Introduction
August came with one of the most important beach volleyball events of the year. Bridlington witnessed the highest standard of beach volleyball in this country the last 11th and 12th of August where people from all over the country gathered to fight for the title in an amazing weekend, different nationalities, different location but the same goal, to qualify for the finals and earn as many UKBT points as possible in one of the last 5 star events of the season.
Preparations
The event started way ahead of the weekend with lots of preparation on the previous days, especially on Friday where the Skyball Team and very kind volunteers like Stuart Hare and the Howard family came to help to set up the scene for the weekend, after 10 hours of hard work everything was ready for the big show.
Saturday Qualifiers Matches
On Saturday morning after a quick briefing, the players were ready to begin the show. The centre court started to fill up with people as soon as the tournament started, many Bridlington locals were impressed by the display of skills of the players and also the organisation of the event.
Sunday Finals
The Sunday came with the top pairs in each gender battling their way up to the finals where we witnessed the magic of the sport with beautiful sets in the male and female competitions crowning Beattie/Lynn in the female competition and Sheaf/Smith in the male competition as your event winners.
Men
- ? Sheaf/Smith
- ? Batrane/Bello
- ? Jones/Walrond ? van den Bogert/Garcia-Kidd
Women
Beattie/Coutts
Adamek/Drozdziel
Jongedijk/Jongedijk Niecikowska/Snow
Thank you
A massive thank you to those who helped through the event to make sure it was run smoothly, Stuart, The Howard family, Jake, Dave / Penny, Jozef, Jack, Pascal, Debra & Diane and the wider refereeing team, Sarah, Dinos, etc… a massive thank you to you all for helping us in making this happen.
Comment from a Skyball Co-founder
“After all the preparation in the previous months, and with very little experience in events, it has been great to see all these players in action throughout the weekend, it is incredible how quickly it finishes when you are actually in the event, when we were arranging things I thought it would never come the time!.
I think I speak on behalf of the whole team but seeing this actually happen is our biggest achievement. I know Marz and Pete have been working a lot in developing the community in the previous years and it is great to see that with the right people you can do wonderful things. All we hope is we can repeat the experience next year and hopefully improve it.”
The Skyball team is already planning next season and what the next goals are, until then…
See you all on sand!
Said Lopez
Skyball Team