At the 2011 OVAtion Awards Banquet the OVA recognized the achievements of four excellent coaches, honouring them as Coaches of the Year. The OVA Male and Female Development Coach of the Year Award is presented to coaches for their history in developing athletes and teams within the OVA and for their contribution to the development [...]
Read More..>>The OVA’s Special Achievement Award is presented bi-annually at the OVAtion Awards Banquet to an individual to recognize an outstanding contribution to volleyball at the provincial level for 15 years or more. The recipient of the 2011 Special Achievement Award is John Long.
John started playing volleyball in his native Switzerland. In Canada, his playing experience [...]
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..>>At the OVAtion Awards Banquet on December 3rd, 2011 the Recognition Award was presented to 13 outstanding individuals in the volleyball community. The Recognition Award is presented to an individual who has been involved in the development of volleyball at the club or local community level for 5 years or more.
The 2011 Recognition Award recipients [...]
The Guelph Gryphons men’s volleyball team is pleased to announce the addition of Guelph native Tim Warnholtz to the program for the 2012-13 season
“Tim is a very gifted volleyball player and an even better man. His work ethic is second to none and he plays with unbelievable passion. We recruited Tim because he is the [...]
The Hespeler Scorpions Youth Volleyball Club are pleased to announce the hiring of Mark Frayne as Developmental Coordinator for their Spikes II and House League Program.
The Hespeler Scorpions Volleyball Club had the largest winter Ontario Volleyball Association SPIKES Learn to Play Program in Ontario. They had also had the largest winter house league program in [...]
The winners of the Paul Brownstein Award for Male Camper and the Nicole Schwertner Award for Female Camper at the 2011 Madawaska Volleyball Camp were announced at the end of the camp’s summer session on September 3rd, 2011. This year’s recipients of the prestigious awards are Jake Nothdurft and Victoria Ho. Both Nothdurft and Ho [...]
Read More..>>The lake waving to you from your south side, the fine granules of Ashbridge’s sand squeezing through your toes and, before you for one brief moment, a Wilson ready to be overkilled into your opponent’s territory.
For the past year, the Ontario Volleyball Association has basked in the free access to one of Canada’s finest beaches [...]
While his classmates were at the prom, dancing and discussing dreams, Jacob Siekierski was in a Rexdale gymnasium making his own dreams come true.
Being a few hours late for graduation paid off for him on the weekend when he was selected by the Ontario Volleyball Association to represent Ontario at the National Team Challenge Cup [...]
Paul Langan acknowledges that it was his daughter Katie that gave him “something to do”. After watching her play competitive soccer out of town and then follow that up for one year of volleyball, the Hespeler resident decided to take matters into his own hands. Last year, he started the Hespeler Scorpions Volleyball Club, forming [...]
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