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Welcome to Ashcombe Volleyball Club

Ashcombe Volleyball Club offers volleyball for women and girl players of all ages and abilities and also has competitive teams for junior boys.

Ashcombe Volleyball Club was founded in 1976 and is based at The Ashcombe School, Dorking, Surrey. Training and games take place in the purpose built Sports Hall at Ashcombe Volleyball Centre built with a Lottery Grant in 2002 at Durrington High School and Worthing High School, Worthing and St Wilfreds School, Crawley.

Ashcombe Dorking 1 play in National League Division 1 and in 2000 won the English National Cup and League double.

Ashcombe Dorking 2 play in National League Division 3 East and offer good quality volleyball to experienced and youth players.

Ashcombe have representative teams in both the Surrey and Sussex women's leagues. In the Sussex League Ashcombe integrate with Worthing Volleyball Club to support club members to play in men and women's county leagues. Home matches take place at Worthing High School.

The Ashcombe Tournament held on grass courts at Dorking R.F.C. in Brockham is one of the biggest summer volleyball tournaments in the South of England attracting over 100 teams each day to play in 2 days of junior and adult volleyball for all levels of play.

Junior players at Ashcombe play in all National and Local competitions and in 2008 the Under 16 girls team won the National Finals. The Under 18 Girls reached the National finals and the Under 18 Boys and Under 15 girls both reached the National semi finals.

Beach volleyball is becoming more popular with the Ashcombe players and the teams training regularly on Monday evenings at Yellowave, Brighton, throughout the summer months. In 2008 Jess Grimson and Susan Hoare from Ashcombe represented Great Britain in the World Under 21 Championships.

