Greg Stewart (7 feet 1 inch) played basketball with only one hand; he wore a paddle type prosthesis on his other arm to assist with rebounding and catching. He currently plays for the Canadian National Paralympic standing men’s volleyball team and is red-shirting for this year’s men’s volleyball team for Thompson Rivers University. So this [...]
Read More..>>The Dubai Open is the first-ever international Beach Volleyball event to be staged in the United Arab Emirates and was held at the Jumierah Beach Park, October 5-10.
Annie Martin teamed up with fellow Canadian Marie-Andre Lessard for this event winning their opening match against the 12th ranked team of Campisi-Lozano from Spain, 2-0 (21-14, 21-13). [...]
Two-time Olympic Beach Volleyball gold-medal winner Misty May-Treanor announced she is out of the “Dancing with the Stars” television program because of a ruptured left Achilles tendon. “I heard a pop,” said the 31-year-old May-Treanor in media reports about her rehearsing the jive in the “Dancing with the Stars” ballroom. “I was doing the Lindy [...]
Read More..>>McMaster’s Jeremy Groenveld was a member of the Canadian men’s duo who competed at the 2008 FIVB Junior World Beach Championships in Brighton, England in early September. Along with teammate Tom Podstawka they beat teams from Switzerland, Latvia and Finland before finishing fifth in the world.The Canadian duo met with the team from Switzerland in [...]
Read More..>>Canadian women’s duo, Kaila Janssen and Victoria Cowley finished ninth at the 2008 FIVB Junior World Beach Championships which took place in Britain’s favourite seaside city, Brighton, September 3-7, 2008.
Bikinis gave way to leggings and long sleeves as heavy rain and strong winds swept through, with matches being played regardless.
You cannot play beach volleyball on [...]
Kerby Bentley vows the new Niagara College Knights women’s volleyball team is better than the old one.
The 2007-08 Knights squad featured 10 rookies along with a few more experienced players. Most of those rookies are back – now as second-year players who are more comfortable with the surroundings and the game at the college level.
The [...]
Ottawa Valley resident Krista Johnson is trying to help first nations youth from thousands of kilometers away.
Recently, she organized a tri-sport tournament at Fellowes High School, where people came together to play volleyball, basketball and ultimate frisbee to raise money for the youth of Kasabonika Lake First Nation. Approximately $300 was raised by participants.
Kasabonika is [...]
The finest collegiate women’s volleyball teams in Canada will be at Nipissing University this March competing for gold medal glory in the 2009 Canadian Collegiate Athletics Association (CCAA) Women’s National Volleyball Championships.
Nipissing University will be the host institution for the championships, taking place March 12-14, 2009.
The three day championship tournament will feature eight teams from [...]
Pat Farrell, one half of the tireless tandem of volleyball coaches at Regiopolis-Notre Dame in Kingston Ontario, laughs at the irony surrounding the dramatic rise of the sport at the country’s oldest English Catholic secondary school.
“When I started coaching here in 1991,we couldn’t even get practice time at our own gym,” he recalled. “We had [...]
The Ryerson Women’s Volleyball team has received a $60.000 grant from the Coaches Association of Ontario to hire a full-time coach. Ivan Joseph, Ryerson’s director of athletics, announced earlier this week that the search is on for a coach to fill the new position. He also says that the grant is a step in the [...]
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