Team Essex Volleyball Club

Team Essex VC
Full name	Team Essex Volleyball Club
Short name	TEVC
Nickname	Team Essex;
Founded	2013;
Ground	University of Essex, The Boswells School, St John Payne Catholic School
Chairman	Klaudia French, James Bernardi
Captain	James Bernardi (Blaze); Klaudia French (Trinity)
League	Volleyball England
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home	Away

Team Essex Volleyball Club is a volleyball team based in Chelmsford, Great Britain since 2013. The club consists of a men's teams and a women's team that play in Volleyball England's English National Volleyball League. The Men's 1st team play in Volleyball England's Super League. The Women's 1st team play in Division 1. Subsequently, TEVC have a Men's and Women's team that also play in Division 3.

Achievements

Team Essex Trinity (Women)

Winners of Division 2 and promotion to division 1 2023/2024.
English Shield Runners Up 2016^[1]
Promotion to National League Division 1^[2]

Team Essex Blaze (Men)

Winners of Division 1 (with 4 games in hand) and promotion to Super League 2023/2024.
English National League Division 1 Champions, 2017^[3]
English Shield Runners Up 2015^[4]
English National League Division 2 (South) Champions, 2013^[5]

History

The club was set up in 2013 by James Bernardi, Paul French and Steven Rosser. The men and women's teams are conglomerates, the men formed through the partnership of Brentwood VC, Chelmsford VC and Boswells, the women formed as a result of a partnership with Brentwood VC, Chelmsford VC and Southend VC. The mergers gave the best volleyballers in Essex the chance to compete together at a higher level. The club has grown from strength to strength in a very short period of time, and now boasts a men's team in the top league in the country, The Super League and in Division 1. The women's team represents Team Essex in Division 2 of the National Volleyball League.

2023–2024 season

Blaze

The 2023-2024 season saw the Men's 1st team finish top in the Men's Division 1 with four games in hand. This strong finish was good enough to secure their spot in the Super League, the highest level of English Volleyball, consisting of the strongest 10 teams in the country. The result was an all round success for the newly promoted Blaze team who satisfied their goal of promotion to regain their Super League status.

Trinity

The 2023–2024 season saw the Women's 1st team finish 1st in Volleyball England's Division 2. As a result, Trinity has secured their spot in the Women's division 1 for the forthcoming season.

Notable former players

Player	Current Club	Other Clubs
Andrew Saward	London Aces	Newcastle Staffs
Nathan French		Team Northumbria Tenerife Avignon
Peter Bakare	Team Northumbria	Landstede Zwolle
Matthew Mills	Retired	Sheffield Hallam
Gary House	Karlalið HK
Luke French	Retired	Medway
Jack Watson	Ipswich Spikers	Ipswich Spikers
Sam Thompson	Sheffield Hallam
Lawrence Russell	Sheffield Hallam
Matthew Ketley	Sheffield Hallam
Jake Leeks	Retired
Robert Poole	VC Bitterfeld-Wolfen	Mount Olive College IBB Polonia London
Ryan Poole	California State University, Long Beach	London Malory
Joe Houlihan	Retired
Chris Frost	Retired	Nice Lille London Malory
Thomas Storkey	Retired
Jack Saward	Retired
Adam Mitchell	Stockport
Nick Davies	Plymouth	London Malory London Lynx Tendring
Shaun Ermi	Springfield College
Tobias French	IBB Polonia London	London Malory