Local girl’s volleyball standout Taylor Murphy was voted Top Server, while earning Gold Medals with her teammates on the Intermountain Youth Red Team. In the championship game, the International Youth Red beat the USA Select White in three games.

IYR girl’s volleyball team took three of the best awards: Taylor Murphy Best Server; Clotile Harris Best Attacker and Ray Mulitalo Most Valuable Player.

IYR played a total of eight matches during the four-day tournament in a best-of-five format. Only one game went to the fourth set. Although not all games were blowouts or easy, it was almost a perfect record. Along with beating the USA Select White team for the championship and the gold-medal, it was a great accomplishment.

The Intermountain Region Red team was the only regional team to play in the championship rounds in an International Volleyball Tournament played in the great city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

This really goes to show what tremendous local talent we have in the great Southwest. And we will continue to have great amateur athletes go on to colleges and some even play in the pro ranks.

This is truly exciting to see. The parents are proud as is St. George city and supporters everywhere in America.

The 2009 USA Volleyball High Performance Championship will return to the Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center, the same site that hosted the event in 2006 and 2007.  The 90+ team event features tournaments for both boys and girls that include teams from USA Volleyball Region HP teams, International teams and teams from the USA Volleyball High Performance pipeline.

GIY (Girls International Youth) Awards

Best Passer: Katherine Brooks, USA Select White

Best Blocker: Shelby Sullivan, USA Select White

Best Server: Taylor Murphey, Intermountain Region

Best Digger: Haley Pouliezos, USA Select Blue

Best Attacker: Clotile Harris, Intermountain Region

Best Setter: Taylor Sherwin, Florida Region

Most Valuable Player: Rae Mulitalo, Intermountain Region

Pictures with Taylor Murphey: There are 15 pages and sets of pictures and Taylor is in: page 2 of 15, 1st row-4 down; page 2 of 15, 2 row-3 down & page 8 of 15, 3 row-down 3

Click for photo’s: http://snipurl.com/oi26j

The local talent has been very big…meaning great performances and tall!

To see more in depth photos and scores go to SouthernUtahVolleyballAssociation.com (SUVA-Home) to get all the extra great details.

The Las Vegas pro beach volleyball courts (40 beach courts) have an amateur tournaments all year long.

With the new upcoming beach and indoor volleyball courts (12 beach) and (12 indoors {estimate at the time}) at the Mesquite Amateur Sport Complex we will see volleyball soar even higher quite soon!

Look for more at each great volleyball towns (St. George, Mesquite and Las Vegas).

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Will be held in Cedar City, Utah from June 3-21st, 2009.

Resort developers (Desert Falls) have an enormous undertaking bringing this premiere sports resort to Mesquite Nevada.

Making it one of the largest amateur athletic resorts in the United States.

The resort will cover a gamut of outdoor and indoor sports, primarily oriented to the amateur athlete, but with the facilities of the quality and caliber that professional athletes use.

The Mesquite sports resort package includes a wealth of amenities that include Adidas facilities: Offices; deluxe restaurant;  training facility; two Olympic size pools; two Olympic sized diving platforms and a private workout center.

You will see six flex basketball/volleyball courts, racquetball courts, indoor track and the therapy center.

Included in the amenities will be massage, saunas, spa with a sports medicine facility as well.

Just to mention a few unique facilities, we will see 12 sand beach volleyball courts and a main beach volleyball stadium with 300 to 400 seats.

A 1500 seat softball Stadium with natural turf, a softball Hall of Fame and sports memorabilia center.

A softball complex with 4:5 flex diamonds, concession stands, restrooms, scoring boxes,  boards announcing booth, and a day care facility.

A 24 field soccer complex and a 400 to 500 seat soccer stadium, plus a park area with pavilions.

A 16 court tennis complex 300 to 400 seat tennis stadium and a pickle ball court.

A golf course with 495 residential units, including condo, town-homes and single dwellings.

A 3,000 to 5,000 seat outdoor football stadium with separate track and field areas featuring: long jump, high jump and shot put/discus throw setups.

An archery range that would house archery, bow hunting and beginning range with concession and information center.

And indoor foot ball/soccer stadium with 5,000 to 10,000 seat stadium. Artificial turf would also be used as a lacrosse center.

Attached to this stadium would be a water park with a lazy river.

An open-air street mall with food courts, sport’s brands, exclusive shops with moving sidewalk and mixed-use buildings for both commercial and retail.

A resort hotel and an athletic village.

This new facility would make Mesquite Nevada, the premier location for amateur sports in the United States and the world.

We will see a tremendous economic boost during this downturn in the economy from this new sports Pavilion.