Competition: | Girls' U17 NORCECA Volleyball Championship |
Continent: | North, Central America and Caribbean |
Gender: | women |
Year: | 2023 |
Type: | 17 |
City: | Tegucigalpa |
Dates: | 21–26 November 2023 |
Teams: | 8 |
Venues: | 1 |
Cities: | 1 |
Matches: | 22 |
Champions: | MEX |
Title Number: | 1 |
Second: | PUR |
Third: | CAN |
Fourth: | DOM |
Mvp: | Dibanhi Barrera |
Setter: | Megan Hunter |
Outside Spikers: | Sara Lozano Aitana Rettke |
Middle Blockers: | Caroline Rodriguez Keyling Olivas |
Opposite Spiker: | Yliana Zuñiga |
Libero: | Dibanhi Barrera |
Best Scorer: | Salet Castillo |
Best Server: | Gabriela Garza |
Best Digger: | Dibanhi Barrera |
Best Receiver: | Dibanhi Barrera |
Next: | 2025 Girls' U17 NORCECA Volleyball Championship |
The 2023 Girls' U17 NORCECA Volleyball Championship, officially named 2023 NORCECA Girls' U17 Continental Championship, was the 1st edition of the Girls' U17 NORCECA Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA) for the girls' under-17 national teams of North, Central America and Caribbean. It was held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras from 21 to 26 November 2023.[1]
The tournament acted as the NORCECA qualifiers for the FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship.[2] The top three teams qualified for the 2024 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship in Peru as the NORCECA representatives.[3]
Mexico won the title after beating Puerto Rico 3–2 in the final.[4] Canada defeated Dominican Republic 3–1 in the third place match to take the bronce medal.[5] Champions Mexico, runners-up Puerto Rico and the third place Canada qualified for the 2024 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship.
A maximum of 8 national teams could qualify for the tournament as follows: the host nation and the top 7 teams according to the NORCECA U19 Continental Ranking as of 1 January 2023 (as reference, considering that there was no U17 ranking) that confirmed their participation.[2]
The following were the teams invited and eligible to participate in the tournament (teams that confirmed their participation marked in bold and U19 Continental Ranking is shown in brackets):[6]
Each national team had to register a squad of 12 players. Players born on 1 January 2008 and onwards were eligible to compete in the tournament.[2]
In the NORCECA Volleyball Championships the competition format depends on the number of participating teams. With 8 teams, two pools of four teams each were formed. The pool standing procedure were as follows:[2]
The winners of each pool advanced directly to the semi-finals, while the runners-up and the third placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.
Teams were distributed into two groups of four teams. As hosts, Honduras had the right to choose the group in which to be placed and were assigned to the head of its group (Group A). The remaining teams were distributed into the groups according to their position in the NORCECA U19 Continental Ranking as of 1 January 2023 (as reference, considering that there was no U17 ranking) and following the serpentine system, starting with the highest-ranked team as head of the remaining group (Group B)[2]
All match times are local times, GTT (UTC−6), as listed by NORCECA.[1]
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Qualified for 2024 FIVB Girls' U17 World Championship | ||
Qualified for the 2024 Girls' U17 World Championship via FIVB World Ranking |
Kimberly Rosales,Brenda Esquivel,Kenia Martínez,Ana Paula Moreno,Yliana Zúñiga,Dibanhi Barrera (L),Gabriela Garza,Aitana Rettke (c),Kiara Ramírez,Fátima Salcedo,Cyntia Palomo,Sophya Garcia
The following individual awards were presented at the end of the tournament.[7]