2013 Volleyball Tour Blog Tour #3 – Day 10 Arriving into Barcelona

2013 Volleyball Tour Blog Tour #3  – Day 10 Arriving into Barcelona           

Today is our tournament day in Barcelona.  We had breakfast at the hotel and traveled by metro to our gym.  The metro here in Barcelona is easy to use and is much cleaner and newer than that of London or Paris.  I think it is because of the Olympic Games that were held here in 1992.

In no time we had arrived to the volleyball gym in Val Hebron.  The gym was huge…. It was one of the venues from the Olympics… where they played volleyball … as we warmed up we had moments of what it would be like to play in the Olympics… and we were here at the former site

of the Olympic games… (it was a start to the dream).

We played in 3 separate mini tournaments on 3 separate courts.  One division was for players 14 years old.  One was for players 15-16 years old and the last division was for players 17 and over.

All of the teams in the tournament were from Barcelona or around Barcelona.  The weather outside was about 90 degrees and the gym was not air conditioned and it did not take long to “get warmed up”.

The level of the competitions were just the right level as most of the teams split sets and played the tie breaker games…   The girls here were much more friendly … and it was fun to talk with them in our Spangenglish…..

Coach Russ had the U14 tournament Championship team

Coach Chris had the 2nd place U16 team

Coach Haley had the 3rd place U16 team (losing to Chris's team in an exciting USA vs USA match)

Coach Chris had the 2nd place U18 team

We finished our tournament at about 5pm… and made our way back to the hotel.   We showered and went to dinner…. Most of us were really tired from the hot day and the volleyball play…. And stayed at the hotel.

Tomorrow is the final day in Barcelona … and our hop on hop off tour….