Americans Take Over Perth
It was celebration big style around the North Inch on the 29 and 30 May 2004 with the annual Scottish Open Volleyball Tournament celebrating 20 years of top class volleyball in Perth.
NewYork College sides X-Patriots arrived in Perth on Thursday evening and true to their inimitable style they were there on the North Inch on that very evening to help the local band of volunteers erect the 30 sets of outdoor nets and posts for the weekend’s outdoor competition.
Summary of Tournament 17th June 2003
Results of the Scottish Open Volleyball Tournament 2003 at Bell’s Sports Centre, Perth, Scotland.
The dry sunny weekend saw over a thousand people using 30 outdoor courts in the best of conditions, many players staying around organizing scratch games amongst themselves whenever a spare court became available.
Summary of Tournament Jubilee weekend 2nd July 2002.
VOLLEYBALL players from all round the United Kingdom and the Faroe Islands converged on Perth over the Jubilee weekend 1st and 2nd of July 2002 for the seventeenth Scottish Open Volleyball Tournament and what a spectacle it was for the crowds who congregated in Bell’s Sports Centre on Sunday afternoon to witness both the men’s and women’s division of honour finals.
Nicknamed “the friendly tournament” the Scottish Open once again proved to be the largest in the United Kingdom with one hundred and twenty two teams taking part this year in nine different categories of competition.
