Aidan Lea earns spot on National Volleyball Team
After just one year playing for the Heat Kelowna product Aidan Lea has been chosen to be a part of Volleyball Canada’s Women’s National Team.
Heat women’s basketball head coach working on her game during offseason
UBC Okanagan’s Claire Meadows has spent the better part of June/July with Team Canada and the U18 women’s national team.
Eli Risso earns spot on Junior National Volleyball Team
Heat freshman libero Eli Risso has been chosen as the sole representative of a British Columbia institution on Volleyball Canada’s junior national team.
From the Capital News: Risso elevates game to national level
Warren Henderson catches up with Eli Risso, the Heat’s libero who made Volleyball Canada’s junior men’s team, and will suit up for Canada this summer.
From Kelowna Now: Heat’s Risso says making national junior volleyball team was a group effort
Written by Lorne White (June 10, 2016) for Kelowna Now. Lorne catches up with Eli Risso after making the Junior national men’s volleyball team.
Brianna Beamish making Team Canada makes the front page of the FIVB website
FIVB is the governing body responsible for all forms of Volleyball on a global level and their website featured Brianna Beamish and her story on making the Team Canada women’s roster.
Brianna Beamish earns spot on Team Canada
The soon-to-be graduate and five-year member of UBC Okanagan’s women’s volleyball team has been selected to the Senior A Team after a weeklong tryout at the University of Manitoba.
Three from the UBC Okanagan Heat selected to national camps
Adam Kern and Jim Bell will be off to Gatineau, QB. and Michelle Jakzsuk to Langley, BC. to attempt to earn a spot on Team Canada.
Heat recruit answers the Bell for his country
He is already one of the best in the nation, but Jim Bell will be getting even more training before he sets foot on the UBC Okanagan gymnasium floor. The incoming middle blocker for the Heat is getting some world-class training with the national junior volleyball team after being selected as one of the top […]