July 30, 1999

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 with the USA Volleyball Boys’ Youth National Training Team at the National Teams Challenge Cup in Montreal, Canada from August 11-20.

The USA Volleyball Boys’ Youth National Training 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 16 and will practice until the tournament. Ward will work with a squad that is made up of 22 high school juniors and seniors from around the country. The tournament in Montreal will consist of teams from Canada and France. The team is currently competing against a team from Mexico as it practices.

The Boy’s Youth National Team is the second step in the USA Volleyball program. As high school freshman and sophomores, the youths compete in the High Performance Camp. As freshman and sophomores in college, the young men compete 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, 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.