OVA News

Watch out! They’re coming.The 2008 Beach Volleyball National Championships start  on August 29th and the finals will take place August 31st. The Youth and Senior athletes will share the numerous courts of the huge Ashbridges Bay, in Toronto (ON), for the largest ever beach championships.
Teams will be competing in the Senior Division will be the teams representing Canada
internationally, as [...]

Posted in Beach Comments(0)

MVA200 FIVB Game Ball

This ball changes the way we have thought about volleyballs!
It is the first design change in 10 years since the FIVB adopted the current tri-color volleyballs in 1998 in order to enhance the ball’s visibility.
The conventional 18 panel design was changed to an innovative 8 panel design, imaging “petal” arrangements. The present [...]

Posted in Beach Comments(0)

Georgian Grizzlies men’s volleyball star Mike Hammond has been selected to the Ontario U18 Provincial Team.
Hammond, a 6’8” middle from Barrie, enjoyed an outstanding rookie season with the Grizzlies in 2007-08. He was named a first-team Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) All-Star and captured OCAA Rookie of the Year honours. “We are very excited for [...]

Posted in Indoor Comments(0)

Joely Christian has been named head coach of the Queen’s Golden Gaels women’s volleyball team. Christian served as a part-time head coach last season. She is a former Canadian Interuniversity Sport all-Canadian and a four-time Canada West all-star and has competed in three CIS national championships, winning two bronze medals.
Prior to joining Queen’s last season, [...]

Posted in Indoor Comments(0)

Female Youth
Female Open

Male Youth
Male Open

Posted in Beach Comments(0)

Joely Christian has been named head coach of the Queen’s Golden Gaels women’s volleyball team. Christian served as a part-time head coach last season. She is a former Canadian Interuniversity Sport all-Canadian and a four-time Canada West all-star and has competed in three CIS national championships, winning two bronze medals.
Prior to joining Queen’s last season, [...]

Posted in Indoor Comments(0)

Canada’s Mark Heese (Toronto, ON) and Ahren Cadieux (Toronto, ON) have failed to qualify for Beijing.  The pair needed to place top 10 this week in Marseille, France in the final qualification tournament on the 2008 FIVB World Tour in order to have a chance to qualify but unfortunately came up short, losing to Salvetti/Deulofeu [...]

Posted in Beach Comments(0)

Toronto’s Dana Cooke and Annie Martin (Sherbrooke, QC) and have failed to qualify for Beijing.  The pair needed to place top 2 this week in the final qualification tournament on the FIVB World Tour in Marseille, France in order to have a chance to qualify. Unfortunately they came up short, losing to Fernandez Grasset-Larrea [...]

Posted in Beach Comments(0)

When the East Region winner was being announced at the 2008 Town Crier Athlete of the Year awards breakfast, Rachel Meyer wasn’t even paying attention.
Competing with Riverdale Collegiate in the TDSB South Region, the17-year-old didn’t think she was eligible for the East award. Meyer soon found out she was. “When they were listing all the [...]

Posted in Indoor Comments(0)

There wasn’t a whole lot of fanfare around them, but if you searched them out carefully amongst all those volleyball nets at Cobourg’s Victoria Beach this past weekend, you could have found a handful of players who are former or current players on the international beach volleyball circuit. On Saturday, Ontario Volleyball’s (OVA) elite men’s [...]

Posted in Beach Comments(0)