Students 3-0 Spalding (25:17, 25:21, 25:19)
Spalding, 16th March, 2008, 19.00-21.00

Outside: Yongcan Liu, Xiaohuan Tang, Andrea Pastore
Middle: Yasushi Kondo, Jim McElwaine, Herman Chee
Setter: Richard Pearce
Opposite: Marco Sampaio
Libero: Francisco Hoi


Internal MVP goes to Xiaohuan Tang

The Students 3-1 St.Philips, (25-20, 25-15, 17-25, 25-22)
Netherhall School, 10th March, 2008, 20:00 – 22:00

Outside: Pawel Zaczkowski, Xiaohuan Tang, Andrea Pastore
Middle: Yasushi Kondo, Jim McElwaine
Setter: Richard Pearce
Opposite: Eric Lai
Libero: Francisco Hoi



Internal MVP goes to Yasushi Kondo

Rhinos 3 - 0 UCCW (25-23, 25-21, 25-23)
UCCW 3-0 Peterborough (25-0, 25-0, 25-0) Walkover
Leys, 2nd March 2008, 10.00 - 14.00

Outside: Silvia Breu, Katie Scotter
Middle: Maria Haal, Marija Buljan
Opposite: Eva Xu Du, Daniela Schettini
Setter: Alexandra Rinnert, Wanpin Zhuang




MVP goes to Maria Haal

Full listing of the 8 UK Men's and Women's University teams that have qualified to compete at the BUSA Finals in Sheffield. [More...]

The traditional Indoor Cuppers – a competition between (mainly) college
teams – was organised in two rounds this year. 14 teams from 11 colleges
and 1 society entered the first round which took place in Leys School
Sports Hall on Sunday 20 January 2008. [More...]

Playing a friendly match against UEA, who were keen to get some practice before the VE Student Cup Finals, the Blues bowed out of their 2007-8 season with a 5-0 loss. Match result can be seen here.

The next stage of the BUSA Championship competition for 2007-8 has been posted today. The Blues men have a tough home challenge against London, but with home advantage, after winning the Midlands 1A division. The Blues women posted a disappointing 5th place in the league and so did not get to the knockout stages, but did just avoid relegation into Tier 2. Full draw.... (first team home) [More...]

The Women’s Blues and the Rhinos moved pass the brave UCCW

Women’s Blues 1-2 Rhinos (21-25, 25-22, 23-25)
Women’s Blues 2-1 UCCW (25-12, 25-14, 21-25)
Rhinos 3-0 UCCW (25-4, 25-17, 25-8)

The Leys School Sports Hall, 27th January 2008, 10.00 – 14.00

The first set began with Crystal Cheng and Katie Scotter in the middle, Paulina Golec and the Captain Silvia Breu outside, with Eva Xu Du opposite setter Alexandra Rinnet. The experienced Women’s Blues clearly outclassed the young UCCW in all aspects of game. [More...]

UEA, 25th November, 9am to 5pm

Cambridge 2 0-2 Kent University (21-25, 23-25)

Cambridge 2 2-0 Gloucestershire University (25-8, 25-5)

Cambridge 2 2-0 Southampton University (25-9, 25-23)

Cambridge 2 1-1 UEA (15-25, 25-20)


With all sorts of other commitment, injury and illness, the Cambridge 2 (UCCM) struggled to get the strongest players to the EVA. The Cambridge 2 arrived UEA with 10 players without any back-ups for the middle blockers and the setter. [More...]

Perkins 3-0 Students (25-23, 25-16, 25-17)
The Perkins Social Club, 22nd November 2007, 20.30 – 22.00

The Students had expected a tough game and a tough game it was. They had their captain David Holec hitting outside together with Pawel Zaczkowski, Nuno Reis blocking with Clemens Wiltsche, Marco Sampaio hitting on the right opposite to the setter Richard Pearce. Francisco Hoi took up the libero jersey.

Things were pretty tight for much of the first set with the Perkins holding just a one to two points lead from 3-3 to 14-13 and then from 19-17 to 21-18. Marco Sampaio, Most Important Player, was the star of the show for UCCM producing a dazzling array of spikes to power the Students whilst the Perkins nicely distributed their sets to several strong hitters who would always successfully power past UCCM’s blocking and defense system. Being more consistency, the Perkins took the first set by 25-23. [More...]

The Cambridge girls were forced to travel to Nottingham with a heavily depleted side, work commitments adding to injuries to preclude the majority of the team for the early start time. A makeshift team battled bravely but fell in straight sets. The Men's Blues were not tested by a travel weary Brookes side, and held their home court easily.

ARU 3-0 UCCW (25:13, 25:17, 25:15)
CVC 3-0 UCCW (25:9, 25:14, 25:11)
The Leys School Sports Hall, 11th November 2007, 10.00 – 14.00

The UCCW was left astray with the absence of Katie Scotter, Daniela Schettini, Sue-Mae Saw and Eva Xu Du due to illness, injuries and work commitment.

