After a very successful season last year, with four gold medals, two silver and four bronze at various Ontario tournaments, the Peel Selects Volleyball club is ready to start another season. New to the club this year is the addition of a boys’ team to what use to be a female only club.
The club is [...]
Over 280 teams from eight provinces and one territory competed on 85 courts at the Beach Nationals at Ashbridges Bay from August 28-30. The OVA would like to thank all the athletes and families that attended the three day event.
A very special thank you to Mark Heese and Canuck Stuff for organizing and hosting the [...]
Canada’s Tiffany Dodds was elected the Most Valuable Player of the last qualifier tournament in NORCECA for the Final Round of next year’s FIVB Women’s World Championship. Canada along with Costa Rica secured the last two remaining spots for the event being held in Japan, next October.
“I have been with the national team for the [...]
The National Capitals Volleyball Club (NCVC) and the Ottawa Kangaroo Volleyball Club (OKVC) are pleased to announce the merging of their two organizations into one club effective immediately. The merging of the NCVC, which recently celebrated their fifth anniversary, and the OKVC, which was created in 1992, will form one of the largest and most [...]
Read More..>>Earlier this summer Rebecca Rivera showed up to a beach volleyball tournament minus a playing partner.
Fortunately, her mother, Myra, managed to scare one up.
The rest, as they say, is history.
With nary a practice between them, Rivera, of Mississauga, and Autumn Bailey, from Burlington, both 14, took gold in the girls’ U16
division. It wasn’t a fluke. [...]
Know this about Aaron Nusbaum and Joey Nuguid – no one kicks sand in their faces and gets away with it.
The duo overcame a season of playing mostly in the runner-up role on the Ontario Volleyball Association beach tour to capture the Volleyball Canada boys U16 national title Sunday with a come-from-behind, three-set victory over [...]
With summer coming to an end, the North Bay Youth Volleyball Club is busy preparing for the 2009-2010 Ontario Volleyball Association season. This year the club will be offering female teams at the U13, U14, U15 and U16 levels, competing against the very best teams in the province throughout the year culminating with the Provincial [...]
Read More..>>The Canadian men and women’s national volleyball teams both took full advantage of their last chance to qualify for the World Championships in 2010. Both teams finished their qualification tournaments with 3-0 records earning each team one of the last two final berths from their NORCECA competitions to the 2010 World Championships.
Canada and Costa Rica [...]
Mark Cossarin is not just the principal at I.E. Weldon Secondary School in Lindsay. He has also been an international beach volleyball referee for the past 13 years and has finally decided to hang up his whistle. He has just returned from Europe after refereeing on the SWATCH FIVB World Beach Volleyball Tour for the [...]
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