Mike Slean has experienced success at all levels of his volleyball career. After winning an OFSAA Championship in High School Mike attended the University of Toronto. While at U of T Mike’s career took off winning an OUA Championship and being an OUA First Team All Star in all 5 years of his Varsity Blues [...]
Read More..>>It was bitter sweet when former Durham Attack coach Keith Wills took the reins of the Concordia University College of Alberta Thunder Women’s Volleyball Team as he embarked upon the next chapter in his coaching career.
After a very successful stint as the Region 4 Athlete Development Chair, including two Gold medals and Silver in 3 [...]
A few things should come to mind when you think about beach volleyball and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The obvious ones being, it was the first time beach volleyball was an official Olympic sport and that John Child and Mark Heese won the Bronze Medal. The best kept secret from the games is [...]
Read More..>>Congratulations to Durham Attack alumni Kaila Janssen (2007), Shannon McRobert (2008) and Lauren Skelly (2009), who have led McMaster to an 8-1 record going into the Christmas break.
Mac is currently ranked 2nd but with two matches in hand and a win over the leader Waterloo. It’s been an injury-filled fall for the three, with Shannon [...]
Aya Miyago may have felt a little out of place when she first arrived at Gananoque Secondary School as an exchange student from Japan, but the Gr. 12 student has found some comfortable ground this week — make that a comfortable court.
The former libero has the best hands coach Allison Kench has seen in quite [...]
The draw has been set for the third annual McDonald’s International Men’s Volleyball Classic Tournament in BC. For the first time, the tournament will feature eight teams.
“We are going to see most of the top teams in the nation,” says Thompson Rivers University WolfPack head coach Pat Hennelly.
The teams involved in this year’s tournament include [...]
There’s a stirring in the St. Thomas volleyball community.
A ripple … not a tidal wave has carried a core of local enthusiasts to engage this season in Ontario Volleyball Association tournament play.
Is it the blinking awake of a full-blown club that will blossom some day in the future?
Perhaps.
But, for now, it’s an under-17 girls team, [...]
I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Thursday, to see the Olympic torch being carried through Durham. And to watch my friend and colleague Chris Williamson carry the torch, on behalf of all the volleyball athletes he has trained in the past, and all those he has vowed to train in the future. It was an emotional [...]
Read More..>>The large majority of Canadians who participate in sport do so as part of a team. Yet only 17 per cent of the government’s core athletic funding goes to team sport organizations.
United in concern for the future of their sports, Volleyball Canada and eighteen other national sport-governing bodies have joined forces to raise awareness of [...]
I watched my first Triple Ball Tournament this past Saturday. It was a 14U boy’s tournament at Saint Jean De Brebeuf in Woodbridge. I was very curious to see how the game would be received by the athletes, parents and coaches. I also wanted to take statistics and gather some objective data that would enable [...]
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