Volleyball BC has selected Katy Klomps and Brad Gunter as this year’s recipients of the annual Ray Lepp Scholarship. The $2,000 scholarships are awarded each year to a post-secondary male and female athlete who meet the scholarship criteria and show promise of competing for Canada at the national team level.

Selected from a group of very strong applicants, these athletes have shown a tremendous amount of dedication and commitment to the sport of volleyball and have received numerous accolades for their accomplishments.

This year’s female recipient, Katy Klomps, is a starting middle blocker for UBC Okanagan and was a key member of the 2013 BC Canada Games team. This season she was a Canada West Second Team All Star and was named UBCO Female Student Athlete of the Year.

Male recipient Brad Gunter is an outside hitter at Thompson Rivers University and was recently honoured as the CIS Male Volleyball Player of the Year. He also represented Canada as a member of the Canadian Junior National Volleyball team at the World Junior Championships in Izmir, Turkey.

These scholarships are made possible by their namesake, Ray Lepp, who was a founding member of Volleyball BC (formerly BC Volleyball Association) in 1965. He served as both president and vice president of the association over the years and was a board member until 1978. Ray coached the UBC Men’s Volleyball Team for a total of 10 years and at one time, six players on the Canadian National Team had been coached by Ray at UBC.

Ray’s strong dedication to the sport and the development of strong national team athletes continues to be realized year after year with this scholarship. Volleyball BC is proud to manage these scholarships in his honour and wishes these young athletes all the best in their promising careers.