Sports News: Fall 2000

August 10, 2000

MORAVIAN’S WARD TO WORK WITH USA VOLLEYBALL TEAM

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Moravian College head athletic trainer Bob Ward has been selected to work and travel for the second consecutive year with the USA Volleyball Junior National Team at the NORCECA Zone Championships in Havana, Cuba from August 12-20.

The tournament is a qualifier for the 2000 world championships.

The USA Volleyball Junior National Team is a developmental team in the USA Volleyball program that reported to the USA Olympic Training Facility in Lake Placid, New York on July 24 and will practice until the tournament. Ward will work with a squad that is made up of 22 high school seniors and college freshmen from around the country.

The Junior National Team is the third step in the USA Volleyball program. As high school freshman and sophomores, the youths compete in the High Performance Camp and move onto the Boys’ Youth National Training Team as high school juniors and seniors. After competing on the Junior National team, they then are eligible to compete for the USA Volleyball National Team and the USA Olympic squad.

Ward, who spent two weeks during the summer of 1998 working at the USA Olympic Training Facility in Lake Placid and two weeks in August of 1999 with the Boys’ Youth National Training Team at a tournament in Montreal, Canada, has been the head trainer at Moravian College since 1986. He holds current certifications from the National Athletic Trainers Association and a Class A Certification as an athletic trainer in the State of Pennsylvania. Ward, a 1980 graduate of East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, is also a Pennsylvania Certified paramedic. Prior to working at Moravian, Ward served as assistant athletics trainer at Lehigh University, head athletics trainer at Freedom High School and head athletics trainer for the American Soccer League Pennsylvania Stoners professional soccer team.