OUA Men Head West
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 two of the top teams in the country: McMaster (Hamilton, Ontario, OUA) and the Calgary Dinos (Calgary, Alta, Canada West).
“We also have the top ranked team in Atlantic Canada right now in Dalhousie,” says Hennelly Most of these teams are coming here with an eye to looking at the facility before the Nationals.”
Other teams involved in the McDonalds International are: University of Toronto Blues (OUA), Trinity Western Spartans (Langley, Canada West), UBC Okanagan Heat (Kelowna, BC College Athletic Association) and the Pepperdine University Wave (Malibu, California, NCAA).
The tournament begins Saturday January 2nd. The match ups have Pepperdine against UBC Okanagan (1 pm), Trinity Western vs McMaster (3 pm), Calgary vs Dalhousie (730 pm). The host WolfPack will open up their part of the tournament with a 6 pm match against the University of Toronto.
“Toronto is definitely in the middle of the pack in the OUA,” Hennelly explains. “But they have a number of BC Kids”.
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