Team Essex Volleyball Club

Team Essex VC
Full name	Team Essex Volleyball Club
Short name	TEVC
Nickname	Team Essex;
Founded	2013;
Ground	University of Essex, The Boswells School, St John Payne Catholic School
Chairman	James Bernardi
Captain	Daniel Northfield (Blaze); LLoraine Bartlett (Trinity)
League	Volleyball England
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home	Away

Team Essex VC is a volleyball team based in Chelmsford, Great Britain since 2013. The club consists of a men's teams and a women's team that play in Volleyball England's English National Volleyball League. The Men's 1st team play in Volleyball England's Division 1. The Women's 1st team play in Division 2.

Achievements[]

Team Essex Trinity (Women)

English Shield Runners Up 2016^[1]
Promotion to National League Division 1^[2]

Team Essex Blaze (Men)

English National League Division 1 Champions, 2017^[3]
English Shield Runners Up 2015^[4]
English National League Division 2 (South) Champions, 2013^[5]

History[]

The club was set up in 2013 by James Bernardi, Paul French and Steven Rosser. The men and women's teams are conglomerates, the men formed through the partnership of , and Boswells, the women formed as a result of a partnership with , and . The mergers gave the best volleyballers in Essex the chance to compete together at a higher level. The club has grown from strength to strength in a very short period of time, and now boasts a men's team in the top league in the country, The Super League and in Division 1. The women's team represents Team Essex in Division 2 of the National Volleyball League.

2017–2018 season[]

Blaze

The 2017–2018 season saw the Men's 1st team finish 7th in the last ever season of Volleyball England's Super 8 league. This finish was good enough to secure their spot in the inaugural new Super League format, consisting of 10 teams.^[6] The result was an all round success for the newly promoted Blaze team who satisfied their goal of retaining their top division status in the first year since their promotion.

Trinity

The 2017–2018 season saw the Women's 1st team finish 7th in Volleyball England's Division 1. As a result, Trinity will play in this league for the forthcoming season.

Current rosters[]

Team Essex Blaze

Team roster – Season 2020/2021
Team Essex Blaze
No.	Name	Position	Apps	International Honours
		Libero	56	Men
		Outside Hitter	86	Men
		Outside Hitter	90	-
		Middle Blocker	105	-
		Middle Blocker	103	-
		Setter	48	U18
		Opposite Hitter	16	-
		Outside Hitter	68	-
		Universal	8	-
		Outside Hitter	11	U18
		Libero	0	U16
		Universal	0	-
		Setter	0	-
		Outside Hitter	0	-
		Middle Blocker	0	Men
		Middle Blocker	25	-
		Libero	0	U18
Head coach: Assistant: [[]]

Team Essex Trinity

Team roster – Season 2020/2021
Team Essex Trinity
No.	Name	Position
		Setter	U18
		Libero	U18
		Outside	-
		Middle	-
		Outside	-
		Libero	-
		Opposite	-
		Outside	-
		Middle	U18
		Setter	-
		Outside	-
		Outside	U18
Head coach: Assistant:

Notable former players[]

Player	Current Club	Other Clubs
		Newcastle Staffs
Nathan French		Team Northumbria Tenerife Avignon
Peter Bakare	Team Northumbria	Landstede Zwolle
Matthew Mills	Retired
Gary House	Karlalið HK
Luke French	Retired	Medway
Jack Watson
Sam Thompson	Sheffield Hallam
Lawrence Russell	Sheffield Hallam
Matthew Ketley	Sheffield Hallam
Jake Leeks	Retired
Robert Poole		IBB Polonia London
Ryan Poole	California State University, Long Beach	London Malory
Joe Houlihan	Retired
Chris Frost	Retired	Nice Lille London Malory
Thomas Storkey	Retired
Jack Saward	Retired
Adam Mitchell	Stockport
Nick Davies	Plymouth	London Malory London Lynx Tendring
Shaun Ermi	Springfield College
Tobias French	IBB Polonia London	London Malory