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[Surlympics 1,191]

Canada won :D

[Josh 11,526]

With that win, we also rise to #16 in the World Rankings. Could be ranked as high as #15 by the time VNL ends if results from GER v. FRA go our way. 

[Josh 11,526]

https://volleyball.ca/en/news/canada-heading-to-women-s-pan-am-cup-in-puerto-rico

 

Squad for the Women's Pan-Am Cup. If anyone can help me find a link for streaming, that would be really helpful 

 

After that, we have the NORCECA Championships in late August and the all-important Olympic Qualifiers in September.

[intoronto 6,408]

26 minutes ago, Josh said:

https://volleyball.ca/en/news/canada-heading-to-women-s-pan-am-cup-in-puerto-rico

 

Squad for the Women's Pan-Am Cup. If anyone can help me find a link for streaming, that would be really helpful 

 

After that, we have the NORCECA Championships in late August and the all-important Olympic Qualifiers in September.

As the article suggests this is a mixed team. The best placed NORCECA team not qualified will qualify for Santiago 2023 as well

[Josh 11,526]

Squad for the Women's Volleyball NORCECA Championships

 

https://volleyball.ca/en/news/women-s-norceca-championship-roster

 

We're sending our A-squad, with no notable absences, so I'm assuming we're probably going to be using this tournament to prepare for Olympic Qualifiers in September.

 

Matches will be streamed on CBCSports. 

Edited August 28, 2023 by Josh

[Josh 11,526]

2-0 and through to the semifinals after 3-0 sweeps over Puerto Rico and Mexico

[Josh 11,526]

So a little update here.

 

Gray got injured during Canada's SF, don't know what exactly happened, but not looking good with Olympic Qualifiers just a few weeks away. Anyways we NEED her to be competing, otherwise, we'll have no chance at qualifying for Paris through the OQT, also dropping some big World Ranking points (Most likely will lose against the stronger teams, and most likely will drop sets against mediocre opposition) along the way. 

 

As for results, we lost in 4 to the Dominican Republic and won in 4 against Cuba, but during both matches, they were far from their best. They also showed some signs of rust against Puerto Rico and Mexico, I was hoping they could shake off some of that rust as time went on, but they didn't. On a positive note, I know they can play much better. 

 

Really hope this team can book their ticket to Paris, they're so fun to watch.  (This has to be one of my biggest qualification hopes, maybe behind our women's 3x3 team and our already qualified men's 5x5 team)

Edited September 30, 2023 by Josh

[Josh 11,526]

Men's NORCECA Championships starts today!

 

Squad: https://volleyball.ca/en/news/norceca-championship-begins-for-men-today

 

Canada plays Dominican Republic, and Mexico in group play. Big tournament for them to get some momentum heading into Olympic Qualifiers. (Pretty much their only chance of securing a quota for Paris, with their World Ranking being around 60 points behind #11 Netherlands)

 

Some notable absences here, including Sclater and Elser.

Edited September 6, 2023 by Josh

[Josh 11,526]

2-0 after sweeps over Dominican Republic, and Mexico and we're through to the semifinals! (+14.5 ranking points as well, which moves Canada to #14 in the World Rankings)

 

Although we've had some questionable roster choices (Sclater/Elser out, both could be injured though), we seem to be playing much better than we did at VNL. But to have a more accurate visualization of how well they'll do come Olympic Qualifiers, I'll need to see how well they play against stronger opponents like Cuba and United States. Lopekky missed this year's VNL due to illness (According to VolleySource commentators), but looks like he hasn't missed a step. 

Edited September 7, 2023 by Josh

[Josh 11,526]

Olympic Qualifying Rosters:

 

Women's Squad

3 Kiera Van Ryk (OH), 4 Vicky Savard (OH), 5 Julia Murmann (L), 6 Jazmine White (MB), 8 Alicia Ogoms (MB), 9 Alexa Gray (OH), 11 Andrea Mitrovic (OH), 13 Brie King (S), 14 Hillary Howe (OH), 15 Shaina Joseph (O), 17 Kacey Jost (L), 19 Emily Maglio (MB), 21 Avery Heppell (MB), 26 Quinn Pelland (S), Coach- Shannon Winzer

 

Van Buskirk, is injured unfortunately, and won’t be competing. 

 

Men's Squad

1 Pearson Eshenko (MB), 2 Luke Herr (S), 4 Nicolas Hoag (OH), 5 Brodie Hofer (OH), 6 Danny Demyanenko (MB), 7 Stephen Maar (OH), 8 Brett Walsh (S), 12 Lucas Van Berkel (MB), 14 Arthur Szwarc (O), 16 Jordan Schnitzer (MB), 18 Justin Lui (L), 20 Jordan Canham (O), 80 Eric Loeppky (OH), 97 Landon Currie (L), Coach- Tuomas Sammelvuo (Coached ROC to men's volleyball silver at Tokyo 2020)

 

Strange that Elser isn't competing...

 

 

Olympic Qualifying Tournament Schedule: (Decided to convert to Canadian timezones)

 

Women

 

September 16, 2023

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September 17, 2023

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September 19, 2023

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September 20, 2023

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September 22, 2023

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September 23, 2023

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September 24, 2023

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Men

 

September 30, 2023

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October 1, 2023

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October 3, 2023

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October 4, 2023

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October 6, 2023

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October 7, 2023

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October 8, 2023

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Edited September 30, 2023 by Josh