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More and more, it is sports that have Italy being talked about around the world as a winning nation. If 2021 was the magic year ever, with Italian athletes winning in every sports competition in which they participated, 2022 closes with just as many successes in dozens of international events. The first victories in chronological order came earlier...

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Early in Rachele Rastelli’s career with St. John’s, the team traveled to Philadelphia to face Big East foe Villanova. Coach Joanne Persico decided it would be fun to take Rastelli and her other Italian player, Erica Di Maulo, to see one of the city’s most famous tourist attractions. No, not the Liberty Bell or Independence Hall. What else would an...

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Italy overcame Poland and won 'yet another European gold medal. This is the 6th gold won by the Italian national teams in all six youth European Championships played from July to date: an incredible result, certifying the quality of the great Azzurro volleyball movement. If we add to these successes those centered by men's Italvolley and women's It...

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Italy men's volleyball is world champion for the fourth time in its history, 24 years after the last. In the final played Sunday night in Katowice, it beat Poland, the defending national champion for seven years, 3-1 in a comeback, who together with Brazil had shared the last five editions of the World Championships.In the Katowice final, Italy coa...

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The Azzurre defeated Serbia 3-2 in a heart-stopping match full of upsets. Coach Marco Mencarelli's girls lost the first set, and in the second set they came back from 20-10 down and managed to win only in the advantages. Dominance in the third set gave hope, but the Balkans won the fourth set and everything was decided at the tie-break. Down 7-10 a...

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It was an incredible Sunday for Italian volleyball, which yesterday won the men's under18 European title, the women's under21 European title, the men's under22 European title and, most importantly, the senior women's Volleyball National League: all in one phenomenal day. At the end of a splendid match won 3-0, the extraordinary Italian volleyball a...

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Michigan Tech senior Laura De Marchi has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division II volleyball first team for the second straight season. De Marchi is a setter from Milan, Italy, and holds a 3.79 grade-point average in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering. She is the fourth Michigan Tech volleyball player to be named an...

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The year 2021 is ending and for Italian sport it will remain the most beautiful year in its history. After a beginning without great satisfaction, from July onwards the tricolor flag began to wave all over the world thanks to the amazing victories of the Azzurri in every sport and on every continent. It all started with the victory of the European...

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Michigan Tech senior setter Laura De Marchi has been named the American Volleyball Coaches Association Midwest Region Player of the Year. She was also named to the All-Midwest Region Team for the third time in her career. Anna Jonynas was also named to the AVCA All-Midwest Region Team. Laura De Marchi was named the GLIAC Setter of the Year and on t...

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Italy won the Under 21 Men's Volleyball World Championship! Total apotheosis at the PalaPirastu in Cagliari, where our National team overwhelmed Russia 3-0 (25-19; 25-22; 25-20) in a one-sided final and won the category title for the first time in history! The Azzurri have literally knocked down the European Under 20 Champions, avenging the defeat...

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