Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney of Toronto as well as Kacie MacTavish of Sharon, Ont., and Julie Rodrigue of Quebec City advanced to the round of 16 on Thursday at the FIVB beach volleyball international.
The competition is the Olympic test event for next summer’s Games.
Bansley and Maloney, seeded fifth, concluded the round robin with a [...]
Julie Longman and Tia Miric were recently able to achieve beach dominance, by winning not only the 16U Provincial title, but also upsetting the competition at the 18U level, to win double gold. Longman and Miric, were brought together through the National Practice Centre, when they entered an Identification Camp, earlier this summer. The camp [...]
Read More..>>Close to a hundred Canadian student-athletes got their first taste of the 26th Summer Universiade on Monday morning when the country’s flag was officially raised at the Athletes’ Village in Shenzhen, China.
The Summer Universiade is the second largest multisport event in the world, trailing only the Olympics. Close to 9,000 athletes from over 150 countries [...]
The lake waving to you from your south side, the fine granules of Ashbridge’s sand squeezing through your toes and, before you for one brief moment, a Wilson ready to be overkilled into your opponent’s territory.
For the past year, the Ontario Volleyball Association has basked in the free access to one of Canada’s finest beaches [...]
Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney of Toronto as well as Kacie MacTavish of Sharon, Ont., and Julie Rodrigue of Quebec City advanced to the main draw on Tuesday at a stop in the FIVB beach volleyball World Tour.
Both squads posted two wins in Tuesday’s qualifying. The victories continued an impressive string of success for Bansley [...]
While his classmates were at the prom, dancing and discussing dreams, Jacob Siekierski was in a Rexdale gymnasium making his own dreams come true.
Being a few hours late for graduation paid off for him on the weekend when he was selected by the Ontario Volleyball Association to represent Ontario at the National Team Challenge Cup [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
