{"id":187893,"date":"2014-12-22T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=187893"},"modified":"2014-12-22T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T18:00:06","slug":"volleyball-pro-holds-clinic-mcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/volleyball-pro-holds-clinic-mcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball pro holds clinic at MCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_187897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187897\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"187897\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/volleyball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/volleyball-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Carmel School student-athletes pose for a photo with volleyball pro Jeff Carlucci and their coach Tomoko Shimizu. (Thomas Manglona II)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-187897\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Carmel School student-athletes pose for a photo with volleyball pro Jeff Carlucci and their coach Tomoko Shimizu. (Thomas Manglona II)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFormer Association of Volleyball Professionals member and Marianas Cup veteran Jeff Carlucci conducted a free clinic for over 40 members of Mount Carmel  School\u2019s  volleyball team and he hopes to bring a similar program to other schools across the island.  <\/p>\n<p>In his inaugural sports clinic, the retired athlete taught student-athletes the fundamentals of spiking, serving, and returning a volleyball.   Carlucci, who has been playing professional volleyball for over a decade, has visited the island several times before and recently decided to call Saipan his home with the hopes of giving back some of his knowledge to young student-athletes.  <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI think if you are given a gift, then you should share it. Whether it is sports or not, why not try to give information to a young generation and pass it on?\u201d the 6\u20196\u201d volleyball pro said.<\/p>\n<p>Carlucci noted that volleyball has grown on the island since his first visit in 2005.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe skill level has increased,\u201d he told Saipan Tribune. \u201cMore people are involved. It  is nice to see the interest level increased as well.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Mount Carmel sophomore Caitlin Tinney described the hour-long clinic as \u201camazing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a professional volleyball player to take time to teach a group of kids some skills is amazing. I\u2019m really glad that he came to the school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> School coach Tomoko Shimizu added \u201cit is great that he came to teach the students\u201d. She also said that Carlucci\u2019s visit serves as an inspiration for students to work hard on and off the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Association of Volleyball Professionals member and Marianas Cup veteran Jeff Carlucci conducted a free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[742,1181,217,38],"class_list":["post-187893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-marianas-cup","tag-mcs","tag-mount-carmel","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187893","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}