Libero Mikaila Nederveen is leading the MAC initiative
Her call for athletic tape, bandaids, gauze or other medical supplies that can be spared to donate to the Haiti disaster victims and for a village in the Dominican Republic has been inspiring. Athletes and participants are contributing to the Medical Aid Campaign ( M.A.C.) that Mountain Athletic [...]
Read More..>>I watched my first Triple Ball Tournament this past Saturday. It was a 14U boy’s tournament at Saint Jean De Brebeuf in Woodbridge. I was very curious to see how the game would be received by the athletes, parents and coaches. I also wanted to take statistics and gather some objective data that would enable [...]
Read More..>>On Thursday, November 28, 2009, Jim Cooke was awarded the Leadership in School Sport Award, sponsored by OFSSAA. The award is given to a teacher coach who has made a significant contribution to the educational athletic program. The recipient of this award exemplifies the values of fair play and good sportsmanship, while promoting enjoyment, personal [...]
Read More..>>Two Ontario volleyball clubs were included in the 12 Ontario community sport clubs who received a Coach Grant of $2,000 each from Chevrolet, as announced this week by the Coaching Association of Canada.
Forest Hill Volleyball Club from London and Northumberland Breakers Volleyball Club of Cobourg were among 51 clubs from across Canada who will put [...]
Canadian volleyball Olympian Monica Hitchcock of St. John, N.B., won’t soon forget her participation in the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay on Monday evening in Dieppe, N.B.
“It brought back some great memories from when I competed at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles,” said Hitchcock, who was recently on the Team New Brunswick mission staff for [...]
The announcement that Toronto will host the 2015 Pan Am Games is good news for the construction industry in the Golden Horseshoe.
The bid involves 50 venues in 17 municipalities stretching in a broad swath across southern Ontario. The overall budget is $1.43 billion, with the federal and provincial governments promising $500 million each.
New venues proposed [...]
Canada’s Jessi Lelliott of Kelowna, BC and Ben Saxton of Calgary won the gold medal in comeback style yesterday in men’s beach volleyball at the Francophone Games in Beirut. Heather Bansley of Waterdown, Ont. and Julie Rodrigue of Quebec City added a bronze for Canada in women’s beach volleyball.
Lelliott and Saxton defeated Roman Sutter and [...]
Lately, Jos Nederveen has spent more time than Taylor Swift accepting awards.
Last night, St. Mary’s skipper Nederveen was named the winner of the the Wismer Award for High School Coaching Excellence.
Nederveen finished ahead of Sean Kiely (St. Mary’s), Frank Hayes (Delta), Jim Weatherbee (Saltfleet) and Stefano Giovannangeli (St. Thomas More).
“It’s an honour beyond belief to [...]
An ACL is a tiny ligament the size of a pinky that stabilizes the knee. When it ruptures or tears there is usually pain, sometimes a lot, and a sound of a pop so loud other players can sometimes hear it. It requires reconstructive surgery and six to nine months, or more, of rehab.
Some researchers [...]
Team Ontario had pretty much dominated in both indoor and beach volleyball this Canada Games. But on the final day of competition of the games both the men’s and women’s teams had to settle for silver medals in indoor finals, to add to the gold medal won by Reid Hall and Adam Podstawka and [...]
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