Imoco Volley

Imoco Volley is an Italian professional women's volleyball club based in Conegliano and currently playing in the Serie A1.

Imoco Volley
Full nameImoco Volley Conegliano
Short nameImoco
NicknamePantere (Panthers)
Founded2012
GroundPalaVerde, Treviso, Italy
(Capacity: 5,344)
ChairmanItaly Piero Garbellotto
Head coachItaly Daniele Santarelli
CaptainPoland Joanna Wołosz
League Serie A1
2022–231st place, gold medalist(s) 1st
WebsiteClub home page
Uniforms
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Championships
Club World Championship

CEV Champions League

Serie A1

Italian Cup

Italian Supercup

History
2014-2015 Imoco Volley Conegliano

The club was founded on 15 March 2012, two months after the bankruptcy of Spes Volley the other volleyball team in Conegliano.[1] In April 2012, it acquired a Serie A1 licence from Parma Volley Girls, that meant the club started playing directly at the highest Italian league.[2] It has been playing under the name Imoco Volley Conegliano since its foundation in 2012.

The club won the Serie A1 for the first time in 2015–16, winning the Italian Super Cup a few months later on 8 December 2016.[3]

On 5 March 2017, the club won the Coppa Italia for the first time after beating Liu Jo Nordmeccanica Modena 3–0 in the final.[4]

In December 2019 the club won the Women's Club World Championship.[5]

In 2020, the Imoco Volley won its second Coppa Italia. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, both the Serie A1 and the CEV Champions League were untimely cancelled. The Imoco Volley, with its new name A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano, reached, along with the VakıfBank, the semi-finals of the CEV Champions League after winning all its matches, but it could not play them;[6] it was declared winner of the regular season of the Serie A1, but no team was declared winner of the 2019-20 Italian championship.[7][8] It ended the 2019–20 season by winning three of its five goals: the Italian Supercup, the Women's Club World Championship in Shaoxing and the Coppa Italia.

All the starting seven of the club decided to renew their contracts for the 2020–21 season, after their wins in the previous season and the cancellation of the finals of the Serie A1 and the CEV Champions League (the only major title never won by the club). More than half of the current players of the Imoco Volley are part of the starting seven of the Italian national team, runner-up at the 2018 World Championship. The others are champions such as the Dutch Robin de Kruijf, the Polish setter Joanna Wołosz and the American Kimberly Hill. The club renewed all the other players excepting Giulia Gennari, according to its policy to have many young new talents along with top players of the volleyball. The new team has three players who are under the age of 20 years, one has less than 18 years, the Italian Loveth Omoruyi. Sarah Fahr, who is not part of the starting roster, has already won a silver medal at the 2018 World Championship and a bronze medal at the 2019 European Championship with the Italian national team.

Previous names
Period Previous names
2012–2013 Imoco Volley Conegliano
2013–2015 Prosecco Doc-Imoco Conegliano
2015–2019 Imoco Volley Conegliano
2019–2022 A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano
2021– Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano

Team
  • Further information: Imoco Volley Past Squads

All Roster player's of last Season ⤴

Season 2022–2023[9]

2022–2023 Team
Number Player Position Height (m) Weight (kg) Birth date
1 Italy Roberta Carraro Setter 1.81 68 (1998-11-17) 17 November 1998
2 United States Kathryn Plummer Outside Hitter 1.97 88 (1998-10-16) 16 October 1998
3 United States Kelsey Robinson-Cook Outside Hitter 1.88 75 (1992-06-25) 25 June 1992
4 Italy Federica Squarcini Middle Blocker 1.83 67 (2000-09-24) 24 September 2000
5 Netherlands Robin de Kruijf Middle Blocker 1.93 79 (1991-05-05) 5 May 1991
6 Italy Alessia Gennari Outside Hitter 1.84 70 (1991-11-03) 3 November 1991
7 United States Stephanie Samedy Opposite 1.88 (1998-09-27) 27 September 1998
8 Canada Alexa Gray Outside Hitter 1.85 75 (1994-08-07) 7 August 1994
9 Italy Marina Lubian Middle Blocker 1.92 74 (2000-04-11) 11 April 2000
10 Italy Monica De Gennaro Libero 1.72 63 (1987-01-08) 8 January 1987
11 Sweden Isabelle Haak Opposite 1.94 83 (1999-07-11) 11 July 1999
12 Italy Ylenia Pericati Libero 1.74 (1994-03-22) 22 March 1994
13 Italy Eleonora Furlan Middle Blocker 1.88 77 (1995-03-10) 10 March 1995
14 Poland Joanna Wołosz (c) Setter 1.81 65 (1990-04-07) 7 April 1990
19 Italy Sarah Fahr Middle Blocker 1.94 84 (2001-09-12) 12 September 2001
20 Italy Anna Bardaro Libero 1.72 (2005-04-29) 29 April 2005

