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The Senior B Volleyball team began the year with 12 tenacious, competitive athletes and two brand new coaches and ended as one strong unit. Under the leadership of Captain Hanna McNeill, the team developed greatly and played some excellent volleyball. The first test for the girls was their game against Shawnigan Lake School. With only two...

It was our first practice; we were all scared: most of us had never played before. 13 girls, new faces. We learned to play the game from the basics, having no idea if we might be successful. It might be a complete failure; we would probably be making fools of ourselves, but we knew that we had to give it a chance, we all had to try our best. We...

The Senior Girls Volleyball team managed to go undefeated at the 2016 AA Island Championships. Along with our victory in 2015, this was a back-to-back championship for the girls. The girls started out on Friday with pool play matches against GNS, Ladysmith and Lambrick. We convincingly dominated all three matches with 2-0 wins in every game....

This weekend, Brentwood’s Junior A Volleyball team travelled to Nanaimo’s Vancouver Island University to participate in their annual tournament. There were 22 teams and we came in second in the silver division. It was a busy weekend, but the team powered through 8 games, 4 on Friday and 4 on Saturday. Our girls played great all weekend but our...

This past weekend the Senior A Volleyball team hosted our annual, highly anticipated, Brentwood Classic Tournament. As this was our first opportunity to play in front of our school, the team was full of excitement and nerves, with Captain Sarah B leading the way. Starting off with a tough match against the well known Belmont team, we fought hard...

This past weekend, the Senior A Volleyball team participated in the annual Vancouver Island University Invitational Tournament in Nanaimo. On Friday afternoon we played our first match against GW Graham from Chilliwack, followed by a game with Reynolds from Victoria and St. Thomas Aquinas from Vancouver. We finished off the night with a fourth...

This past weekend, our Junior A Girls Volleyball team ventured to Belmont to play in a 16 team exhibition tournament. After starting out in what was the consensus “pool of death” with Brooks, Highlands and Mt Doug, our girls managed to come away with three sets from six. Unfortunately, due to points won and lost, we ended up third in the pool and...

The Senior A Volleyball team began the season last weekend at an exhibition tournament at Dover Bay High School up Island. With only a handful of practices behind us, many of us were anxious at the thought of competing against other experienced teams. However, when Friday afternoon arrived, the thirteen of us and our committed coach boarded a...

After just two short practices, 15 girls represented the Junior A Girls Volleyball team over the past weekend in Comox. While knowledge of the rotations, transitions, and defensive strategies were uncertain to start the event, the girls worked hard and learned quickly, battling their way to second place in their pool and 6th out of 16 teams. An...

The Junior B Volleyball team had an amazing season. We were a group of girls who were fun to be around, and we all helped each other out improving our game, which we improved immensely, if I do say so myself. We participated in a number of tournaments, and were always proud with how we played, even if we did end up in second place…twice. The...