Imoco Volley

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
2020–21	1st
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home	Away
	2021–22

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

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 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 2021–2022

Number	Player	Position	Height (m)	Weight (kg)	Birth date
1		Libero	1.76		(1994-05-04) 4 May 1994 (age 27)
2	Kathryn Plummer	Outside Hitter	1.97	88	(1998-10-16) 16 October 1998 (age 23)
3	Megan Courtney-Lush	Outside Hitter	1.85	61	(1993-10-27) 27 October 1993 (age 28)
4	Božana Butigan	Middle Blocker	1.90	78	(2000-08-19) 19 August 2000 (age 21)
5	Robin de Kruijf	Middle Blocker	1.93	79	(1991-05-05) 5 May 1991 (age 30)
7	Raphaela Folie	Middle Blocker	1.85	69	(1991-03-07) 7 March 1991 (age 30)
9		Outside Hitter	1.84	75	(2002-08-25) 25 August 2002 (age 19)
10	Monica De Gennaro	Libero	1.72	63	(1987-01-08) 8 January 1987 (age 34)
11	Hristina Ruseva	Middle Blocker	1.92	75	(1991-10-01) 1 October 1991 (age 30)
12		Opposite	1.89	75	(2002-11-29) 29 November 2002 (age 19)
13		Setter	1.84	63	(1996-06-23) 23 June 1996 (age 25)
14	Joanna Wołosz	Setter	1.81	65	(1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 (age 31)
17	Miriam Sylla	Outside Hitter	1.84	80	(1995-08-01) 1 August 1995 (age 26)
18	Paola Egonu	Opposite	1.93	79	(1998-12-18) 18 December 1998 (age 23)
19	Sarah Fahr	Middle Blocker	1.94	84	(2001-09-12) 12 September 2001 (age 20)

Season 2020–2021^[9]

Number	Player	Position	Height (m)	Weight (kg)	Birth date
1		Libero	1.76		(1994-05-04) 4 May 1994 (age 27)
3		Opposite	1.89	69	(1997-11-13) 13 November 1997 (age 24)
4	Božana Butigan	Middle Blocker	1.90	78	(2000-08-19) 19 August 2000 (age 21)
5	Robin de Kruijf	Middle Blocker	1.93	79	(1991-05-05) 5 May 1991 (age 30)
7	Raphaela Folie	Middle Blocker	1.85	69	(1991-03-07) 7 March 1991 (age 30)
9		Outside Hitter	1.84	75	(2002-08-25) 25 August 2002 (age 19)
10	Monica De Gennaro	Libero	1.72	63	(1987-01-08) 8 January 1987 (age 34)
11		Outside Hitter	1.92		(1992-02-13) 13 February 1992 (age 29)
13		Setter	1.84	63	(1996-06-23) 23 June 1996 (age 25)
14	Joanna Wołosz	Setter	1.81	65	(1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 (age 31)
15	Kimberly Hill	Outside Hitter	1.93	68	(1989-11-30) 30 November 1989 (age 32)
17	Miriam Sylla	Outside Hitter	1.84	80	(1995-08-01) 1 August 1995 (age 26)
18	Paola Egonu	Opposite	1.93	79	(1998-12-18) 18 December 1998 (age 23)
19	Sarah Fahr	Middle Blocker	1.94	84	(2001-09-12) 12 September 2001 (age 20)

Season 2019–2020^[10]^[11]

Number	Player	Position	Height (m)	Weight (kg)	Birth date
1	Indre Sorokaite	Opposite	1.86	81	(1988-07-02) 2 July 1988 (age 33)
5	Robin de Kruijf	Middle Blocker	1.93	79	(1991-05-05) 5 May 1991 (age 30)
6		Outside Hitter	1.86	56	(1994-04-05) 5 April 1994 (age 27)
7	Raphaela Folie	Middle Blocker	1.85	69	(1991-03-07) 7 March 1991 (age 30)
8		Libero	1.69	60	(2000-01-24) 24 January 2000 (age 21)
9		Middle Blocker	1.96	75	(1998-08-03) 3 August 1998 (age 23)
10	Monica De Gennaro	Libero	1.72	63	(1987-01-08) 8 January 1987 (age 34)
11	Chiaka Ogbogu	Middle Blocker	1.89	73	(1995-04-15) 15 April 1995 (age 26)
12	Terry Enweonwu	Opposite	1.86	86	(2000-05-12) 12 May 2000 (age 21)
13		Setter	1.84	63	(1996-06-23) 23 June 1996 (age 25)
14	Joanna Wołosz	Setter	1.81	65	(1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 (age 31)
15	Kimberly Hill	Outside Hitter	1.93	68	(1989-11-30) 30 November 1989 (age 32)
17	Miriam Sylla	Outside Hitter	1.84	80	(1995-08-01) 1 August 1995 (age 26)
18	Paola Egonu	Opposite	1.93	79	(1998-12-18) 18 December 1998 (age 23)

