2005 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship

2005 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Trinidad and Tobago
Dates	September 4 - 12 2005
Teams	8
Venue(s)	UWI Sports and Physical Educational Centre (in Port of Spain host cities)
Champions	United States (5th title)
Tournament awards
MVP	Nancy Metcalf
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The 2005 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship was the 19th edition of the Women's Continental Volleyball Tournament, played by eight countries from September 6 to September 11, 2005 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The United States won the event over Cuba and qualified for the 2005 Women's Volleyball Grand Champions Cup, later that year in Japan.^[1] Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago were the newcomers to this competition. The Dominican Republic won the bronze medal^[2] and Nancy Metcalf was awarded Most Valuable Player.^[3]

Competing nations

Group A	Group B
Barbados Dominican Republic Puerto Rico Trinidad and Tobago	Canada Cuba Mexico United States

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

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

September 6


Dominican R.	3 – 0	Barbados	25-14 25-12 25-12
Trinidad & T.	0 – 3	Puerto Rico	14-25 09-25 06-25

September 7


Puerto Rico	3 – 0	Barbados	25-10 25-10 25-05
Trinidad & T.	0 – 3	Dominican R.	25-08 25-20 25-10

September 8


Dominican R.	0 – 3	Puerto Rico	23-25 21-25 22-25
Barbados	3 – 1	Trinidad & T.	25-22 23-25 25-20 25-09

Group B

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

September 6


Cuba	3 – 0	Mexico	25-18 25-18 25-20
United States	3 – 1	Canada	22-25 25-17 25-22 25-14

September 7


United States	3 – 0	Mexico	25-04 25-22 25-16
Cuba	3 – 0	Canada	25-21 25-18 25-18

September 8


Canada	3 – 0	Mexico	25-17 25-22 25-15
Cuba	3 – 0	United States	25-13 25-22 25-16

Final round

Semi-finals		Final

2005-09-10 – Port of Spain

United States	3
		2005-09-11 – Port of Spain
Puerto Rico	0
		United States	3
2005-09-10 – Port of Spain
		Cuba	2
Dominican Republic	0

Cuba	3
		3rd place

		2005-09-11 – Port of Spain

		Puerto Rico	0

		Dominican Republic	3

Quarter-finals

September 9


Dominican R.	3 – 0	Canada	25-22 25-19 25-14
United States	3 – 0	Barbados	25-16 25-09 25-05

Semi-finals

September 10


Puerto Rico	0 – 3	United States	18-25 18-25 18-25
Cuba	3 – 0	Dominican R.	25-12 25-12 25-18

Finals

September 9 — Seventh Place Match


Trinidad & T.	0 – 3	Mexico	10-25 11-25 12-25

September 10 — Fifth Place Match


Canada	3 – 0	Barbados	25-20 25-10 25-14

September 11 — Bronze Medal Match


Dominican R.	3 – 0	Puerto Rico	25-19 25-19 25-13

September 11 — Gold Medal Match


Cuba	2 – 3	United States	13-25 25-22 25-27 25-20 10-15

Final ranking

Place	Team
1.	United States
2.	Cuba
3.	Dominican Republic
4.	Puerto Rico
5.	Canada
6.	Barbados
7.	Mexico
8.	Trinidad and Tobago

2005 Women's NORCECA winners
United States Fifth title

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

Awards

Most valuable player
- Nancy Metcalf

Best scorer
- Tayyiba Haneef

Best setter
- Lindsey Berg

Best spiker
- Zoila Barros

Best blocker
- Cindy Rondón
Best defender
- Annie Levesque

Best server
- Nancy Carrillo

Best libero
- Alexandra Caso

Best receiver
- Aury Cruz

References

^ "USA is the Women's Continental Champions of Norceca". Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: NORCECA. 2005-09-11. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
^ "Dominicans with a convincent victory over Puerto Rico for the bronze medal". Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: NORCECA. 2005-09-11. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
^ "Nancy Metcalf fue JMV en Continental de Norceca" (in Spanish). Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: NORCECA. 2005-09-11. Retrieved 2017-11-20.

External links

Results Archived 2010-06-16 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "USA is the Women's Continental Champions of Norceca". Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: NORCECA. 2005-09-11. Retrieved 2017-11-20.

[2] "Dominicans with a convincent victory over Puerto Rico for the bronze medal". Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: NORCECA. 2005-09-11. Retrieved 2017-11-20.

[3] "Nancy Metcalf fue JMV en Continental de Norceca" (in Spanish). Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago: NORCECA. 2005-09-11. Retrieved 2017-11-20.

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