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Volleyball has always been a popular sport in Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg Wesmen and University of Manitoba Bisons have frequently battled for the U Sports title. The Wesmen women hold the record with 7 national titles and were the first to win 6 consecutive titles between 1983 and 1988, this was a feat that was only later repeated ...
Michelle Sawatzky-Koop (born July 14, 1970 in Steinbach, Manitoba) is a Canadian retired volleyball player and former radio broadcaster.She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia with the Women's National Team, where the team finished 9th.
Pischke was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame as an athlete in 1989, again in 2012 in the team category as a coach, and again in 2016 in the team category as a player, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1999, the Canadian Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2000 as an athlete, and again in 2019 in the team category, the Manitoba High ...
The 2022 U Sports Men's Volleyball Championship was held March 25–27, 2022, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to determine a national champion for the 2021–22 U Sports men's volleyball season. [2] The third-seeded Alberta Golden Bears defeated the top-seeded Trinity Western Spartans in a re-match of the Canada West Championship game as the Golden ...
Loeppky started playing volleyball at a young age and helped lead the Steinbach Regional Secondary School Sabres to their first AAAA provincial volleyball title in 2014, the top high school league in the province of Manitoba. [3] After high school he went to play volleyball with the Trinity Western University Spartans.
Wilson (then Pischke) was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Garth Pischke, a two-time Olympian with Canada men's national volleyball team, [3] and a former coach of the Manitoba Bisons men's team, and mother Cindy Shepherd, a Canadian Junior National team athlete and three-time U Sports National Champion.
[2] [3] The second-seeded UBC Thunderbirds defeated the fourth-seeded Alberta Pandas 3–1 to win the program's 14th national championship, which extended their record for the most in U Sports women's volleyball. [4] The Thunderbirds became the first team to repeat as champions since UBC won their sixth consecutive championship in 2013. [4]
The 2025 U Sports Women's Volleyball Championship is scheduled to be held March 14–16, 2025, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to determine a national champion for the 2024–25 U Sports women's volleyball season. [2] [3]