We lost a member of the Volleyball community over the weekend. Leo Van Dam died suddenly and will be missed. He was the President of the Association for years and a board member. He worked behind the scenes in many volleyball activities and will leave a hole that will be hard to fill. He ran the Diggit Camp here in Saskatoon, as well as many other volleyball activities. Our condolences go out to his family.
At the Academy, we attempt to keep a 10-1 ratio of athletes to coach to make sure the players get a quality experience. The exception to this rule is the beach, where we have increased it to a 12-1 ratio of athletes.
The Academy is always seeking coaches to add to the talented coaches who currently run sessions.
Darren Cannell is the head coach for the beach sessions
Leanne McGettigan is a head coach for one of the sessions
Starts Monday, June 7 for the Advanced players and June 8 for the Basic Players. We have 73 athletes playing on the beach this summer, and we are very excited as we got new sand in the courts.
There is still space.
David Chuong will be coaching the Liberos
Toako Chie Imamura will be coaching the Setters
Darren Cannell will be coaching the Hitters
There is still space.
Darren Cannell will be the head coach
Ayaka Imamura, Brynn Lewis and Emjay Koller will be Intern coaches during these sessions
There is still space.
Darren Cannell will be the head coach
Other coaches to be announced
There is still space
Father Robinson School has net up at 8:00 am – 3:30 pm each day, with many athletes playing during the breaks in the school days. Starting at 4-8pm, the Canadian Elite Academy is active on the courts. Over the last couple of years, the sand was getting low, so the Academy hosted a Queen and King of the Beach tournament and then used all the money raised to upgrade the sand.
The amount of sand far exceeded our ability to pay as the tournament did not raise enough to even come close to covering the cost of one of those truck loads.
There were 10 three-axle dump trucks and 2 two-axle dump trucks, which filled the courts with one to two feet or more sand than we had. We had over 300 plus tons of sand added.
A big thank you to Kent Koller at Allan Construction and Derek Lucik at Inland Aggregates for being fantastic corporate citizens. Together they donated 99 percent of the sand, the transportation of the sand and then provided a Bobcat sled with an operator for 7 hours to flat out the sand in time for a session tomorrow. I am so thankful to live in such a giving community and support the athletes in the Academy and Father Robinson Elementary School.
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