Volleyball Ireland General Manager Gary Stewart has been appointed to the Confederation Europeene de Volleyball (CEV) Working Group for Development and Zonal Association Cooperation.
Stewart will join representatives from Turkey, Ukraine, Norway, France, Montenegro, Faroe Islands, Denmark and Albania on the newly formed group; the purpose of which is to coordinate the development programmes aimed at growing the game at the grassroots level in their respective regions.
It is always good for Irish voices to take their place at the international level as it assists the way in which we are seen.
In the past number of years, individuals like Warren Deutrom in Cricket, Bernard O’Byrne in Basketball and Liam Harbison while CEO of Paralympics Ireland, have held official positions at a supernational level and their sports have reaped the benefit.
“The CEV Working Groups are taking on a challenging and demanding role and we expect them to show the same passion and commitment to bring the best out of our sport and all its stakeholders,” said CEV President Aleksandar Boričić.
“We have gathered a wide range of experts for these groups and we are certain that they can carry out this mission in the best possible way.”
“This appointment is a fantastic recognition for the progress we’ve made over the last number of years,” said Volleyball Ireland President Grainne Culliton.
“It was one of the aims in Volleyball Ireland’s Strategic Plan to have representation at International decision-making level and it’s great to see this start to come to fruition, with hopefully more of this to come.”
“This also is a really good opportunity to develop further programmes that will help volleyball here in Ireland, as well as across Europe.”
The first meeting of the Working Group will take place virtually in late March.
Gary Stewart was part of our first group of 30 Under 30 Young leaders of Tomorrow. Looks like we got that one right.
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