Volleyball Canada has actually introduced its 2025 coastline volley ball nationwide group lineup Wednesday, with 5 of the 6 2024 Olympians going back to the team.
Leading the method for the elderly ladies’s group will certainly be Paris Olympic silver medallists Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes The 2 Toronto citizens will certainly be signed up with by Heather Bansley and Sophie Bukovec, both of whom likewise completed in Paris last summer season.
The males’s side functions two-timeOlympian Sam Schachter The 34-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., will certainly go back to stand for the maple fallen leave for one more year, signed up with by Tynan Gannett, Luke de Greeff, Martin Licht, Steven Abrams, Jonny Pickett, and Guillaume Rivest.
Schachter, a professional on the males’s elderly team, will certainly seek to improve his previous Olympic experience. Rivest, Pickett and Licht all bring extra firepower after engagement in the RBC Training Ground’s “Future Olympians” program.
ENJOY l Humana-Paredes, Wilkerson gain silver for Canada at Paris Games:
Canadians Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson made silver medals in the ladies’s coastline volley ball last at the Paris Olympics after being up toNo 1-ranked Ana Patricia and Duda of Brazil in 3 collections.
As Canada’s celebrities remain to establish the criterion on the global phase, the future generation of ability prepares to tip up. The Canadian NextGen group has actually had current platform success on the NORCECA Tour.
Volleyball Canada’s primary sporting activity policeman Kerry MacDonald shared positive outlook concerning the group’s ongoing progression.
“This year’s roster features an exciting blend of veteran talent and emerging stars,” MacDonald stated.
Amy Ozee, a gold medallist at the 6th quit of the NORCECA Tour in Honduras in October, goes back to the ladies’s NextGen group in addition to beginnerEmily Anderson Marie-Alex Belanger, that bet Canada’s interior nationwide group from 2017 to 2022 and won 2 NORCECA silver medals for the NextGen group in the previous 3 years, likewise returns along with Lea Monkhouse.
While the elderly staff member will certainly contend for factors and cash prize on the Beach Pro Tour in March, Volleyball Canada has actually kept in mind that extra summer season professional athletes will certainly be introduced at a later day.
Roster
- Brandie Wilkerson (Toronto)
- Melissa Humana-Paredes (Toronto)
- Heather Bansley (Waterdown, Ont.)
- Sophie Bukovec (Toronto)
Next Gen (Women)
- Lea Monkhouse (Mississauga, Ont.)
- Amy Ozee (Maui, Haw.)
- Marie-Alex Belanger (Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Que.)
- Emily Anderson (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Next Gen (Men)
- Sam Schachter (Richmond Hill, Ont.)
- Tynan Gannett (Dartmouth, N.S.)
- Luke de Greeff (Victoria)
- Steven Abrams (Georgetown, Ont.)
- Martin Licht (Toronto)
- Jonathan Pickett (Wiarton, Ont.)
- Guillaume Rivest (Saint- Félix-de-Valois, Que.)
