Martin Reader of Comox, B.C., and Chaim Schalk of Red Deer, Alta., won the gold medal in men’s senior competition while Liz Maloney and Heather Bansley of Toronto were crowned the women’s champions on Sunday at the Canadian beach volleyball championships held at Ashbridges Bay, Toronto.
Reader and Schalk defeated Richard Van Huizen and Christopher Redmann [...]
Canada’s national men’s volleyball team couldn’t capitalize on a first set victory and fell to Cuba 1-3, (25-23, 18-25, 24-26, 20-25) in the third and final match of their pre-world championship series held Saturday at Universite Laval.
Cuba wins the series two games to one. The Cubans took the opening match on Tuesday in Mississauga in [...]
The gangly guys of the Canadian men’s volleyball team are extraordinarily tall, and they need to be – they’ve got the world on their shoulders.
With many of them standing over two metres tall, playing professionally in Europe for eight months of the year and having a star coach to shepherd their development back home, Canada [...]
Gavin Schmitt of Saskatoon scored match point on a service ace as the Canadian Men’s National Volleyball Team defeated Cuba 25-23, 25-22, 26-28, 28-26 last night in the second match of a three-game series between the two world championship-bound teams at ScotiaBank Place, Kanata.
With the victory, Canada evens the series at 1-1. Â Cuba won the [...]
Join in the excitement at the 2010 Beach National Championships at Ashbridges Bay, Toronto from Friday August 27 to Sunday August 29. Enjoy a fabulous end of summer event with friends and family watching some of the best beach players from across Canada vie for their National Champion division titles. Experience the intensity of the [...]
Read More..>>Last night, Cuba beat Canada in three straight sets in front of a crowd of about 3,000 at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. Some unforced errors and imperfect passing by the Canadians contributed to Cuba’s 25-18, 26-24, 25-20 win. Canada’s best and match came in the second set, when the team – led by some [...]
Read More..>>After 17 years of being a girls only volleyball club, Burlington Blaze will field boys teams for next month.
Blaze founder and president Andy Nicholson admitted the club has been thinking about adding a boys program for several years.
It has been approached by numerous elementary and secondary school coaches as well as players from as far [...]
Ricky Brar and Dzmitry Darashkou, of the Mississauga Pakmen volleyball club, won Ontario Summer Games gold in Sudbury.
The beach volleyball duo defeated Brad Crain and Blake Scheerhoorn, of Northumberland, 2-1 (17-21, 21-18, 15-10) in the final.
Brar and Darashkou went 6-1 the rest of the weekend, losing their only match to Crain and Scheerhoorn in the [...]
Maurice Torres scored a game high 14 points to lead the U.S. to a 25-14, 25-19, 25-16 victory over Canada in the gold medal final Saturday at the NORCECA junior men’s volleyball championships played before a full house at the Centre Sportif in Gatineau, Quebec.
It is the first time the U.S. has won the tournament [...]
Canada’s Junior men upset Cuba last night 3-1, (22-25, 25-19, 25-7, 25-15), in the semi-finals at the NORCECA Junior Men’s Volleyball Championships in Gatineau Quebec.
Cuba faces Puerto Rico in the bronze medal match at 6 p.m. followed by the Canada-U.S., gold medal match at 8 p.m.
You can watch them both live tonight at snncanada.ca