2018–2019 Team^[12]^[13]
Number	Player	Position	Height (m)	Weight (kg)	Birth date
1	Miyu Nagaoka	Opposite	1.80	65	(1991-07-25) 25 July 1991 (age 30)
3		Setter	1.81	68	(1989-09-04) 4 September 1989 (age 32)
4	Megan Easy	Outside Hitter	1.91	80	(1988-10-15) 15 October 1988 (age 33)
5	Robin de Kruijf	Middle Blocker	1.93	79	(1991-05-05) 5 May 1991 (age 30)
6		Outside Hitter	1.89	79	(1997-02-11) 11 February 1997 (age 24)
7	Raphaela Folie	Middle Blocker	1.85	69	(1991-03-07) 7 March 1991 (age 30)
8		Libero	1.69	60	(2000-01-24) 24 January 2000 (age 21)
9	Karsta Lowe	Opposite	1.96	75	(1993-02-02) 2 February 1993 (age 28)
10	Monica De Gennaro	Libero	1.72	63	(1987-01-08) 8 January 1987 (age 34)
11	Anna Danesi	Middle Blocker	1.95	77	(1996-04-20) 20 April 1996 (age 25)
12	Martina Šamadan	Middle Blocker	1.93	74	(1993-11-09) 9 November 1993 (age 28)
13	Samanta Fabris	Opposite	1.88	79	(1992-02-08) 8 February 1992 (age 29)
14	Joanna Wołosz	Setter	1.81	65	(1990-04-07) 7 April 1990 (age 31)
15	Kimberly Hill	Outside Hitter	1.93	68	(1989-11-30) 30 November 1989 (age 32)
16	Valentina Tirozzi	Outside Hitter	1.80	69	(1986-03-26) 26 March 1986 (age 35)
17	Miriam Sylla	Outside Hitter	1.84	80	(1995-08-01) 1 August 1995 (age 26)
18		Middle Blocker	1.92	74	(1994-09-19) 19 September 1994 (age 27)

Current coaching staff[]

Italy			Head coach
Italy	Alessio Simone	(1976-03-27) 27 March 1976 (age 45)	Vice coach
Italy	Valerio Lionetti	(1985-07-07) 7 July 1985 (age 36)	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[]

International competitions[]

FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship
- Winners (1): 2019
Women's CEV Champions League
- Winners (1): 2021

Domestic competitions[]

Serie A1
- Winners (4)::2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020-21
Coppa Italia
- Winners (3): :2016–17, 2019-20, 2020-21
Italian Supercup
- Winners (5): :2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

References[]

^ "Imoco Volley, è fatta Scatta ora la caccia al titolo per la Serie A". La Tribuna di Treviso (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-06-08.
^ Rosa, Alberto (26 April 2012). "Imoco compra il Parma Conegliano può rinascere". La Tribuna di Treviso (in Italian). Retrieved 14 February 2017.
^ "La Supercoppa Samsung Gear S3 è dell'Imoco Volley Conegliano". Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (in Italian). 8 December 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
^ "Coppa Italia: vince l'Imoco Volley". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). 5 March 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
^ "Women's Club World Championship - Results". Retrieved 2019-12-16.
^ ""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.
^ "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.
^ ""Conclusa l'attività sportiva per la stagione 2019-2020"". Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (in Italian). 8 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
^ "Roster Imoco Volley 2020-". Imoco Volley (in Italian). Retrieved 4 July 2020.
^ "2018-19 Team". Imoco Volley (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2017.
^ "Imoco Volley Conegliano 2017-18 Team". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2017.
^ "2018-19 Team". Imoco Volley (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2017.
^ "Imoco Volley Conegliano 2017-18 Team". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2017.

External links[]

Official website (in Italian)

[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.

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v t Italian Women's Volleyball Serie A1 teams
2017–18 teams	Foppapedretti Bergamo Unet E-Work Busto Arsizio Pomì Casalmaggiore Imoco Volley Conegliano Lardini Filottrano Il Bisonte Firenze SAB Volley Legnano Liu Jo Nordmeccanica Modena Saugella Team Monza Igor Gorgonzola Novara myCicero Volley Pesaro Savino Del Bene Scandicci Club Italia Crai
Former teams	Südtirol Bolzano Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi Metalleghe Sanitars Montichiari
Defunct teams	Liu Jo Modena (2013–2016) Asystel Volley Novara (2003–2012) Despar Sirio Perugia (1970–2011) Minetti Vicenza (1992–2010) MC-Carnaghi Villa Cortese (1978–2013)