Ontario’s Kaitlyn Krizmanich and Caleigh Whitaker represented Canada at the recent U21 Jr Worlds in Blackpool, England where they made it through to the Quarterfinals. Krizmanich and Whitaker, lost to No. 8 Jazmin Machado and Summer Ross of the U.S., 21-13, 21-16. The Ontario pair went 2-1 in the round robin section of the tournament [...]
Read More..>>Temperatures are a little warmer today in Blackpool, England, site of the U21 FIVB Junior World Beach Championships as pool play finishes up for the 24 men’s and women’s main draw teams as they play their final two pool play matches after which the field will be reduced to 16 to begin the single elimination [...]
Read More..>>The SWATCH FIVB Junior World Championships will be staged September 15-20 as England will host the Beach Volleyball event for players under the age of 21 for the second-straight year in the seaside town of Blackpool.
A total of 74 teams (39 men, 35 women) representing 30 nations will be heading to England for the championship [...]
Congratulations to Ontario’s beach teams as both finished top of their respective pools at the Canada Games in PEI. The female duo of Dianne Burrows and Caleigh Whitaker won all of their matches and only gave up a set to New Brunswick in a hard fought match winning the third 16-14 and one to [...]
Read More..>>Laurier Golden Hawk Sam Schachter, along with his team mate Steve Marshall from BC, defeated the Ontarian duo of Kevin Horne and Steven Clarey 2-0 (21-13, 21-19) to win the U21 beach volleyball selection tournament held at Toronto’s Beach Blast in late June.
The victory means that Schachter qualifies to represent Canada at the U21 FIVB [...]
The August long weekend represented the final three days of training for the 2009 Beach Provincial Team. This year’s program included a five weekend long, Canada Games Team selection process that resulted in the teams of Dianne Burrows/Caleigh Whitaker and Adam Podstawka/Reid Hall winning the opportunity to represent Ontario in the beach volleyball competition at [...]
Read More..>>Caleigh Whitaker and Dianne Burrows, Adam Podstawka and Reid Hall, will represent Ontario at the 2009 Canada Games in Prince Edward Island this August.
The women’s final was a tightly contested match played in front of a large crowd on centre court at Ashbridges Bay, Toronto. After winning the first set, Whitaker-Burrows began the second set [...]
Who will represent Ontario on the beach at this summer’s Canada Games? Last weekend’s tournament has shown us, there is no easy answer.
Twelve of the top women’s beach athletes participated in the first official Canada Games qualifying event. Last weekend’s tournament was an opportunity to play with their new partners and battle for the seedings [...]
