Sports fans love to debate who is the best player of a particular sport. Hockey’s Gretzky, Crosby or Ovechkin? Football’s Montana, Manning or Brady? And basketball’s Jordan, Bryant or James? are all timeless arguments. In volleyball the debate gets even more interesting when you consider two of the best players of all time were teammates [...]
Read More..>>Beach Volleyball is a rather unique sport whereby coaches cannot coach or be directly involved in the competitions. Therefore coaches need to prepare their athletes even more to be independent, mentally tough and possess the ability to problem solve themselves during matches. As a result, coaches sometimes do not receive or even expect recognition for [...]
Read More..>>It might be fair to say that if you asked the top men and women players in Canada who their favourite players were growing up, the answer would be John Child and Mark Heese. Their team alone raised the profile and popularity of Beach Volleyball in Canada with their bronze at the Atlanta Olympic Games [...]
Read More..>>Graduating from the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario for Law are two major accomplishments that require a lot of hard work and dedication. When Rebecca Moskowitz decided to focus on Beach Volleyball as a career, the same character traits were unleashed. Rebecca’s passion for the game is expressed by the way [...]
Read More..>>Mike Slean has experienced success at all levels of his volleyball career. After winning an OFSAA Championship in High School Mike attended the University of Toronto. While at U of T Mike’s career took off winning an OUA Championship and being an OUA First Team All Star in all 5 years of his Varsity Blues [...]
Read More..>>A few things should come to mind when you think about beach volleyball and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The obvious ones being, it was the first time beach volleyball was an official Olympic sport and that John Child and Mark Heese won the Bronze Medal. The best kept secret from the games is [...]
Read More..>>There isn’t much Christian Redmann sits around wishing for other than 12 months of summer. He has worked hard to earn everything he has accomplished in his beach volleyball career.
His career began with a unique situation in his home town of Oro Station. “I started playing beach because my best friend got a beach court [...]
With 17 years of experience that includes highlights such as Team Captain of the Michigan State University Spartans, competing in the NCAA Final Four and a pro career in Europe, some people might wonder why Dana Cooke would ever give up playing indoor volleyball for beach.
When asked what she most likes about beach, her reply [...]
You can’t control a lot of things in sports, but there are two things you can control; how hard you work and how much fun you have doing it. Few people demonstrate this as well as Tori Cowley. Like most volleyball players Tori started playing indoor then transitioned to beach.
Once she started playing beach she [...]
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 [...]
