Bruno Oscar Schmidt (BRA) was awarded as a best spiker at World Championships 2015
Bruno Oscar Schmidt (BRA) was awarded as the most outstanding player for 2015-2016 FIVB World Tour beach volleyball season. He is also awarded as a best defender and best sportsman of the year.
The other awards at men's side are ;
Phil Dalhausser (USA) - Best Setter
Phil Dalhausser (USA)
Alison Cerutti (Brazil) - Best Hitter
Alison Cerutti (BRA) is hitting during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Evandro Gonçalves (Brazil) - Best Server
Evandro Goncalves (BRA) is serving during the World Championships 2015
Gustavo Carvalhaes (Brazil) - Best Rookie Paolo Nicolai (Italy) - Best Blocker
Paolo Nicolai of Italy is celebrating during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Janis Smedins (Latvia) - Best Offensive Player Piotr Kantor (Poland) - Most Improved Player Reinder Nummerdor (Netherlands) - Most Inspirational Player
Reinder Nummerdor (HOL) is celebrating during the final of World Championships 2015
Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena during FIVB 2016 Maceio Open photo source FIVB
Do
you know that Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena were playing together between
2003-2005 seasons? They reached their first career championship match together
in 2005 Men’s AVP Tour in Austin, Texas. They won over Jake Gibb and Stein
Metzger with a 18-16 tie-break to collect their first AVP win.
I
can offer a book if you are interested in what was going on at 2005 on AVP
Tour.
After
a dissapointed ninth place finish at London 2012 Olympic Games , Beijing 2008
champions Phil and Todd have decided to finish their partnership. Phil has started
to play with two times olympian (5th place finish in each Beijing 2008 and
London 2012)Sean Rosenthal.
The
duo has been successful at FIVB World Tour 2013 and 2014 like Phil and Todd have done between
2009-2012.
During the last years Moscow Grand Slam 2015 I watched an interesting game of Phil and
Sean against German’s Walkenhorst/Windcheif. Phil was digging, Sean was
blocking , even they were double blocking, they were going on two almost every
ball, like everything was turning inside out. After they lost the game we
understood that Phil has injured. They have played together one
more tournament (Yokohoma Grand Slam) and then decided to go their
own ways.
Phil and Sean during the Moscow Grand Slam 2015 photo by Masha Berliner
Phil
has teamed-up (re-united) with Nick Lucena again after ten years and I think
this was the end of Sean Rosenthal’s road to Rio 2016.
Phil
and Nick have started to play on August 2015 and they have been guaranteed to
qualify for Rio 2016 less than 7 months.
Phil and Nick photo source FIVB
It
will be Phil’s 3rd olympic games and Lucena’s will be the first so they will be
still hungry for the olympic medal.
By
the way Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson will be the other men team for USA at Rio
2016
I
think everybody who is related with beach volley has been watched Sean
Rosenthal’s this video at least once.
But
I want to show a different video of how Dalhausser was hitting on two in 2005. Assist from Nick Lucena.
