Archive for February, 2010

Talsma and Bramwell All Canadians

It was a fitting end to a storied career for Redeemer University College’s Ryan Talsma who was honoured as the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association’s Men’s Volleyball Player of the Year at the OCAA championship breakfast banquet in Ancaster.
The Orono, Ontario native, finished the 2009-10 season ranking in the top three in [...]

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Quinte Eagles Soar

The Eagles are soaring again.
The Quinte Christian High School Eagles ended a 21-year drought Wednesday by winning their first COSSA ‘A’ junior girls volleyball championship since 1988.
And they did it the hard way by defeating perennial champion Ecole Secondaire Marc Garneau Astros of Trenton.
The Astros went into the COSSA tournament riding a [...]

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Victory Volleyball Turns One

After a rocky start, Victory Volleyball is poised to make major inroads into the volleyball community as it enters just its second year of operations. The Mississauga facility officially opened for competition and training in December of 2008 offering leagues, camps, clinics and weekend tournaments for pre-teens, teens and adults.
Victory Volleyball is beginning to find [...]

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Mountaineers Playoff Bound

Mohawk College’s volleyball teams are headed to the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association championships.
The Mountaineer men mounted a furious fourth set comeback on the way to a 3-1 (25-20, 16-25, 25-19, 26-24) victory over the Trent Excalibur in crossover playoff action at the Fennell Gymnasium on Saturday (Feb. 20). Mohawk was led by Mo Sulaiman with [...]

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M.A.C. Cares for DR and Haiti

Libero Mikaila Nederveen is leading the MAC initiative

Her call for athletic tape, bandaids, gauze or other medical supplies that can be spared to donate to the Haiti disaster victims and for a village in the Dominican Republic has been inspiring. Athletes and participants are contributing to the Medical Aid Campaign ( M.A.C.) that Mountain Athletic [...]

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Markham 15U Boys On a Roll

This season, the Markham-Stouffville Stingers 15U Boys team has experienced quite the run. The team has managed to compile a record of 14 wins, 1 loss, and 2 ties in 15U competition so far. Starting off the year ranked dead last in our age group, we came away with gold medals at both the Provincial [...]

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16U Breakers Rock

ALL THE TRAINING PAID OFF for the Northumberland Breakers 16U girls team when they attended their first tournament of the season, the Ontario Volleyball Association’s Provincial Cup held in Kingston last month.
The 10 girls who comprise this team dug deep and killed it when they won all six matches leading to the gold medal showdown, [...]

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Loyola Hawks Shock

Don’t judge the Loyola Hawks senior girls’ volleyball team by its mediocre record in Halton league play.
The Hawks stunned everyone — including themselves — at last week’s Ontario Catholic Classic tournament, winning 18 of the 19 sets they played to claim the championship at the prestigious competition.
Loyola defeated another surprise finalist, the St. Thomas Aquinas [...]

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Scarboro in the Hunt Again This Year

Scarborough will be looking to repeat its dominance in high school girls volleyball this post season, both at the city and provincial level. Last year, Scarborough almost achieved an unprecedented sweep of both triple- and quad-A levels at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) provincial finals: Sir Oliver [...]

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Tigers Claw Their Way to the Top

As the eighth ranked squad in Ontario in its age division, the Waterloo Tigers 15U Black team has its sights set on tier-one competition among the 24 top teams in the Ontario championships to be held at RIM Park in April.
To help the Tigers get there, the team, lead by coach Marek Gwozdz, has been [...]

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