Imoco Volley

Imoco Volley is an Italian women's volleyball club based in Conegliano and currently playing in the Serie A1.

Imoco Volley

Full name	Imoco Volley Conegliano
Nickname	Pantere (Panthers)
Founded	2012
Ground	PalaVerde, Treviso, Italia (Capacity: 5,344)
Chairman	Piero Garbellotto
Head coach	Daniele Santarelli
Captain	Joanna Wołosz
League	Serie A1
2019–20	1st (Regular season)
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home Away

History

2014-2015 Imoco Volley Conegliano

The club was founded on 15 March 2012, two months after the bankruptcy of Spes Volley the other volleyball team in Conegliano.[1] In April 2012, it acquired a Serie A1 licence from Parma Volley Girls, that meant the club started playing directly at the highest Italian league.[2] It has been playing under the name Imoco Volley Conegliano since its foundation in 2012.

The club won the Serie A1 for the first time in 2015–16, winning the Italian Super Cup a few months later on 8 December 2016.[3]

On 5 March 2017, the club won the Coppa Italia for the first time after beating Liu Jo Nordmeccanica Modena 3–0 in the final.[4]

In December 2019 the club won the Women's Club World Championship.[5]

In 2020, the Imoco Volley won its second Coppa Italia. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, both the Serie A1 and the CEV Champions League were untimely cancelled. The Imoco Volley, with its new name A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano, reached, along with the VakıfBank, the semi-finals of the CEV Champions League after winning all its matches, but it could not play them;[6] it was declared winner of the regular season of the Serie A1, but no team was declared winner of the 2019-20 Italian championship.[7] [8] It ended the 2019–20 season by winning three of its five goals: the Italian Supercup, the Women's Club World Championship in Shaoxing and the Coppa Italia.

All the starting seven of the club decided to renew their contracts for the 2020–21 season, after their wins in the previous season and the cancellation of the finals of the Serie A1 and the CEV Champions League (the only major title never won by the club). More than half of the current players of the Imoco Volley are part of the starting seven of the Italian national team, runner-up at the 2018 World Championship. The others are champions such as the Dutch Robin de Kruijf, the Polish setter Joanna Wołosz and the American Kimberly Hill. The club renewed all the other players excepting Giulia Gennari, according to its policy to have many young new talents along with top players of the volleyball. The new team has three players who are under the age of 20 years, one has less than 18 years, the Italian Oghosasere Loveth Omoruyi. Sarah Fahr, who is not part of the starting roster, has already won a silver medal at the 2018 World Championship and a bronze medal at the 2019 European Championship with the Italian national team.

Team

Season 2020–2021[9]

Number	Player	Position	Height (m)	Weight (kg)	Birth date
1	Lara Caravello	Libero	1.76		4 May 1994
3	Lucille Gicquel	Opposite	1.89	69	13 November 1997
4	Božana Butigan	Middle Blocker	1.90	78	19 August 2000
5	Robin de Kruijf	Middle Blocker	1.93	79	5 May 1991
7	Raphaela Folie	Middle Blocker	1.85	69	7 March 1991
9	Loveth Oghosasere Omoruyi	Outside Hitter	1.84	75	25 August 2002
10	Monica De Gennaro	Libero	1.72	63	8 January 1987
11	McKenzie Adams	Outside Hitter	1.92		13 February 1992
13	Giulia Gennari	Setter	1.84	63	23 June 1996
14	Joanna Wołosz	Setter	1.81	65	7 April 1990
15	Kimberly Hill	Outside Hitter	1.93	68	30 November 1989
17	Miriam Sylla	Outside Hitter	1.84	80	1 August 1995
18	Paola Egonu	Opposite	1.93	79	18 December 1998
19	Sarah Fahr	Middle Blocker	1.94	84	12 September 2001

Season 2019–2020[10][11]

Number	Player	Position	Height (m)	Weight (kg)	Birth date
1	Indre Sorokaite	Opposite	1.86	81	2 July 1988
5	Robin de Kruijf	Middle Blocker	1.93	79	5 May 1991
6	Jennifer Geerties	Outside Hitter	1.86	56	5 April 1994
7	Raphaela Folie	Middle Blocker	1.85	69	7 March 1991
8	Eleonora Fersino	Libero	1.69	60	24 January 2000
9	Alexandra Botezat	Middle Blocker	1.96	75	3 August 1998
10	Monica De Gennaro	Libero	1.72	63	8 January 1987
11	Chiaka Ogbogu	Middle Blocker	1.89	73	15 April 1995
12	Terry Enweonwu	Opposite	1.86	86	12 May 2000
13	Giulia Gennari	Setter	1.84	63	23 June 1996
14	Joanna Wołosz	Setter	1.81	65	7 April 1990
15	Kimberly Hill	Outside Hitter	1.93	68	30 November 1989
17	Miriam Sylla	Outside Hitter	1.84	80	1 August 1995
18	Paola Egonu	Opposite	1.93	79	18 December 1998

