Irish Senior Women's Volleyball Fundraiser

Please support the National Women's Volleyball Squad and our goal of competing abroad. Although still a minority sport in Ireland. Volleyball is the fifth most popular sport worldwide. Your support will help us inspire future generations and help make that dream come true!

We are headed to the European Small Countries Championships hosted this year by San Marino. With a team of 14 players, 2 coaches and a physio we will be competing from the 30th of May to the 2nd of June. The teams for this years competition are yet to be announced but we are ready for anyone! The winners will be crowned SCA Champions and will progress to the next round of the European Championships. We come from Clare, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare and Further afield. Over half of our players are under the age of 22, the future is bright for Irish Women's Volleyball with such great opportunities for our young athletes.

The cost of the trip is in the region of €10,000, €7,000 of which we are fundraising by ourselves. We are hosting a Pub Quiz on April 13th in Roddy Bolands, Rathmines. (See entry details on VLY's Instagram @volleyballireland and Volleyball Irelands website) - We are looking for additional fundraising support through this GoFundMe campaign. The costs include match jerseys, hotel accomidation, food, flight tickets, and team physio.

Can you help our women live their dream and inspire future generations to represent Ireland in the sport they love?

More about us: This senior squad was formed in March 2020. We train one weekend a month with the National team, but we are all currently playing in the National League with our clubs locally. We work with our strength and conditioning coach every week and in combination with our specific gym programmes we are seeing great results both on and off the court.

Our goals:

In the next 1-2 years: We form strong bonds on and off the court. We ‘leave it all on the court’, every time. We leave the program in a better place than when we joined it.

In the next 2-5 years: We create the foundation of an elite program that younger players can aspire to, and then continue to raise the level of.

In the next 5-10 years: We are an elite, thriving program. We are on the podium in the second round of the CEV Small Nations Competition.

You can check out more info about our squad and players here:

National Women's Squad

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Go raibh mile maith agat!

Thank you!