Winners of the 2010 Western Canadian College Volleyball Championships in Saskatoon, the CMU women\u2019s volleyball team entered the 2011 championships as the team-to-beat November 25- 26 \u00a0in Olds, Alberta and proved themselves to be as good as it gets in Western Canada.<\/p>\n
The 2011 women\u2019s field consisted of thirteen teams from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba<\/strong>. Along with the Blazers, Assiniboine Community College and the University of St-Boniface represented the Manitoba Colleges Athletics Conference in Olds.<\/p>\n
The Blazers cruised through their pool matches, defeating Palliser College (SK), Ambrose University College (AB), St. Mary\u2019s University College (AB), and Selkirk College (BC) all in straight sets to advance to the medal-round.<\/p>\n
In Saturday\u2019s playoffs, CMU made short-work of Brandon\u2019s ACC and then defeated Prairie Bible Institute (AB) 2-0 (25:18, 25:21) to advance to the final against King\u2019s University College of Edmonton.<\/p>\n
With the gold-medal on the line CMU again showed their pedigree, giving a strong team effort and getting a 9 kill performance from defending MCAC MVP Evelyn Kampen<\/strong> and 6 kills from middle Breanne Giesbrecht<\/strong> in support, on way to a 2-0 (25:22, 25:18) championship victory.<\/p>\n Released December 2, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winners of the 2010 Western Canadian College Volleyball Championships in Saskatoon, the CMU women\u2019s volleyball team entered the 2011 championships as the team-to-beat November 25- 26 \u00a0in Olds, Alberta and proved themselves to be as good as it gets in Western Canada. The 2011 women\u2019s field consisted of thirteen teams from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[54,177,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}