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Vic Beach Volleyball boasts big line up at Skandia Geelong Week

by . on 1 Jan 2009
Vic Beach Volleyball boasts big line up at Skandia Geelong Week Teri Dodds http://www.teridodds.com
The Vic Beach Volleyball Series returns to Skandia Geelong Week in 2009 and this year will be bigger and better! An indoor beach volleyball centre opened in Geelong in September this year and the organisers now have 140 teams registered at the centre.

Local volleyball talent will be on display during Skandia Geelong Week with a local pairs competition for Women’s and Men’s Divisions on Saturday the 24th Jan with Social 4’s on the Sunday. The tournament begins at 11am and concludes at 6pm including semi and grand finals and drinks afterward at Vic Beach Geelong, Crown St Centre.

Australia’s elite Beach Volleyball athletes will slug it out on Monday January 26th in the AAA. Make no mistake this will be the place to be for the ultimate Beach Volleyball experience. See Australia’s number one female pairing of Olympian Tamsin Barnett and Lou Bawden strut their stuff on the hallowed sands of Geelong’s Eastern Beach foreshore and number three Australian male team Ben Newton and Owen Boland try and reclaim their crown as the state’s best team.

Check out www.vicbeach.com.au or call Greg on 03 5222 4400 for further information on this event.
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