Gainesville, FL, July 12, 2006 - Gainesville Sports Organizing Committee, Inc. celebrates after winning the bid to host the 2006 NORCECA Girls Youth Volleyball Championships on July 24-31. The Championships will take place at the O'Connell Center on the campus of the University of Florida

GSOC is expecting as many as six teams to participate in the Championships. The countries expected to send their teams to compete, are United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. The NORCECA Youth Championships is a bi-annual event and will qualify teams for the 2007 FIVB Girls Youth World Championships.

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About Gainesville Sports Organizing Committee, Inc.

The Gainesville Sports Organizing Committee, Inc. (GSOC), founded in 1988, is a not-for-profit organization that strives to promote tourism through sports while creating a positive economic impact on Gainesville and Alachua County. The GSOC now helps to create an annual economic impact of about $10 million for our local economy. Since its inception, more than $130 million has been generated in direct economic activity from participants and spectators to GSOC hosted and assisted events. For more info information on GSOC, visit www.gsoc.com or call (352) 338-9300.