Northern Girls Ready to Rock
Region 2 preparing for the 2010 Ontario Summer Games
It’s easy for Nicole Collard to feel a great sense of pride about being from Greater Sudbury, even though she has lived her for just three years.
Collard loves the way volleyball is regarded in the city and it makes her feel proud as she loves the sport and it is “her life.”
Collard and a close group of of players from around Northeastern Ontario were busy this past weekend in Sudbury training for the upcoming 2010 Ontario Summer Games which will be hosted in the Nickel City in August.
It’s all about pride for the girls on this team as they prepare to take on the best regions from across the province during the second week of August.
“In Sudbury, with volleyball, there is always something good going on,” Collard said.
“I am really proud of this because a lot of people take volleyball seriously here and love it. I do have a lot of pride about being from here. I came from Kitchener. I have only lived here for three years, but I love it here. In Kitchener, I wasn’t even aware they had a club team. They never advertised. Here, they advertise volleyball all the time and it is in the paper and in the news. I like that. It means a lot to me to represent this city in something that is really, really big in the province.”
The Region 2 squad held tryouts a few weeks ago and the training session on Saturday was essentially the team’s first formal practice.
It has given the girls on the team a real wakeup call and has them all pumped up to play in the OSG.
“It has been an eye-opening experience,” Collard said.
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