Mar 10, 2013

Bump, SET, Spike

This Past weekend, was great. Thursday- Saturday Lakeland College hosted the 2013 Womans National Volleyball Championship. Eight teams from across Canada came to show their skills and vie in for the Gold medal. Because of our busy toddler we made most of the 6:00pm games and 2/3rds of the Lakeland games each day. These girls played very good. We were very impressed with the skill level of these athletes.
Lakeland hosted the event so they were automatically in the tournament, and seated in # 6th. They played their hearts out and caused 2 upsets against HC  Hawks, and the EM Lynx to make it to the gold metal game. The home town crowd came out to support by the hundreds. The energy level from the crowd was unparallelled to any other college event we have attended.
Macie was such a great fan, as she stayed late for most of the games and was very pleasant.








Photo: Just watching some woman's volley ball no big deal :)
Macie and Emrie discussing their plans to play on a championship team

The Gold medal game was played on Saturday night, before a packed gym. Standing room only, the place was jammed. Our girls started out keeping up with the #1 ranked team, Fraser Valley Cascades, but fell short in 3 straight sets. This marks 5 golds in the past 6 years for the Cascades. We were very proud of our Rustlers. SILVER!!!!
Final Results of the weekend;

GOLD  Fraser Valley Cascades  PACWEST
SILVER  Lakeland Rustlers   ACAC 
BRONZE  Elans de Garneau   RSEQ 
Fourth  Lynx d'Edouard-Montpetit   RSEQ 
Fifth/Sixth  Humber Hawks   OCAA 
Fifth/Sixth  NAIT Ooks   ACAC 
Seventh  MSVU Mystics   ACAA 
Eighth  Columbia Bearcats   PACWEST