	Latest news
	Sunday 's Tournament basks in the Summer sunshine - 28th June 2009 After a late night party, dinner and music, with over 150 camping overnight on site, the tournament resumed with a 6-a-side competition for men, women and mixed teams catering for players from National League to novice standard in 12 divisions. 20 courts were needed for the 70 teams in the various competitions. The lovely weather continued and a good time was had by all. The catering, Bar-B-Q, raffle, t-shirt sales were all supplied by Ashcombe Volleyball Club and the club players worked all week end as part of their fund raising efforts to support the players for next season's NVL and National junior competitions. Results in "Ashcombe Summer Tournaments"
Kitlocker at Ashcombe Tournament Kitlocker, the volleyball sports company were on site at the Ashcombe Tournament selling specialist volleyball equipment and clothing. For more information on Kitlocker contact: sales @kitlocker.com 01114 261 7908
	Saturday Ashcombe Tournament has record entries and glorious weather - 27th June 2009 The weather was a real bonus for all the players and supporters who came to the Ashcombe Volleyball Tournament on 27th and 28th June 2009. The tournament is run by the Ashcombe Volleyball Club at Dorking RFC in the picuresque village of Brockam, near Dorking, Surrey. Nestling under Box Hill, the setting is stunning and all we needed was good weather. Two years ago the tournament was played despite constant driving rain and showed the true British spirit of carrying on through all weather and adversity, but this year blue skies meant that sun tan lotion, hats and cold drinks were needed to keep the players going. The 2 day tournament is part of the "Lets Play Volleyball" series supported by Volleyball England and on Saturday junior players aged from 10 to 16 played on 8 purpose built junior courts, supplied by Volleyball England, in 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 competitions. All junior players received participation medals and we hope they had a reallly wonderful day and that this will be the start of some long volleyball careers. Alongside the junior competition an adult 4's tournament attracted 48 teams in 6 divisions for mens, womens and mixed teams on 12 courts. More photos in "Ashcombe Summer Tournaments" Results in "Ashcombe Summer Tournaments"
	Success for Ashcombe Junior teams at the first Sussex Junior beach tournament Girls competition Under 18 winners - Maria Frost and Nara Hasanova. Under 16 winners - Hannah Carey, Sian Warren and Megan Warren, Under 14 winners - Emily Begley, Robyn Wisdom and Abbey Peters. Boys competition Under 18 winners - Jimmy carey and Matt Smith. Under 16 winners - Newbury Beach Boys, Under 14 Boys - Harry Bird, Matt Smith, Elliot Reynolds and Dominic Wisdom. The tournament was held on Saturday 20th June at Yellowave Brighton.
	Ashcombe Summer Tournaments - Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June 2009 - There are only a few places to be booked at the Ashcombe Tournaments which will take place at the grounds of Dorking RFC - The Big Field, Brockham, Betchworth, Surrey RH3 7LZ. Over 70 teams are expected each day. Saturday is a 4's day with mens, womens and mixed divisions and junior competitions from Under 11's up to Under 18's games start at 12.00.noon. Sunday is 6-aside for mens, womens and mixed divisions in 4 catagories to suit all levels of play from novice to NVL, games start at 10.00.a.m.. Tournament entry form on line now.
	Ashcombe Summer Junior Tournament - Saturday 27th June 2009 The Ashcombe junior Tournament which will take place at the grounds of Dorking RFC - The Big Field, Brockham, Betchworth, Surrey RH3 7LZ on Saturday 27th June and offers junior competitions from Under 11's up to Under 18's and is part of Volleyball England's "Lets Play Volleyball" programme. The Tournament begins at 12.00 noon.
	New Coaches needed for 2009 - 2010 season Ashcombe are looking for new coaches to work with their two National league teams in Womens Divsion 1 and Womens Division 3 East for the coming season. Interested? Contact Freda Bussey on fredabussey@btinternet.com Thanks for all the interest, new coaches to be announced soon
Mia Lowney and Judt Szakal win the 1st Sussex Beach Tournament - 23rd May 2009 Ashcombe players Mia Lowney and Judit Szakal beat Katie Mitram and Soo-Bee Appleton in the final of the innaugural Sussex Beach Doubles and Triples Volleyball Tournament held at Yellowave on Saturday 23rd May. Theresa Farley and Emma Churcher also reached the Quarter Final stages. Young Ashcombe players Jimmy Carey and Matt Smith entered the mens competition and were pleased when they managed to win one game in their pool.
Ashcombe players selected for England South Squad Georgia Bird, Hannah Carey, Sian Warren, Beth Taylor, Megan Warren, Sophie Szyszko and Emily Begley have all been selected to train as part of the England South Squad for the UK School Games to be held in Cardiff in September. The first training session took place over the weekend of 23rd/24th May at the Ashcombe Volleyball Centre. Also selected for trials are Jimmy Carey and Chris Stent who will train with the England South Boys team over the weekend of 27th/28th June at the Ashcombe Centre.
Inter Regional Championships Loughborough - 2nd/3rd/4th May 2009 Ashcombe junior players were playing for England South East at the Inter Regional Championships. Ross Harnes, Chris Stent, Jimmy Carey, Liam Fagan, Oliver Hunt, Matt Smith and Kieron Gillard were in the Under 17 boys squad, Hannah Carey, Georgia Bird, Sian Warren, Beth Taylor and Megan Warren made the Under 16 girls squad. Under 15 team members were Jacob Obong, Harry Bird and Tom Wardell and Under 14 team members were Emily Begley, Sophie Szyszko, Robyn Wisdom and Abbey Peters. many of the Ashcombe players are students at Durrington High School.
	Worthing Devils win Inter Regional Trophy - 26th April 2009 Worthing Devils beat all comers to take the womens Inter Regional trophy at the South East Volleyball Championships held at The Ashcombe Volleyball Centre over the weekend of 25th/26th April 2009. The mens winners were Sussex University who went on to win the Regional Cahmpionships on Sunday 17th May, beating London in the final.
	Hannah Carey selected as a UK School Games Champion Ambassador - 26th January 2009 Hannah Carey visited the Houses of Parliament as a Champion Ambassador from the UK SDchool Games.The Champion Ambassador Programme honours the outstanding performers from the UK School Games. She met Rt. Hon. Richard Caborn and spent the day at the Houses of Parliament where they discussed the UK Games and the future of sport and a then attended a celebration reception to celebrate the huge success of the UK School Games.
	Theresa Farley and Hannah Carey selected for England Under 19 squad to play Scotland - December 2008 Ashcombe players Theresa Farley and Hannah Carey [only 15 ] were selected to play in the December International series of matches in Scotland. Also selected are Ashcombe Under 18 players Beth Lowney, Luana Mesquiati and Jessie Forrester who now play for Malory in NVL Division 1. England beat Scotland 3-1 and 3-0 in the 2 match series.