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 [...]
Read More..>>Temperatures are a little warmer today in Blackpool, England, site of the U21 FIVB Junior World Beach Championships as pool play finishes up for the 24 men’s and women’s main draw teams as they play their final two pool play matches after which the field will be reduced to 16 to begin the single elimination [...]
Read More..>>Canada’s second beach teams both men’s and women’s were unsuccessful in their bid to win their way out of the qualifier in Blackpool for the SWATCH FIVB Junior U21 World Championships. The men’s team of Dearing-May won their first match Wednesday morning against Mohoric-Ponikvar of Slovenia 2-0 (21-18, 21-13). Later in the day they lost [...]
Read More..>>The SWATCH FIVB Junior World Championships will be staged September 15-20 as England will host the Beach Volleyball event for players under the age of 21 for the second-straight year in the seaside town of Blackpool.
A total of 74 teams (39 men, 35 women) representing 30 nations will be heading to England for the championship [...]
The Canadian men and women’s national volleyball teams both took full advantage of their last chance to qualify for the World Championships in 2010. Both teams finished their qualification tournaments with 3-0 records earning each team one of the last two final berths from their NORCECA competitions to the 2010 World Championships.
Canada and Costa Rica [...]
