STEFANO GREGORIS WINS THE MALTINTI AWARD 2025- THE KING MIDAS U18 COACH AWARDED THE PRESTIGIOUS INDIVIDUAL AWARD

Stefano Gregoris at the top: the coach of Cortina Express Imoco San Donà, back from 5 U18 Scudetti in a row with the Panterine, won the “Mario Maltinti” 2025 award as the best national youth sector coach. Thanks to the tricolor won in the season just ended in yellow and blue and a summer full of successes also in the blue: coach Gregoris, as head coach of Italy U17, won the Wezva category tournament in Portugal, winning 4 victories in as many games against Spain, Belgium and the hosts. Mario Maltinti was an illustrious Tuscan leader known nationally, a pillar of the Italian movement. To remember him, the family together with Roberto Ghiretti has set up a Committee and promoted the Mario Maltinti Award, sponsored by the Italian Volleyball Federation, FIPAV and CONI Toscana, Municipality of San Miniato Basso. An honorary jury has decided to confer the recognition of best coach of the youth sector on a national level to our Stefano Gregoris, who will collect the award on September 13 in the Council Chamber of the Municipality of San Miniato. Coach Gregoris’ work within Imoco Next Gen is measured by the successes achieved on the field and by the individual growth of numerous athletes who have joined the First Team or have trodden the taraflex of the A1 championship. Next season, in fact, the opposite Merit Adigwe and the central Matilde Munarini, both of whom grew up in the nursery, will be Panthers for Prosecco DOC A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano; moreover, at the resumption of training, the assistant coach Tommaso Barbato will count on the Panterine Alessia Manda (mvp setter of the U18 Scudetto just won), Andrea Raaisa Enescu and Alessia Forte. Alice Guerra and Lisa Monari Gamba will join the group of big names in the first phase: both come from Anderlini Modena, a company in the galaxy of the Imoco Next Gen project.