World League Volleyball in Canada

The Men’s Volleyball Team of Canada has just named their World League roster that will be heading to Quebec City on May 31, 2013.  Glenn Hoag, the Head Coach of the Canadian Team, announced the 22-man team which will be headed by Victoria’s Fred Winters who is also named the team captain.  Scoring maniac of Gavin Schmitt will also be on the team along with and Steve Brinkman who has over 200 international matches in his past. 

With Coach Hoag and Gord Perrin having just won the Turkish Professional League Title, heading to Quebec City for the first matches against The Netherlands will provide valuable experience for the upcoming Olympic Quadrennials.  Four of this year’s team have also taken part in the Full Time National Training Team in Gatineau.  Chris Hoag, Nick Hoag, Rudy Verhoeff and Graham Vigrass are all included on this year’s roster.

This is the second year for the men’s team of Canada to be included in the World League, and we might be witnessing some superstars in the making along the lines of Karch Kiraly, Kerri Walsh, Misty May-Treanor, Kerri, or Sinjin Smith.  Who can forget the 1988 games when Karch’s team won the Olympic Gold Medal?  Considered to be Volleyball’s “Tiger Woods” from the world of golf, Karch and his team are one of the main reasons why the World League came into being in 1990 in the first place.

It is no secret that the popularity of Volleyball has been on the rise ever since.  Both indoor and beach volleyballs teams are sprouting up all over the world, in both men’s and women’s teams, leading high schoolers all over the planet to finally realize that their dreams of going professional in their favorite sport are becoming more and more a reality.