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Ayanna Dyette, a national volleyballer from T&T died from cervical cancer last year

A year ago, 32-year-old Trinidad and Tobago national volleyball player Ayanna Dyette was diagnosed with Stage Four cervical cancer.

TT beach volleyballers stole the show, on Sunday night, as Rheeza Grant and Abby Blackman (women) as well as Daneil Williams and Dante Stewart (men) defended their respective Barbados Olympic Association Independence Invitational Games (BIIG) titles at Pirate’s Cove, Barbados.

T&T's top men and women beach vol­ley­ball du­os, Daneil Williams and Daynte Stew­art, and Rheeza Grant and Ab­by Black­man, will be tar­get­ing ninth spot when the fifth stop of the NORCE­CA Beach Vol­ley­ball Cir­cuit con­cludes at Bo­ca Chi­ca, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, on Sun­day.

The top T&T men and women beach vol­ley­ball teams of Daneil Williams and Daynte Stew­art, and Rheeza Grant and Ab­by Black­man, both ad­vanced to the main draw knock­out when the fifth stop of the NORCE­CA Beach Vol­ley­ball Cir­cuit be­gan yes­ter­day.

TRINIDAD AND Tobago will field four teams of two, at the Punta Cana, Dominican Republic leg of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit.

After weeks of uncertainty with regards to this country’s women’s team historic participation at FIVB World Championship in Japan next month, the Ministry of Sports has pledged $439,000 for the team via news release last night.

T&T teams, Daneil Williams and Daynte Stewart (men) and Abby Blackman and Rheeza Grant are in Florida to compete in the Dig The Beach Volleyball Summer Tour at Pompano Beach, starting today. PICTURE PAUL WHITE

Reigning national T&T men and women beach volleyball champions, Daneil Williams and Daynte Stewart, and Rheeza Grant and Abby Blackman will continue their 2018 Gold Coast Australia Commonwealth Games preparations by competing in the Dig The Beach Volleyball Summer Tour, Pompano Beach, Florida from today until tomorrow.

The T&T Tobago Volleyball Federation will stage the Third Leg of its National Beach Volleyball Circuit (NBVC) this weekend at Saith Park, Chaguanas. The first serve is at 10 am on both Saturday and Sunday.

The local men's and women's teams of Daniel Williams and Daynte Stewart, and Rheeza Grant and Abby Blackman have been drawn in very tricky pools for the first ever Beach Volleyball competition to be held at the Commonwealth Games at the Coolangatta Beachfront, Gold Coast, Australia, today.

T&T teams, Rheeza Grant and Abby Blackman and Daneil Williams and Daynte Stewart captured the women and men titles when the Barbados Olympic Association Independence Invitational Games (BIG) Beach Volleyball Tournament ended on Sunday.