Team Essex Volleyball Club is a volleyball team based in Chelmsford, Great Britain since 2013. The club consists of a men's teams and a women's team that play in Volleyball England's English National Volleyball League. The Men's 1st team play in Volleyball England's Super League. The Women's 1st team play in Division 1. Subsequently, TEVC have a Men's and Women's team that also play in Division 3.
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| Full name | Team Essex Volleyball Club | ||
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| Short name | TEVC | ||
| Nickname | Team Essex | ||
| Founded | 2013 | ||
| Ground | University of Essex, The Boswells School, St John Payne Catholic School | ||
| Chairman | Klaudia French, James Bernardi | ||
| Captain | James Bernardi (Blaze); Klaudia French (Trinity) | ||
| League | Volleyball England | ||
| Website | Club home page | ||
| Uniforms | |||
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Achievements
edit- Team Essex Trinity (Women)
- Winners of Division 2 and promotion to division 1 2023/2024.
- English Shield Runners Up 2016[1]
- Promotion to National League Division 1[2]
- Team Essex Blaze (Men)
History
editThe club was set up in 2013 by James Bernardi, Paul French and Steven Rosser. The men and women's teams are conglomerates, the men formed through the partnership of Brentwood VC, Chelmsford VC and Boswells, the women formed as a result of a partnership with Brentwood VC, Chelmsford VC and Southend VC. The mergers gave the best volleyballers in Essex the chance to compete together at a higher level. The club has grown from strength to strength in a very short period of time, and now boasts a men's team in the top league in the country, The Super League and in Division 1. The women's team represents Team Essex in Division 2 of the National Volleyball League.
2023–2024 season
editBlaze
The 2023-2024 season saw the Men's 1st team finish top in the Men's Divison 1 with 4 games in hand. This strong finish was good enough to secure their spot in the Super League, the highest level of English Volleyball, consisting of the strongest 10 teams in the country. The result was an all round success for the newly promoted Blaze team who satisfied their goal of promotion to regain their Super League status.
Trinity
The 2023–2024 season saw the Women's 1st team finish 1st in Volleyball England's Division 2. As a result, Trinity has secured their spot in the Women's division 1 for the forthcoming season.
Current rosters
edit- Team Essex Blaze
| Team roster – Season 2020/2021 | |||||
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| Team Essex Blaze | |||||
| No. | Name | Position | Apps | International Honours | |
 Chester Searle |
Libero | 56 | Men
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| Mahlon King |
Outside hitter | 86 | Men
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| Kieran Good |
Outside hitter | 90 | - | ||
| Daniel Northfield (C) |
Middle blocker | 105 | - | ||
 James Bernardi |
Middle blocker | 103 | - | ||
| Ashley Toomey |
Setter | 48 | U18
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 Gvido Petersons |
Opposite hitter | 16 | - | ||
 Michael Pagalos |
Outside hitter | 68 | - | ||
 Aykut Nafioglu |
Universal | 8 | - | ||
| Max Norton-Steele |
Outside hitter | 11 | U18
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| Max Gibbins |
Libero | 0 | U16
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| Vincent Broad |
Universal | 0 | - | ||
| Dave Fenech |
Setter | 0 | - | ||
| Tony Clark |
Outside hitter | 0 | - | ||
 Andrew Tuck |
Middle blocker | 0 | Men
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| Ian Bailey |
Middle blocker | 25 | - | ||
| Conner Reeve |
Libero | 0 | U18
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Head coach: Mihail Stoev Assistant: 
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- Team Essex Trinity
| Team roster – Season 2020/2021 | |||||
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| Team Essex Trinity | |||||
| No. | Name | Position | |||
| Abi Ketley |
Setter | U18
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| Freya Lorkin |
Libero | U18
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 Anna Serste |
Outside | - | |||
 Anna Lukjancenko |
Middle | - | |||
 Klaudia French |
Outside | - | |||
 Pauline Sands |
Libero | - | |||
 Sara Rodriguez Cardeñas |
Opposite | - | |||
 Petra Vukmirovic |
Outside | - | |||
| Izzy Brown |
Middle | U18
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| Katie Bluck |
Setter | - | |||
| Lorraine Bartlett |
Outside | - | |||
| Lucy Bluck |
Outside | U18
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| Head coach: Michael Pagalos Assistant: Tony Clark
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Notable former players
edit| Player | Current Club | Other Clubs |
|---|---|---|
 Andrew Saward
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London Aces
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Newcastle Staffs |
| Nathan French
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Team Northumbria Tenerife  Avignon |
| Peter Bakare
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Team Northumbria
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 Landstede Zwolle |
| Matthew Mills
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Retired
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Sheffield Hallam |
 Gary House
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Karlalið HK
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| Luke French
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Retired
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Medway
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| Jack Watson
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Ipswich Spikers
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Ipswich Spikers
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| Sam Thompson
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Sheffield Hallam
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| Lawrence Russell
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Sheffield Hallam
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| Matthew Ketley
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Sheffield Hallam
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| Jake Leeks
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Retired
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| Robert Poole
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 VC Bitterfeld-Wolfen
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Mount Olive College IBB Polonia London
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| Ryan Poole
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California State University, Long Beach
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London Malory
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| Joe Houlihan
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Retired
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| Chris Frost
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Retired
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Nice Lille London Malory
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| Thomas Storkey
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Retired
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| Jack Saward
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Retired
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| Adam Mitchell
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Stockport
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| Nick Davies
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Plymouth
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London Malory London Lynx Tendring
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| Shaun Ermi
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Springfield College
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| Tobias French
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IBB Polonia London
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London Malory
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References
editExternal links
edit- Official Website [1] (in English)