It’s not often that the biggest win of a player’s career is followed closely by the seemingly radical decision to change playing partners, but that’s exactly what Sam Schachter was faced with late last year.
The monumental victory came Sept. 19 in the World Junior Beach Volleyball Championships in Alanya, Turkey. Schachter and Garrett May, both [...]
It was a day to forget for Canada in volleyball – on the court and beach- on Wednesday at the Pan American Games.
On court, the Canadian women are still searching for their first win after falling to Peru in a consolation semifinal. They will play for seventh place on Thursday. On the beach both Canadian [...]
Jordan MacIntyre served up a record-setting dose of dominance Friday.
Part of a Milton District senior volleyball squad with hopes of a return to the Halton Tier 1 final, the star player ran up 17 straight points at the service line — 16 of them aces with his fierce flying delivery — in the second set [...]
Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney of Toronto showed the patience that made them one of the breakout teams in international beach volleyball this year in their opening match victory Sunday at the Pan Am Games.
Bansley and Maloney defeated Virginia Zonta and Ana Gallay of Argentina 18-21, 22-20, 15-6 under ideal conditions at the beach resort [...]
If there’s one thing Kara Zakrzewski learned in her years as a beach volleyball player, it’s that knowledge is power.
The former Canadian international has spent 10 years with the Esteem Team, a group that visits youth in school with a message of empowerment, inspiration and goal setting.
“It allows me to reach out to youth and [...]
Most teenagers spend the summer hanging out with their friends, traveling or going to the cottage. Etobicoke teenager Andrew Kos spent every day from mid-May to the end of August either training or competing in beach volleyball.
The Grade 9 student from Bishop Allen Academy knew the season-ending national tournament would be very competitive. After winning [...]
The winners of the Paul Brownstein Award for Male Camper and the Nicole Schwertner Award for Female Camper at the 2011 Madawaska Volleyball Camp were announced at the end of the camp’s summer session on September 3rd, 2011. This year’s recipients of the prestigious awards are Jake Nothdurft and Victoria Ho. Both Nothdurft and Ho [...]
Read More..>>Volleyball Canada has announced its men’s and women’s pairings for the beach volleyball competition at the Pan Am Games set for next month in Guadalajara although the beach volleyball events will take place in Puerto Vallarta.
The women’s team is Heather Bansley of Watertown, Ont., and Elizabeth Maloney of Toronto and for the men it is [...]
At least they were beat by the best.
Milton’s Jordan MacIntyre and his Aurora partner Stephen Maar were hoping to venture a little further into the championship sanctum during this past weekend’s Under-18 beach volleyball nationals at Toronto’s Ashbridges Bay.
But that bid hit a major hurdle — in the form of the most unfavourable of quarterfinal [...]
HALIFAX – Top-seeds Victoria Altomare and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto won the silver medal in women’s competition on Sunday to conclude the FIVB under-21 world beach volleyball championships.
In the women’s final, Altomare and Humana-Parades, seeded number-one, lost 21-16, 14-21, 15-11 to eighth seeds Nina Betschart and Joana Heidrich of Switzerland.
The Canadian pair started the tournament [...]
