MESSINA – Another incoming blow for Akademia Sant’Anna. After the central department and the libero department, the direction has also been completed where, to support Giulia Carraro, Ambra Trevisiol arrives. In the last season the venta, originally from Oderzo in the province of Treviso, played for Rimont Progetti Genova in B1. With the class of 1992, the number of Akademia members rises to eleven, nine additions and two confirmations, available to coach Bonafede for the next A2.
She is a player with good elevation, quick movements and high ball ability, even if she prefers fast play. Among her most notable characteristics is the ability to read the opponent and unmark her own attackers. At the first touch of the ball, did Ambra understand that she would be a setter? “Not exactly. Until I was eighteen I was a striker/receiver with a future as a libero. Then, due to needs, but also because the coach saw something, he put me in the control room and I never left from there.”
The experience in the South continues in Messina
The Caserta years, perhaps the most important of his career, marked by the conquest of the A1 and, unfortunately, also by Covid, without which his sporting career could have taken a different turn: “Describing the period spent in Campania is difficult. Wonderful years that brought me promotion from A2 to A1, my debut in the top flight and which I carry in my heart; definitely, the best two years of my career. It’s really difficult to describe in a few words all the emotions I felt. Finally, I think that, without Covid, my career would definitely have changed but I prefer to put that period behind me and not think about it anymore.”
After 2020, Ambra started again from the fourth series; promotion with the Blu Team Pavia of Udine, then the experiences with Capannori and Genoa; now, Messina. As in Caserta, again in the South and again with a Serie A club: “I was looking for an ambitious club that had a clear project and, above all, where we could work well. Serie A and the possibility of returning to the South did the rest. There is an objective to be achieved, which we will achieve and which I won’t say out of good luck.”
“Even though I haven’t been in Serie A for a few years – continues the Venetian athlete – I have always followed it and this year too the teams have equipped themselves with important personnel. We will see high-level volleyball with a very respectable roster.” In Messina she will meet again with Aurora Rossetto with whom she played together for a year and with whom she has a precious friendship: “I’m going back to play with ‘Ross’ and I’m happy about this. He told me very well about the company and everything else. His words were an added value but I already had clear ideas beforehand.”
“Messina represents my first time in Sicily – concludes Ambra Trevisiol. I can’t wait to come here to learn about traditions, food, its people, just everything. I expect a lot of warmth and a building full of passion. Playing in the South I learned that volleyball is experienced with great emotion. Then, I think of the sun, the sea, a great welcome; I love the South, I’m happy to go back and I will do it accompanied by my boyfriend, Tommy, who is also a volleyball coach”.
Trevisiol’s past
The season played in Campania convinces VolAlto 2.0 Caserta, an A2 club, to also focus on her to conquer the top flight. Ambra finds herself faced with the quality of Ludovica Dalia but the Venetian setter will manage to make her debut in the second series, making 7 appearances, playing 8 sets and scoring 1 point. The Campania team prevails in the Play-Off Final and the following year the confirmed Trevisiol can tread the taraflex of A1. At the end of a season interrupted by Covid, she will make 5 appearances, 9 sets played. In the 2021/22 season Ambra starts again from the fourth series; with Blu Team Pavia of Udine she won the championship but in the summer she moved to Capannori, in B1, before the recent adventure in the Ligurian capital.
First experience away from home and it’s immediately B1 in Isernia: “Actually, it was an arrival. In a club near my home I competed in all the divisions, gradually moving up the various categories until I was called to B1 from Isernia. I told myself to go and I went.”
A decision born quickly, as Ambra loves to do in all situations in life: “You always have to be quick in your choices, quick in your movements on the pitch, in understanding the opponents’ weak points in order to give the best ball to the attacker who can put the ball down for you at that moment. So, always be quick.” Scrolling through the information on Ambra on the web, it is easy to get a very precise idea of her competitive and technical/tactical characteristics, which the Venetian director allows us to integrate with some details: “I am determined; I always say 99% determination and 1% empathy. Then, I work a lot and push a lot, but always thanks to my determination.”
The passion for art and painting
He returns to Serie A after leaving it in the year of Covid, when he wore the Caserta shirt in A1. She comes from Veneto like the confirmed Aurora Rossetto and the two new entries Chiara Mason and Giulia Carraro; like the latter, she makes fantasy, in the construction of the game, her dominant imprint. Perhaps, also for this reason, she loves painting, a world of hers parallel to that of volleyball in which creativity is an indispensable characteristic for her: “Painting relaxes me and this year, between one training session and another, it has often allowed me also to regain concentration. I’m self-taught and I still have to improve.”
Among the artists of the past he has a passion for Vincent Van Gogh: “He has a troubled history, an impulsive character, capable of conveying many emotions with his paintings; in particular, I love ‘Starry Night’, beautiful. If I had the chance to travel to the past, I would ask him to teach me everything he could.”
And always traveling through time and talking about emotions, Ambra tries to recover some of them linked to her debut in the world of volleyball: “A bit difficult. I don’t remember exactly the beginning because I was born in the gym, since I accompanied my sisters, Barbara and Serena, who played volleyball even though they later stopped, and my dad, Giorgio, was a manager. I remember always having the ball in my hands.”
Great knowledge of volleyball
Ambra comes from a region that has long been at the forefront of national and world volleyball; she is from Oderzo, about twenty km from Conegliano. When Imoco Volley was born she was not even twenty years old and had many dreams. She must have thought more than once about the Panthers shirt: “Who hasn’t thought about that shirt! When I made my debut at the “PalaVerde” with the Caserta jersey, with that audience and their warmth, it was an indescribable emotion for me. Once she entered the field, the announcer announced that she was playing an athlete from Treviso and a wave started. At that point, I raised my arm towards the referee to indicate that I was the captain on the pitch, but the crowd thought I was waving and so a second wave started. In all this, I didn’t notice anything. It was my friends who told me about the wave; they still make fun of me. It was wonderful to make my debut in a stadium where you have always watched Imoco play. I wish I could wear that shirt.”
In an old interview, Ambra declared that she appreciated the Japanese Takeshita as an athlete; among the Italians, however, his choice falls on some of the Italian national teams: “As a leader, Moki De Gennaro, also for his determination; heart, Alice Degradi, for the passion she puts into it when she plays and also for how she recovered from the injury (in 2020, rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament, when she wore the Cuneo Granda Volley shirt), technique I say Alessia Orro ”.
Akademia Roster 2024/2025
Setters: Giulia Carraro (1994), Ambra Trevisiol (1992).
Spikers: Aurora Rossetto (1997, confirmed), Chiara Mason (2000).
Centrals: Dalila Modestino (1998, confirmed), Rossella Olivotto (1991), Maria Adelaide Babatunde (1998), Bibiana Guzin (2004).
Opposites: Bintu Diop (2002).
Free: Maria Chiara Norgini (1998), Giorgia Caforio (1994).
Output
Setters: Giulia Galletti (1999), Ilaria Michelini (1999).
Spikers: Valeria Battista (2001) in Macerata, Jessica Joly (2000) in Melendugno, Giulia Felappi (2002).
Centrals: Melissa Martinelli (1993) retired, Greta Catania (2004) in Mondovì, Valentina Mearini (1994).
Opposites: Kelsie Payne (1995).
Free: Marianna Maggipinto (1996), Sara Ciancio (1999).
