A handful of Peninsula volleyball players were front and centre on the court in recent weeks, at both provincial and national championships.
On May 7, the U18 Surrey Focus Pounders captured the B.C. Boys championship with a victory over the Fraser Valley Volleyball Club Blue U18s 2-0 (25-23, 27-25).
A pair of South Surrey athletes figured prominently into the action; Pounders’ Alex Russell was named tournament MVP, and his teammate, setter Ryan Thain was named to the tournament all-star team.
Both clubs advanced to the Canadian Open U17-U18 Championships last weekend in Abbotsford, where the FVVC Blue squad just missed the Tier 1 podium, dropping a straight-sets decision (25-22, 25-20) to Northern Alberta Volleyball Club of Edmonton in the third-place game.
The roster of FVVC Blue was laden with Peninsula talent, including Matt Bonshor, Jake Klassen, Keenan McMullin, Josh Sigurdson and Liam Murphy-Burke.
On the girls side of the national tournament, the Fraser Valley Volleyball Club Blitz – which includes South Surrey’s Carla Vicic, Morgan Dale and Becky Roder, and Cloverdale’s Breanna Evoy – won the U17 Div. 1/Tier 2 final, beating a team from Lac-Meganic, Que. in two sets (26-24, 25-23).
