Marie-Andre Lessard and Annie Martin upset 11th seeds Doris Schwaiger and Stefanie Schwaiger of Austria in their opening main draw match at the Swatch FIVB World Tour Grand Slam event in Moscow.
“We were expecting a tough match but we’ve had success against them in the past” said Lessard, who posted three ninth-place finishes with Martin [...]
Beach Volley Around the World (BVAW), the new amateur Beach Volleyball initiative to feature at SWATCH FIVB World Tour venues this year, should help provide a vital stepping stone to the SWATCH FIVB World Tour for countries that have struggled to make the transition from amateur to professional in the past, says BVAW Vice-President Mr [...]
Read More..>>Canada’s second beach teams both men’s and women’s were unsuccessful in their bid to win their way out of the qualifier in Blackpool for the SWATCH FIVB Junior U21 World Championships. The men’s team of Dearing-May won their first match Wednesday morning against Mohoric-Ponikvar of Slovenia 2-0 (21-18, 21-13). Later in the day they lost [...]
Read More..>>Mark Cossarin is not just the principal at I.E. Weldon Secondary School in Lindsay. He has also been an international beach volleyball referee for the past 13 years and has finally decided to hang up his whistle. He has just returned from Europe after refereeing on the SWATCH FIVB World Beach Volleyball Tour for the [...]
Read More..>>Christian Redmann and Richard VanHuizen entered “unchartered territory” for their partnership on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour as the 22nd-seeded Canadians reached the men’s quarter-finals at the US$600,000 Grand Slam Moscow 2009 by winning their opening elimination match Saturday morning.
With their 21-17, 19-21 and 15-13 win in 54 minutes over 10th-seeded Yury Bogatov and Serguei [...]
Canadian women’s beach volleyball team of Annie Martin and Marie-Andree Lessard had two surprise wins Wednesday at the 1-to-1-energy Grand Slam FIVB World Tour event being held in Gstaad, Switzerland.
After beating out the Maria Clara-Carol of Brazil (2-1) and Forrer-Schmocker of Switzerland (2-0), the Canadian team clinched a spot in the quarterfinals.
The US$600,000 1-to-1-energy Grand [...]
