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Local Volleyball player Alex Elliott from Cobourg had been to five provincial indoor championships without winning a medal.
That changed this past weekend as Elliott and the Durham Attack claimed bronze in the boys under-17 division at the Ontario Volleyball Association championships in Waterloo.
Funnily enough, Elliott had earned national championship medals with teams he has played [...]

It was the type of season-ending that easily helps build momentum for the following year. The Northern Chill U-15 girls capped off a solid season of play within the Ontario Volleyball Association (OVA), picking up Silver medals in the Division 2 Tier I category of U-15 play at the Provincial Championships staged last month in [...]

I read with interest Dana Cooke’s account of the journey of Toronto Element to a gold medal at the U17 Girl’s Ontario Championships. In describing their road to the gold, Dana mentioned hard work, team work, sacrifice, effort, fortitude. In short, all of the things that, in the best of worlds, our young athletes would [...]

The Kitchener-Waterloo Predators is honored to announce that Barrett Schitka, Boys Program Coordinator, has been selected as one the AVCA’s Top 30 Under Thirty’s award. Barrett, who solidified the men’s half of the Club as one of the top in Ontario, is being recognized for his success and efforts over the past two years. Join [...]

So many words can be used to describe the performance this past weekend by the boy’s 17U Tigers Black team at the Provincial Championships held at Rim Park.Just a few come to mind…AMAZING, EXCITING, OUTSTANDING, SENSATIONAL AND SUCCESSFUL. From the onset of this season, both the coaches and boys had one thing on their mind [...]

The University of Toronto has a strong history of winning in the OUA for Men’s and Women’s Volleyball. Strong athletes attend U of T every year, which makes it no surprise that they are also producing some of the top Beach players in Canada. Some top players from U of T have represented Canada Internationally [...]

Thanks to an unexpected visit by Canada’s first father, the Ontario volleyball championships were a considerably more high-profile event than usual. Stephen Harper was in the stands at RIM Park in Waterloo, cheering on his 13-year-old son Ben. Harper declined interviews; his spokesman told reporters, “This is just a dad here [...]

Here is a report on the U17 final from  Sharon Simons of the Toronto Element Girls Volleyball Team.

The 17U Toronto Element Girls Volleyball Team travelled to RIM Park in Kitchener- Waterloo this past weekend along with 52 other teams from across the province who gathered to compete in the 2010 Ontario Provincial Volleyball Championships and [...]

April 23-25 the Kitchener-Waterloo Predators 15U Boys team, Ravage, competed in front of a home crowd at RIM park to claim the club’s first ever Boys Provincial Championship title. This was a great feat for the boy’s program which is only in its second year of existence. Ravage entered into the tournament as [...]

A Campbellville athlete was recognized at the Ontario Volleyball Association’s Provincial Championships recently.
Briana Layard of the Mountain Athletic Club (MAC) 14U Girls and a student at Kilbride School was recognized with the OVA Award of Excellence medal awarded annually to one team member at the Provincial Championships.
Briana was recognized for her on and off court [...]