Team Essex Volleyball Club

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Team Essex VC
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Full nameTeam Essex Volleyball Club
Short nameTEVC
NicknameTeam Essex
Founded2013
Ground University of Essex, The Boswells School, St John Payne Catholic School
ChairmanKlaudia French, James Bernardi
CaptainJames Bernardi (Blaze); Klaudia French (Trinity)
League Volleyball England
Website Club home page
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Team Essex Volleyball Club 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 Super League. The Women's 1st team play in Division 1. Subsequently, TEVC have a Men's and Women's team that also play in Division 3.

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Achievements

Team Essex Trinity (Women)
Team Essex Blaze (Men)

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 Brentwood VC, Chelmsford VC and Boswells, the women formed as a result of a partnership with Brentwood VC, Chelmsford VC and Southend VC. 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.

2023–2024 season

Blaze

The 2023-2024 season saw the Men's 1st team finish top in the Men's Divison 1 with 4 games in hand. This strong finish was good enough to secure their spot in the Super League, the highest level of English Volleyball, consisting of the strongest 10 teams in the country. The result was an all round success for the newly promoted Blaze team who satisfied their goal of promotion to regain their Super League status.

Trinity

The 2023–2024 season saw the Women's 1st team finish 1st in Volleyball England's Division 2. As a result, Trinity has secured their spot in the Women's division 1 for the forthcoming season.

Notable former players

PlayerCurrent ClubOther Clubs
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Andrew Saward Flag of England.svg London Aces Flag of England.svg Newcastle Staffs
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Nathan French Flag placeholder.svg Flag of England.svg Team Northumbria
Flag of Spain.svg Tenerife
Flag of France.svg Avignon
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Peter Bakare Flag placeholder.svg Team Northumbria Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Landstede Zwolle
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Matthew MillsFlag placeholder.svg Retired Flag of England.svg Sheffield Hallam
Flag of the United States.svg Gary HouseFlag placeholder.svg Karlalið HK
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Luke FrenchFlag placeholder.svg Retired Flag of England.svg Medway
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jack Watson Flag of England.svg Ipswich Spikers Flag of England.svg Ipswich Spikers
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sam Thompson Flag of England.svg Sheffield Hallam
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lawrence Russell Flag of England.svg Sheffield Hallam
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Matthew Ketley Flag of England.svg Sheffield Hallam
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jake LeeksFlag placeholder.svg Retired
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Robert Poole Flag of Germany.svg VC Bitterfeld-Wolfen Flag of the United States.svg Mount Olive College
Flag of England.svg IBB Polonia London
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ryan Poole Flag of the United States.svg California State University, Long Beach Flag of England.svg London Malory
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Joe HoulihanFlag placeholder.svg Retired
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Chris FrostFlag placeholder.svg Retired Flag of France.svg Nice
Flag of France.svg Lille
Flag of England.svg London Malory
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Thomas StorkeyFlag placeholder.svg Retired
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jack SawardFlag placeholder.svg Retired
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Adam Mitchell Flag of England.svg Stockport
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Nick Davies Flag of England.svg Plymouth Flag of England.svg London Malory
Flag of England.svg London Lynx
Flag of England.svg Tendring
Flag of the United States.svg Shaun Ermi Flag of the United States.svg Springfield College
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Tobias French Flag of England.svg IBB Polonia London Flag of England.svg London Malory

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