The UBC Okanagan Heat are the athletic teams that represent the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, British Columbia and currently compete in the Canada West conference of U Sports. The Heat field varsity teams in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, rugby, and volleyball.
Monica "Moki" De Gennaro is an Italian professional volleyball player. She plays for Imoco Volley Conegliano and for the Italy women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics, 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics. In the 2024 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal and the best libero award. She is regarded as one of the greatest liberos of all time.
Zhu Ting is a professional Chinese volleyball player. She is an outside hitter and former captain of the China women's national volleyball team. Currently, she plays for Imoco Volley Conegliano.
Irina Andreyevna Fetisova is a Russian volleyball player. She plays for the Russia women's national volleyball team and Fenerbahce Opet at club level.
Kimberly Hill is an American former professional volleyball player who played as an outside hitter for the United States women's national volleyball team. Hill won gold with the national team at the 2014 World Championship and the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, and bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Kelsey Marie Robinson Cook is an American indoor volleyball player of the United States women's national volleyball team. Robinson won gold with the national team at the 2014 World Championship, the Rimini Volleyball Nations League, and the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, and bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Taylor Mackenzie Wilson is a Canadian professional volleyball player. She has won seven Canadian national titles, including the women's volleyball championship in 2014.
Lauren Gibbemeyer is an American indoor volleyball player. She was a member of the United States women's national volleyball team and plays as middle blocker.
Louisa-Christin Lippmann is a German volleyball player. She plays as an outside hitter or opposite and has over 100 appearances for the Germany women's national volleyball team. At club level, she currently plays for Lokomotiv Kaliningrad. Lippmann played in many international competitions and won the German league, cup and supercup with the clubs she played for. She represented Germany at the 2024 Summer Olympics partnering with former gold medallist Laura Ludwig.
Anna Nicolaevna Podkopaeva is a Russian volleyball player. She is a member of the Russia women's national volleyball team and was part of the national teams at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, the Montreux Volley Masters, the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, the European Championships, the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Italy, the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup in Japan, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Carla Bradstock was a Canadian volleyball player and coach.
Sarah Lindsey Pavan is a Canadian beach volleyball and former indoor volleyball player. She was part of the Canada women's national volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan. With Melissa Humana-Paredes, she won the women's gold medal at the 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships.
Graham Saxton Vigrass is a former Canadian professional volleyball player. As a member of the Canadian men's national volleyball team, he was a participant at two Olympic Games and a bronze medallist at the 2017 World League. He is currently the head coach of the University of Calgary Dinos men's volleyball team.
Blair Cameron Bann is a former Canadian professional volleyball player. He was a member of the Canadian men's national volleyball team, a participant at two Olympic Games, and a bronze medallist at the 2017 World League.
Samuel Schachter is a Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player. In 2010 he won the FIVB World Junior (U-21) Championship with Garrett May. He and partner Josh Binstock were 2014 Canadian national champions, and represented Canada at the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, he and Binstock earned silver medals. He is competing with partner Daniel Dearing at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Men's tournament.
Gong Xiangyu is a Chinese volleyball player. On club level, she plays for Jiangsu.
Nada Meawad is an Egyptian indoor and beach volleyball player, a member of the Egypt women's national volleyball team. She made her international debut when she was 15 years old on the 2013 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship in Thailand. She started playing in El Shams Club at the age of five years old. Nada Meawad and her teammate Doaa Elghobashy were the first ever African team to take part in the FIVB beach volleyball Olympic Games in 2016. She is a Five-time AVCA First Team All-American and Three-time NAIA Player of the Year 2018, 2020 and 2021 while playing college volleyball at Park University.
Marisa Field is a Canadian volleyball player who twice represented her home country in the FIVB World Championship, in 2010 and 2014.
Shanice Marcelle is a Canadian female volleyball player and assistant coach for the York Lions women's volleyball team. She is a five-time CIS volleyball champion as a university athlete and two-time Bundesliga champion as a professional athlete. Individually, she was twice awarded the CIS women's volleyball player of the year in 2011 and 2013, was the 2011 CIS volleyball championship MVP, and was named the 2013 winner of the BLG Award as the best female athlete in all of Canadian Interuniversity Sport. She joined the Canadian women's national volleyball team in 2011 and is a member of the beach volleyball national team.
Kiera Van Ryk is a Canadian volleyball player. She is part of the Canadian women's national volleyball team. She participated at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, 2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, and 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup.
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