Taylor Simons of Stoney Creek and Jazmine White of Oshawa rekindled their beach partnership this summer and just like before it has been pure magic!
This dynamic duo, currently coached by former Beach National Team Player Dana Cooke, has not dropped a single match this season in their own age group and finished a respectful fifth [...]
The weather was great for Saturday competition, which included pool play for all Youth Open athletes and playoffs for all Adult Athletes. The Elite division played down to the final four which would take place on Sunday. The AA division played a one day event completing pool play in the morning and playoffs in the [...]
Read More..>>Tyler Santoni has the persistence of his high school gym teacher to thank for getting him on the volleyball court several years ago.
From that initial prod, Santoni has pushed himself to excelling in the serve, volley and smash sport to the point where he will play for Team Ontario at the Canada Summer Games.
“It’s my [...]
Most people love sunny, warm days, when they can get outside for fun and soak up the sun. But sun is one good thing you can have too much of – and not even know you’ve had too much until much later, when, like 60,000 Canadians every year, you’re diagnosed with skin cancer. Fortunately, 19 [...]
Read More..>>Region 3 through a double packed punch to win Gold medals in both the Male and Female divisions at the 2009 Regional Games at Humber College on August 10th and 11th. Both finals were intense and showed how highly skilled the athletes were. Honourable mentions goes to Region 5 who faced Region 3 in both [...]
Read More..>>Laurier Golden Hawk Sam Schachter, along with his team mate Steve Marshall from BC, defeated the Ontarian duo of Kevin Horne and Steven Clarey 2-0 (21-13, 21-19) to win the U21 beach volleyball selection tournament held at Toronto’s Beach Blast in late June.
The victory means that Schachter qualifies to represent Canada at the U21 FIVB [...]
Whether it’s indoors or on the beach, Alex Elliott plays a lot of volleyball and can’t get enough of it.
“It’s just fun to play, and it’s competitive,” the 16-year-old from Cobourg said.
In high school play, Elliott has helped lead the Cobourg District Collegiate Institute East Comets to two straight Central Ontario Secondary School Athletics junior [...]
The OVA is proud to announce Victoria Altomare as the 2009 Jason Senechal Memorial Award Recipient. This award is presented to the Youth Beach Athlete that best demonstrates the qualities of honour, fair play and sportsmanship. What makes this award most unique is that it is voted on by Youth Beach Athletes.
Victoria was a member [...]
Canada and Greece battled for the 2nd position in Pool H last Thursday as Canada earned the honor of fighting for the 9th to 12th positions with its 26-24, 18-25, 25-22, 25-18 win over Greece at the 2009 FIVB Men’s Junior World Championship held in Pune, India.
Canada finished the second phase with two wins and [...]
The August long weekend represented the final three days of training for the 2009 Beach Provincial Team. This year’s program included a five weekend long, Canada Games Team selection process that resulted in the teams of Dianne Burrows/Caleigh Whitaker and Adam Podstawka/Reid Hall winning the opportunity to represent Ontario in the beach volleyball competition at [...]
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