HALIFAX – Top-seeds Victoria Altomare and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto won the silver medal in women’s competition on Sunday to conclude the FIVB under-21 world beach volleyball championships.
In the women’s final, Altomare and Humana-Parades, seeded number-one, lost 21-16, 14-21, 15-11 to eighth seeds Nina Betschart and Joana Heidrich of Switzerland.
The Canadian pair started the tournament [...]
HALIFAX – After starting the tournament with two losses, top-seeds Victoria Altomare and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto are headed to the women’s gold medal match at the FIVB world under-21 beach volleyball championships.
On the men’s side, Garrett May and Danny Demyanenko of Toronto advanced to the bronze medal match.
Altomare and Humana-Parades posted two thrilling wins [...]
Three Canadian pairs in women’s competition and one more on the men’s side were added to the main draw on Wednesday following qualification action at the $380,000 Quebec Open Jeep beach volleyball tournament.
The competition is the only Canadian stop this season on the FIVB World Tour Circuit.
Victoria Altomare and Melissa Humana-Paredes, both of Toronto as [...]
With a resume that includes back-to-back 18U National Beach Championships, an AAU Junior Olympics Gold Medal and representing Canada at the 2009 FIVB U19 Youth World Championships, no one should be too surprised that Melissa Humana-Paredes has big plans for her beach career. What may come as a surprise is that Melissa has chosen not [...]
Read More..>>Garret May and William Sidgwick were the only Canadian team to advance out of their pool to the first round of the FIVB U19 Youth World Championships in Alayna, Turkey. The 13th seeded team in the tournament, they advanced last Thursday by defeating Louati-Villard from France, the Turkish team of Tayga-Anil and Chow-Del Bianco, the [...]
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..>>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 [...]
It was a summer of sand, sun and championships for Victoria Altomare.
Along with partner Melissa Humana-Paredes they stacked their trophy case, winning prestigious beach volleyball tournaments in Canada and the United States. The victories began in July when the duo captured the under 18 U.S. Beach Nationals crown in California.
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