BURNABY — Jayme Bratsberg doesn’t have it in her to be the loudmouth libero.
University Women’s Volleyball
The Miracle Season: How B.C.’s volleyball community helped bring a landmark female sports movie to the big screen
VANCOUVER — Baseball has Field of Dreams, football has Rudy and basketball has Hoosiers. Volleyball?
UFV’s Amanda Matsui: She follows the volleyball compass in her heart to starring role as Cacades host PacWest provincials
ABBOTSFORD — For Amanda Matsui, the map of her own version of the road less travelled takes two years to navigate.
Katie Devaney: From humble goals to huge presence, TWU’s star middle brings her true centre to Spartan nation
LANGLEY — Katie Devaney was convinced that she knew how to dream big. So five years ago, the senior volleyball star at Port Coquitlam’s Terry Fox Secondary School set in her mind, an ambitious goal to be a starter by the midway mark of her impending university career with Langley’s powerhouse Trinity Western Spartans.
Capilano U’s Incredible Isabela: Paralysis steals her smile, but grit helps Lima get her life back
NORTH VANCOUVER — If only this were a fairy tale, the kind where you could peek a few pages ahead to assure yourself of a happy ending.
Tessa’s Terms: Simon Fraser’s gutsy middle blocker on living a true May Day
BURNABY — Tessa May has struck a treaty with her aching shins, a peace accord of sorts that says she’ll do the hundreds of hours of physiotherapy as long as she gets to pull on her No. 21 game-day jersey with the Simon Fraser Clan volleyball team.
UBC women’s volleyball: Voices from a dynasty ago offer meaning as ‘Birds begin U Sports national title defence
VANCOUVER — Doug Reimer has coached UBC women’s volleyball in two different centuries, parts of three different decades and most historically, to seven U Sports national championship crowns. That’s the long way of saying he’s seen it all.
After multiple knee surgeries and transfer to SFU, Clan middle blocker Kilberg back in the saddle again
BURNABY — Perseverance in the face of adversity is best defined by that old saying which tells us to get right back on our horse.
The Power of Maddy: Clan senior Madison Power a foundational key in success of SFU volleyball
BURNABY MOUNTAIN — Ask Gina Schmidt about her first official day on the job as the then-new head coach of the Simon Fraser Clan volleyball team and you get a story filled with both comedy and karma.“I watched one practice where they weren’t really doing a lot of game play,” Schmidt remembers of a day […]
Brianna Beamish: Singular purpose carries ex-UBC O Heat star to new heights
SURREY — Brianna Beamish has been handed a lot of different roles throughout her volleyball career but none say more about her singular impact than the script which calls for her to maintain her true identity.“I have always had a team-first mentality and I firmly believe that a player should do whatever they can to […]