Can you really get too much of a good thing?
That might be the case if you happen to play on the super-talented Western Mustangs women’s volleyball team.
The Mustangs are 11-1 and leading the Ontario university West Division. They are ranked No. 9 in Canada and are getting better every week.
But volleyball is one sport in [...]
Mary Hart coached the city’s smallest high school to the senior girls volleyball championship in ‘07-08.
But having lost all six starters from that title team, the Bawating Braves of Sault Ste. Marie are rebuilding this season with just three returnees.
And the Braves have a respectable win/loss record of 2-3 at the midway point of the [...]
The Ontario Silver medal winners, the Niagara Rapids 17U Girls, hosted an 18U Invitational CANAM tournament held on Jan 3rd, 2009. The tournament was held in the booming metropolis of Welland, Ontario located in the Niagara Region. The venue was Eastdale HS which was a prime location with great new facilities.
The tournament featured four Canadian [...]
Mohawk finished third in its pool, then scored a consolation victory at the 21st Killer Instinct Cup Invitational Women’s Volleyball Tournament at Durham College in Oshawa over the weekend (Jan. 9-10). The Humber Hawks won the title in the prestigious 12-team event.
The Mountaineers, ranked third in the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association, finished pool play with [...]
The Queen’s Golden Gaels men’s volleyball team posted a major upset Saturday, knocking off the previously undefeated McMaster Marauders in come-from-behind fashion at a packed Bartlett Gym.
After losing the first two sets against CIS’s third-ranked team, the Gaels (9-2) rallied to record a 3-2 victory (24-26, 15-25, 25-22, 25-9, 17-15) over the Marauders (10-1).
It was [...]
The court at the Durham College Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre will be a busy spot this weekend as the 21st annual Killer Instinct Cup takes centre stage.
The Durham Lords will play host to some of the best women’s college teams in Ontario and a couple from Quebec, with first serve set for noon today [...]
Arnd Ludwig (Lupo) signed a four-year contract to become the new coach of the Canadian women’s volleyball national team.
Ludwig spent the previous six years coaching the German division I team Dresdner SC. Prior to that, he spent four years as an assistant for the German national team, which placed sixth at the 2000 Olympics in [...]
The Women’s Western Mustangs finished in third place at the Innisbrook Invitational Volleyball Tournament in Clearwater, Florida, defeating Calgary in five sets in the bronze medal game on Dec. 31.
After defeating CIS ranked No.10 McGill 3-1 in the quarter-final game, Western fell 3-1 to CIS ranked No.4 Manitoba (24-26,15-25, 28-26, 23-25) to qualify for the [...]
Niagara College’s volleyball teams were almost mirror images of one another at the Big Kahuna Classic tournament on the weekend.
Both the men’s and women’s teams bowed out of the two-day, four-team tournament with losses in yesterday afternoon’s semifinals, and they each had a player selected to the respective all-star squads.
Of the host teams, the never-say-die [...]
When it comes to volleyball, Dustin Reid knows the score.
The new volleyball coach is a former member of the Canadian men’s volleyball team, coached an Olympic athlete and led a Swiss junior women’s team to a national title.
Now he’s trying to turn the women’s volleyball squad from a team in transition to champions in the [...]
