BCSS 2021 Volleyball Championships
December 12, 2021 by admin
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BCSS 2021 Volleyball Championships
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | |
| GIRLS A | Osoyoos Secondary | Mount Sentinel Secondary | Charles Bloom Elemenary Secondary |
| GIRLS AA | Notre Dame Regional School | Abbotsford Christian School | York House |
| GIRLS AAA | Mount Douglas Secondary | W L Seaton Secondary | Little Flower Academy |
| GIRLS AAAA | Riverside Secondary | South Delta Seocndary | Kelowna Seocndary |
| BOYS A | Abbotsford Christian School | Vancouver Christian | Cedars Christian School |
| BOYS AA | Duchess Park Secondary | Langley Christian | Mennonite Educational Institute |
| BOYS AAA | Kelowna Secondary | Elgin Park Secondary | R A McMath Secondary |
BCSS 2021 A GIRLS VOLLEYBALL AWARDS
| Most Valuable Player | Cassidy Burns, Osoyoos Secondary |
| Most Outstanding Libero | Isabella Milton, Cedars Christian |
| Most Sportmanlike Team | Fort St James |
| Team All-Stars | |
| King’s Christian – Dakota deLange, Janna Schneider Ebenzer – Alayna Hamelink, Anna VanDelft Cedar Christian – Maddy Erbacher Charles Bloom – Jessi Cleverly, Jordan Andrew Mount Sentinel – Natasha Holland, Brynn Strelaeff Osoyoos – Kayla Burns, Nevaeh Law |
BCSS 2021 AAA GIRLS VOLLEYBALL AWARDS
| Most Sportsmanlike Team | Windsor Secondary |
| Most Outstanding Player | Lucy Millam, Mount Douglas |
| Most Outstanding Libero | Ava Proctor, W L Seaton |
| First Team All Stars | |
| Elizabeth Lee, Little Flower Academy; Olivia Peterson, Mount Douglas; Maenna Jackson, W L Seaton; Jesse Mitchell, W L Seaton; Manit Fiest, Dawson Creek; Giada Walentini, Mount Douglas | |
| Second Team All Starts | |
| Rylie Bondaroff, Dawson Creek; Maycin Unger, Duchess Park; Kally Hart, Mount Douglas; Ella Rohani, Windsor; Maddy Farrugia, Little Flower Aademy; Novah Gardner, W L Seaton | |
| Honourable Mention | |
| Victoria Leong, Little Flower Academy; Joshika Jouhal, Langley; Tasha Cheang, Crofton House; Carolina Bauchmeier, Windsor; Gretta Palvarini, Delta; Madison Florell, Duchess Park; Emma Knight, Carihi; Taya McCarthy, Dawson Creek; Linnea Schaefer, Carhi; Ilianna Hodgins, Windsor; Marina Radocaj, McMath; Lauren Eddy, W L Seaton |
BCSS A GIRLS AAAA VOLLEYBALL AWARDS
| Most Outstanding Player: Annika Trask, Riverside |
| Most Outstanding Libero: Taryn Hope, Kelowna |
| Provinical 1st Team All-Stars |
| Tianna Kehler – NDSS Abby Hettinga – Kelowna Mackenzie Campbell – South Delta Jane McDonald – South Delta Jayden Armstrong – Riverside Emily Wezeman – Riverside |
| Provinical 2nd Team All-Stars |
| Megan Jones – Pinetree Kirsten Hill – Mt. Boucherie Simran Rai – Seaquam Alannah Wright – NDSS Lauren Way – Riverside Myah Cressy – South Delta |
BCSS 2021 GIRLS VOLLEYBALL FINAL STANDINGS
| GIRLS A | GIRLS AA | GIRLS AAA | GIRLS AAAA | |
| 1st | Osoyoos Secondary | Notre Dame Regional School | Mount Douglas Secondary | Riverside Seocndary |
| 2nd | Mount Sentinel Secondary | Abbotsford Christian School | W L Seaton | South Delta Seocndary |
| 3rd | Charles Bloom Elemenary Secondary | York House | Little Flower Academy | Kelowna Seocndary |
| 4th | King’s Christian | Brentwood College | Dawson Creek Seocndary | Nanaimo District Secondary |
| 5th | Ebenezer Canadian Reformed School | Mulgrave School | Windsor Secondary | Mount Boucherie Senior Seocndary |
| 6th | Fort St James School | Langley Fundamental Middel/Secondary | Duchess Park Secondary | Pinetree Seocndary |
| 7th | Cedars Christian School | West Point Grey Academy | Delta Secondary School | R E Mountain Seocndary |
| 8th | Mennonite Educational Institute | McMath Secondary | Seaquam Seocndary | |
| 9th | Holy Cross School | Crofton House | West Vancouver Seocndary | |
| 10th | St Michaels University School | Carihi Secondary | Terry Fox Seocndary | |
| 11th | D P Todd Seocndary | Langley Secondary | Claremont Secondary | |