Current coaching staff
 Italy Daniele Santarelli Head coach
 Italy Alessio Simone (1976-03-27) 27 March 1976 Vice coach
 Italy Valerio Lionetti (1985-07-07) 7 July 1985 Coach assistant
 Italy Milo Zanardo (1982-11-28) 28 November 1982 Coach assistant
 Italy Elia Laise Statistics officer
 Italy Terry Rosini Athletic trainer
 Italy Luca Vaccario Doctor
 Italy Vito Lamberti Doctor
 Italy Claudio Dalla Torre Doctor
 Italy Alberto Vascellari Orthopedist
 Italy Antonio Poser Physiotherapist
 Italy Carlo Stefano Ramponi Physiotherapist
 Italy Davide Venturin Physiotherapist

Head Coaches
Period Head Coaches
2012–2014 Italy Marco Gaspari
2014–2015 Italy Nicola Negro
Italy Alessandro Chiappini
2015–2017 Italy Davide Mazzanti
2017– Italy Daniele Santarelli

Team Captains
Period Captain
2012–2014 Italy Raffaella Calloni
2014–2015 Italy Valentina Fiorin
2015–2016 Italy Valentina Arrighetti
2016–2017 Italy Serena Ortolani
2017– Poland Joanna Wołosz

Kit providers

The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Imoco Volley.

Period Kit provider
2012–2013 Erreà
2013–2019 Mikasa
2019– Joma

Stadium and locations
Palaverde
Location Stadium Capacity Period
Treviso Palaverde 5,344 2012–

Position Main
Imoco Volley Line up
11. Haak
9. Lubian
3. Cook
14. Wołosz (C)
10. De Gennaro (L)

Honours

International competitions

Domestic competitions
  • Serie A1
  • Italian Cup
    • Winners (5): 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
  • Italian Supercup
    • Winners (6): 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Notable players

Players written in italic still play for the club.

See also

References
  1. "Imoco Volley, è fatta Scatta ora la caccia al titolo per la Serie A". La Tribuna di Treviso (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  2. Rosa, Alberto (26 April 2012). "Imoco compra il Parma Conegliano può rinascere". La Tribuna di Treviso (in Italian). Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  3. "La Supercoppa Samsung Gear S3 è dell'Imoco Volley Conegliano". Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (in Italian). 8 December 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  4. "Coppa Italia: vince l'Imoco Volley". legavolleyfemminile.it (in Italian). 5 March 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  5. "Women's Club World Championship - Results". Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  6. ""The CEV Champions League Volley 2020 - Women has ended prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic according to the CEV Board of Administration decision taken on 23.04.2020"". CEV. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  7. "L'Assemblea dei Club di Serie A Femminile vota per la conclusione anticipata della stagione: Imoco proclamata vincitrice della Regular Season, stop alle retrocessioni. Su Facebook l'intervista al presidente Fabris". Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (in Italian). 6 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  8. ""Conclusa l'attività sportiva per la stagione 2019-2020"". Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (in Italian). 8 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  9. "Roster Imoco Volley 2022-23". Imoco Volley (in Italian). Retrieved 9 August 2022.
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