A memorable gathering took place today where more than 200 young students of the ‘Future Spike’ programme visited their role models from Eczacıbaşı VitrA women’s volleyball team in the Eczacıbaşı Sports Hall.
Putting in hard work to prepare for their intense schedule composed of both Champions League and Turkish League games in the upcoming weeks, the Orange and Whites had a nice boost of motivation today as their young successors were eager to watch their training and to meet them after practice for taking their favorite volleyball players’ autographs and taking a selfie with them.
The gathering took place within the eighth edition of the Future Spike’s Development Tournament which is being held between January 27 and 30. While the main topic of the tournament is based on the Turkish Women’s Volleyball Team which recently won the Olympic ticket to Tokyo and the Club World Championship silver medalists Eczacıbaşı VitrA Women’s Volleyball Team, the tournament aims at getting to know some young talents in depth and focusing on the fundamental of “attacking” within the tournament programme.
24 teams take part at the tournament where each one of them has different names from the Eczacıbaşı VitrA and the Turkish National Team players.
About the ‘Future Spike’ programme
In 2016, Eczacıbaşı Sports Club launched a new program called “Future Spike” in collaboration with ES Volleyball for the purpose of expanding its training program for young girls. Through this program, the Club aims at introducing thousands of 6 to 13-year-old girls annually to the culture, spirit and discipline of sports and creating opportunities for the Club to discover and train the eligible future stars among them.
Future Spike currently has 10 campuses around Turkey training 3,000 girls annually, and the target is having 30 campuses in 11 cities training 5,000 girls annually by 2021. According to the Club’s plans, 3,000 young girls will be reached in the 2019-2020 season 8 different cities to provide them with a quality volleyball training opportunity.
