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
Venues	UWI Sports and Physical Educational Centre (in Port of Spain host cities)
Champions	United States (5th title)
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 winner of the event qualified for the 2005 Women's Volleyball Grand Champions Cup, later that year in Japan. 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
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
	Puerto Rico	0
					2005-09-11 – Port of Spain
					United States	3
					Cuba	2
					3rd place
	2005-09-10 – Port of Spain			2005-09-11 – Port of Spain
	Dominican Republic	0		Puerto Rico	0
	Cuba	3			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

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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

• Results