2006 Women's World Championships – Jamaica
Hosts confirm line up (FIVB)
03/31/2005
Kingston, Jamaica, March
31, 2005 – With two weeks
remaining until they host a 2006 Women’s World
Championship first round tournament (Norceca Pool A),
world number 46 Jamaica has welcomed four newcomers into
their national women’s Volleyball team for the
tournament scheduled for Kingston from April 15-17.
Romaine McNeill and Annie Williams Lewis will make their
international debuts while the Caribbean’s number two
ranked team also hails the return of Paula Ann Porter
Jones and welcomes the promotion of former junior
player, Tanya Distant who will make her debut at senior
level.
In 1996 Porter Jones was part of the team when Jamaica
placed second for the first time in the region at a
Caribbean championship in the US Virgin Islands. Distant
was a member of the junior team which recently placed
third at a Caribbean tournament hosted in Jamaica.
The remainder of the squad, which is coached by Ortnel
Findlay, includes: Kamille Dwyer, Shanique Green, Cheryl
Daley, Shedeiky Hamilton, Cherine Richards, Tracyann
Pryce, Ptamony Fletcher, and Claudia Miller.
The three-day tournament will see four teams, the
Netherlands Antilles (ranked 56th in the world); the
British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands (who are
both not officially ranked by the FIVB) along with host
team Jamaica playing off for the chance to advance to
round two, scheduled for the Dominican Republic from
August 24-28, 2005. Jamaica is the first country in the
North, Central America and Caribbean (Norceca)
Confederation to host a 2006 World Championship
tournament.
Jamaica opens their bid to advance to round two in the
feature game on Friday, April 15 at 8pm (local time)
against the Cayman Islands, while in the 6pm game the
British Virgin Islands will play the Netherlands
Antilles. Both games follow the opening ceremony
scheduled to begin at 4.30pm.
