NSSSAA Girls’ Volleyball Champion Wolverines Claim NWOSSA Bronze

Written by admin on 27 February 2012

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2012 NWOSSA Girls' Volleyball Champions from THunder Bay the Ecole Secondaire Catholique LaVerendrye Vipers. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

MANITOUWADGE, ON – A great hometown crowd was in attendance to cheer on their Northshore Secondary School Athletic Association Girls’ Volleyball Champions the Manitouwadge High School Wolverines as they hosted the 2012 Northwestern Ontario Secondary School Athletics (NWOSSA) Girls’ Volleyball Championships. The Wolverines welcomed Sioux Lookout’s Queen Elizabeth District High School Warriors and Thunder Bay’s École Secondaire Catholique LaVerendrye Vipers for two days of intense volleyball action and the second time in just three years that these teams have faced off for the NWOSSA Girls Volleyball Championship.

DAY 1 – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd

MHS Wolverines (far side) VS. QEDHS Warriors Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. Photos OntarioNewsNorth.com

Thunder Bay’s LaVerendyre Vipers defeated Manitouwadge’s Wolverines 3-1, next the Warriors upended the Viperes 3-2 and the day ended with a well attended evening game between the MHS Wolverines and the QEDHS Warriors, broadcast live on OntarioNewsNorth.com. Hometown Wolverines came through with sets of 25-17, 25-18, 18-25 and 25-23 sending the packed gymnasium into an uproar as they took their feet with defeaning cheers. Based on the NWOSSAA tie breaking protocol,Laverendyre advanced to the finals based on their head to head record against the Wolverines while the Warriors and Wolverines would hit the court again Friday morning.

MHS Wolverines (far side) VS. QEDHS Warriors Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. Photos OntarioNewsNorth.com

DAY 2 – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24th

Friday morning Manitouwadge High School and Sioux Lookout’s Queen Elizabeth District High School took the court to determine who would face LaVerendrye for Gold. The Wolverines could not repeat their winning performance from the previous evening, struggling to communicate and seeming quite tired as the Warriors took 3 consecutive sets securing their face off against the Vipers for gold and leaving the Manitouwadge High School 2012 NSSSAA Girls Volleyball Champions with a respectable Bronze medal placing. Afterwards when asked how they came back to win after the previous evening’s losses against Manitouwadge, Warriors Captain Caidence Paleske explained that “The toughest thing in volleyball is to stay positive all the time, it’s really tough when you get a really good server on the other team and they get 4 or 5 points right in a row it’s really tough to get back on your feet and say ‘we have to get a point here’, but I think we did that really well today and that’s why we won”.

The final game, again broadcast by OntarioNewsNorth.com, was Friday’s lunch hour match between the QEDHS Warriors, who enjoyed the support of Manitouwadge fans cheering them on, and the LaVerendrye Vipers. QEDHS Warriors Captain, Caidence Paleske remembered going into the game, their win against LaVerendrye at a Thunder Bay tournament earlier in the season”When we went to the Thunder Bay Tournament we beat them in three sets but then yesterday they really gave us their game, it’s kind of anybody’s game right now but we’re ready to play”. And play they did, the Warriors were not about to give the gold away and fought the Vipers every set along the way providing a spectacular show for the Manitouwadge crowd which clearly favoured the QEDHS team, even the Wolverines girls which had lost to them earlier that morning, cheering the Warriors enthusiastically. In the end it would go to LaVerendrye’s Vipers who won 25-23, 25-18 and finally 25-24 to claim the 2012 NWOSSA Girls Volleyball Championship GOLD and send the Warriors home with silver. Vipers Captain Stephanie Potter spoke regarding her team’s win against the QEDHS Warriors “I think in the end it was the energy, we came into this game really pumped up and we all really wanted to win” she said. Heading to OFSSA in Toronto it will be the Viper’s captain’s first time playing at the provincial championship “I feel amazing, my first time at OFSAA finishing off my Grade 12, it means alot to me to make it” said the LaVerendrye student, a statement echoed by many of her teammates as they celebrated and posed for photographs with their gold medals.

CONGRATULATIONS!

to the

École Secondaire Catholique LaVerendrye Vipers,
2012 NWOSSA Girls Volleyball Champions

Michelle Bélanger
Liane Malette
Stéphanie Lachance
Daniella Deschêne
Alexandra Vallcourt
Ashley Gagné
Stéphanie Potter (Captain)
Léanne Godard
Marissa Leclerc
Kelsey Gagné
Angela Luavanguk
Tiana Sebesta
Jessiva Veilleux

Good luck to the LaVerendrye Vipers as they head to OFSSA to represent Northwestern Ontario provincially and CONGRATULATIONS to all the teams on their sportsmanship and hard work!

Return here in the days to come for more video of the games including an interview with the Vipers captain (see link to Warriors Captain’s interview below).

FINAL GAME Friday February 24^th LaVerendrye Vipers VS. QEDHS Warriors

Originally broadcast Live by OntarioNewsNorth.com at livestream.com

MORE INFO

Learn more about Northshore Secondary School Athletic Association (NSSSAA) sports
Go to OFSAA’s website to follow as LaVerendrye competes provincially

: Thunder Bay’s LaVerendrye Vipers accept their 2012 NWOSSA Girls’ Volleyball Gold Medals. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

: Sioux Lookout’s Queen Elizabeth District High School Warriors ready to accept their 2012 NWOSSA Girls’ Volleyball Championship Silver medals. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com