2007 Women’s World cup:

Eve, from the school to Volleyball World Cup

Nagoya, Japan, November 15, 2007- From the school, the 16 years old girl, Elisa Eve was called suddenly to join the Dominican Republic Volleyball team in the 2007 Women’s World Cup in Japan. Eve left her books and lessons to her best hobby, volleyball promising her teachers that she will come back more enthusiastic to study her lessons and continue her student life successfully. A girl of 15 or 16 years old has many attractive interests to do in her early life but Dominican Republic team brought players of this age to compete at the highest volleyball level all over the world.

Actually the sudden injury of two main players in the Dominican team standing line up Prisilla Rivera and Kenia Moreta gave the chance to Elisa Eve and her colleague Brenda Castillo to be the 2007 World Cup youngest players.

The 16 years old Eve who played with the National team for the first time in this year’s Norceca Continental championship didn’t expect to join her team to Japan this year because she is thinking that she needs more experience to compete in this prestigious world level. But she quickly prepared herself psychologically to represent her country in the best way. Her colleagues in the class hoped her good luck and urged her to be a good representative of their school class in the world cup and this made her more careful to perform well.

Dominican Republic head coach Beato Miguel Cruz is very confident with the performance of Eve because he thought that it is time to renew his team with younger players who can benefit the national team for a long time. “I followed up Eve during the Girls Youth World Championship in Mexico early this year and found out that she is a good quality to be one of the team best players in the position of the middle blocker as she is tall and very delicate in her movement under the net,” Cruz said. “I gave her the chance and she showed good input during this competition.”

Eve is very happy with this experience at the top volleyball level and she is concentrating now on both her study and her volleyball career. “I’m now in Grade 2 secondary school and I need to continue studying in administration field. I have also a bigger dream to be one of the best players in my beloved sport, Volleyball.” She said firmly.