The 2005 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship

NORCECA Volleyball Championship

The NORCECA Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for national volleyball teams, currently held biannually and organized by the NORCECA, the North America, Central America and Caribbean volleyball federation...

was the 19th edition of the Women's Continental Volleyball Tournament

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, played by eight countries from September 6 to September 11, 2005 in Port of Spain

Port of Spain

Port of Spain, also written as Port-of-Spain, is the capital of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest municipality, after San Fernando and Chaguanas. The city has a municipal population of 49,031 , a metropolitan population of 128,026 and a transient daily population...

, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

. The winner of the event qualified for the 2005 Women's Volleyball Grand Champions Cup, later that year in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago were the newcomers to this competition. The winners of each pool advanced to the semi final round while the teams placed second and third went to a crossed quarterfinal confrontation.

Competing nations

Group A	Group B

Group A

Team	Points	G	W	L	PW	PL	Ratio	SW	SL	Ratio
1.		6	3	3	0	225	120	1.875	9	0	MAX
2.		5	3	2	1	216	151	1.430	6	3	2.000
3.		4	3	1	2	161	226	0.712	3	7	0.429
4.		3	3	0	3	143	248	0.577	1	9	0.111

• September 6

  	3 – 0		25-14 25-12 25-12
  	0 – 3		14-25 09-25 06-25

• September 7

  	3 – 0		25-10 25-10 25-05
  	0 – 3		25-08 25-20 25-10

• September 8

  	0 – 3		23-25 21-25 22-25
  	3 – 1		25-22 23-25 25-20 25-09

Group B

Team	Points	G	W	L	PW	PL	Ratio	SW	SL	Ratio
1.		6	3	3	0	225	164	1.372	9	0	MAX
2.		5	3	2	1	223	195	1.144	6	4	1.500
3.		4	3	1	2	210	226	0.929	4	6	0.667
4.		3	3	0	3	152	225	0.676	0	9	0.000

• September 6

  	3 – 0		25-18 25-18 25-20
  	3 – 1		22-25 25-17 25-22 25-14

• September 7

  	3 – 0		25-04 25-22 25-16
  	3 – 0		25-21 25-18 25-18

• September 8

  	3 – 0		25-17 25-22 25-15
  	3 – 0		25-13 25-22 25-16

Final round

Quarter finals

• September 9

  	3 – 0		25-22 25-19 25-14
  	3 – 0		25-16 25-09 25-05

Semi finals

• September 10

  	0 – 3		18-25 18-25 18-25
  	3 – 0		25-12 25-12 25-18

Finals

• September 9 — Seventh Place Match

  	0 – 3		10-25 11-25 12-25

• September 10 — Fifth Place Match

  	3 – 0		25-20 25-10 25-14

• September 11 — Bronze Medal Match

  	3 – 0		25-19 25-19 25-13

• September 11 — Gold Medal Match

  	2 – 3		13-25 25-22 25-27 25-20 10-15

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Final ranking

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• • The United States qualified for the 2005 Women's Volleyball Grand Champions Cup
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Awards

• Most Valuable Player
  •   Nancy Metcalf
    Nancy Metcalf
    Nancy Jean Metcalf is an American indoor volleyball player. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in fifth place with the USA National Team.-Career:Metcalf graduated from the University of Nebraska in December 2001 with a bachelor’s...
    
    

• Best Scorer
  •   Tayyiba Haneef

• Best Setter
  •   Lindsey Berg
    Lindsey Berg
    Lindsey Napela Berg is a volleyball player from the United States.Berg was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was three-time All-Big Ten selection at the University of Minnesota, where she graduated in December 2001....
    
    

• Best Spiker
  •   Zoila Barros
    Zoila Barros
    Zoila Barros Fernandez is a volleyball player from Cuba, who represented her native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000...
    
    

• Best Blocker
  •   Cindy Rondón
    Cindy Rondon
    Cindy Carolina Rondón Martínez is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who twice won the bronze medal with the Dominican women's national team at the NORCECA Championship.-Career:...
    
    

• Best Defender
  •   Annie Levesque

• Best Server
  •   Nancy Carrillo
    Nancy Carrillo
    Nancy Carillo de la Paz is a female volleyball player from Cuba, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she won the bronze medal with the national team in the women's team competition...
    
    

• Best Libero
  •   Alexandra Caso
    Alexandra Caso
    Alexandra Caso Sierra is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #6 jersey. There she ended up in eleventh place with the Dominican Republic women's national team...
    
    

• Best Receiver
  •   Aury Cruz