SAORI!!!
Coach Manabe has released his preliminary roster for this year which includes superstar veterans Saori Kimura, Saori Sakoda and Yukiko Ebata. They are joined by up and coming stars like setter Haruka Miyashita, left handed Miyu Nagaoka and Yuki Ishii.
THE SHOCKING PART: 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Risa Shinnabe (pictured below) is NOT on the roster. Rumor has it that she wants to take a break and recover from some kind of injury. Setter Hitomi Nakamichi has also been excluded from the roster.
Preliminary Roster:
Setters:
Chizuru Koto (Hisamitsu Springs)
Nozomi Tsuchida (Ageo Medics)
Natsumi Fujita (Toyota Auto Body Queenseis)
Haruka Miyashita (Okayama Seagulls)
Outside Hitters:
Saori Kimura (East Rearozu)
Arisa Takada (East Rearzou)
Saori Sakoda (East Rearzou)
Mizuho Ishida (Denso Airybees)
Yukiko Ebata (RC Cannes)
Yuki Ishii (Hisamitsu Springs)
Miyu Nagaoka (Hisamitsu Springs)
Risa Shiragaki (Red Rockets)
Mami Uchiseto (Hitachi Rivale)
Yuka Imamura (Aoyama University)
Yurie Nabeya (Denso Airybees)
Arisa Inoue (Tsukuba University)
Sarina Koga (Red Rockets)
Nanaka Sakamoto (Denso Airybees)
Airi Miyabe (KimuRan high school)
Middle Blockers:
Mai Yamaguchi (Okayama Seagulls)
Kana Ono (Red Rockets)
Riho Otake (Denso Airybees)
Liberos:
Kotoki Zayasu (Hisamitsu Springs)
Sayaka Iwasaki (Red Rockets)
Mio Sato (Toyota Auto Body Queenseis)
Sayaka Tsutsui (Hisamitsu Springs)
With only 3 middle blockers, we are wondering if Coach Manabe will still use THE HYBRID SYSTEM knowing that it didn’t quite work out for his team during the 2014 World Championship.
Let’s wait and see.
(images: FIVB)
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