Alex Fillipoff knows his team performs well under pressure. In fact, they seem to thrive on being a few points down, then rallying back to win the set.
That fighting spirit served the junior boys volleyball team at Perth and District Collegiate Institute well Wednesday afternoon, when it captured the Lanark County trophy.
It’s the first time [...]
Canada is known for many things: free health care, hockey and the birthplace of the renegade member of the X-Men, Wolverine.
For the UMBC (University Maryland Baltimore County) women’s volleyball team, Canada is also the homeland for freshman Ali Loynachan (Whitby, Ontario), sophomore Sarah Joy (Ottawa, Ontario) and senior Kira Giles (Winnipeg, Manitoba). Both players and [...]
“She is kind of like James Bond 007.”
Those were the words Coach Kelly Sheffield chose to describe junior transfer Amanda Cowdrey.
“Her game has all the cool gadgets and whatever we need as a team, she can get for us,” he said.
It is hard to argue with his analysis, as Cowdrey and the Flyers are sitting [...]
Mohawk College swept St. Clair from Windsor in both men’s and women’s Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) volleyball matches at the Fennell Gymnasium Friday (Nov. 6).
In the women’s contest, the Mountaineers won, 25-20, 25-22, 25-15, to improve to 4-0, the last remaining undefeated team in the West Region, while the Saints fell to 3-1. Allison [...]
Canada reeled off six straight victories to win the Global Cup women’s world senior volleyball championships for players aged 50 and over.
The Canadian team beat Latvia, Brazil, the U.S., and Germany to advance against Russia. The Canadians needed to beat the Russians, the defending champions, twice to take the title.
For luck, the team had placed [...]
Head coach Gord Williamson just may be one volley away from bringing out a huge urn and encouraging his troops to “wake up and smell the coffee!”
Fully expecting a one-sided victory on home court with the Trent Excalibur from Peterborough as guests, the Durham Lords men’s volleyball squad was inexplicably coaxed into a lull long [...]
Julie Rodrigue of Quebec City and Katherine Zakrzewski of Toronto nearly upset the top-seeded British pair in qualifying on Wednesday to open the 14th and final stop on the FIVB World Tour women’s beach
volleyball circuit in Phuket, Thailand.
Rodrigue and Zakrzewski, competing for the second time together, opened the qualifying round Wednesday with a victory over [...]
The Lakehead Thunderwolves women’s volleyball team started their two-game southern Ontario road trip Saturday night at Waterloo where they lost 3-1 to a balanced Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks squad. Scores in the sets were 14-25, 26-24, 13-25 and 19-25.
Head coach Chris Green’s team received great contributions from several freshmen, led by setter Jenna McDonald who [...]
The FIVB, the international governing body for volleyball, announced the pools for the 2010 Men’s World Volleyball Championships to be held in 10 Italian cities from September 24 to October 10. Canada will be in pool F with Serbia, Germany and Poland and will play its round robin matches in Trieste, Italy.
“We are definitely going [...]
Rebecca Glancy says she was “shocked” when her name was announced as MVP of the recent UNB Invitational women’s volleyball tournament.
Varsity Reds’ head coach John Richard was only mildly surprised.
Richard knew he was getting a top-notch recruit the second Glancy, a 6′2″ middle from Toronto, committed to the V-Reds.
Glancy played six years for Durham Attack, [...]
