{"id":7071,"date":"2022-12-02T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/?p=7071"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:40:03","slug":"vice-chancellors-cup-highlights-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/vice-chancellors-cup-highlights-volleyball\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice Chancellor\u2019s Cup highlights: Volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exciting series of Volleyball matches, held over two lunches. Teams competed on both days, to secure their spot on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tactical play <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four teams chose to use their chips to boost their chances of scoring points. Happy Ravers and Super Human Sciences played their \u2018Bench Boost\u2019 which meant a member of the Sports Development Team would play for them during the event. Teams Living La Vida Mocha and U Bunch O\u2019Kents tactically chose to play their \u2018Free Hit\u2019 chip ensuring mid-table points for both teams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2022\/12\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7075\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2022\/12\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Staff volleyball\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Domination<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CEMS, who only had two players, did not need any more to dominate and win the volleyball event! Some notable performances include Campus Sporting Exploits who finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> overall and jump from 6<sup>th<\/sup> to 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in the overall leaderboard. Finance, who finished 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in volleyball, move up from 10<sup>th<\/sup> to 6<sup>th<\/sup> overall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2022\/12\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7074\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2022\/12\/2.jpg\" alt=\"Staff volleyball\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We saw an outstanding effort from all the teams, with many players not having played volleyball since school! It was great to see so many staff getting involved and look forward to the <strong>next VC Cup event &#8211; Benchball, on Tuesday 10 and 12 January 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exciting series of Volleyball matches, held over two lunches. Teams competed on both days, to secure their spot on the leaderboard. Tactical play Four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/vice-chancellors-cup-highlights-volleyball\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78153,"featured_media":7073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23261,240639,95646],"tags":[5349,19174,39988,149511,149514,95646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7081,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions\/7081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}