{"id":10973,"date":"2011-11-09T05:32:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=10973"},"modified":"2011-11-09T05:32:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:32:13","slug":"avp-pro-carlucci-to-grace-nmiva-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/avp-pro-carlucci-to-grace-nmiva-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"AVP pro Carlucci to grace NMIVA clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns114092.jpg\" alt=\"Carlucci\" width=\"81\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0California native and Association of Volleyball Professionals veteran Jeff Carlucci will be featured in the Northern Mariana Islands Volleyball Association&#8217;s free volleyball clinic this Saturday at the Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa beachside.<\/p>\n<p>The 6&#8217;6\u201d Carlucci is a former tennis standout until he was introduced to volleyball during his senior year of high school.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, in just his first year Carlucci led his team to a division title, was selected as the MVP of the league, made first-team California Interscholastic Federation, was selected as a \u201cFab-50\u201d player, was a Mizuno All-American player, and even won the 1997 Junior Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Carlucci went on to win back-to-back championships for Golden West College.<\/p>\n<p>He took up the beach volley scene in 1998 and by 1999 was deemed the second-ranked amateur before joining the Association of Volleyball Professionals in 2000, and 10 years later he is still considered as one of the Top 100 players in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>The NMIVA clinic, meanwhile, is set from 8am to 10am and will be conducted by CNMI national team coach Russ Quinn along with national players Tyce Mister and Chris Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>The clinic is open to all players 10 years or older; parental supervision is requested for players under 14.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is invited and there are no fees to participate, just bring athletic clothing and drinks; transportation is not provided.<\/p>\n<p>The clinic will cover basic fundamentals, game strategy, and conditioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0California native and Association of Volleyball Professionals veteran Jeff Carlucci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}