Ottawa’s Adam Simac and the Canadian men’s volleyball team will continue their quest to emerge as one of the globe’s best volleyball countries when they take on Slovakia in a World League qualifier July 29-30 at Scotiabank Place.
“From the worlds last year to now, we’re making a lot of improvements in our game,” says Simac, [...]
Cobourg continues to be a popular stop each summer for the Ontario Volleyball Association’s Beach Tour.
Victoria Beach was host of a pair of two-day events in June as well as a third two weekends ago as part of the Beach Tour schedule, which is organized by the OVA. Also, on Sunday, the local Northumberland Breakers [...]
Paul Langan acknowledges that it was his daughter Katie that gave him “something to do”. After watching her play competitive soccer out of town and then follow that up for one year of volleyball, the Hespeler resident decided to take matters into his own hands. Last year, he started the Hespeler Scorpions Volleyball Club, forming [...]
Read More..>>Beach volleyball partners Anna Feore and Lauren Nothdurft recently captured the gold medal in a 16U OVA tournament at Sauble Beach on July 16, 2011. The fifteen year olds, playing up an age division, were ranked third in 16U premier division going into this tournament.
Undefeated in pool play, then 2 straight wins in quarters and [...]
Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney of Toronto will earn a career best result on the FIVB World Tour beach volleyball circuit with a seventh place after losing their quarterfinal match on Saturday at the Quebec Open Jeep event.
Bansley and Maloney, who strung together three exciting wins on Friday to keep their medal hopes alive, fell [...]
Five Canadian teams will be in must win situations on Friday after Thursday’s opening main draw action at the $380,000 Quebec Open Jeep beach volleyball tournament. The competition is a stop on the FIVB World Tour Circuit.
In women’s competition, ninth-seeds Annie Martin of Sherbrooke, Que., and Marie-AndrĂ©e Lessard of Ville LaSalle, Que., as well as [...]
Three Canadian pairs in women’s competition and one more on the men’s side were added to the main draw on Wednesday following qualification action at the $380,000 Quebec Open Jeep beach volleyball tournament.
The competition is the only Canadian stop this season on the FIVB World Tour Circuit.
Victoria Altomare and Melissa Humana-Paredes, both of Toronto as [...]
As a prelude to the start of this week’s event, four teams from Canada and one from the United States emerged from men’s country quota playoff matches Tuesday to advance to Wednesday’s qualification tournament at the $380,000 FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011, presented by Videotron. Four Canadian teams and one U.S. team also advanced [...]
Read More..>>Back in North America for the first time since 2007, the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour is in Canada this week for the $380,000 FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011, presented by Videotron.
Beach volleyball tandems from around the world are in Canada as the double-gender event marks the eighth time the world tour [...]
Gord Grace, Director of Athletics at the University of Windsor is pleased to announce the hiring of Lucas Hodgson as the Interim Head Coach of the Windsor Lancers Women’s Volleyball program. The appointment is effective immediately.
Considered to be one of the top coaches and recruiters in the OUA, Hodgson has served as the head coach [...]
