The fourth-place finish by OUA champion McMaster is the best result in the program’s history and the highest finish by an OUA team since Toronto was fourth in 1997-98. The Marauders’ best ranking in eight previous CIS tourney appearances was a fifth position in 1990-91.
“It’s a process. Last year we got here as the OUA [...]
The No. 2-seeded University of British Columbia Thunderbirds repeated as CIS women’s volleyball champions with a spectacular five-set win (25-20, 22-25, 29-27, 20-25, 15-9) over the No. 4 Calgary Dinos, Saturday night, at UNB’s Aitken University Centre.
The Thunderbirds, who ended a 30-year gold-medal drought last season with an equally thrilling five-set, come-from-behind victory over Montreal, [...]
Led by fifth-year left side Lauren Perry (18 kills, 17 digs) and Canada West player of the year Holly Harper (13 kills, 16 digs) the No. 4-seeded Calgary Dinos upset the No. 1 Montreal Carabins in five sets (19-25, 25-13, 20-25, 27-25, 15-12), Friday night, in a thrilling late semi-final at the 2009 CIS women’s [...]
Read More..>>For the second straight season, fourth-year Montreal power hitter Laetitia Tchoualack of Paris, France, is the CIS women’s volleyball player of the year.
Tchoualack became the seventh player to claim back-to-back Mary Lyons awards and is the eighth double recipient since the trophy was first presented in 1981-82. The last player to be named CIS MVP [...]
For the second year in a row, the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack will open the CIS National Men’s Volleyball Championships against a team from the East.
The WolfPack, captured the bronze medal at the Canada West Final Four on the weekend and will take on the Ontario Champions, the McMaster Mauraders.
The WolfPack go in as the [...]
The Montreal Carabins travel to Fredericton this week looking to capture the first CIS women’s volleyball title in team history, and hoping to erase the painful memories of a heartbreaking defeat.
A year ago, Montreal had its best-ever finish at the CIS championship, reaching the gold-medal match for the first time in program history. But the [...]
The Women’s Western Mustangs finished in third place at the Innisbrook Invitational Volleyball Tournament in Clearwater, Florida, defeating Calgary in five sets in the bronze medal game on Dec. 31.
After defeating CIS ranked No.10 McGill 3-1 in the quarter-final game, Western fell 3-1 to CIS ranked No.4 Manitoba (24-26,15-25, 28-26, 23-25) to qualify for the [...]
Years ago, what happened yesterday at Western would have been called a love-in.
If it was a movie, it would have earned two thumbs up.
Therese Quigley was officially introduced as Western’s new director of sports and recreation services, although she doesn’t take over until July 2009.
The room was packed by friends, coaches, administrators, family, media, some [...]
The Canadian beach duo of Ahren Cadieux and Rich Van Huizen posted their first major upset of the US$175,000 Bahrain Open Wednesday when they defeated the defending champions of the event Nummerdor-Schuil of the Netherlands.
Playing partners for the first-time they were seeded 16th in the 32-team Main Draw. Cadieux and VanHuizen posted a 21-18 and [...]
Canadian Interuniversity Sport proudly announced the student-athletes honoured as Desjardins Top Eight Academic All-Canadians for the 2007-08 season. Three of these eight distinguished student-athletes are volleyball players: Niklas Rademacher, Jennifer Thomson and Ben Schellenberg.
Every year, a growing number of CIS student-athletes are recognized as Academic All-Canadians, having maintained a grade point average (GPA) of 80 [...]
