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 [...]
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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>There isn’t much Christian Redmann sits around wishing for other than 12 months of summer. He has worked hard to earn everything he has accomplished in his beach volleyball career.
His career began with a unique situation in his home town of Oro Station. “I started playing beach because my best friend got a beach court [...]
Canada’s women’s volleyball team will face some tough competition in round robin play next year at the world championships as the draw for the tournament was held today in Tokyo.
Canada, ranked 23rd in the world, will compete in pool D with number-three China, number-four Russia, South Korea (12), Dominican Republic (14) and Turkey (20). A [...]
Julie Rodrigue of Quebec City and Katherine Zakrzewski of Toronto nearly upset the top-seeded British pair in qualifying on Wednesday to open the 14th and final stop on the FIVB World Tour women’s beach
volleyball circuit in Phuket, Thailand.
Rodrigue and Zakrzewski, competing for the second time together, opened the qualifying round Wednesday with a victory over [...]
The FIVB, the international governing body for volleyball, announced the pools for the 2010 Men’s World Volleyball Championships to be held in 10 Italian cities from September 24 to October 10. Canada will be in pool F with Serbia, Germany and Poland and will play its round robin matches in Trieste, Italy.
“We are definitely going [...]
Marie-Andree Lessard of Ville LaSalle, Que., and Annie Martin of Sherbrooke, Que., lost their two matches on Thursday at the 13th stop on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour circuit in Sanya, China. The eighth seeded Canadian team will be ranked 25th for the tournament.
Lessard and Martin lost their first round match to 20-year old [...]
The Drawing of Lots for the FIVB 2010 Men’s Volleyball World Championships will be streamed live by official host broadcaster RAI TV on the FIVB website this afternoon.
The celebrated event will take place at 17:00 (2 pm Canada EST) from Rome and volleyball fans around the world can view the hour long ceremony live on [...]
Ontario’s Kaitlyn Krizmanich and Caleigh Whitaker represented Canada at the recent U21 Jr Worlds in Blackpool, England where they made it through to the Quarterfinals. Krizmanich and Whitaker, lost to No. 8 Jazmin Machado and Summer Ross of the U.S., 21-13, 21-16. The Ontario pair went 2-1 in the round robin section of the tournament [...]
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