Saturday, April 21, 2012

Volleyball in Groningen

As we drove to two Groningen which is 2 hours by car North of us we passed field after field of flowers. The colors were amazing. It was late in the spring so I was surprised to see the flowers. I did not realize the bulbs are grown at so many location through out the Netherlands.
The church has rented a large gym for years. Members come from the Netherlands and Belgium. They run 8 courts simultaneously. This is the Utrecht womens team.

There is a division for competitive teams. The team on the right has Dederik who is a YSA from Utrecht and 3 Chardon brothers.
They won thier division. Sister Everton rewarded them with home made oreos.

The young man in the middle is Remco. We like that name. His sister is on left and a granddaughter of our Brother Vernes from Dordrecht is on the right. The Utrecht youth won their division. Remco told about it in sacrament meeting. They had not practiced. They lost their first game to Den Haag who was very good and practiced for weeks before the tournament. They kept trying and won all the rest of the games. It is a double elimination tournament so they had to pay Den Haag again. The figured they would loose but the ended up winning it all.

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