In the world of volleyball Sam Schachter pulls double duty.
His left foot firmly tucked in a sneaker and planted on a shining hardcourt, his right foot bare with his toes dug in the sand, such is the persona of Richmond Hill resident and volleyball ace Sam Schachter.
Half beach volleyball stand-out, half traditional six-man star, the [...]
The MacEwan Griffins were willing to play with fire, but they just couldn’t handle the Heat.
Living up to their top billing, the UBC-Okanagan Heat from Kelowna, B.C., captured the 2009 CCAA Women’s Volleyball National Championship Saturday night at a packed R.J. Surtees Athletic Centre with a riveting 3-2 (24-26, 25-16, 16-25, 25-16, 15-11) victory over [...]
The CCAA Women’s Volleyball coach and player of the year were announced Wed. at the National Championships, being held at Nipissing University, in North Bay.
Chris Wilkins, coach of the OCAA Champion Humber College Hawks, was chosen coach of the year. Wilkins coached the Hawks to an impressive 47-2-2 overall record. Over the past [...]
The last thing you want is to run smack into the top seed to start the day.
That was the fate awaiting the Aurora Golden Eagles Wednesday morning for the quarter-final round of the OFSAA senior girl’s volleyball quad-A championships in Brampton.
But it was the ninth-seeded Golden Eagles emerging as the winner against the highly touted [...]
Volleyball games didn’t get under way until yesterday morning but the OFSAA provincial tournament officially started Monday in Kenora.
The host team Beaver Brae Broncos were joined by 19 other teams and will duke it out for the provincial crown until Wednesday.
Out-of-town teams arrived Monday to register at Beaver Brae and some teams took advantage of [...]
Serve-by-serve, point-bypoint, the Mayfield Mavericks delivered a gutsy performance to the volleyball court, and reigned champions of the Region of Peel Secondary School Athletic Association in Tier 1, for the fifth straight year. And for the second time in a row, the senior girls defeated the John Fraser Royal Jaguars. They captured three games to [...]
Read More..>>Algonquin Thunder men’s volleyball team rolled to a convincing 3-0 win over Seneca College in the 2009 Belair Direct OCAA Volleyball Championship final to claim the OCAA gold medal.
The powerhouse Thunder and their all-star lineup dominated the competition over the weekend for almost its entirety, sweeping both opponents in straight sets. This marked Algonquin’s [...]
Durham Attack is an Ontario Volleyball club who has implemented a successful LTAD program. Recently, five of the twelve OUA all-rookie team selections (men and women) and OCAA player of the year were Durham Attack alumni. Here’s a report from their club:
As a mature club that has just passed the 15 year mark, we are [...]
Read More..>>After some tense moments, Vicki Ward finally could exhale.
The coach of the Ernestown Eagles senior girls volleyball team, whose squad had been fundraising for a costly potential trip to the provincial double-A championship in Kenora for several weeks, booked a ticket to that tournament in dramatic fashion.
The Kingston Area champion Eagles rallied from a 1-0 [...]
The fourth-place finish by OUA champion McMaster is the best result in the program’s history and the highest finish by an OUA team since Toronto was fourth in 1997-98. The Marauders’ best ranking in eight previous CIS tourney appearances was a fifth position in 1990-91.
“It’s a process. Last year we got here as the OUA [...]
