Each year we ask a number of our youngsters to report back on their SW Inter Regional Championship experience, today we focus on Jess Falkner-Ham (SW No 13) from our U15 Girl’s Squad.

Some provide a nice write up, some heaps of photo’s, Jess has provided us with an excellent Video Diary – Watch and enjoy.

Direct Video Link: IRC 2018 Video

Each year we ask a number of our youngsters to report back on their SW IRC experience, today we focus on Tom Falkner Ham (SW No 10) from our U17 Boy’s Squad.

I thoroughly enjoyed playing with the South West Squad at the inter regionals this year. This was my 3rd year of playing at the inter regionals competition in Kettering. The atmosphere at the inter regionals is absolutely great!

There are many spectators who come and support the different teams from different regions of England. The inter regionals competition is the tournament I look forward to every year. The standard is very mixed, from beginners, to advanced players who play for the National team.

The accommodation at Kettering is brilliant. We stay one night at the Holiday Inn in Kettering and its great! The rooms are perfect and we get a big buffet for breakfast before the competition. We played on the Sunday and finished on the Monday.

This year we got to the finals of the inter regionals out of 8 teams. Unfortunately we lost against West Midlands so we came second overall. Many thanks for the people who came over and supported the competition and big thanks to Ben and Dave for coaching us.

I have put together a highlights video of the weekend, thought it would be something unique!

Direct Video Link: IRC-2018 Video

Tom Falkner Ham

Following the Inter Regional Championships, we asked three of our representatives about their experience. This time we focus on Rebecca Chamberlain.

Becca (No 8)  hitting through the outside

The inter regional competition is a great experience for young volleyball players, as it gives you a chance to play against teams from all over the country. I would highly recommend to any junior players that you go along to the training sessions as at the very least the high standard of the coaches will improve your skills so much.

The inter regional competition itself is such a fun weekend, made even better in my experience as in my final two years our South West under 16’s team came out as the winners. The atmosphere over the whole weekend is incredible and the competition is so fun for everyone involved that I would encourage as many juniors as possible to at least go along to the training sessions.

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Becca Chamberlain