. They performed well, improving game by game but the age and experience of the opposition showed as they lost both their pool games. The idea was to give them match practice (as they had been unable to compete in the U16s competition the previous day as they were playing in the London School Games) so the experience fulfilled it’s purpose.

4 of our new VK Juniors also took part in their 1st beach tournament. Adam and Dom played together in the U18s ‘B’ competition and although they didn’t win any pool matches they too improved vastly over the day and in their last game, they had the pleasure of winning more points against the eventual competition winners than anyone else had achieved !
Louie and Luca played in the U14 competition. Both have only been playing for about 4 months and neither have played any sort of match before, never mind on the beach ! They made excellent progress, improving as the day went on, eventually winning their last pool game. They then faced the eventual winners in a semi final and took a set off of them. Considering that all the teams in their group live within 15 minutes of the coast and train 2-3 times a week, this is an incredible achievement !