SKW managed to pull off the big surprise and win the SAVVA Doc tournament on Saturday. The tournament is the oldest and most prestigious annual event on the Namibian Volleyball calendar.
SKW, only promoted to Premier Lea-gue this year, was underestimated by most teams. With four new signings, two of them National team players, they proved to be the strongest team on the day, loosing only one set throughout the whole tournament. They won both group matches, against Elegance Volleyball Club and NDF B 2:0. In the Quarterfinal they domi-nated against Eleven Warriors beating them 2:0 and in the Semi-final they beat defending champions, NDF A, 2:0 in fine style to secure a place in the final.
In the final SKW lost the only set of the tournament against Killers, but still managed to take victory comfor-tably, winning 3:1. Six Stars Volley-ball Club took the last podium place and the bronze medals.
With this exceptional result early in the season SKW has set its expectations high for the NVF Premier League kicking off next month. Having finished second in the 2006 First Division and a victory in the play-offs, SKW was promoted to Namibia’s highest Volleyball league this year. Now they are out to proof that they are the team to beat this year. With four National team players in their lineup and a good balance of experienced and young players, it will be difficult for the other teams to proof them wrong.
The team:
Setter: Kamwi Sezuni
Utility: Achim Lück
Spiker: Rector Mbeha, Jaime Duarte, Joseph Amakali,
Blocker: Mwita Shikopo, Marcelino da Silver, Bernd Ahrens, Olaf Riedel
Libero: Heiko Diehl
Coach: Marc van Uytvanck