Two Northumberland Breakers players have been selected to play on Ontario Volleyball Association provincial teams.
Callum Mireault earned a spot on the 18U boys’ team while Samantha Clarey will play for the 17U girls’ team.
Clarey and Mireault recently returned from the OVA’s High Performance Centre (HPC) held at Humber College. The centre was a six-day training [...]
The volleyball career of McMaster University graduate Parrish Offer has taken him from Kingston, Ontario, to Kingston, Jamaica.
The former Marauders captain was scheduled to leave in May for the Jamaican capital, where he’ll play for that country’s national team.
Offer was born in Kingston, Ontario, 24 years ago. And before beginning his outstanding career with [...]
A new Peak Performance Camp, designed for 14-to 18-year-old female athletes with club or high school playing experience, will be offered at Nipissing University’s Surtees athletics centre this summer.
This camp is for experienced athletes proficient in all skills with an in-depth knowledge of the game who have the commitment and motivation to take their game [...]
Five McMaster Marauders have earned spots on provincial and national men’s volleyball teams this summer.
Left-side hitter Josh Lichty has been selected to Team Canada’s squad which will compete at the Federation de Volleyball Under-21 Men’s World Championships in Pune, India. That event runs from July 31-Aug. 9.
Four other Mac student-athletes are scheduled to represent their [...]
Canadian women’s beach volleyball team of Annie Martin and Marie-Andree Lessard had two surprise wins Wednesday at the 1-to-1-energy Grand Slam FIVB World Tour event being held in Gstaad, Switzerland.
After beating out the Maria Clara-Carol of Brazil (2-1) and Forrer-Schmocker of Switzerland (2-0), the Canadian team clinched a spot in the quarterfinals.
The US$600,000 1-to-1-energy Grand [...]
The Canadian men’s volleyball team suffered a heartbreaking defeat Thursday afternoon in the quarterfinal round of the Summer Universiade tournament in Belgrade, Serbia, letting a two-sets-to-none lead slip away en route to a 25-23, 25-19, 18-25, 21-25, 13-15 loss to undefeated Russia.
The result put an end to Canada’s dreams of reaching the final for the [...]
It was a busier day than might have been expected Sunday at Cobourg’s Victoria Beach.
With more than 50 nets set up, the OVA hosted one of its summer Beach Tour events, which was originally scheduled to take place in Toronto.
Due to the city strike in Toronto, the beach volleyball tournament was moved to Cobourg when [...]
Three days before leaving to try out for Canada’s junior volleyball team, Josh Lichty’s hopes were dealt a crushing blow.
The 20-year-old St. Catharines native discovered the suspected shin splints that were bothering him was really a stress fracture in his left tibia, the inner bone of two bones extending from the knee to the ankle.
Doctors [...]
Executive Director of the Ontario Volleyball Association, Orest Stanko was inducted into The University of Toronto Sport Hall of Fame on June 24, 2009. In his 23 seasons as the head coach of the U of T’s Varsity Blues men’s volleyball team, Orest Stanko became the winingest coach in OUA men’s volleyball history.
He guided the [...]
Volleyball Canada is pleased to announce the winners of the U19-U21 beach selection tournament held this past weekend at Toronto’s Beach Blast. The winning teams in each category have earned the right to represent Canada at the upcoming U19 and U21 FIVB World Championships coming later this summer. The U19 event will take place August, [...]
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