Women's Volleyball News
From a Flame to the Blazers: Women's Volleyball Adds More Fire to their Lineup
The CMU Women's Volleyball program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Ava Skromeda for the 2022-23 MCAC season. The St Mary's Academy product comes to CMU with plenty of experience at the club and high school varsity levels in Manitoba.
The 5'3" libero will look to lockdown the defensive side of play for the Blazers this season, and hopes to fill the shoes of Lydawn McGarry, the team's longtime defensive specialist who graduated this past April. Skromeda will join current Blazers' libero Lauren Ens in creating a potential defensive duo in the Blazers' backcourt, now that the MCAC has adopted the two libero rule. The new rule allows two defensive specialists to interchange during a set, so long as only one libero is ever on the court at the same time, allowing teams to dress and play multiple liberos throughout a match.
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Layla Makes the Leap to MCAC with Blazers Women's Volleyball
The CMU Women's Volleyball program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Layla Reichert for the 2022-23 MCAC season. The Grant Park High and Dynamo Club product will add another offensive weapon to the Blazers' outside hitters for the upcoming year.
Reichert will continue her volleyball journey at CMU after beginning her career as a rural athlete in Lac du Bonnet where she broadened her athletic horizons on the basketball and badminton courts as well, before heading to the city for secondary school at local Grant Park High School beginning with her grade ten year. In her first season of AAAA ball her Pirates team won the city championships, and after a covid-cancelled grade eleven year, the team reached the finals again this past high school season. The 5'10" left side earned herself an All-Star nod in her graduating year at the city-wide championships.
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Blazers Women's Volleyball Sign Outside Swinger Sawatzky
The CMU Women's Volleyball program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Julia Sawatzky for the 2022-23 MCAC season. The Dakota Collegiate product will add versatility and grit to the Blazers' lineup, not to mention great leadership potential and a wealth of experience in big-game scenarios.
Sawatzky's high school volleyball with the Dakota Lancers has seen her and her team gain plenty of success throughout her career there. She captained the Junior Varsity squad, which made an appearance in the Final four at at Provincials the AAAA level, and also took home championship banners from both the MBCI and Maples tournaments during the season. Personally, she also received tournament all-star recognition that season at the St Mary's tournament, and was named the Grade 10 Female Athlete of the Year at Dakota. After a season lost to COVID, Sawatzky picked up where she left off, captaining Dakota's varsity team to a third place finish in the Manitoba High School Athletics' SCAC zone and a top eight finish at provincials, and earned herself graduating all-star recognition along the way.
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Women's Volleyball Adds Power to Open their 2022-23 Recruiting Class
The CMU Women's Volleyball program is very pleased to announce the commitment of Abby Cassidy for the 2022-23 MCAC season. The Warren Collegiate Institute product comes to CMU with plenty of experience at the club and high school varsity levels in Manitoba.
The 5'10" left side will add more height to the Blazers' outside attack, and will look to fill the shoes of graduating Blazer Lydawn McGarry, who along with middle Chloe Friesen and setter Renee Desroches, will leave spots in the starting rotation up for grabs in the coming season.
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Blazers Go Perfect in Week 12
Week 12 of the MCAC schedule had all four active varsity teams on the road for weekend series; Blazers volleyball visited the Assiniboine Cougars in Brandon for a two-game set, while the basketball squads headed to Southern Manitoba for two dates with the Providence Pilots.
Friday night was a big night for Blazers Athletics as the women's volleyball team played their first match of the season at the site of the 2022 MCAC Volleyball Championships. Their matchup was with a struggling Cougars squad, who had yet to win a set through six games played going into the match. The Blazers had no plans to be the first team to drop a set to ACC and rolled to a straight-sets victory 25-14, 25-18, 25-17, looking like a team bent on holding their second place spot in the Manitoba conference rankings. Head Coach Jayme Menzies utilized a number of her players in the win, but got the biggest contributions from rookie left sides Rachel Bartel and Halle Meisner, as well as rookie middle Annika Kornelsen, who displayed her athleticism on a number of offensive sequences, running steps and then finishing the rally with a block.
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