In the game against ARU, UCCW has the Captain Silvia Brea hitting outside with Charlotte Scott, Maria Haal blocking middle with Crystal Cheng, Tinnie Chau playing opposite to the setter Alexandra Rinnert.

The new starting players were not familiar with the rotations and the passing and digging positioning. To make it worse, the passings and the diggings of UCCW were not as good as they used to be, resulting very few quality settings and attackings were formed on the UCCW’s side. Maria and Silvia could still manage to hammer a few balls down from time to time from some nice settings by Alex, but the points gained were just far from enough to compensate for any other errors. [More...]

The men's blues were dealt their first loss of the season by Loughborough, who are the other serious contendors for the Midland's title. Without taking anything away from the visitors, the Blues will be disappointed by their preformance, and eager to improve in the return fixture. Early in the days, the Blue's Women also lost out, bring their record to 2-2.

Students 3-1 Rhinos (19-25, 25-14, 25-18, 25-19)
The Leys School Sports Hall, 4th November 2007, 16.00 – 18.00

The Students grew stronger as the match went on to win over the Rhinos for the second time this season, with scores 19-25, 25-14, 25-18, 25-19.

The UCCM’s captain David Holec hitting outside with Alex Hermes, whilst Yasushi Kondo blocking middle with Friz Muethau, Marco Sampaio continued to hit through opposite Richard Pearce setting and Francisco Hoi as the libero.

From the beginning of the first set, the Students struggled to get their game together while the Rhinos looked the better organized of the two teams. [More...]

Students 3-0 CVC4 (25-9, 25-20, 25-21)
The Manors Community Sports Hall, 4th November 2007, 12.00 – 14.00

Students had little difficulty in racking up a win overcoming the gallant CVC4 25-9, 25-20, 25-21. The Students team started with Richard Pearce setting opposite Marco Sampaio, David Holec (Captain) and Alex Hermes at outside hitter, and Rogier Beaumont and Nuno Reis blocking middle. Francisco Hoi patrolled the back row as libero.

The Students started off strongly with Alex consisting hitting all sorts of beautiful angles, from straight-down-the-line to a spectacular angle seeing the ball land inside three-metres, killing every opportunity he got. [More...]

The joint Halloween fixture against the Dark Side didn't see the girls get any treats from Oxford, so the men's tricks in return including smashing balls instead of pumpkins. Scary stuff.

CVC 3-0 UCCW (25:12, 25:20, 25:18)
Blues 3-0 UCCW (25:17, 26:24, 25:18)
CVC 3-0 Blues (25:12, 25:15, 25:15)
The Leys School Sports Hall, 28th October 2007, 10.00 – 14.00

The first match of the season for the UCCW ended in a well fought match against two of more experienced and averagely much taller teams: the CVC and the Cambridge University Women’s Blues. Without the more experienced setter Claire Nichols and good hitter Chrystal Cheng, the UCCW still came up with a competitive line-up. The Students starting line up for both games against the CVC and the Blues was: Alexandra Rinnert setting, Daniela Schettini as opposite, Katie Scotter together with Eva Xu Du hitting in the middle, our captain Silvia Breu and Sue-Mae Saw as outside hitter. [More...]

Students 3-0 Rhinos (25-20, 25-21, 25-17)
The Leys School Sports Hall, 28th October 2007, 14.00 – 16.00

The Students started the season with a 3:0 victory against Rhinos team.

The first set began with Yasushi Kondo and Rogier Beaumont in the middle, Pawel Zaczkowski and David Holec outside, with Marco Sampaio as opposite, setter Richard Pearce, and Francisco Hoi as libero. [More...]

Both Cambridge Blues sides extended their records to 2-0 with comfortable straight set victories. The Men travelled to Nottingham to play a slightly injury depleted squad, and were home in time to watch their ladies send Warwick packing.

Both Blues teams posted wins for their first BUSA matches of the 07-08 season. The Women's team eventually beat Birmingham after a tight fifth set, the visitors battling back from two sets down. The Men had an easier visit to Warwick, winning in straight sets.

Initial team selection has already taken place at the trials on Saturday 6th October. If you are an experienced player and were unable to make the trials please initially contact the Men's or Women's Blues squad coaches for details of when to attend a session (see the contacts page if you'd like further information from the coaches). If you have played a bit before and would like to get involved with mixed team social volleyball, then please attend the introductory session at Kelsey Kerridge (Saturday 13th, 4pm), or any UCCmixed session after this (times). [More about the trials...]

CUVC is gearing up for another season and it all kicks off soon! The club is working for a "best-ever" season in all of its leagues this year, a record that is hard to break for the highest-achieving Uni sports club in recent years! Whether you have International squad experience, played for a CUVC team last season, are returning from the FIVB summer beach circuit, or you have never played in your life but want to give it a go, we would like to welcome you into the club this year.

CUVC has a stall at Societies Fair, where players from last years squads will be giving out treats (!) and information about the club - come and sign up. We have trials for returning players and new players with any experience (see calendar), and sessions for players with less or no experience the weekend after. Our teams cater for University players (Blues teams) as well as Postdocs, APU students and Language School students (UCC teams). We hope to see you on a court soon......