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Season | 2014–15 |
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Teams | Eight |
Finals site | Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport Toronto, Ontario |
Champions | Trinity Western Spartans (1st title) |
Runner-up | Alberta Pandas |
Winning coach | Ryan Hofer (1st title) |
Championship MVP | Nikki Cornwall (Trinity Western Spartans) |
The 2015 CIS Women's Volleyball Championship was held February 26, 2015, to March 1, 2015, in Toronto, Ontario, to determine a national champion for the 2014–15 CIS women's volleyball season. [1] [2] The tournament was played at the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport at the University of Toronto. [3] It was the second time that the University of Toronto had hosted the tournament, with the other instance occurring in 1996. [1] This was the last championship tournament to be played over four days as the format shifted back to three days starting in 2016. This was also the last championship to be played in February, as the CIS shifted the championship schedule two weeks ahead in 2016.
The top-seeded Canada West Champion Trinity Western Spartans defeated the second-seeded Alberta Pandas in the gold medal match to win the first women's volleyball national championship in program history. [2] The Spartans came back from a 0–2 set deficit to win the national title in exactly the same manner that they won the Canada West title – by overcoming a two-set deficit to the Alberta Pandas. [2]
Seed | Team | Qualified | Record | Last | Total |
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1 | Trinity Western Spartans | Canada West Champion | 19–5 | None | 0 |
2 | Alberta Pandas | Canada West Finalist | 19–5 | 2007 | 7 |
3 | Toronto Varsity Blues | OUA Champion (Host) | 18–1 | None | 0 |
4 | Montreal Carabins | RSEQ Champion | 15–4 | None | 0 |
5 | UBC Thunderbirds | Canada West Bronze | 13–11 | 2013 | 10 |
6 | Dalhousie Tigers | AUS Champion | 10–6 | 1982 | 1 |
7 | Ottawa Gee-Gees | OUA Finalist | 16–3 | None | 0 |
8 | Laval Rouge et Or | RSEQ Finalist | 13–6 | 2006 | 1 |
First Round: February 26 | Semi-Finals: February 28 | Gold Medal Game: March 1 | ||||||||||||
1 | Trinity Western Spartans | 3 | ||||||||||||
8 | Laval Rouge et Or | 2 | ||||||||||||
1 | Trinity Western Spartans | 3 | ||||||||||||
4 | Montreal Carabins | 0 | ||||||||||||
4 | Montreal Carabins | 3 | ||||||||||||
5 | UBC Thunderbirds | 0 | ||||||||||||
1 | Trinity Western Spartans | 3 | ||||||||||||
2 | Alberta Pandas | 2 | ||||||||||||
2 | Alberta Pandas | 3 | ||||||||||||
7 | Ottawa Gee-Gees | 0 | ||||||||||||
2 | Alberta Pandas | 3 | Bronze Medal Game: March 1 | |||||||||||
3 | Toronto Varsity Blues | 2 | ||||||||||||
3 | Toronto Varsity Blues | 3 | 3 | Toronto Varsity Blues | 2 | |||||||||
6 | Dalhousie Tigers | 0 | 4 | Montreal Carabins | 3 |
Semi-Finals: February 27 | Fifth Place Game: March 1 | ||||||||
5 | UBC Thunderbirds | 3 | |||||||
8 | Laval Rouge et Or | 0 | |||||||
5 | UBC Thunderbirds | 0 | |||||||
7 | Ottawa Gee-Gees | 3 | |||||||
6 | Dalhousie Tigers | 0 | |||||||
7 | Ottawa Gee-Gees | 3 |
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