Archive for the 'Beach' Category

Canadian Volleyball Fix Online

Volleyball Source magazine, a Canadian volleyball online magazine, was launched on Monday, March 8, by long-time touring beach player Ahren Cadieux, who knows just about everyone in the sport. Veteran volleyball writer Larry Humber handles the editorial.
They are joined by some winning correspondents, notably three-time Olympian Mark Heese, as well as fitness, mental conditioning and [...]

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PROfiles John Child

Sports fans love to debate who is the best player of a particular sport. Hockey’s Gretzky, Crosby or Ovechkin? Football’s Montana, Manning or Brady? And basketball’s Jordan, Bryant or James? are all timeless arguments. In volleyball the debate gets even more interesting when you consider two of the best players of all time were teammates [...]

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PROfiles Hernan Humana

Beach Volleyball is a rather unique sport whereby coaches cannot coach or be directly involved in the competitions. Therefore coaches need to prepare their athletes even more to be independent, mentally tough and possess the ability to problem solve themselves during matches. As a result, coaches sometimes do not receive or even expect recognition for [...]

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PROfiles Mark Heese

It might be fair to say that if you asked the top men and women players in Canada who their favourite players were growing up, the answer would be John Child and Mark Heese. Their team alone raised the profile and popularity of Beach Volleyball in Canada with their bronze at the Atlanta Olympic Games [...]

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ICEWAVE Serving SickKids

Get your team on board for the beach volleyball of your lives at Toronto’s largest indoor beach volleyball tournament — ICEWAVE — in support of SickKids. Play some recreational and competitive co-ed beach volleyball in one day tournaments beginning Saturday January 30.
1-day Recreational Co-Ed 6’s (non-spiking)
1-day Competitive Co-Ed 6’s (spiking)
Saturday January 30, 2010
Recreational Coed 6’s
Competitive [...]

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PROfiles Rebecca Moskowitz

Graduating from the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario for Law are two major accomplishments that require a lot of hard work and dedication. When Rebecca Moskowitz decided to focus on Beach Volleyball as a career, the same character traits were unleashed. Rebecca’s passion for the game is expressed by the way [...]

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Volleyball Alphabet Song

Ah, holidays. More time to hang around, relax and see what’s happening on the net.
Every now and then I look to see what’s up in Danny Kinda’s world. Recently Danny and responded musically to an email request to name a volleyball technique for every letter of the alphabet. For “z” he had to pull out [...]

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PROfiles Mike Slean

Mike Slean has experienced success at all levels of his volleyball career. After winning an OFSAA Championship in High School Mike attended the University of Toronto. While at U of T Mike’s career took off winning an OUA Championship and being an OUA First Team All Star in all 5 years of his Varsity Blues [...]

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PROfiles Margo Malowney

A few things should come to mind when you think about beach volleyball and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The obvious ones being, it was the first time beach volleyball was an official Olympic sport and that John Child and Mark Heese won the Bronze Medal. The best kept secret from the games is [...]

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Coalition Rallies for Team Sports

The large majority of Canadians who participate in sport do so as part of a team. Yet only 17 per cent of the government’s core athletic funding goes to team sport organizations.
United in concern for the future of their sports, Volleyball Canada and eighteen other national sport-governing bodies have joined forces to raise awareness of [...]

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