| 12th | Archbishop Carney Regional School | Vernon Secondary | Dover Bay Seocndary | |
| 13th | A R MacNeil Secondary | L V Rogers Seocndary | Handsworth Seocndary | |
| 14th | Bryne Creek Community School | Semiahmoo Seocndary | ||
| 15th | Burnaby Central Secondary | |||
| 16th | Yale Secondary |
BCSS 2021 GIRLS VOLLEYBALL PARTICIPANTS
| Girls A | Girls AA | Girls AAA | Girls AAAA |
| Cedars Christian School | A R MacNeil Secondary | Carihi Secondary | Burnaby Central Secondary |
| Charles Bloom Elemenary Secondary | Abbotsford Christian School | Crofton House | Claremont Secondary |
| Ebenezer Canadian Reformed School | Archbishop Carney Regional School | Bryne Creek Community School | Dover Bay Seocndary |
| Fort St James School | Brentwood College | Duchess Park Seocndary | Earl Marriott Seocndary |
| King’s Christian | D P Todd Seocndary | L V Rogers Seocndary | Handsworth Seocndary |
| Mount Sentinel Secondary | Holy Cross School | Langley Secondary | Kelowna Seocndary |
| Osoyoos Secondary | Langley Fundamental Middel/Secondary | Delta Secondary School | Mount Boucherie Senior Seocndary |
| Mennonite Educational Institute | McMath Secondary | Nanaimo District Secondary | |
| Mulgrave School | Mount Douglas Secondary | North Peace Seocndary | |
| Notre Dame Regional School | Vernon Secondary | Oak Bay Seocndary | |
| St Michaels University School | W L Seaton Secondary | Okanagan Missions Seocndary | |
| West Point Grey Academy | Windsor Secondary | Pinetree Seocndary | |
| York House | Little Flower Academy | R E Mountain Seocndary | |
| Dawson Creek Secondary | Riverside Seocndary | ||
| Semiahmoo Seocndary | |||
| Seaquam Seocndary | |||
| South Delta Seocndary | |||
| Terry Fox Seocndary | |||
| West Vancouver Seocndary | |||
| Yale Secondary |
| BOYS A | BOYS AA | BOYS AAA |
| Abbotsford Christian School | College Heights Secondary | Argyle Secondary |
| Brockton Preparatory School | Duchess Park Secondary | Belmont Secondary |
| Cedars Christian School | Gladstone Secondary | Burnaby Central Secondary |
| Credo Christian Schools | Hazelton Secondary | Claremont Secondary |
| École Victor-Brodeur | Hugh McRoberts | David Thompson Secondary |
| Maple Ridge Christian School | Lambrick Park Secondary | Dover Bay Secondary |
| Nanaimo Christian School | Langley Christian | Elgin Park Secondary |
| St Andrew’s Regional High School | Mennonite Educational Institute | Fraser Heights Secondary |
| Unity Christian School | Pacific Academy | Kelowna Secondary |
| Vancouver Christian | Pacific Christian School | Kwantlen Park Secondary |
| Point Grey Secondary | Moscrop Secondary | |
| Revelstoke Secondary | Oak Bay Secondary | |
| St Michaels Universary School | R A McMath Secondary | |
| W L Seaton Secondary | Reynolds Secondary | |
| Steveston-London Secondary | ||
| Walnut Grove Secondary |
BCSS A BOYS A VOLLEYBALL AWARDS
| Most Sportsmanlike Team | Brockton |
| Most Outstanding Player | Luc Brandsma, Abbotsford Christian |
| Most Outstanding Libero | Natanael Hann, Unity Christian |
| Provinical 1st Team All-Stars | |
| 15 Calvin Hsu (VCS) #6 Mitch Crosina (Cedars) #11 Joshua Worsley-Brown (ACS) #4 Austin Wilson (NCS) #12 Aiden Brandsma (ACS) #10 Matthew Ho (VCS) | |
| Provinical 2nd Team All-Stars | |
| #10 Evan Bowman (Unity) #10 Kasen Sikma (Credo) #12 Brennan Wicke (VCS) #3 Cole Libbus (NCS) Tony Kibonge (Cedars) #19 Calvin Vanderkooi (NCS) |
BCSS A BOYS AAA VOLLEYBALL AWARDS
| AAA | |
| Most Sportsmanlike Team | R A McMath Secondary |
| Most Outstanding Player | Walker Sodaro, Kelowna |
| Most Outstanding Libero | Steve Yan, McMath |
| First Team All Stars | |
| Sam Jablonski, Kelowna; Hudson Farrell, Kelowna; Nicholas Johnson, Elgin Park; Kendall Hamenick, Elgin Park; Justin Peng, Claremont; Tyler Tran, McMath | |
| Second Team All Starts | |
| Gavin Marerison, Kelowna; Zach Yewchuk, Elgin Park;Ethan Chang, McMath; Carter Munro, Claremont; Isaac James, Steveston-London; Daniel Lafleur, Fraser Heights | |
