Back in October, nobody thought the women’s volleyball team would become Ontario champions.
After losing 10 players in the off-season, a 12-rookie team went 2-8 in preseason play. Before the opening game of the OUA regular season, head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane said her team’s goal was simple:...
Women’s volleyball coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane said her team won’t be intimidated when they play the four-time defending national champions this afternoon.
After winning an OUA gold medal last weekend, the seventh-seeded Gaels are in Hamilton for their first-ever CIS national tournament appearance.
They...
With her team only one point away from victory during the fifth set of an OUA semifinal last Saturday, women’s volleyball captain Becky Billings called her teammates in for a huddle.
Billings had just watched them blow a two-set lead to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. She said she brought...
When Joely Christian-Macfarlane became the women’s volleyball head coach in 2007, she made outside hitters Becky Billings and Natalie Gray her first two official recruits.
Last weekend, both women played the last OUA regular season games of their careers, beating the Western Mustangs 3-1 and the Windsor...
The Ottawa Gee-Gees were only one set away from leaving Kingston with their fourth-straight win over the women’s volleyball team on Friday night.
But the Gaels rebounded in an exhilarating five-set win, jumping past the Gee-Gees in the OUA standings to take sole possession of second place with two...
Head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane couldn’t remember the last time women’s volleyball won at the University of Western Ontario.
But the Gaels beat the the defending OUA champion Western Mustangs 27-25, 25-27, 25-17, 25-21 in London on Saturday to cap off a perfect weekend.
They swept the Windsor...
The women’s volleyball team split their first two games of the season last weekend.
They lost 3-1 on the road to the Ottawa Gee-Gees on Thursday, but beat the Royal Military College Paladins in straight sets in Friday’s home opener.
Gaels head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane said she was more impressed...
Last season, the women’s volleyball team finished third in the OUA East and lost in the first round of the playoffs. But without veterans Katie Matthews, Colleen Ogilvie, Elyssa Heller and Lorna Button, it will be a rebuilding season in 2011-12.
Nine players from last season’s team have left the squad...
Two members of the Queen’s volleyball program will represent Canada at an international competition in Shenzen, China next month.
Men’s outside hitter Joren Zeeman will play for Team Canada and women’s head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane will be on staff as an assistant coach for the Canadian women’s...