Team Canada’s junior men’s team rolled to a perfect 3-0 record in pool play with a sweep (25-20, 25-10, 25-21) of the Domincan Republic yesterday at the NORCECA Championships in El Salvador. The win earns them a rest day today and a bye into the semifinals.
Everybody got into the action yesterday, with scoring coming from […]

Team Canada’s Junior Men’s team came back from down 2 to defeat Puerto Rico in 5 (22-25, 23-25, 25-23, 25-19, 15-11) at the NORCECA Championships in El Salvador yesterday.
Joren Zeeman led the Canadian scoring with 17 points on 11 kills, 2 aces and 4 blocks. Also scoring for the Red, Black and White were Marc […]

Team Canada’s junior men’s team blanked the US (25-27, 15-25, 21-25) in their first match of pool play yesterday at the NORCECA Junior Men’s Championships in San Salvador, El Salvador.
Led by Gord Perrin with 13 points on 10 kills and 3 blocks and Jason DeRocco with 12 points on 10 kills and 2 block, the […]

Team Canada’s Junior Men are headed to El Salvador this weekend for the NORCECA Junior Championships, which kicks off on Monday.
The team will square off against USA on Monday, then meet Puerto Rico on Tuesday and the Domincan Republic on Wednesday before the playoff round begins. It should be a good tourney for this young […]

Okay, so. Volleyball news right now is deader than a dead thing that is dead. Seriously. Without Team Canada in play, there’s very little to report on. (It’s a good thing most people are going to the cottage and stuff during the summer, because it’s REALLY slow.)
So this is why I say thank doG for […]

Okay, so, Canada’s teams aren’t in anything right now, but there are a couple of big events on that offer some live scoring — AND, if you’re good with a search, some video can sometimes be found as well.
Right now, for the men, the World League is on. (You remember the World League, right? The […]

The 31st FIVB World Congress is underway in Dubai this week, and there are a couple of interesting items up for debate.
First, there’s a proposal to increase the number of players on a roster to up to 14 from the original 12. But an interesting part of that proposal includes having a compulsory 2 liberos […]

Former Dalhousie Tigers teammates Jeff Weiler and Nikolas Rademacher have found themselves as teammates once again, as both athletes just signed contracts to suit up for Evivo Düren of the German Bundesliga.
Weiler, named CIS Libero of the Year several times over during his time with the Tigers, and Rademacher, an outside hitter who was a […]

Well, with the end of the Olympic qualification tournaments, the list of qualifiers has been nailed down.
Thanks to Devo over at Devo’s Volleyball for the info. Sorry to see our Australian friends didn’t make it through their qualifier in Japan to the final 12. (I blame myself. I was cheering for them. It’s all my […]

Team Canada had disappointing final matches in both the men’s and the women’s Pan Am Cup tournaments on the weekend.
The men dropped a 4-set (25-22, 27-29, 25-22, 25-22) final to the US to bring home silver — which is still pretty darned cool, although they were gunning for gold — in Winnipeg, while the women […]