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Canada’s national men’s volleyball team couldn’t capitalize on a first set victory and fell to Cuba 1-3, (25-23, 18-25, 24-26, 20-25) in the third and final match of their pre-world championship series held Saturday at Universite Laval.
Cuba wins the series two games to one. The Cubans took the opening match on Tuesday in Mississauga in [...]

The gangly guys of the Canadian men’s volleyball team are extraordinarily tall, and they need to be – they’ve got the world on their shoulders.
With many of them standing over two metres tall, playing professionally in Europe for eight months of the year and having a star coach to shepherd their development back home, Canada [...]

Gavin Schmitt of Saskatoon scored match point on a service ace as the Canadian Men’s National Volleyball Team defeated Cuba 25-23, 25-22, 26-28, 28-26 last night in the second match of a three-game series between the two world championship-bound teams at ScotiaBank Place, Kanata.
With the victory, Canada evens the series at 1-1.  Cuba won the [...]

Last night, Cuba beat Canada in three straight sets in front of a crowd of about 3,000 at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. Some unforced errors and imperfect passing by the Canadians contributed to Cuba’s 25-18, 26-24, 25-20 win. Canada’s best and match came in the second set, when the team – led by some [...]

The Canadian Men’s National Volleyball Team will be hosting the Cuban National Volleyball Team for a series of exhibition matches in Toronto, Ottawa and Quebec City in late August. What a great opportunity to see our Canadian Men’s team in action, at home, against the high-powered Cubans! The exhibition matches will serve as preparation [...]

Canada was victorious after winning 3-0 in the last match of an exhibition series against the men’s Australian volleyball team at the Palais des Sports in Sherbrooke, QC Saturday night.
The Australians could not keep up with the energetic Canadian team, who took all three sets (25-16, 25-20, 31-29). In an exciting third set, the crowd [...]