2003 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship

2003 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Dominican Republic
Dates	September 13 - 18 2003
Teams	8
Venues	Volleyball Pavilion, Centro Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte (in Santo Domingo host cities)
Champions	United States (4th title)
MVP	Yumilka Ruiz
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The 2003 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship was the 18th edition of the Women's Continental Volleyball Tournament, played by eight countries from September 13 to September 18, 2003 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Competing nations

Group A	Group B
Canada  Dominican Republic  Puerto Rico  Trinidad and Tobago	Costa Rica  Cuba  Mexico — withdrew  United States

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

	Team	Points	G	W	L	PW	PL	Ratio	SW	SL	Ratio
1.	Dominican R.	6	3	3	0	258	188	1.372	9	2	4.500
2.	Canada	5	3	2	1	268	211	1.270	8	4	2.000
3.	Puerto Rico	4	3	1	2	202	219	0.922	4	6	0.666
4.	Trinidad and T.	3	3	0	3	115	225	0.511	0	9	0.000

• September 13

Canada	3 – 0	Trinidad & T.	25-12 25- 9 25-10
Dominican R.	3 – 0	Puerto Rico	25-23 25-16 25-16

• September 14

Puerto Rico	3 – 0	Trinidad & T.	25-15 25-14 25-21
Dominican R.	3 – 2	Canada	22-25 25-20 25-21 21-25 15-08

• September 15

Dominican R.	3 – 0	Trinidad & T.	25-12 25-08 25-14
Canada	3 – 1	Puerto Rico	19-25 25-20 25-10 25-17

Group B

	Team	Points	G	W	L	PW	PL	Ratio	SW	SL	Ratio
1.	United States	4	2	2	0	178	144	1.236	6	2	3.000
2.	Cuba	3	2	1	1	178	141	1.262	5	3	1.666
3.	Costa Rica	2	2	0	2	79	150	0.526	0	6	0.000
4.	Mexico	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0	0	0.000

• September 13

Cuba	3 – 0	Costa Rica	25-14 25-11 25-13

• September 14

United States	3 – 0	Costa Rica	25-11 25-11 25-19

• September 15

United States	3 – 2	Cuba	20-25 25-20 25-20 18-25 15-13

Final round

	Semi Finals				Final
	2003-09-17 – Santo Domingo
	Dominican Republic	2
	Cuba	3
					2003-09-18 – Santo Domingo
					Cuba	0
					United States	3
					3rd place
	2003-09-17 – Santo Domingo			2003-09-18 – Santo Domingo
	United States	3		Dominican Republic	3
	Canada	0			Canada	0

Quarter finals

• September 16

Cuba	3 – 0	Puerto Rico	25-06 25-15 25-14
Canada	3 – 0	Costa Rica	25-18 25-08 25-15

Semi finals

• September 17

Dominican R.	2 – 3	Cuba	23-25 22-25 25-20 25-20 11-15
United States	3 – 0	Canada	25-16 25-19 25-16

Finals

• September 17 — Fifth Place Match

Puerto Rico	3 – 2	Costa Rica	25-19 20-25 25-20 19-25 15-13

• September 18 — Bronze Medal Match

Dominican R.	3 – 0	Canada	25-22 25-19 25-21

• September 18 — Gold Medal Match

Cuba	0 – 3	United States	22-25 17-25 28-30[1]

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Final ranking

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

2003 Women's NORCECA Winners  United States Fourth title

• • The United States and Cuba qualified for the 2003 FIVB Women's World Cup

Individual awards

Most Valuable Player  Yumilka Ruiz (CUB)[2] Best Spiker  Prikeba Phipps (USA) Best Blocker  Annerys Vargas (DOM) Best Server  Zoila Barros (CUB) Best Digger  Amy Tutt (CAN)

Best Setter  Robyn Ah Mow-Santos (USA) Best Receiver  Cosiri Rodríguez (DOM) Best Libero  Annie Levesque (CAN) Best Coach  Yoshiaki Toshida (USA)

References

1. FIVB. "USA wins the gold medal, Cuba and Dominican Republic follow". Retrieved 2010-06-17.
2. FIVB. "NORCECA Women's Championship". Retrieved 2010-06-17.

External links

• Results