Who's going where? Victoria-Belmont teammates (l to r) Jocelyn Sherman and Taylee Pomponio are off to SFU and Camosun respectively, while North Vancouver-Windsor's Aaron Voth heads to UBC Okanagan. (Photos property of Paul Yates, Vancouver Sports Pictures, and Wilson Wong, UBC athletics 2019. All rights reserved)
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Varsity Letters’ B.C. Recruits List 2019: Where 151 volleyball prospects are headed this coming season

LANGLEY — It’s the second day of Varsity Letters’ B.C. Recruits List week. 

Yesterday we opened with football, and we’ve got soccer on Thursday and basketball on Friday. 

Today? We’ve got women’s and men’s volleyball!

Crofton House’s Jadyn van Santen (left) is off to NCAA St. Mary’s while teammate Shea Baker will play at Queen’s. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)

VOLLEYBALL

WOMEN

NCAA

DIV. 1

PAC-12

OREGON STATE

Cecilee Max-Brown (6-1 OH, Surrey-Earl Marriott)

WEST COAST

ST. MARY’S

Jadyn van Santen (6-0 OH, Vancouver-Crofton House)

DIV. 2

GNAC

SIMON FRASER

Brooke Dexter (6-2 M, West Anchorage (Alaska)), Serena Gentile (6-2 S, Port Moody-Heritage Woods), Hanna Kolof (5-10 OH, Vancouver-York House), Jocelyn Sherman (5-10 OH, Victoria-Belmont), Abby Willett (6-1 M, Victoria-Reynolds)

POST

CENTRAL ATLANTIC COLLEGIATE

Mikayla McLeod (5-10 OH, Kelowna-Okanagan Mission)

Maple Ridge Ramblers’ Tamar Bil (8) will begin her university career in the fall with Langley’s Trinity Western Spartans. (Photo property Vancouver Sports Pictures 2019. All rights reserved)

U SPORTS

CANADA WEST

MACEWAN

Grace Denham (6-1 M, Victoria-Oak Bay), Hannah May (6-0 OH, Victoria-Claremont, Camosun College)

MT. ROYAL

Ella Lawrence (5-9 OH, Prince George-Duchess Park)

SASKATCHEWAN

Caet McCorkell (5-10 LS, Kamloops-Sa-Hali, Douglas College)

THOMPSON RIVERS

Kendall Stephan (5-11 OH, Springwater (Ont)-Eastview, VIU)

TRINITY WESTERN

Tamar Bil (6-3 OH, Maple Ridge), Kirsten Kampmen (6-1 OH, Chilliwack-Unity Christian), Jayda Harder (6-0 M, Waldheim (Sask)), Jayden Bontkes (6-0 OH, Langley Christian, King’s)

UBC

Fiona Chen (6-1 M, Burnaby-Moscrop), Erika Vermette (5-11 OH, Winnipeg-Collège Jeanne-Sauvé)

UBC OKANAGAN

Abigail Dueck (5-11 S, Winnipeg-Vincent Massey), Hellen Lacava (6-1 OH, Mandaguari (Brazil)-Centro Educacional Paulista, Salt Lake CC), Amaya Perry (5-11 OH, Chin (Alta)-Catholic Central)

Moscrop Panthers’ Fiona Chen will join the UBC Thunderbirds. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)

OUA

OTTAWA

Alana Leung (5-10 M, Burnaby-Moscrop)

QUEEN’S

Shea Baker (5-10 S, Vancouver-Crofton House), Ella Mickelberry (6-0 OH, Victoria-Oak Bay)

RYERSON

Kohl Peters (6-1 M, Surrey-Pacific Academy)

TORONTO

Victoria Vogel (5-6 lib, Victoria-Claremont)

YORK

Sophia Wong (5-10 OH, Port Coquitlam-Riverside), Laura Boddington (5-7 L, Burnaby-St. Thomas More)

AUS

ACADIA

Kate Kramer (6-0 M, Vancouver-Magee)

ST. MARY’S

Makenzie Rourke (5-6 lib, Mission), Hannah Stonnel (6-0 M, Victoria-Reynolds)

CCAA

ACAC

BRIERCREST

Jaalah Ward (6-1 M, Kelowna)

MEDICINE HAT

Dryden Gris (6-0 M, Cranbrook-Mt. Baker)

OLDS

Maya Jovic (5-10 M, North Vancouver-Sutherland), Francesca Sandini (5-8 lib, Burnaby-St. Thomas More)

RED DEER

Emma Lekteman (5-11 S, Victoria-Pacific Christian)

SAIT

Taryn Corkery (5-11 OH, Mill Bay-Brentwood College), Leah Serlin (5-10 OH, Vancouver-Magee)

Earl Marriott’s Arden Copping heads to Alabama-Birmingham to play beach volleyball (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)

