News and Announcements

Hi everyone,

A new temporary training venue has been sourced for indoor volleyball, due to the unavailability of River Park during this period of time. They have great facilities at the school, with available parking and it would be good to get back indoors now that sunset is getting earlier. Details are as below:

Start date: Wednesday 23 September 2020 (and every Wednesday after)
Venue: Sports hall at Perins School, Pound Hill, Alresford SO24 9BS
Time: 6-7.30pm
Parking: Follow signs for deliveries, go into the lower carpark (Sports Hall is next to the lower car park)

Please remember your hand sanitiser gel and a towel. The club’s COVID policy and risks assessment documents, which are in line with our Governing body, Volleyball England, are on the website, should anyone like to familiarise themselves with it. For reference, Angie Marchant, is our COVID19 officer.

We hope to see as many of you as possible on Wednesday!

Kind regards,
Winchester Eagles Committee

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28th AGM and COVID policy

Posted by Clarisa Choh Hammond at Sep 10, 2020 5:34PM PDT ( 1 Comment )

Hi all,

Uploaded to the documents section are minutes for this year’s AGM on 28 Aug, as well as the COVID policy and risk assessment for members of Winchester Eagles who play outdoors or indoors. Please have a read of it to familiarise yourself with the policy before coming for volleyball sessions.

https://teampages.com/teams/842789-Winchester-Eagles-Volleyball-Club-volleyball-team-website/documents

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Hi all.

We are holding an outdoor AGM on the green adjacent to River Park Leisure Centre this coming Friday (28th), at 6.30pm.

It is an important event and allows everyone to have their say about the running of the club, new opportunities and social events. Remember last year we restarted the ladies team and separate training nights, which has turned into a rmassive success.

Please bring a chair and we look forward to seeing you on Friday.

Regards

Jon

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Hi all

We made it… we managed to hold our first evening of 2×2 volleyball with multiple short games played and the quality, pretty high. There will be a few aching bodies over the next two days.

Well done to those that turned up

One note, please, if you say you are coming, please do, otherwise the numbers are skewed. We had 11 last evening and for those mathematicians amongst you, it sadly does not divide well by 2!!!

We have two spaces still available for next Wednesday (29th), please let me know via the whatsapp group, my mobile or indeed email.

Take care all.

Jon

Restarting of Volleyball

Posted by Jon Bance at Jul 13, 2020 12:29PM PDT ( 0 Comments )
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Good evening all. Sorry for the long message. I hope this note finds everyone well?

Restarting of Volleyball

The committee met a few weeks ago to discuss the resumption of Volleyball at Winchester. In light of the announcement recently by the UK government and the clarification by Volleyball England, we are going to restart Volleyball shortly.

Clearly there are a plethora of restrictions that we are having to take into consideration and also follow strict health and hygiene rules. The health of our members is and always will be the first consideration we take, henceforth, however, we believe on balance, at this time, we can resume.

The Committee will review the sessions on a week on week basis and we will halt Volleyball on Wednesday nights if the risks to your health increases from the current levels at the current time

Taking into consideration all of this, the committee have decided on the following

• We will resume outdoor volleyball on Wednesday 22nd July (note: there are as yet no plans for indoor volleyball), the sessions will run every Wednesday until September
• The sessions will start at 19:00 and run for a maximum of 1.5 hours
• We will erect 3 nets on each night
• We will run 3 games, 1 game on each court of 2 vs 2, beach style volleyball, we will limit the interchanging of teams and at all times, between set’s etc disinfect the Volleyball
• We are also considering a small amount of fitness conditioning and skills

Wednesdays, initially will be open to members only on a first come first serve basis.

Whatsapp will be used for the time being to confirm your attendance, you can only book for the following week from the Thursday prior, so if the session is on Wednesday 22nd of July for instance you can book via a simple WhatsApp from Thursday 16th of July. A simple Whatsapp to myself will be sufficient to book your place.

Social distancing (two metres) is to be maintained at all times when the ball is not in play and when participants are off court. This means no handshakes or congratulatory touches.

Could we please ask all people to bring their own hand sanitizers

We have ordered 6 new outdoor balls

Disclaimer coming – We have reviewed all of the potential risks and believe this to be the lowest risk option at this time for us to restart Volleyball, until we receive further information from Volleyball England. Please note we cannot fully guarantee your 100% safety at all times

If you feel in any way unwell, can the committee ask that you do not attend.

If you have any questions, please email me at Jon.bance72@gmail.com