| Honourable Mention | |
| Tristan Cumming, Reynolds; Nathan Yee, Stevenson-London; Sean Kennedy, Belmont; Isaac Brajcich, Claremont; Jake Bolton, McMath |
B.C. high school volleyball provincials: Lost power can’t sour kids’ enthusiasm in finals’ return
‘When the lights went out, I went over to the tournament organizer and we both kind of laughed,’ says McMath coach Daniel Wong. ‘Of course this would happen this year’Author Steve Ewen
It was the fifth and deciding set of B.C.’s Triple A boys volleyball provincial semifinal Friday night at Richmond’s McMath secondary when the power went out, leaving the host Wildcats and the Elgin Park Orcas standing stranded in the dark.
And McMath coach Daniel Wong? He swears he wasn’t surprised.
Various volleyball provincial tournaments had been postponed a week due to travel constraints tied to the atmospheric rivers that had pounded parts of the province. The Triple A boys tournament changed sites on the fly as a result, moving from Kelowna to Richmond area schools.
The provincials didn’t happen at all last year, with volleyball and all other high school sports limited to practice-only mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“When the lights went out, I went over to the tournament organizer and we both kind of laughed,” Wong said of Jordan Abney, the executive director of governing body B.C. School Sports. “Of course this would happen this year.”
The officials and teams got right to work, though. First they ascertained that the power outage was going to be lengthy. Then they learned the nearby Steveston-London secondary, where they held other tournament games, wasn’t affected.
They got a Steveston-London administrator to meet them at the school to open things up, packed up the two teams and then made the eight-minute drive. After getting everything into place and warming up again, the teams were back playing about an hour after McMath had first gone dark.
“I walked into the Steveston-London gym and there were players from both teams and administrators from the school working to set things up. It was pretty cool to see,” said Elgin Park coach Matt Eckholm.
Elgin Park had a 5-3 lead at the time of the power outage. By rules, Wong could have forced the fifth set to start over, but he declined, prompting to Abney to say he showed the “highest level of sportsmanship.”
Elgin Park wound up winning that set 15-13 to take the semifinal.
“It’s the kind of day that I don’t think anyone who was there will ever forget,” said Abney.
Brandon Sekhon, a Grade 9 middle who plays for McMath, added: “It was an interesting experience.”
The Kelowna Owls beat Surrey-based Elgin Park in the final in four sets Saturday, finishing off a 48-1 season. They did it despite losing star power hitter Sebastien Manuel to a broken pinky finger early on in the tournament.
The Owls flew to Richmond, relying on parents and sponsors to help foot the bill.
“We’ll have to run a bigger tournament next year to pay some of it back,” said Kelowna coach Mike Sodaro.
It was a breakthrough of sorts for Kelowna. Sodaro has run their program since 2010 and he had guided the team to five second-place finishes at provincials before this weekend.
It was one of several good stories coming out of the volleyball provincials. Another saw Port Coquitlam’s Riverside Rapids capture the Quad A girls volleyball crown in Nanaimo. The nucleus of the team had won the Grade 9 and then the junior provincials. They, like everyone else, didn’t get to compete for a title last year.
Riverside came from behind to beat the Nanaimo District Islanders in the semifinals and the South Delta Sun Devils in five-set marathons.
“We trained all through COVID-19, when you had to be wearing a mask and you had stay socially distanced and this team stayed in the gym, grinding away, from October to May,” said Riverside coach Bryan Gee. “They put in the time, they put in the work.
“I love how hard the girls competed and how they played as a family.”
