The Ontario Summer Games is ripe with young athletes who spend a lot of their time playing sports, but Stephanie Green has got to be near the top of the list — the beach volleyball competitor from Orleans lives and breathes volleyball almost 24/7.
“I think I play volleyball actually every day,” says Green, whose schedule [...]
Comments(0) Those who have attended an AVP event already know that Misty May-Treanor is a dancer at heart.
Now, she’s on a mission to reveal to the rest of the nation that she can move, not only on the sand, but on the dance floor too. It was announced on Monday that she, along with 12 other [...]
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Sarah Pavan concluded her volleyball career at the University of Nebraska as one of the most accomplished athletes in school history.
All of which led her younger sister, Becky, to cross Nebraska off the list of schools she was considering attending long before she chose to play volleyball for Kentucky.
“I always said to myself even [...]
Comments(0) Now that she has seen up close the highest calibre of high school-age volleyball in this country, Georgetown South’s Chelsea Jensen can’t wait to do it all again next year.
The 17-year-old played the outside hitter and libero positions for Ontario’s second entry at the under-18 girls’ National Team Challenge Cup tournament recently in Calgary, in [...]
Comments(0) It is with profound sadness that we mourn the death of Ted Cole and share this with the Camp Madawaska community. Ted died after a courageous and lengthy battle with leukemia.
For one week every summer, Ted’s beloved Camp Walden was transformed into Camp Madawaska, volleyball camp extraordinaire. Madawaska campers will know Ted best for his [...]
It might have been a case of anything you can do I can better for Kristian Kuld.
Having seen his older brother Erik, who is entering his junior year at Harvard, make a successful transition from indoor to beach volleyball, Kuld gave it a shot too. Smart move as the Crescent School graduate has become one [...]
Comments(0) It’s becoming pretty apparent that the Ottawa boys U16 volleyball team doesn’t like to share things, especially gold medals. For the second straight Summer Games, Region 6, which consists of a part of
the Ottawa area, won the gold medal in the boys category of the indoor volleyball competition at this year’s event in the nation’s [...]
Comments(0) Former University of Nebraska volleyball standout Sarah Pavan earned an honor that literally took her breath away on Tuesday, as she was chosen as the 2007-08 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® of the Year as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The Canadian, who enjoyed a record-setting career as a right-side hitter [...]
Comments(0) Skye Anderson earned a spot to represent Ontario in the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) in volleyball, for the Cowichan 2008 Games which was held in the Cowichan Valley, B.C., from August 3-10.
Before the competition she expressed her apprehensions. “I’m really nervous,” said the 17-year-old Alderville teen. “I don’t really know what to expect.”Her goal [...]
Comments(0) If your daily or weekly physical workout is based in one of Ottawa’s recreational facilities, you may be forced to find an alternative venue for the rest of the week.The 2008 Ontario Summer Games have taken over just about every park, pool, rink, field, high school, club or gymnasium in the city.The Games began yesterday [...]
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