PACWEST

CAMOSUN

Gracie May (6-2 OH, Victoria-Belmont), Taylee Pomponio (5-6 S, Victoria-Belmont), Rachel Leduc (6-0, Montreal-College Jean-Eudes), Elly Simper (5-10, Campbell River-Timberline)

CAPILANO

Olivia Humeston (5-11 OH, Surrey-Holy Cross), Abbi Lanz (6-1 RS, Surrey-Holy Cross), Maya Griffith (5-10 OH, Vancouver Technical), Daphiny Kung (5-8 OH, Surrey-Sullivan Heights), Brooke Lightburn (5-6 L, Jaffray-Mt. Baker, College of the Rockies), Amanda Merner (5-10 RS, Nanaimo District), Courtney Muller (5-7 OH, Langley Christian, Redeemer), Jada Wilson (5-11 OH, Vancouver-Prince of Wales), Eva Winther (5-8 OH, Faroe Islands-Hoyvik), Samantha Wright (5-8 OH, Campbell River-Timberline)

COLLEGE OF THE ROCKIES

Dani Bryant (5-4 lib, Lethbridge-Chinook), Kamryn Cousins (5-11 OH, Kamloops-Sa-Hali), Abigail Gruenhage (5-10 OH, Lethbridge-Chinook), Sarah Hall (5-11 OH, Kelowna), Sami Janzen (5-6 set, Surrey-Semiahmoo), Maisa Orosz (6-0 M, Vernon-W.L. Seaton), Brooke Schoonbaert (5-7 set, Brandon (Man.)-Vincent Massey)

COLUMBIA BIBLE COLLEGE

Julia Siemens (6-0 M/OH, Parksville-Ballenas), Maria Johnson (5-10 OH, Naniamo-Dover Bay), Rachel Peters (5-6 L, Cochrane (Alta)-Bearspaw Christian)

DOUGLAS

Abby Smith (6-1 MB, Surrey-Holy Cross), Grace McGillivray (5-11 OH, Langley Fundamental), Sienna Mastomonaco (5-10 OH, Burnaby-St. Thomas More), Jayce Day (5-10 S, Edmonton Christian), Rebecca Green (5-9, Courtenay-Mark Isfeld), Sam Dodds (5-11 MB, Barrhead (Alta.), NAIT)

FRASER VALLEY

Sedona Arabsky (6-0 M, Surrey-Lord Tweedsmuir, Trinity Western), Sarah Brownlee (5-11 S, Langley Christian, Briercrest), Ashley Huberts (5-9 OH, Abbotsford-MEI, College of the Rockies), Haley Poier (5-10 S, Saskatoon-Aden Bowman), Megan Wegren (5-10 OH, Saskatoon-Aden Bowman)

VANCOUVER ISLAND

Yevgeniya Nyukhalova (6-4 OH, Ukraine, TRU), Jessica Jones (6-0 OH, Australia-RDC), Kaitlyn Vanderkooi (6-2 M, Nanaimo Christian), Gabby Arca (6-2 M, North Delta-Seaquam), Erin Buttnor (6-0 OH, Courtenay-Mark Isfeld), Jayden Saywell (5-9 LS, Nanaimo District)

BEACH

DIV. 1

ALABAMA-BIRMINGHAM

Arden Copping (5-11 OH, Surrey-Earl Marriott)

DIV. 2

CONFERENCE CAROLINAS

ERSKINE

Olivia Browne (5-9, Langley Christian), Morgan Browne (5-9, Langley Christian)

(If we’ve missed a name, we’d love to hear from you. E-mail us at howardtsumura@gmail.com)

Abbotsford Christian’s Cole Brandsma, Varsity Letters’ B.C. boys high school Player of the Year, is headed for the UBC Thunderbirds. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of UBC Athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)

MEN

U SPORTS

CANADA WEST

SASKATCHEWAN

Mark Armstrong (6-3 S, Creston-Prince Charles, College of the Rockies)

THOMPSON RIVERS

Kobby Nyarko (6-0 LS, Calgary-Sir Winston Churchill),  Brody Kopec (6-5 OH, Red Deer (Alta)-Notre Dame), Cole Behiels (6-0 OH, Edmonton-Jasper Place), Cole Johnston (6-7 M, Prince George-D.P. Todd), Kyle McKee (6-8 M/OH, Prince George-Duchess Park), Dylan Van Spankeren (5-10 lib, Calgary-St. Francis), Corbin Ockerman (6-5 M, Elk Point (Alta)-F.G. Miller), Nimo Benne (6-6 OH , Castricum (Netherlands)-Beekdal Lyceum Amhem), Joey Goulet-Jones (6-3 OH/M, Langley Christian, Millar College of the Bible)

