Chin Yang is six-foot-two with an athletic build. As a teenager in his native China, he was much taller than the average Chinese male, but still he had to work hard to get selected for the country’s national volleyball team.
“I had to prove myself with tricks and skills to get onto the team because I [...]
The 2010 Coors Light Super-Spike will be returning for its much anticipated ninth annual event this July 23rd and 24th at Maple Grove Rugby Park, Winnipeg. Super-Spike, which has become one of Winnipeg’s can’t miss festival events of the summer, combines Manitoba’s largest outdoor beach volleyball tournament with a weekend long concert series.
Canadian rock quartet [...]
For the second time this season, a Canadian pair has won a NORCECA beach volleyball tournament.
Heather Bansley and Elizabeth Maloney of Toronto defeated Yarleen Santiago and Dariam Acevedo of Puerto Rico in the championship final 26-24, 21-14 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Earlier the Canadians had beaten American pair Tealle Hunkus and Heather Lowe in the [...]
Through thick and thin, Charlotte Sider has kept her eyes on the prize, doing everything possible to make her dreams a reality. Yesterday she was named to Team Ontario in the ultimate personal reward for a youth division athlete.
A few short years ago, Charlotte Sider was a member of Team NB 16u girls. She had [...]
Hamilton’s Matthew Passalent and Brandon Koklis from the Mountain Athletic Club won gold in the Male 14U Premier Division at the recent Cobourg Beach Tournament. Losing only one match in round robin play, Passalent and Koklis swept the rest of their matches with strong team work and defence.
The MAC 14U girls’ team of Brittany Vanderlaan [...]
Kennedy McMahon and Olivia Reyns have found a great reason to spend their summer on the beach.
The two 13-year-olds are members of the Northumberland Breakers volleyball club. This summer, they have teamed up to play as a pair in beach volleyball, and the partnership is already paying off. On Saturday, July 3, they were in [...]
The Canadian Men’s National Volleyball Team will be hosting the Cuban National Volleyball Team for a series of exhibition matches in Toronto, Ottawa and Quebec City in late August. What a great opportunity to see our Canadian Men’s team in action, at home, against the high-powered Cubans! The exhibition matches will serve as preparation [...]
Read More..>>Volleyball Canada is hosting the 2010 NORCECA Junior Men’s Continental Championship August 16-21 to be held at the newly opened Centre Sportif de Gatineau.
Don’t miss your opportunity to see international teams like Cuba, USA, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Mexico compete against Canada at home. The event will not only determine the newest continental champion [...]
If you liked the first issue of Volleyball Source Magazine, you are really going to enjoy publisher Ahren Cadieux’s second, on-line magazine effort. It’s a 62-pager, chock full of player profiles — notably cover girl Liz Cordonier and hard-hitting Gavin Schmitt — and includes a special player, soon-to-retire Paul Duerden.
Also included is the predictions [...]
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 [...]
