See Canada’s Top Beach Volleyball Players

FUNK ROBERTS READY FOR CANADIAN SO PRO BEACH VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT

Funk Roberts is happy to announce that for the 3rd year in a row, he will be the Tournament Director of the $5000 Canadian So Pro Beach Volleyball Tournament in Toronto. “I am proud and happy to be a part of such a great tournament. It gives me pleasure to be able to give back to the sport that I played and love for so long” says the elated Funk. Funk has organized this successful tournament 3 years in a row and is very optimistic that this one may be the best ever.

The tournament will draw the best professional beach volleyball players from across Canada. For both the men’s and women’s sides, the 16-team main draw will start Saturday morning, August 18, and run until the finals, Sunday afternoon.

As of today, leading the pack in the tournament for the women are 2005 Wasaga and Toronto winner Caroline Fiset and her partner Isabelle Rancourt, who have been playing internationally for Canada on the FIVB Tour. Other notables include 2005 Grand Bend winner Izzy Czerveniak, Kara Zawkrewski and the newly crowned Ontario beach volleyball champions Sarah Hogarth and Suzana Majcen. The women’s side promises to be action packed.

The men’s side is still fleshing itself out. Teams like Ontario Beach runner-up Jason Hubbard and Anton Hauser and the return of Olympian Jody Holden should ensure the beach stays hot with competition over the weekend.

There will also be the Not So Pro tournament that will feature close to 200 teams and over 1500 people. The weekend will also feature social breaks every hour to win some cool swag, a hot D.J. spinning the tunes all weekend long, sponsor booths to visit, as well as the ever-popular food and beverage gardens right on the beach.

If you have some time on your hands this weekend, come down to Ashbridges Bay in Toronto and check out great volleyball action.

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