The University of Alberta Golden Bears are hosting the 2017 FOG U Sports Men's Volleyball Championship March 17-19 at the Saville Community Sports Centre. Come check out the amazing action, for ticket information visit the Championship website. Kids in the Crowd Special (subject to availability) - Groups of 12 kids and 2 adults...
2017 Volleyball Alberta Coaching Symposium: Weekend Recap!
This past weekend we held our 2017 Volleyball Alberta Coaching Symposium at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton. It was a weekend filled with knowledge exchange, networking and engaging in relevant topics in coaching. We kick started the symposium on Friday night at MacEwan University with Linda Rizzoli...
Building Durable Athletes: Alberta Sport Injury Tracking Project
Injuries remove athletes from their training program or competition schedule and may contribute to an early exit from sport. In order to prevent and manage injury in sport activities, we need to better understand where, to whom, why and how injuries occur. To that end, Volleyball Alberta is participating in...
Planning for the 2017 Indoor Volleyball Season (updated DEC 16 )
2017 Indoor Tournament Schedule - Download PDF UPDATE: December 16, 20162017-V1 Indoor Tournament VENUE Schedule - Download PDF UPDATE: DECEMBER 8, 2016 (Tournament Registration How To and Form Links) All of our tournament registration forms are posted here: VRS-Goalline > Indoor > Youth Competitions: http://site2704.goalline.ca/event-search.php?cat=2 Each form has coach and...
Beach Summer Wrap Up
Summer wrapped up on the youth beach volleyball season on August 21 with the final day of youth nationals coming to a close. The Alberta Beach provincial team athletes arrived in Toronto on August 14 and spent several days training with the Ontario provincial teams prior to participating in Youth Beach Nationals. All 12...
Volleyball Alberta Signing Policy
During the Volleyball Summit hosted by Volleyball Alberta in June, the Season of Play & Signing Date were discussed in depth. Volleyball Alberta has adopted an official Signing Policy using an offer & commitment process for the 2016-17 season. The following reasons outline the decision to adopt the new policy:...
Olympic Men’s Volleyball on a Big Screen – Canada vs. Mexico & Italy
Canada’s men’s volleyball team are at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. It's been a long 24 year drought, so come out and celebrate with Edmonton's Volleyball Community. In their first match, Canada beat 5th world ranked USA in straight sets. Next up for Canada is NORCECA rival Mexico, come watch it FREE on...
Canadian Women’s Sitting Team vs. Netherlands
The Canadian Women's Sitting Volleyball Team will be playing five matches against the Netherlands as part of their final preparations for the Rio Paralympics. https://www.facebook.com/events/276173662740162/ Admission is FREE and all games are at the Saville Community Sports Centre on Court 7A. The times are as follows:Friday August 5: 10am & 6pmSaturday August 6: 10am &...
Alberta Summer Games Results
The 2016 Alberta Summer Games were held in Leduc over the July 15-17 weekend. On the men's side Zone 8 came away with the gold medal while on the women's side it was Zone 4 who won the final. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped make the weekend such...
2016 NTCC Results & Youth National Development Team
Team Alberta had some great performances and results at the National Team Challenge Cup (NTCC), headlined by the women's 17U and 18U teams who met up in the gold medal final. The 17U team came out on top winning 3-1 in a very close match. Also on the women's side, Alberta Blue defeated...