Volley Millenium Brescia
# Volley Millenium Brescia

Volley Millenium Brescia is an Italian women's volleyball club based in Brescia and currently playing in the SuperLega.

## Previous names

Due to sponsorship, the club have competed under the following names:

* Millenium Brescia (1999–2017)
* Savallese Millenium Brescia (2017–present)

## History

The club was established in 1999 and its teams (girls, youth, junior and senior) started participating in local and regional competitions. After a restructure process in 2006, the club adopted a more professional oriented model that allowed the first team to move from regional to national competitions. It reached Serie D (in 2008), Serie C (in 2010), Serie B2 (in 2011) and Serie B1 (in 2013). The club won the 2015–16 Serie B1 promotion playoff and made its debut in the Serie A2 on the following season.

## Venue

The club played its home matches at the PalaMillenium (in Bagnolo Mella) until 2017, when ahead of the 2017–18 season it moved to the PalaGeorge (in Montichiari), which has a 4,000 spectators capacity.

## Team

Season 2018–2019, as of December 2018.

| Number | Player | Position | Height (m) | Weight (kg) | Birth date |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3 | Giulia Biava | Hitter | 1.78 | | (1988-12-19) 19 December 1988 (age 34) |
| 4 | Jessica Rivero | Hitter | 1.81 | | (1995-03-15) 15 March 1995 (age 28) |
| 5 | Carla Maria Norgini | Libero | 1.73 | | (1998-09-11) 11 September 1998 (age 24) |
| 6 | Miriana Manig | Setter | 1.77 | | (1998-07-18) 18 July 1998 (age 25) |
| 7 | Isabella di Iulio | Setter | 1.75 | | (1991-11-26) 26 November 1991 (age 31) |
| 8 | Judith Pietersen | Outside hitter | 1.88 | | (1989-07-03) 3 July 1989 (age 34) |
| 9 | Francesca Villani | Outside hitter | 1.87 | | (1995-05-30) 30 May 1995 (age 28) |
| 10 | Francesca Parlangeli | Libero | 1.64 | | (1990-02-23) 23 February 1990 (age 33) |
| 11 | Haleigh Washington | Middle blocker | 1.92 | | (1995-09-11) 11 September 1995 (age 27) |
| 14 | Giulia Bartesaghi | Hitter | 1.87 | | (1998-09-05) 5 September 1998 (age 24) |
| 15 | Anna Nicoletti | Opposite | 1.89 | 70 | (1996-01-03) 3 January 1996 (age 27) |
| 16 | Tiziana Veglia | Middle blocker | 1.86 | | (1992-09-13) 13 September 1992 (age 30) |
| 18 | Juliya Miniuk | Middle blocker | | | (2000-05-23) 23 May 2000 (age 23) |

2016–2017 Team :

| Number | Player | Position | Height (m) | Weight (kg) | Birth date |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Chiara Dall'Acqua | Middle blocker | 1.83 | | (1985-09-27) 27 September 1985 (age 37) |
| 2 | Gloria Baldi | Opposite | 1.85 | | (1993-05-31) 31 May 1993 (age 30) |
| 3 | Laura Garavaglia | Outside hitter | 1.85 | | (1989-12-28) 28 December 1989 (age 33) |
| 5 | Natalia Viganò | Outside hitter | 1.80 | 65 | (1979-11-24) 24 November 1979 (age 43) |
| 6 | Elena Portalupi | Libero | 1.67 | | (1987-06-19) 19 June 1987 (age 36) |
| 7 | Giulia Biava | Outside hitter | 1.78 | | (1988-12-19) 19 December 1988 (age 34) |
| 9 | Melissa Martinelli | Middle blocker | 1.85 | | (1993-03-23) 23 March 1993 (age 30) |
| 10 | Laura Saccomani | Outside hitter | 1.89 | 66 | (1991-10-08) 8 October 1991 (age 31) |
| 11 | Vittoria Prandi | Setter | 1.80 | | (1994-11-04) 4 November 1994 (age 28) |
| 13 | Patrizia Zampedri | Libero | 1.65 | | (1993-03-13) 13 March 1993 (age 30) |
| 15 | Monica Mazzoleni | Middle blocker | 1.86 | | (1997-12-10) 10 December 1997 (age 25) |
| 17 | Alessandra Dall'Ara | Setter | 1.77 | | (1994-11-09) 9 November 1994 (age 28) |
| 18 | Chiara Lapi | Middle blocker | 1.82 | | (1991-03-03) 3 March 1991 (age 32) |
