Our high-performance athletes have had a busy summer training with the Team BC. In short, we’d love to share a brief summary of the competitions that our teams competed in, as well as the athletes selected to train with Team Canada programs. To see the list of BC athletes who were selected on the Team BC page.
16U Women
| GOLD | British Columbia Red |
| SILVER | Ontario Red |
| BRONZE | Alberta Blue |
| 4th | Ontario Black |
| T-5th | Puget Sound Youth 1 |
| T-5th | British Columbia Blue |
BC female athletes who were selected to the Youth Women’s Team Canada Program were Cara Kovacs, Kayla Oxland, Kristen McBride, Savannah Purdy, and Sydney Grills.
17U Women
“The 17U Team BC Women’s program finished 4th in the 18U Division of the NTCC hosted at Richmond Olympic Oval this past weekend. The team went through the round robin with a 3-1 record and then handled Nova Scotia easily in the quarter finals winning 3 sets to 0. Team BC lost a tight match, 3-1, to the eventual champions (Alberta 17U) in the semi-final and then came up short in the bronze medal match losing to Saskatchewan 3-0.
The team had one athlete selected to the Youth Women’s Team Canada Program, Sadie Taylor – Parks.”
– Spencer Reed 17U Team BC Girls Assistant Coach
18U Women Results
| GOLD | Alberta 17U |
| SILVER | Alberta 18U |
| BRONZE | Saskatchewan Green |
| 4th | British Columbia Red |
| 5th | New Brunswick 17 Black |
| 6th | BC Blue |
16U MEN
“The 16U Boys teams had a successful week at the NTCC tournament in Kingston Ontario. BC Red finished with a Silver Medal and BC Blue finished in 4th place. Day 1 consisted of two matches within your pool of 3. BC Red went 2-0 while BC Blue went 0-2 in a really difficult pool. The second day we were re-pooled where BC Red was in the “power pool” and went 1-1 losing to Ontario Red 3-1 and defeating Alberta 3-1 to go into the playoffs with the 2nd seed. BC Blue went 2-0 in their Re-Pool by defeating PEI and Saskatchewan. BC Red and BC Blue both went 5 in their ¼ finals with both teams coming out on top, BC Blue defeated Ontario Black (who they lost to earlier in the tournament) and BC Red overcame some adversity to defeat Saskatchewan. This result lined up an all BC Semi-Final. In the Semi after a substantial injury to BC Blue’s Jeremiah Macadam, BC Red came out on top 3-0. BC Blue went on to the Bronze and had a great match vs Alberta but lost 3-1 while BC Red came up short in the final versus a very strong Ontario Red team.
We had 3 BC players be selected to the Team Canada Selects Men’s program, Teo Ardanaz, Cody Boulding and Max Haronga.”
-Nathan Bennett 16U Team BC Boys Head Coach
16U Men Results
| GOLD – ON Red | |
| SILVER – BC Red | |
| BRONZE – AB 16U | |
| 4th – BC Blue |
17U Men
“The 17U boys finished 6th losing to Alberta 18s in 5th set.
They finished 3-1 in pool play, losing only to eventual 2nd place Saskatchewan 18s. The boys lost to Quebec in quarter finals (15-13 5th set) to take us out of top 4.” –
– Travis McClellan 17U Team BC Coach
18U Men Results
| GOLD – QC 2 | |
| SILVER – SK White | |
| BRONZE – AB 17U | |
| 4th – QC 1 | |
| 5th – AB 18U | |
| 6th – BC 17U |
We had 5 players selected to the Team Canada Selects Mens program, Coltyn Liu, Carson Bargen, Michael Dowhaniuk, Morgan Nichols, and Shawn Zhao.
For more information on the Youth Women’s and Select Men’s program, visit the Volleyball Canada Centre of Excellence Website.
Youth National Development Program
Our Youth National Development program (born 1998 or later) featured five BC athletes in Fynn McCarthy (Lake Country) and Nick Mickelberry (Victoria) for the Men’s, and Kiera Van Ryk (Surrey), Gabrielle Attieh (Surrey), and Hallie Drezet (Prince George) for the Women’s. The Youth Men’s and Junior Women’s team trained and competed at the US HP Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from July 19-24, 2016.
The Men’s finished 2nd in the Boys International competition, while the Women’s finished 4th in the 20 Girls competition.
For more information on the Youth National Development Program, visit the Volleyball Canada Website.