OTTAWA – With its top players currently playing overseas in professional leagues, Canada will field its Full-time Training Centre squad for the men’s volleyball tournament at the Pan Am Games which gets underway next week in Guadalajara, Mexico.
At the Pan Am Games tournament, Canada is in Group B with Brazil, the U.S., and Puerto Rico. [...]
The Trinity Western University Spartans, the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) men’s volleyball champions, will represent Canada at the eight-team FIVB Club Championships set for October 8-14 in Doha, Qatar.
Canada is in pool A with clubs from Poland, Russia and Iran. Pool B clubs are from Italy, Egypt, Brazil and Qatar. Italy’s Trentino BetClic’s, which includes [...]
CAGUAS, Puerto Rico – Canada gained some steam for the playoff round with a strong effort in a 25-19, 25-19, 25-23 loss to powerhouse U.S.,  on Tuesday in round robin action at the NORCECA (North and Central America and Caribbean) women’s volleyball championships.
“I’m proud of how we executed today,’’ said Canadian player Julie Young of [...]
Canada’s national women’s volleyball team will use the NORCECA (North and Central America and Caribbean) Championships as an important building block towards its upcoming Olympic qualifying season.
The tournament runs from Monday to Saturday in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
“The NORCECA championship is a great tournament,” said Arnd Ludwig, Team Canada’s head coach. “These are the top teams [...]
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 [...]
HALIFAX – After starting the tournament with two losses, top-seeds Victoria Altomare and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto are headed to the women’s gold medal match at the FIVB world under-21 beach volleyball championships.
On the men’s side, Garrett May and Danny Demyanenko of Toronto advanced to the bronze medal match.
Altomare and Humana-Parades posted two thrilling wins [...]
HALIFAX – Top-seeds Garrett May and Danny Demyanenko of Toronto and sixth seeds Fiodar Kazhamiaka of Waterloo, Ont., and William Sidgwick of Toronto advanced to the quarterfinals in men’s competition Friday at the FIVB World under-21 beach volleyball championships.
Meanwhile on the women’s side, top-seeds Victoria Altomare and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto are into the quarterfinals [...]
Number-one seeds Garrett May and Danny Demyanenko of Toronto posted victories in their opening two matches in men’s round robin play on Thursday to open the 25-country under-21 world championships in beach volleyball.
Fiodar Kazhamiaka of Waterloo, Ont., and William Sidgwick of Toronto also won twice.
May, who won the under-21 world title last year with Sam [...]
Garrett May won’t have the element of surprise on his side this time.
The Toronto teen shares the No. 1 men’s seed at this week’s FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch junior world championships in Halifax but he’s also breaking in a new partner and wearing a big bull’s-eye as the defending champ that everyone’s gunning for.
“I can’t [...]
Canada’s Men’s National volleyball team has secured a spot for themselves in the 2012 Edition of the World League with a decisive 3-0, 25-19, 25-14 and 25-19 on Sunday at the K-Rock Centre.
Canadian Gavin Schmitt led all scorers with 14 points over two sets, including 3 crucial service aces in the first set to put [...]
