26 years old last June 21st, 194 cm tall, born in Gorizia, Jernej Terpin is the new spiker of the Tonno Callipo Volley.
After the arrival of Michele Fedrizzi, the Vibonese Club continues its transfer market operations by completing with Terpin the pair of spikers holding place four on the new roster that will be led by Brazilian coach Cezar Douglas.
Coming from Bergamo, Terpin belongs to the Slovenian Friulian linguistic minority and lives in a small town of 800 souls in the province of Gorizia, San Floriano del Collio. His characteristics and experience define him as a complete athlete in all respects. In the last two years in Serie A2 with the Bergamo jersey he has stood out by dragging his teammates to the sound of dunks to close the regular season in first place: in the first circumstance with 54 points, seven more than the Prisma Taranto and ten on the duo Banca Alpi Marittime Acqua San Bernardo Cuneo and Emma Villas Aubay Siena, while in the season ended last April with 60 points, trailing the second classified Kemas Lapimel Santa Croce by 13 points. After dominating the regular season 2021-2022, the Bergamo team led by Gianluca Graziosi ran aground on the most beautiful, missing a great opportunity to bring the men’s training to the Olympus of Italian volleyball for the first time: after having archived the practice Cave del Sole Lagonegro in the quarter-finals (3–1 at home and 3–0 away), the semifinal defeat came with the rivals of Conad Reggio Emilia, who violated the Lombard parquet in the tiebreak (21-25,15-25 , 25–21, 25–21, 17–19 the partial of the sets), with Terpin scoring 14 points, with two aces and as many scoring blocks, and 31% offensive positivity.
In the last season he finished in 18th place overall in the ranking of the best scorers of the tournament at 310 points, in 24 games and 81 sets played, while in his first season in Bergamo he finished in tenth place with 313 points, in 21 matches played and 69 sets played.
