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Tag: volleyball

There is a huge B.C. flavour behind The Miracle Season, a high school girls volleyball movie which opens today across North America. (LD Entertainment)
Feature High School Girls Volleyball University Women's Volleyball

The Miracle Season: How B.C.’s volleyball community helped bring a landmark female sports movie to the big screen

April 6, 2018April 6, 2018Howard TsumuraComment(0)

VANCOUVER — Baseball has Field of Dreams, football has Rudy and basketball has Hoosiers. Volleyball?

Simon Fraser's Angelica Kilberg makes her home debut with the Clan on Saturday against Montana State Billings. (SFU athletics)
Feature University Women's Volleyball

After multiple knee surgeries and transfer to SFU, Clan middle blocker Kilberg back in the saddle again

September 20, 2017July 25, 2019Howard TsumuraComment(0)

BURNABY — Perseverance in the face of adversity is best defined by that old saying which tells us to get right back on our horse.

UBC's Maggie Li, 24, is a first-year Bird who first tried out for the team at age 17. (Richard Lam, UBC athletics)
Feature University Women's Volleyball

Jet-lagged no more, UBC middle Li making most of second chance

March 1, 2017March 1, 2017Howard TsumuraComment(0)

VANCOUVER — By all accounts, Maggie Li’s first attempt at trying to secure a roster spot on the UBC Thunderbirds volleyball team was like one of those tragic-comic auditions on American Idol.

UBC Thunderbirds' Juliana Kaufmanis has seen a spike in her career aspirations. (Richard Lam, UBC athletics)
Feature University Women's Volleyball

Juliana Kaufmanis: Win-win adventures for UBC star

February 9, 2017February 9, 2017Howard TsumuraComment(0)

VANCOUVER — In building the most successful Canadian university women’s volleyball program of its generation, UBC Thunderbirds head coach Doug Reimer has brought some of the country’s best and brightest talent War Memorial Gymnasium.

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