2018–2019 Team[12][13]
Number	Player	Position	Height (m)	Weight (kg)	Birth date
1	Miyu Nagaoka	Opposite	1.80	65	25 July 1991
3	Marta Bechis	Setter	1.81	68	4 September 1989
4	Megan Easy	Outside Hitter	1.91	80	15 October 1988
5	Robin de Kruijf	Middle Blocker	1.93	79	5 May 1991
6	Elina Rodriguez	Outside Hitter	1.89	79	11 February 1997
7	Raphaela Folie	Middle Blocker	1.85	69	7 March 1991
8	Eleonora Fersino	Libero	1.69	60	24 January 2000
9	Karsta Lowe	Opposite	1.96	75	2 February 1993
10	Monica De Gennaro	Libero	1.72	63	8 January 1987
11	Anna Danesi	Middle Blocker	1.95	77	20 April 1996
12	Martina Šamadan	Middle Blocker	1.93	74	9 November 1993
13	Samanta Fabris	Opposite	1.88	79	8 February 1992
14	Joanna Wołosz	Setter	1.81	65	7 April 1990
15	Kimberly Hill	Outside Hitter	1.93	68	30 November 1989
16	Valentina Tirozzi	Outside Hitter	1.80	69	26 March 1986
17	Miriam Sylla	Outside Hitter	1.84	80	1 August 1995
18	Gaia Moretto	Middle Blocker	1.92	74	19 September 1994

Current coaching staff

Italy	Daniele Santarelli		Head coach
Italy	Alessio Simone	27 March 1976	Vice coach
Italy	Valerio Lionetti	7 July 1985	Coach assistant
Italy	Milo Zanardo		Coach assistant
Italy	Elia Laise		Statistics officer
Italy	Terry Rosini		Athletic trainer
Italy	Luca Vaccario		Doctor
Italy	Vito Lamberti		Doctor
Italy	Claudio Dalla Torre		Doctor
Italy	Alberto Vascellari		Orthopedist
Italy	Antonio Poser		Physiotherapist
Italy	Carlo Stefano Ramponi		Physiotherapist
Italy	Davide Venturin		Physiotherapist

Honours

• FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship

2019

• Serie A1: 3

2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19

• Coppa Italia: 2

2016–17, 2019-20

• Italian Supercup: 4

2016, 2018, 2019, 2020

References

1. "Imoco Volley, è fatta Scatta ora la caccia al titolo per la Serie A". La Tribuna di Treviso (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-06-08.
2. Rosa, Alberto (26 April 2012). "Imoco compra il Parma Conegliano può rinascere". La Tribuna di Treviso (in Italian). Retrieved 14 February 2017.
3. "La Supercoppa Samsung Gear S3 è dell'Imoco Volley Conegliano". Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (in Italian). 8 December 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
4. "Coppa Italia: vince l'Imoco Volley". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). 5 March 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
5. "Women's Club World Championship - Results". Retrieved 2019-12-16.
6. ""The CEV Champions League Volley 2020 - Women has ended prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic according to the CEV Board of Administration decision taken on 23.04.2020"". CEV. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
7. "L'Assemblea dei Club di Serie A Femminile vota per la conclusione anticipata della stagione: Imoco proclamata vincitrice della Regular Season, stop alle retrocessioni. Su Facebook l'intervista al presidente Fabris". Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (in Italian). 6 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
8. ""Conclusa l'attività sportiva per la stagione 2019-2020"". Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (in Italian). 8 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
9. "Roster Imoco Volley 2020-". Imoco Volley (in Italian). Retrieved 4 July 2020.
10. "2018-19 Team". Imoco Volley (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2017.
11. "Imoco Volley Conegliano 2017-18 Team". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2017.
12. "2018-19 Team". Imoco Volley (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2017.
13. "Imoco Volley Conegliano 2017-18 Team". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2017.

External links

• Official website (in Italian)