Volleyball Canada has recently received confirmation of the dates for the NORCECA (North and Central America and Carribean) Women’s Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament. The competition was initially scheduled for this week, but was postponed due to financial difficulties of the host. The event will remain in Tijuana, Mexico, and is now scheduled for April 29 [...]
Read More..>>The Officials’ Award of Merit was established in 1998 and is presented biannually at the OVAtion Awards Banquet by the Officials’ Committee in recognition of dedicated service to volleyball in Ontario.
At this year’s Awards Banquet, two officials were recognized for their outstanding contributions to the sport:
Eric Lawlor
For over 10 years, Eric has served as the [...]
Read More..>>The OVA Achievement Award is presented to an individual who has had an impact on volleyball development at the regional or provincial level for 10 years or more. This year the OVA honoured 8 Achievement Award recipients at the bi-annual OVAtion Awards Banquet held on December 3rd, 2011.
The 2011 Achievement Award Winners are:
Denis Levesque
Denis [...]
Read More..>>Canada will be in group B with world number-one Brazil, Poland and Finland as the groupings for the 16-country World League men’s volleyball tournament were announced today by the FIVB (Volleyball’s International Federation).
The World League will be part of an important and busy 2012 season for the Canadian squad, ranked 19th in the world, which [...]
Halifax will become the first city to host back-to-back FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch Junior World Championships after the sport’s governing body announced that the waterfront town will welcome the world’s best junior players once again in 2012.
The six day tournament will take place from August 28 to September 2 and features a Main Draw of [...]
A great tournament run and a breakthrough season concluded on Saturday for Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney of Toronto as they finished seventh at the final stop on the FIVB World Tour circuit.
The Canadian pair equaled its best-ever international result achieved this past July at the World Tour stop in Quebec City. The showing should [...]
Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney of Toronto split their opening two matches on Wednesday to remain in contention at a stop on the FIVB beach volleyball World Tour circuit.
Bansley and Maloney, seeded 18th, defeated 15th seeds Satoko Urata and Takemi Nishibori of Japan 21-17, 21-12 in 34 minutes. In the second round they lost to [...]
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 [...]
The Trinity Western University Spartans from Surrey, B.C., concluded round robin play Tuesday with a 25-17, 25-20, 25-18 loss to KS Jastrzebski Wegiel from Poland at the FIVB Club World Championships in men’s volleyball.
The Spartans finish at 1-2 for third spot in its pool and don’t advance to the playoff round. Only the top-two in [...]
Rudy Verhoeff of Calgary led all scorers with 26 points on Monday as the Trinity Western University Spartans from Surrey, B.C., defeated Iran’s Parkan Club 25-23, 18-25, 17-25, 25-18, 15-6 on Monday at the FIVB Club World Championships in men’s volleyball.
The Spartans even their round robin record at 1-1 to remain in contention for a [...]
