Women’s Volleyball

The CMU women’s volleyball team is pleased to announce the addition of middle blocker Alanna Johnson for the upcoming MCAC season. The 6’0 product of Vincent Massey Collegiate in Winnipeg recently returned from a year of travel with CMU’s Outtatown Program culminating with three months in South Africa. Among Johnson’s high school volleyball accomplishments was [...]

The undefeated regular season champions made short-work of #4 University of Winnipeg in the Championship semis posting a 3-0 victory and found themselves in a match-up with the #2-ranked Providence Freemen for Saturday evening’s final. It was a rematch of season’s Gold Medal final where the injury-riddled Blazers succumb to Providence in five-sets, seeing the [...]

The road to redemption begins tomorrow afternoon for the CMU women’s volleyball team at the 2012 MCAC Championships in Otterburne, Manitoba. The Blazers entered last year’s tournaments as the heavy favourites to take home the gold medal with a conference record of 15-1. Yet is was the streaking Providence Freemen who shattered the hearts of [...]

The University of Winnipeg College Wesmen pushed the 19-0 CMU women to the limit on Saturday afternoon in the final MCAC regular season volleyball match of the season, but it was the veteran-laden Blazers that would eventually close-out their perfect season with the win 3:2 (25-16, 25-22, 22-25, 21-25, 15-3). The CMU women ran a [...]

The CMU women’s volleyball team moved to 16-0 in conference play on Friday night after making short-work of the fifth-place University of St-Boniface Voyageurs on home court, 3:0 (25-7, 25-20, 25-12), winning the match in less than an hour. Fifth-year left-side Evelyn Kampen led the Blazers with 13 kills through three sets, but it was [...]

The Adidas Cup assembles some of the top CCAA women’s volleyball teams in the country. Hosted in Oshawa, Ontario, 2012 was CMU’s second trip to the showcase tournament and like a year ago, the Blazers displayed to Ontario and the CCAA that they will compete on a national stage. 2011 ended in the semi-finals for [...]

On the heels of winning their second consecutive Western Canadian College Championship, the CMU women’s volleyball team began preparations to take on the top eastern Canadian college teams at the Adidas Cup Challenge in January. The 10-0 Blazers enter the tournament brimming with confidence and eager to show their pedigree in Oshawa. “This will definitely [...]

Despite it being their final conference matches before the Christmas break, the undefeated CMU women’s volleyball team was not in a giving-mood on Saturday afternoon as they moved themselves to 10-0 with back-to-back match wins over the Assinboine Cougars – 3-1 (25-22, 17-25, 25-13, 25-9) and 3-0 (25-13, 25-15, 25-11). The first match proved itself [...]

Winners of the 2010 Western Canadian College Volleyball Championships in Saskatoon, the CMU women’s volleyball team entered the 2011 championships as the team-to-beat last weekend in Olds, Alberta and proved themselves to be as good as it gets in Western Canada. The 2011 women’s field consisted of thirteen teams from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. [...]

The CMU women’s volleyball team made it 9 wins in a row on Thursday night slipping by the Providence Freemen 3-1 (29-27, 20-25, 25-18, 27-25) in Otterburne. Fifth-year left-side Evelyn Kampen, who has been the top scorer in each match thus far for the Blazers, kept her foot on the pedal amassing 24 kills in [...]