TRINITY WESTERN

Mathias Elser (6-5 S, Calgary-E.P. Scarlett), Henry Rempel (6-5 OH, Swift Current (Sask) Composite), Isaiah Olfert (6-3 OH, Winnipeg-Dakota Collegiate), Jordan Schnitzer (6-6 M, Surrey-Pacific Academy, Briercrest), Linden Bontkes (6-8 M, Langley Christian, Redeemer)

UBC

Cole Brandsma (6-7 OH, Abbotsford Christian), Duncan Clark (6-5 OH, Uxbridge (Ont.)), Jonathan Lee (5-9 L, Vancouver-David Thompson, Capilano), Zarley Zalusky (6-4 M, Port Coquitlam-Riverside, Capilano)

UBC OKANAGAN

Noah Carlson (6-6 OH, Sylvan Lake (Alta)-H.J. Cody), Owen Cotito (6-5 S, Kamloops-Sa-Hali), Ben Magel (5-10 L, Lake Country-George Elliot), Luke Tiegen (6-8 M, Abbotsford-MEI), Aaron Voth (6-6 OH, North Vancouver-Windsor)

Van Tech’s Lachlan McBride will begin his university career with the Queen’s Gaels. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2019. All Rights Reserved)

OUA

QUEEN’S

Lachlan McBride (6-6 LS, Vancouver Technical)

CCAA

ACAC

AMBROSE

Nick Maglio (6-5 M, Vernon-W.L. Seaton)

PACWEST

CAMOSUN

Kyle Butterworth (6-1 S, Kelowna-Okanagan Mission), Logan Judge (6-7 M, Victoria-Royal Bay), Kristofer LaGuardia, (5-5 L, Vancouver-St. George’s), Dayton O’Neill, (6-5 M/LS, Prince George-College Heights), Brendan Folkerts, (6-4 OH, Winnipeg-Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute, Columbia Bible College), Gerry Peng, (6-0 L, Victoria–Claremont), Ty Moorman, (6-7 M, Penticton, Red Deer College), Eiving Hettervik, (6-2 S, Topp Volley Norge (Norway)), Liam Conlin (6-6 LS, Calgary-Master’s Academy and College)

CAPILANO

Enis Besirevic (6-4 MB, Melbourne (Australia)), Kyle Cook (6-7 M, Surrey-Clayton Heights), Dimitrije Djorjevic (6-5 OH, Pirot, Serbia), James Fong (6-7 MB, Vancouver-Churchill), Ben Friesen (6-4 OH, Abbotsford-MEI, UFV), Rafael Hilario (6-3 OH, Colégio Militar do Rio de Janeiro, Humber), Graeme Hughes (6-4 OH, Surrey-Elgin Park, UFV), Jackson Klaassen (OH, Abbotsford-MEI), Leonard Tesarik (6-6 MB, Burnaby South)

Burnaby South’s Leonard Tesarik will begin his collegiate career this coming season at North Van’s Capilano University. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)

COLLEGE OF THE ROCKIES

Carter Brodner (6-9 M, Regina-Campbell Collegiate, Brandon), Riley Byman (6-0 set, Cranbrook-Mt. Baker), Mason Hoffman (6-3 set, Regina-Dr. Martin Leboldus), Nathan McLennan (6-5 M/OH, Penticton-Princess Margaret), Cooper Patterson (6-5 OH, Calgary-Centennial), Jordan Simpson (6-8 M, Cranbrook-Mt. Baker), Riley Wallach (6-4 OH, Revelstoke), Bradley Wicks (5-11 L, Clarenville (Nfld)) 

COLUMBIA BIBLE

Ethan Visscher (5-5 lib, Langley Christian), Noah Podolski (6-3 OH, Vernon Christian), Jackson Anderson (6-3 OH, Calgary-Crescent Heights), Nathan Rempel (6-4 M, Niverville (Man) Collegiate), Landon Harrison, (6-1 S, Vernon-Clarence Fulton)

DOUGLAS

Matt Shand (6-3 OH, Prince George-College Heights), Ben Schill (6-4 OH/S, Surrey-Earl Marriott), Nolan Minck (6-2 OH, Prince George-College Heights), Elijah Kim (6-0 S, Richmond Christian), Gavin Payne (5-9, Delta), Elijah St. Germain (5-9 LS, North Delta-Seaquam)

FRASER VALLEY

Caleb Kastelein (6-3 OH, Langley Christian), Graham Walkey (5-11 S, Prince George-College Heights, Columbia Bible College)

VANCOUVER ISLAND

Karsten Nielsen-Roine (6-3 LS, Van Tech-Vancouver), Ted Graveson (6-3 LS, Burnaby-Moscrop), Emerson Cooke (6-4 M, Richmond)

(If we’ve missed a name, we’d love to hear from you. E-mail us at howardtsumura@gmail.com)

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