For Toronto’s Birchmount Park Panthers, considered to be one of the strongest senior boys’ volleyball teams in the province for the past decade, the confidence has been there from the start of the season.
And their assurance was rewarded at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations Quad-A championship Saturday night when they capped an undefeated [...]
Buttressed by an imposing season record of 73-3-3, the Regiopolis-Notre Dame Panthers enter this weekend’s Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations triple-A boys volleyball championships as top banana — No. 1 seed.
A feather in the cap for the cats? Sure thing, but no more than that, cautioned their coach. Exiting as top banana is the [...]
Canadian volleyball Olympian Monica Hitchcock of St. John, N.B., won’t soon forget her participation in the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay on Monday evening in Dieppe, N.B.
“It brought back some great memories from when I competed at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles,” said Hitchcock, who was recently on the Team New Brunswick mission staff for [...]
The head coach at Syracuse University, Jing Pu, announced the signing of two student-athletes, Samantha Clarey (Baltimore, Ontario) and Lindsay McCabe (Georgetown, Ontario), who will join the Orange volleyball team in 2010.
Clarey is a 6′1″ middle blocker out of St. Mary’s High School in Cobourg, where she earned team MVP honors and was named senior [...]
Her graceful style of play and easygoing demeanor on the volleyball court may give the impression that Celeste Bonter has lost her edge.
Iowa Western’s sophomore All-American is quick to point out, however, that is not the case.
She’s still the small-town girl from Madoc, Ontario who loves to hunt, fish and ride four-wheelers when she’s home. [...]
The announcement that Toronto will host the 2015 Pan Am Games is good news for the construction industry in the Golden Horseshoe.
The bid involves 50 venues in 17 municipalities stretching in a broad swath across southern Ontario. The overall budget is $1.43 billion, with the federal and provincial governments promising $500 million each.
New venues proposed [...]
You can’t control a lot of things in sports, but there are two things you can control; how hard you work and how much fun you have doing it. Few people demonstrate this as well as Tori Cowley. Like most volleyball players Tori started playing indoor then transitioned to beach.
Once she started playing beach she [...]
Kerissa Van Amersfoort, this week’s top female athlete built a strong case for being named as the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association athlete of the week, with her near-record performance on the volleyball court in a home game Saturday against Sheridan.
Her 12 service aces in Niagara’s 3-1 defeat of the Bruins was one shy of the [...]
It was over 30 years ago that John May, then a student at Toronto’s David and Mary Thomson Collegiate, paraded around a gym in Kingston after winning a provincial high school championship in volleyball.
His son enjoyed the same kind of jubilation last year, only with Birchmount Park Collegiate.
Now, just like his father, Garrett May, 17, [...]
There was no doubt the Colonel By Cougars senior boys’ volleyball team was after one thing and one thing only in this year’s National Capital playoffs – a trip to the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations championships.
“These guys have been together for four years and they’ve gelled very well together,” notes Colonel By coach [...]
