Tia Miric and Nakita Bozinoski may sometimes knock heads when it comes to in-game strategy.
But it is a pairing that came together in golden style at the right moment on the weekend.
Miric, of Thornhill, and Bozinoski combined Sunday for a straight sets win 21-11, 21-17 over Ontario champions Cadence Currie and Chantal Raymundo to claim [...]
Comments(0) 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 [...]
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..>>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 [...]
Marie-Andree Lessard and Annie Martin equaled their best result this season on the FIVB World Beach Volleyball Tour circuit placing ninth following a loss on Friday in Kristiansand, Norway.
The Canadian veterans produced a strong run and were finally stopped by eighth-seed Brazilians Maria-Clara and Carol Salgado 18-21, 16-21 in 42 minutes. Lessard and Martin led [...]
Canadians Marie-Andree Lessard and Annie Martin strung together two more wins yesterday to remain in medal contention in Kristiansand, Norway, the 13th stop on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour circuit.
Lessard and Martin defeated Mathilde Giordano and Eva Hamzaoui of France 19-21, 21-18, 15-13 then Cristine Santanna and Andrezza Martins das Chagas of Georgia 33-31, [...]
Sudbury will be overrun by almost as many athletes, coaches and officials as the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Of course, the spotlight on the 2010 Ontario Summer Games will be considerably less, co-chair Dan Lee says, but he expects Greater Sudbury to rally behind the games with the same energy Vancouver did.
The biannual sporting [...]
Marie-Andree Lessard and Annie Martin posted a season high ninth place finish at Stare Jablonki, Poland, the 12th stop on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Circuit. The competition was also part of the Grand Slam Series which nearly doubled the prize money to $300,000 for both the men and women.
On Friday, Lessard and Martin, [...]
Congratulations to Courtney Chiasson and Nareesa Nathoo for capturing a bronze medal at the 2010 American Amateur Union (AAU) Junior Olympics in Virginia Beach.
Pool Play began for the 14U team on Saturday July 31 and the team went undefeated against teams from Florida, Virginia and Illinois placing first in their pool. The weather was a [...]
In the final eight late Saturday at the SWATCH FIVB U19 Youth World Championships in Porto, Portugal, the Canadian team of Nick del Bianco and Toronto’s Garrett May, seeded 18th, upset fourth-seeds Andrey Bolgov and Ruslan Bykanov of Russia 2-0, (21-14, 22-20) to advance to the semifinals. Earlier that morning, in the round of 16, [...]
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