Gainesville, FL, July 18, 2006 - Gainesville Sports Organizing Committee, Inc. needs volunteers to help with the 2006 NORCECA Girls Youth Volleyball Championships on July 25-30. The Championships will take place at the O'Connell Center on the campus of the University of Florida. The 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, Honduras 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.

For more information about volunteering for this event please contact Alex Alston @ (352) 338-9300 or e-mail: aalston@gsoc.com

2006 NORCECA Girls Youth Volleyball Championship Schedule:
July 25th - pool play
Match times:
2:30 p.m. - Canada vs. Dominicana
5:30 p.m. - Mexico vs. Puerto Rico
7:30 p.m. - United States vs. Honduras
 
July 26th - pool play
Match Times:
2:30 p.m. - Honduras vs. Dominicana
5:30 p.m. - Puerto Rico vs. Canada
7:30 p.m. - United States vs. Mexico
 
July 27th - pool play
Match Times:
2:30 p.m. - Honduras vs. Mexico
5:30 p.m. - Puerto Rico vs. Dominicana
7:30 p.m. - Untied States vs. Canada
 
July 28th - pool play
Match Times:
2:30 p.m. - Puerto Rico vs. Honduras
5:30 p.m. - Mexico vs. Canada
7:30 p.m. - United States vs. Dominicana
 
July 29th - pool play
Match Times:
2:30 p.m. - Canada vs. Honduras
5:30 p.m. - Dominicana vs. Mexico
7:30 p.m. - United States vs. Puerto Rico
 
July 30th - MEDAL ROUND
3 matches - 5th place Match, 3rd place Match, 1st place Match TIMES TBA (probably 2:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.)

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.