The Trinity Western Spartans are the athletic teams that represent Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia. The university's teams are members of U Sports, and compete in the Canada West Universities Athletics Association, and where applicable, in the Pacific division.
The Arena di Monza, known for sponsorship reasons as the OpiquadArena since October 2023, is an indoor sporting arena in Monza, Italy. It is home to the Vero Volley Monza and Saugella Team Monza, volleyball teams. In 2011, it hosted matches for the 2011 Women's European Volleyball Championship. A few rounds of the Men's Volleyball World League were played in the arena in 2008. Its seating capacity is 4,500 spectators.
Amir Ghafour is an Iranian volleyball player who plays as an opposite spiker for Iranian club Shahdab Yazd. He is a former member of the Iranian national team.
Viktor Yosifov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He is a member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. Yosifov is a bronze medallist of the 2009 European Championship.
Rudy Verhoeff is a Canadian male volleyball player. He is a member of the Canada men's national volleyball team and Swiss club Volley Amriswil, a participant in the 2016 Summer Olympics, a gold and silver medalist at the NORCECA Men's Volleyball Championship in 2015 and 2013, and a bronze medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Steven Marshall is a Canadian male volleyball player. He was a member of the Canada men's national volleyball team, representing Canada in the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. He was a gold medallist at the NORCECA Men's Volleyball Championship in 2015 and a bronze medallist at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Stephen Timothy Maar is a Canadian professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Gas Sales Piacenza and the Canada national team.
Unione Sportiva Pro Victoria Pallavolo, also known as Vero Volley Milano, is the professional volleyball department of Italian sports club U.S. Pro Victoria and is based in Monza. It has male and female teams and is better known for its women's team which currently plays in the Serie A1.
Arthur Damian Szwarc is a Canadian professional volleyball player who plays for Vero Volley Monza and the Canada national team. He took part in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Alessia Gennari is an Italian volleyball player, who plays as an outside hitter for the Italian club Imoco Volley and the Italian women's national volleyball team. At club level, she has won the Italian Championship, the Italian Cup, the CEV Cup and the FIVB Club World Championship with the clubs she played for. With the national team, she competed in the women's tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics and has won the 2021 European Championship and the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League.
Ryan Joseph Sclater is a Canadian professional volleyball player who plays as an opposite spiker for the Canada national team.
Adam Schriemer is a Canadian male volleyball player. He is a member of the Canada men's national volleyball team and German club SVG Lüneburg. He currently serves as the head coach of Trinity Western University men's volleyball team.
The Trinity Western Spartans men's volleyball team is a university varsity volleyball program in Canada that represents Trinity Western University, competing in the Canada West Universities Athletics Association of U Sports. Based out of Langley, British Columbia, the Spartans play their home games at the Langley Events Centre, a multi-sport facility close to the main campus. Led by then head coach Ron Pike, the Spartans won their first ever National Championship in 2006, defeating the University of Alberta Golden Bears in the final by a score of 3–0. Since then, the Spartans have won six more championships, for a total of seven, hoisting the Tantramar Trophy again in 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2023. The Spartans were led by head coach Ben Josephson from 2007 to 2022 before he took over as the head coach for Canada's men's volleyball program. Adam Schriemer is now the head coach. In the Canada West conference, the Spartans have won the league title seven times, taking the conference championship in 2007, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2022.
U Sports men's volleyball is the highest level of amateur play of men's indoor volleyball in Canada and operates under the auspices of U Sports. Thirty-one teams from Canadian universities are divided into three athletic conferences, drawing from the three of the four regional associations of U Sports: Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CW), Ontario University Athletics (OUA), and Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ). The Atlantic University Sport (AUS) formerly featured men's volleyball as a U Sports championship sport, but it was removed following the 2017–18 season. The 31 participating teams compete in a regular season and following intra-conference playoffs, eight teams are selected to play in a national tournament to compete for the U Sports men's volleyball championship.
Taylor Constantine Averill is an American professional volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for Vero Volley Monza and the U.S. national team.
The 2019 U Sports Men's Volleyball Championship was held from March 15 to March 17, 2019, in Quebec City, Quebec, to determine a national champion for the 2018–19 U Sports men's volleyball season. The tournament was played at PEPS at Université Laval. It was the 12th time that Laval had hosted the tournament, which is the most out of any program. This was also the first tournament to no longer feature an Atlantic University Sport champion as that conference had withdrawn from men's volleyball competition in 2018.
The 2022 U Sports Men's Volleyball Championship was held March 25–27, 2022, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to determine a national champion for the 2021–22 U Sports men's volleyball season. The third-seeded Alberta Golden Bears defeated the top-seeded Trinity Western Spartans in a re-match of the Canada West Championship game as the Golden Bears won the ninth national championship in program history.
Ran Takahashi is a Japanese male volleyball player and an Olympian. He plays as an Outside Hitter for Nippon Sport Science University's club, Japan men's national volleyball team, Vero Volley Monza and Suntory Sunbirds.
Danny Demyanenko is a Canadian volleyball player. He is a member of the Canadian national team and competed for Canada at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments as they qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The 2018 U Sports Men's Volleyball Championship was held from March 16 to March 18, 2018, in Hamilton, Ontario, to determine a national champion for the 2017–18 U Sports men's volleyball season. The tournament was played at Burridge Gymnasium on the campus of McMaster University. It was the fifth time that McMaster had hosted the tournament and the second time in three years. This was the last tournament to feature an Atlantic University Sport champion as that conference withdrew from men's volleyball competition beginning with the 2018–19 season.
