Lakeshore International Goalball Classic.
July 10 - July 13, 2008
Birmingham, Alabama. U.S.A.

Results:

Thursday, July 10, 2008:

Final ranking:

1. Denmark.
2. Canada.
3. USA.
4. Japan.

Team compositions:

Canada:

2. Shawna Ryan.
4. Amy Alsop.
5. Contessa Scott.
6. Annette Lisabeth.
7. Amy Kneebone.
9. Nancy Morin.

Coach: Janice Dawson.

Denmark:

1. Maria Larsen.
2. Mette Nissen.
3. Lykke Vedsted.
4. Nina Marie Thomsen.
5. Kamilla Bradt Rydding.
6. Karina Jorgensen.

Coach: Peter Forsberg.
Assistant coach: Karsten Poulson.

Japan:

1. Masae Komiya.
2. Yuki Naoi.
3. Mieko Kato.
4. Tomoe Takada.
6. Aki Adachi.

Coach: Takashi Ikeda.
Assistant coach: Naoki Eguro.
Interpreter: Nobuko Yoshino.

U.S.A.:

1. Jen Armbruster.
2. Jessie Lorenz.
3. Lisa Banta.
4. Asya Miller.
5. Robin Theryoung.
6. Jaclyn Barnes.

Coach: Ken Armbruster.
Assistant coach: Sharon Gunderman.
ATC: Gwyneth Short.


Referees for this tournament:

Joelle Boulet, Canada.
Dawna Christy, Canada.
Dan Parisi, USA.



Original information:

Team USA will host Canada, China and Denmark in the four day event. These four women's goalball teams have qualified for the 2008 Paralympic games.

The tournament will be held at the Lakeshore Foundation Complex in Birmingham Alabama. The Lakeshore Foundation is a US Paralympic Training Center and the primary training facility for the US Womens Goalball Team and Wheelchair Rugby.

This tournament will be broadcast live through the internet. Mr. Bill Teale who broadcast the IBSA World Games from Spartanburg will be doing the play by play.

Following is the url that the virtual chat room that will be used to broadcast the games live. It is very neat!

http://sports.pressakey.net/igc2008

The first time you go to the page you have to download a small piece of software called a chat client, this makes the chatrooom work. Log on with whatever user name you desire.
Once you are in the chat room you normally would be able to take turns in chatting to each other, but during the tournament you will be only able to hear the commentary from the games, and won't be able to cut in with your own microphone.

The chat room is booked 24/7 for the entire event. Games are 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 and 3:00 pm each day (local time in Birmingham AL is CDT) 10 through 13 July. Time in UTC is: 14:30, 15:30, 19:00 and 20:00 h. (You can find the actual UTC time on top of each of our pages.)
There will also be Q and A with players, coaches and referees throughout the event at various times.


If we have more detailed information we will publish this through our webpage.


You also can buy a t-shirt from the Road to Beijing.

If you are enjoying the coverage of this tournament, and you want to proudly display that you were part of the Audio Network's unrivalled coverage of the sport of goalball, you can now buy the "Road to Beijing" T-shirt. This shirt is white in color, with black print on the front and the back. The front view depicts a goalball player in front of a map of China with the Audio Network logo and the words "Road To Beijing". The Rear view shows the dates of the tournaments the Audio Network has covered, or will be covering in the lead up to the Paralympics. The t-shirts are priced at $15.00 each, and are available in a wide variety of sizes. These tees will be available for sale in Alabama, come along and pick one up! Or, if you can't get to Alabama, we will be glad to post them out to you, wherever you are in the world. For US orders please add $3.50 for postage, for outside the US, please add $5.00 for shipping. Click here to send us an e-mail to order your t-shirts!