Marauder Television- Coming Soon...

This is the intro video for the Marauder Television that I hope to be launching in September. Let me know what you think...

Team Ontario Results

After five days in Kelowna BC, and 8 matches, the Team Ontario u18 boys team walked away with a Bronze Medal. In pool play, they finished with a 2-3 record which was good enough for 4th place. This put the Team O boys against Manitoba in the quarter finals- a team only two days ago that they had beaten in a five set match. It only took them four sets to dispose of the Toba boys which put the Team O boys against the tournament number 1 seed and only undefeated team in the tournament- Alberta. After falling behind 1-0, the Team O boys rallied back to even the score 1-1 with some aggressive serving. However, Alberta showed their age and poise and took the next two sets. The boys should be commended for being only 1 of 2 teams to take a set off of the Alberta team. After the loss, Team Ontario had a couple to regroup to play in the Bronze medal match against British Columbia 2. BC2 had beaten Team O in pool play in the thrilling 5 set match, however the Team Ontario boys showed what they had learned playing a veteran Alberta team and shut down both of BC2's big offensive stars to win the Bronze in 3 sets.
The playoff box scores are as follows:

Quarter Final 1 Ontario vs Manitoba 25-22, 14-25, 25-21, 25-16
Quarter Final 2 BC 2 vs Québec 27-25, 25-18, 25-20
Semi-Final 1 Alberta vs Ontario 25-16, 14-14, 25-22, 25-15
Semi-Final 2 BC 1 vs BC 2 25-15, 25-20, 25-22
5th Place Manitoba vs Québec 25-27, 25-14, 25-17, 16-25, 20-18
Bronze Medal Ontario vs BC 2 25-21, 25-18, 25-26
Gold Medal Alberta vs BC 1 25-18, 25-20, 20-25, 16-25

Individual stats for the entire tournament can be accessed here:

Team O Stats

If you have trouble accessing them please leave me a comment

Individual Awards
2009 NTCC Tournament All-Stars

Nicholas Hoag Québec
T.J. Sanders Ontario
David Klomps BC 2
Daniel JansenVanDoorn BC 1
Jarron Mueller Alberta
Nate Speijer BC 1

Tournament MVP

Kenny Rauwerda Alberta


I will write more about my Team Ontario coaching experience soon, but to all the players please continue to keep in touch, big things are out there for all of you

Some Team Ontario Pics

Team Ontario update

We have now been living in residence at the University of Toronto for a week training daily at Varsity Arena. It's a pretty interesting setup where we have 3 volleyball courts covered in sport court where the ice hockey rink usually is (I'll include pictures when I'm not updating from my blackberry!). The boys seem to be coming together quickly on the court as they've been working quite hard. Some highlights would include a 27 lap run around the track, strength and conditioning with Mike Sleen and a split squad scrimmage between the team. Off the court we had 2 days away from the volleyball court on Wednesday and Thursday. Aside from some plyos and classroom sessions the team headed to Ash Bridges Bay to play a little beach volleyball. I would like to say that I won the tourni but with a 1 and 4 record I doubt that that would be very accurate!
After that, we showered up and got ready for our next team bonding event- a trip to Medievil Times! Our team got to cheer for the Green Knight (the evil one!) Who ended up being a highly skilled knight. I won't ruin the show for anyone that's still planning on going. Anyways we all wore our green crowns on the bus and subway back to residence. Probably woulda looked stupid if it was just one or two of us- but with all of us- just show that there's strength in numbers when we act together as a team... That was todays lesson! For the boys reading the blog... Keep up the good work!

Jamaican National Team

Provincial Team Selected

Congratulations!!!,

The selection committee for the 2009 Provincial Team has identified the candidates for the program.


Meeting Place and Accommodation:

University of Toronto
St. George Downtown Campus
New College Residence
40 Willcocks st
Toronto ON
M5S-1C6

(We will meet in the street level lobby)

Meeting Time: Friday July 10th12:30pm (Lunch will not be provided and the first training session will begin at 1:30pm)

Campus Map: http://rrs.osm.utoronto.ca/map/f?p=110:1:17504663398240616684


Training Site

Varsity Arena, University of Toronto, 275 Bloor St. W, Toronto, ON M5S1V8

Enter from Bloor through the caged doors by the track. Walk south underneath the bleachers.

Schedule:

Training will run from July 10th to the 21st. Your training schedule will be provided upon arrival.

Travel:

The team will travel to Kelowna, BC on the morning of Wednesday July 22nd. The team will return the morning of Monday July 27th. Athletes will depart home from Toronto’s Pearson airport at that time.


Competition:

The NTCC Competition will begin Thursday July 23rd and finish on Sunday July 26th. Two, 3 out of 5 matches will be played each day.

I am very much looking forward to the training camp and watching all of you continue to develop the skills necessary to compete in high performance programs in future years.


This is the team list for the Provincial Team, 6 other individuals from the HPC will be joining the team periodically as training players.


Brett Walter
Andrew McWilliam
Callum Mireault
Alex Poldma
Justin Scapinello
Brendan Dennis
Jori Mantha
Derek Kuiack
Marc Wilson
Phil James
Jeremie Lortie
T.J. Sanders
Michael Denton

High Performance Camp

I'm currently in Toronto at Humber College as part of the u18 High Performance Camp coaching staff. This is in preparation and to make selection for the u18 provincial team which I will also be assistant coaching for all throughout July.
The head coaching staff on the boys side is comprised of Dave Preston (McMaster), Steve Leknois (RMC), Chris Lawson (Waterloo) and Kerry McLean (Ottawa Mavericks and my former regional team coach). This means I'm getting a lot of exposure with some of the best coaches in the province and really learning many different things. To make it an even better learning environment, there is also a Level 3 coaching clinic going on, so many skills are broken down even further and taught. I'm not with the level 3 clinic for their classroom sessions but I'm learning much from being around their on court sessions.
As for the athletes, they're definitely making it tough on us to choose a team! One major difference right now is that most of the coaches who are here have seen most of these players all season through club volleyball. This is my first look at all of them and whether it is good or bad I had not formed any opinions about players coming in. Every player in my eyes has to earn a spot. There are no freebies. I think and hope that the players understand that. The work ethic in every drill and really on every contact is nothing short of remarkable. So far we've had three and half training days with competition starting tomorrow. It should be interesting to see if there are any playings that step up even further when it's game time.