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Men and Women Hawks Golden

A dominating season to say the least, it was only fitting for the powerful Humber Hawks to walk away with a Men’s Volleyball Provincial Championship and a trip to the CCAA Nationals in Alberta. The Hawks defeated the Seneca Sting in the Gold medal match 3-0. Game scores were 25-15, 25-22, and 25-23. Humber finished [...]

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Talsma and Bramwell All Canadians

It was a fitting end to a storied career for Redeemer University College’s Ryan Talsma who was honoured as the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association’s Men’s Volleyball Player of the Year at the OCAA championship breakfast banquet in Ancaster.
The Orono, Ontario native, finished the 2009-10 season ranking in the top three in [...]

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Mountaineers Playoff Bound

Mohawk College’s volleyball teams are headed to the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association championships.
The Mountaineer men mounted a furious fourth set comeback on the way to a 3-1 (25-20, 16-25, 25-19, 26-24) victory over the Trent Excalibur in crossover playoff action at the Fennell Gymnasium on Saturday (Feb. 20). Mohawk was led by Mo Sulaiman with [...]

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Doris Tops in Blocks

The legacy of Mandi Doris continues to grow at Durham College.
The fifth-year volleyball player from Ajax made history in January, becoming the all-time kills leader in Lords women’s volleyball history with 421. Her mark passed the previous top total of Erin Smith, who had 417.
Durham’s captain set the new mark Sunday January 23, but the [...]

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Nipissing Lakers Reach Final

The Nipissing Lakers men’s volleyball team walked away with silver medals from the weekend’s Seneca Invitational tournament, falling to the Fanshawe Falcons 3-1 (16-25, 25-19, 25-21, 25-23) in the final.
The tournament featured five ranked teams in the OCAA and proved to be a good test for the team to begin the season’s second half, according [...]

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OCAA Athlete of the Week

Kerissa Van Amersfoort, this week’s top female athlete built a strong case for being named as the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association athlete of the week, with her near-record performance on the volleyball court in a home game Saturday against Sheridan.
Her 12 service aces in Niagara’s 3-1 defeat of the Bruins was one shy of the [...]

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Mohawk Mountaineers Undefeated

Mohawk College swept St. Clair from Windsor in both men’s and women’s Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) volleyball matches at the Fennell Gymnasium Friday (Nov. 6).
In the women’s contest, the Mountaineers won, 25-20, 25-22, 25-15, to improve to 4-0, the last remaining undefeated team in the West Region, while the Saints fell to 3-1. Allison [...]

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Sweet Smell of Success

Head coach Gord Williamson just may be one volley away from bringing out a huge urn and encouraging his troops to “wake up and smell the coffee!”
Fully expecting a one-sided victory on home court with the Trent Excalibur from Peterborough as guests, the Durham Lords men’s volleyball squad was inexplicably coaxed into a lull long [...]

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PROfile Landis Doyle

It doesn’t matter if she’s in a gym or on the beach, Landis Doyle has the talent to take over a match.
Landis’s volleyball career includes 11 years of indoor and five on the beach. She started her indoor career with the Durham Attack club and has grown into a solid college player starting for the [...]

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Mountaineers Tuneup

The Mohawk women’s volleyball team continued to prepare for the upcoming Ontario Colleges Athletic Association season. Playing four exhibition sets with the Burlington Defensa Under-17 club last Thursday at the Fennell Gym, the Mountaineers ended up tying them 2-2.
“Defensa finished second in Ontario last year,” said Mohawk head coach Sean Pellow. “They are a very [...]

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