Men's Volleyball News
Duncan Petrie: January's Zueike Male Athlete of the Month
Congratulations to Duncan Petrie of Blazers Men's Volleyball on being selected the CMU Zueike Male Athlete of the Month for January. The veteran right side has continued to grow his game and has put in the work on and off the court to become the conference's most dominant and consistent right side attacker.
Petrie's university career thus far has been one of slow growth and continued improvement as he has found ways to become more impactful every season since he began in 2021-22. Over the last three seasons he has often been paired with another right side attacker, creating a tandem allowing head coach Don Dulder to provide some load management for his starters. Now a captain, Petrie has shrugged off the need to take games off through rigorous training in the fitness room throughout the year to keep himself healthy and ready to play every game, and it shows in his stats. Petrie led the team in kills in three of five matches this past month (including this last weekend's match with Assiniboine), and now sits fourth in the MCAC in total kills, amongst a list dominated by left sides across the league. As a right side Petrie is often tasked with facing the opposition's top left sides, but has still managed to rank in the top five in blocks per set for the conference, which eludes to growth in his defensive game as well, often contributing crucial digs while in the back row as well.
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Blazers MVB Find their Missing Piece
The CMU Men's Volleyball program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Michael Hwang for the 2024-25 MCAC season. The Miles Mac Buckeyes, Bison Club, and Team Manitoba libero will look to help his new squad by providing consistent passing and digging out of the Blazers' backcourt.
Hwang serves as the final piece of the puzzle for Blazers head coach Don Dulder, as he completes the monumental task of replacing eight rostered players from last year's team, either graduated or not returning to the squad this fall. Hwang will replace outgoing libero Brock Carmichael, and is expected to be plugged directly into the starting lineup, completing the Blazers' young but talented turnaround team this coming season. Hwang, along with his new teammates will look to return to MCAC dominance but will have a tough task ahead of them overtaking the defending champions Pilots, who are expected to return a lineup as good or better than their 2023-24 team.
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Men's Volleyball Continue their Avalanche of Signings with Matthew Janzen
The CMU Men's Volleyball program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Matthew Janzen for the 2024-25 MCAC season. The Linden Christian, Bisons Club, and College of the Rockies transfer is bringing his talents back to Manitoba after a year away with one of the top CCAA programs in the country.
A 2023 graduate of Linden Christian, Janzen spent the past year studying kinesiology and playing volleyball at College of the Rockies in beautiful Cranbrook, BC. He got his feet wet playing college ball under 2023-24 CCAA Coach of the Year Cisco Farrero in the ultracompetitive PacWest Conference, with a team that sat atop the CCAA National Rankings for a total of eight weeks during a long stretch of the season. Featuring at left side with the Avalanche, the hometown Winnipeg talent found himself yearning for a return to the prairies, and will certainly be a big factor in the Blazers' lineup this season.
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Men's Volleyball Take their Team to the Max with Another Anderson
The CMU Men's Volleyball program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Max Anderson for the 2024-25 MCAC season. The Dakota Collegiate and WinMan Volleyball Club product joins his brother on what looks to be a young and talent-laden squad for the upcoming year.
Coming out of the perennial contender program at Dakota Collegiate, Anderson's Lancers team were finalists at the MHSAA "AAAA" Provincial Championships this past high school season after coming out on top the the SCAC zone to earn their spot at the major tournament. Anderson was named the Dakota Collegiate Athlete of the Month following their championship run, and also earned himself a Provincials All-Star selection and Graduating All-Star honours following the season. The team also medalled at the DMCI and MBCI tournaments in the city, took home a title at the Leboldus High tournament in Regina during the season, and developed a great rivalry with nearby Glenlawn Collegiate, where Anderson regularly matched up against fellow Blazers signing Adrian Deer. The Lancers and the Lions were neck-and-neck in most of their tournament and league finishes, entering the provincials as the second and third seeds respectively, but it was Anderson's Dakota side that punched their ticket to the finals in an epic semi-final battle.
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Blazers MVB Bring the Heat with Addition of Spicer
The CMU Men's Volleyball program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Austin Spicer for the 2024-25 MCAC season. The Sanford Collegiate and 204 Volleyball Club product could be a diamond in the rough out of rural Manitoba as he is just beginning to tap his potential on the hardcourt.
Known more for his hits on the ice than on the volleyball court, Spicer suited up for his Sanford Collegiate Sabres hockey, basketball, badminton, and beach volleyball teams in addition to their volleyball squad, and also for the MacDonald Yankees in AA baseball in the summer. The multisport athlete captained his high school volleyball team, where he played both left side and middle, but has gained more personal accolades through his high school and club hockey career. He has been part of the Sabres hockey leadership core for some time, and was selected to the Winnipeg High School Hockey League All-Star game as Sanford's leading scorer and MVP. Sanford's Athlete of the year in 2022, Spicer hopes to repeat in 2024 as he finishes up his high school studies and looks ahead to college, aided by the Travis Price Award, a scholarship he received through the WHSHL.
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