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Thailand
The Thailand national
team and the Thailand Volleyball Association managed
to achieve excellent results working with the FIVB
development program "2001 National Team
Project". In this they have been very well
supported since 1979 by the Petroleum Authority of
Thailand.
 
The selected juvenile players taller than 175 cm, are
trained and taken care of in Yala, a city in southern
part of Thailand, where they received three years of
special tuition. The program has been such a success
that they can now stand alongside such Volleyball
greats as the leading teams of Asia; China, Korea and
Japan, .
They scored a historic victory over Japan in 2001 and
finished runner-up at the 11th Asian Senior Women's
Volleyball Championship, hosted in Thailand in the
same year. In 2002 the junior team defeated Korea and
Japan to finish second at the 11th Asian Junior
Women's Volleyball Championship in Vietnam.
Following this recent success the Thailand Volleyball
Association has now launched another project known as
the "2004 National Team Project", in which,
since the end of 2001, they have been supported by BEC
World. This new project will ensure that the next
generation of Thai players will be nurtured and
encourage to achieve even greater goals than their
predecessors.
Thailand, currently 12th on the FIVB world rankings,
competed in the Women's World Championship in 2003 in
Germany, finishing equal 17th. Coming into this year's
World Grand Prix Thailand will be hoping for dramatic
improvement, especially on their eighth (out of eight
teams) placing in last year's competition.
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