Archive for October, 2009

Lessard and Martin Finish 25th

Marie-Andree Lessard of Ville LaSalle, Que., and Annie Martin of Sherbrooke, Que., lost their two matches on Thursday at the 13th stop on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour circuit in Sanya, China. The eighth seeded Canadian team will be ranked 25th for the tournament.
Lessard and Martin lost their first round match to 20-year old [...]

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PROfile Landis Doyle

It doesn’t matter if she’s in a gym or on the beach, Landis Doyle has the talent to take over a match.
Landis’s volleyball career includes 11 years of indoor and five on the beach. She started her indoor career with the Durham Attack club and has grown into a solid college player starting for the [...]

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World Championships Draw Live

The Drawing of Lots for the FIVB 2010 Men’s Volleyball World Championships will be streamed live by official host broadcaster RAI TV on the FIVB website this afternoon.
The celebrated event will take place at 17:00 (2 pm Canada EST) from Rome and volleyball fans around the world can view the hour long ceremony live on [...]

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Community Support

The McMaster Marauders men’s volleyball team may have won two straight Ontario University Association (OUA) titles. But, before taking on their archrival Queen’s Golden Gaels on Oct. 9, players held a clinic for members of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Kingston at the Robert Meek Community Youth Centre.
McMaster has a Kingston connection on [...]

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Tdot Women Win Silver Downunder

The Tdot Women’s Volleyball Team, coached by SPIKES Clinician Marie Rolfe, is coming home with the silver medal from Sydney, Australia and the World Masters Games in the Indoor 40 plus age category. Following the completion of round robin play there was a three way tie for first place. The Tdot team managed to come [...]

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Long Road Back

The most successful coach in the history of Redeemer University College athletics returned to league action in Welland for the first time since cheating death more than six years ago.
John Byl, who on June 30, 2003, was struck while cycling by a drunk driver, leads the Redeemer Royals women’s volleyball team into its 2009-10 [...]

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Another New Team Takes Court

The Huskies are taking on the province. Girls from North Hastings High School have started practicing as the Huskies Volleyball Club, the first club team to come out of the area to compete in the Ontario Volleyball Association tournament series this year from November to April.
Coach Adam Palmer says he got the idea to start [...]

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New Girls Club in East York

Girls can now play volleyball competitively close to their East York homes.
Chris Lopez started an OVA club recently at Earl Grey Senior Public School.
“I was driving all the way out to Etobicoke one season and then to southeast Scarborough the next to find a volleyball club,” he said.
“Being a soccer parent, I’m no stranger to [...]

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Teams Vie For Playoff Spots

During most volleyball seasons, it’s the race for top spot that’s intriguing.
However, it’s the jostling at the bottom that’s most interesting about this season’s Brant County high school senior boys division.
On Thursday, at St. John’s College, the North Park Collegiate Trojans moved to 6-0, cementing their place as the No. 1 squad in the six-team [...]

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No Medals for Canada

Puerto Rico defeated Canada for the bronze medal on Saturday 25-16, 24-26, 25-20, 22-25,15-9 at the North, Central America and Caribbean Confederation (NORCECA) men’s volleyball championships.
The Canadian team finishes the tournament in fourth place with a 3-3 record. They defeated Panama and Mexico in the round robin and the Dominican Republic in the quarterfinal. The [...]

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