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New Hurricane Bill Seto

Bill Seto is always energetic and optimistic when relaying his knowledge to students and coaches.
Bill Seto has come out of retirement once again for the game he loves.
Seto, who looks much younger than his 70 years, was recently named the Halton Region Volleyball Club’s technical director.
As a player, coach and referee in the sport for [...]

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Blaze Introduces Boys Program

After 17 years of being a girls only volleyball club, Burlington Blaze will field boys teams for next month.
Blaze founder and president Andy Nicholson admitted the club has been thinking about adding a boys program for several years.
It has been approached by numerous elementary and secondary school coaches as well as players  from as far [...]

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Pakmen Duo Strikes Again

Ricky Brar and Dzmitry Darashkou, of the Mississauga Pakmen volleyball club, won Ontario Summer Games gold in Sudbury.
The beach volleyball duo defeated Brad Crain and Blake Scheerhoorn, of Northumberland, 2-1 (17-21, 21-18, 15-10) in the final.
Brar and Darashkou went 6-1 the rest of the weekend, losing their only match to Crain and Scheerhoorn in the [...]

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Scorpions in Cambridge

Waterloo Region has a new volleyball club. Long-time sports volunteer Paul Langan has launched the Hespeler Scorpions Volleyball Club.
The club, a new member of the Ontario Volleyball Association, will offer the Spikes program to teach the basics of volleyball to boys and girls in Grades 4 to 8. It also will have a competitive [...]

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Region 5 White Might

The Ontario Summer Games took place last week in Sudbury. Ontario Volleyball Region 5 provided two teams at the Games — the talk about the R5-Red team was around the idea that the “Gold” was a guarantee — so, the R5-White team faced the challenge of being in the shadow of the R5-Red Team.
The R5-White [...]

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Central East Takes Gold

Selected girls representing Ontario Volleyball Region 4, from cities and towns from Pickering to Trenton and north to Peterborough, won gold for 16U at the 2010 Ontario Summer Games, held in Sudbury, Aug. 10-13.
Six Ontario Volleyball Regions competed over three days to determine the medal standings.
Region 4 girls were undefeated going into the final gold [...]

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North East at OSG

It was a tough first day for the North East Region indoor volleyball teams at the Ontario Summer Games. Playing at St. Charles College, the girls team went into its second match Wednesday having lost its first game 25-12 and 25-17.
They were taking on Region 5, which is the Central team from the Toronto area.
They [...]

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Hespeler Scorpions

An exciting new volleyball club has started up serving the youth of Cambridge and the Region of Waterloo. The Hespeler Scorpions Volleyball Club is now a member of the OVA and the new club will have two focuses.
The first is to teach youth volleyball to youth from Grades 4-8. It will be delivering the OVA [...]

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Marshall Makes it Big

Standing just a shade under six feet, Allison Marshall is a huge net presence in any volleyball game she’s a part of.
“I love the net play; I just want to block every single shot,” says the avid volleyball player. “It’s part of that don’t let any ball hit the floor mentality.”
That mentality has stood her [...]

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Moonlight Beach Sudbury

Sudbury will be overrun by almost as many athletes, coaches and officials as the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Of course, the spotlight on the 2010 Ontario Summer Games will be considerably less, co-chair Dan Lee says, but he expects Greater Sudbury to rally behind the games with the same energy Vancouver did.
The biannual sporting [...]

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