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2024 Volleyball Canada Beach National Teams
TORONTO, Ontario, January 19, 2024.- Volleyball Canada’s 2024 National
Beach Volleyball Team includes the world’s number four-ranked duo of
Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson. Rounding out the senior
carded athletes are two-time Olympian Sarah Pavan (who plays on the tour
with Molly McBain) and 2022 World silver medalist Sophie Bukovec, who
plays on the tour with Heather Bansley, another two-time Olympian.
On the men’s side, Canada’s top-ranked team is Sam Schachter (2016
Olympian) and Dan Dearing.
The athletes listed below make up the 2024 Canadian Beach Volleyball
Team.
In May 2024, approximately 28 additional Beach National Team Summer
Program athletes (16 men and 12 women) will be selected for four months
of carding.
Teams play on the Beach
Pro Tour and/or the NORCECA Tour.
Canada will host a Beach Pro Tour stop Elite 16 event in Montreal late
this summer; and a Futures event in Halifax, NS, in late August.
Canada’s Olympic team will not be confirmed until mid-summer.
For Paris 2024, the winners of the World Championships have already
qualified, as well as the host nation (France). The international race
for the remaining Olympic spots started at the beginning of 2023 and is
about to heat up in 2024 when 17 duos per gender secure spots under the
Eiffel Tower through the Olympic Ranking, based on each pair’s best 12
performances in qualifying events between January 1, 2023 and June 10,
2024. Meanwhile, another five teams per gender will make the cut as
winners of the five Continental Olympic tournaments, which are scheduled
between June 13 and 23.
Senior National Team Carded
Sarah Pavan (Kitchener, ON)
Melissa Humana-Paredes (Toronto, ON)
Brandie Wilkerson (Toronto, ON)
Sophie Bukovec (Toronto, ON)
Full-Time Training Carded (Senior B/Next Gen)
Women
Molly McBain (Toronto, ON)
Heather Bansley (Waterdown, ON)
Lea Monkhouse (Mississauga, ON)
Marie-Alex Bélanger (Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, QC)
Amy Ozee (Maui, HI, USA)
Anna Licht (Toronto, ON)
Men
Sam Schachter (Richmond, Hill, ON)
Daniel Dearing (Toronto, ON)
Alexander Russell (Surrey, BC)
Jake MacNeil (Georgetown, ON)
Tynan Gannett (Dartmouth, NS)
Arran Chambers (Edmonton, AB)
Steven Abrams (Georgetown, ON)
Luke de Greeff (Victoria, BC) |
