Our women’s team of Whitaker-Facca lost a heart breaker against Germany in the event’s official first round after two days of exciting pool play. After losing the first game 16-21, the women bounced back with a convincing 21-15 win. The high winds that had affected many of the previous matches had died down to a [...]
Read More..>>Canadian Women Facca-Whitaker have made it through pool play to the first round at the U19 World Beach Volleyball Championships in The Hague. An earlier loss today against the Russia’s first team (18-21, 19-21) did not disqualify them from moving on. An early strategy to use the wind’s volatility gave the Canadian a solid lead [...]
Read More..>>Earlier today, our men’s team of Fenton-Schachter had a disappointing performance against a strong Austrian team of Eglseer-Koraimann losing 21-16-21-12. The temperatures soared to 30 degrees C, hot and sunny for The Hague, which is usually tempered by winds from the North Sea. The boys faded quickly in a 20 minute match. They look to [...]
Read More..>>Canada`s Louise Facca and Caleigh Whittaker sailed past their first opponents with an easy two set win (21-15, 21-12) over Australia`s Zina Stone and Mariafe Artacho in the U19 World Championships in The Hague. The Aussies were well known to the Canadian`s having trained and scrimmaged with them here at Scheveningen Beach prior to start [...]
Read More..>>It took 50 minutes and three games (16-21, 21-15, 15-10) for our team of Schachter and Fenton to dispose of the Latvians on centre court, in their opening match at The U19 World Championships.
The team started slowly but overcame their opening set jitters to dominate in games two and three. Individually, Sam Schachter blocked exceptionally [...]
