Anteater due travel to Morocco
July 2, 2007
Irvine, Calif. -- UC Irvine sophomore Cole Reinholm and incoming freshman Kevin Carroll are members of the U.S. Junior National Team that will be participating in the FIVA Men's Junior World Championships July 7-15 in Morocco.
Carroll will be playing on the Junior National Team for the second year, while Reinholm is making his debut as a member of Team USA.
The 12-man team will travel to Italy to compete in a "Friendship Tournament" with Japan and Argentina before heading to Morocco.
The U.S. Men have been slotted into Pool B with defending champions Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt and Slovenia. Matches for Pool B teams will be played in Rabat.
Host country Morocco, Iran, Cuba, Italy, Japan and Bulgaria compose Pool A. Cuba enters the tournament as the reigning NORCECA Men's Junior Continental Champion. Casablanca will host competition for Pool A.
The Americans earned a spot in the championships with a runner-up finish to Cuba in the NORCECA Men's Junior Continental Championship in August 2006.
Reinholm, a member of UCI's national championship team, averaged 2.38 kills and 0.97 digs per game as a freshman. The outside hitter had a career-best 14 kills on two occasions.
Carroll, an outside hitter, hails from Los Alamitos High School and will be joining the Anteater squad in the fall. He was selected as a Mizuno first team All-American, was the MVP of the Orange County All-Star match, earned All-CIF Southern Section Division I first-team recognition and was the Press-Telegram's Dream Team Player of the Year.
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