Video: Lionel Woods - Ottawa Women's Volleyball

We speak with Ottawa Gee-Gees Women's Volleyball Head coach Lionel Woods after his team's 3-2 win over Guelph in The 2014 OUA Women's Volleyball Semi Final.

cis, oua, indoor, womensCameron KerrFebruary 22, 2014ottawa, guelph, Toronto

The Volleyball Source Podcast: Episode 67

podcastCameron KerrNovember 28, 2013ottawa, woods

The Volleyball Source Podcast: Episode 34

cis, mens, oua, podcast, womensCameron KerrFebruary 27, 2013Toronto, laval, ottawa, quebec, sherbrooke, woods, world league

Lions Disqualified from OUA Playoffs

Graphic: yorkulions.ca

Some unfortunate news for the York University Lions Women's Volleyball program. The CIS ruled on an OUA sanctioned forfeit of the squad's last match, an OUA quarter final game against RMC. The OUA had ruled the match a forfeit because The Lions had played transfer player Michelle Pierce. Pierce was a transfer player from The Windsor Lancers and as a transfer player, had to sit out a full year. Pierce did sit out the full year, that is not the violation being questioned. The violation committed is that every player that plays in a playoff match has to have played in or at least dressed for at least one regular season game. Because Pierce had to sit out a full year, she missed dressing for a regular season game by - two days.

York led the OUA for the entire season finishing with a record of 16-2 and they did this without the game play of Michelle Pierce. Both the transfer and the playoff roster rules seem fair. Rules like this are common in sports at both the professional and collegiate level. These rules are designed to help maintain balance and fairness when one player leaves one team to play for another. But there is something about this story that seems unfair.

Read the rest of the article after the jump.

cis, oua, womensCameron KerrFebruary 23, 2012Queen's, Toronto, ottawa, pierce, rmc, tran, windsor, york

Canadian Men World League Qualifier

fivb, mensCameron KerrJuly 27, 2011National, indoor, ottawa

Canada's FIVB World League Qualification

fivb, mensCameron KerrJuly 8, 2011canada, ottawa, slovakia, slovenia, worldleague

LIVE: OUA Women's Volleyball Semi Finals

cis, oua, womensCameron KerrFebruary 25, 2011guelph, ottawa, western, york

The Week in Review: Women's OUA Feb 4-6, 2011

Photograph: Adam Gagnon

Friday

Full recap and scores after the jump:

cis, oua, womensCameron KerrFebruary 7, 2011Toronto, lakehead, laurier, ottawa, rmc, ryerson, waterloo, western, york

The Week in Review: Women's OUA Jan 26, 28-30, 2011

Photo: Cameron Dunlop, McMaster AthleticsThis weekend saw the OUA make the final turn onto the home stretch of the regular season in women's volleyball. With only two weeks of games remaining, playoff spots are almost completely locked in. York, Queen's and Ottawa have secured playoff spots. Although home court advantage is far from locked with two points separating these first three teams, the real fight in the east division is for the fourth and final playoff spot.

RMC and Toronto are both tied with 10 points after this weekend. Toronto has three games remaining to RMC's four. Whoever wins the most games from here on in will secure the final playoff spot in the OUA east. Both teams play their final regular season game on February 13th.