Summer Volleyball Academy

Summer 2025

The Academy is unlike any program offered for the volleyball player looking to take their skills to their highest levels. The Academy program is designed for those athletes prepared to put in the time and energy required to improve their game so they can compete with the very best. The Academy provides an opportunity for athletes to work with our areas top coaches.

ACADEMY NEWS:

2025 Summer

Summer Volleyball Academy will be back for one more year! Your enthusiasm and unwavering support have been truly inspiring, and it is an absolute honor to continue serving the high-performance volleyball youth community. Thank you for your encouragement—this program exists because of your passion and dedication. We can’t wait to make this summer another unforgettable experience!

Competive Beach Program

Our Competitive Beach Program starts up Tuesday, May 27th at Mooney’s Bay. We do still have room in our program for you to get in the work to prepare for the OVA Beach Season.

2025 OVA Beach Tournaments in OTTAWA

We will once again be hosting OVA Beach Tournaments right here in Ottawa at MaxVolley. This year we will host both in the east end and the west end. See OVA Schedule for details.

Dates 2025:

  • June 7/8 – Silver Level (7th is the CHEO Fundrasier)
  • June 14/15 – Silver Level 
  • June 21/22 – Silver Level
  • July 12/13 – GOLD Level
  • July 19/20 – Silver Level

Academy Programs

Athletes are able to select the program combination that is right for them from our options of the Full Academy, Competitive Beach, Instructional Beach, Indoor Program and Conditioning Program. The full academy offers the best of both with beach and indoor practices. This is our most popular program selection for all ages of volleyball athletes.

Registration Form

Please ensure you complete the entire registraion form and make deposit to ensure you save your spot. ONLY PUSH SUBMIT ONCE. If you feel it did not work then email cwalker@sportscan.ca to get confirmation.

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Athlete Information

The full academy includes the Indoor Academy, your selection of Competitive or Instructional Beach and the Conditioning Program. This is for athletes looking to develop their skills on both the beach and indoor side. The full academy offers the best of both with beach and indoor practices. This is our most popular program selection for all ages of volleyball athletes.

The Indoor Academy brings together some of our countries top professional athletes and coaches each summer. In addition to having an outstanding coaching staff, we also provide the low coach to athlete ratio of 1:9. This ratio ensures that each athlete is receiving optimal error detection and correction from the coaching staff at every training session. Athletes will have regular use of video analysis to ensure they have a clear understanding of how they are currently performing a skill and to also identify the changes that are still needed.

All this makes the Indoor Academy a perfect fit for the athlete who is serious about taking their game to the highest level and is dedicated to putting in the time and effort needed to do so.

Our Beach Academy begins the last week of May and runs until mid August. Our professional coaching staff will guide teams through a seasonal plan of technical and tactical skills designed to prepare them for OVA competitions.

The Competitive Beach Academy is a perfect fit for athletes who are looking for the Club practice environment that is designed to optimize their training efforts and help push past comfort zones in preparation for competition.

Please note that those attending the Competitive Beach Program should be registering with a playing partner who they will train along side to help ensure optimal performance.

Our Regular Beach Academy begins the first week of July and runs for 7 weeks. Similar to our competitive program, athletes will have the opportunity to learn the unique technical and tactical skills used in Beach Volleyball. 

This program is geared more for those who are not looking to compete in the OVA Beach events on a regular basis. Athletes can register as an individual or with a partner. These athletes are simply looking to develop their beach volleyball skills or as a team, They may wish to test their skills at an OVA event during the summer.

Our athletic training program is designed as a general conditioning program to complement any club program. Our program focuses on speed, agility quickness, core strength, and general strength development. During these training sessions, our coaches will focus on the proper execution of each exercise, providing error detection and correction to ensure optimal performance is being achieved. This program is only available to those participating in the FULL ACADEMY. If those in other programs are interested can join for an additional fee of $210+HST.

2025 Costs:

We offer day program to best accommodate athletes during the summer months to pursue volleyball during their off season and other summer sports. (Long Term Athlete Development Focus)
To secure your spot a $150+HST deposit is required.
Payment can be made through PayPal.
See above for link.

Full Program: Includes Beach, Indoor and Conditioning

$1320+HST (Instructional Beach)
$1540+HST (Competitive Beach)

Indoor Only Program:

Indoor Court Option: $825+HST

NOTE: this program does NOT include Athletic Training, it can be added on for an additional fee.

Beach Only Competitive Program: $825+HST

Runs May 26th – August 14th

NOTE: this program does NOT include Athletic Training, it can be added on for an additional fee.

Beach Only INSTRUCTIONAL Program: $687.50+HST

Runs July 8th – August 14th

NOTE: this program does NOT include Athletic Training, it can be added on for an additional fee.

Athletic Training: $210+HST

Occurs between Indoor and Beach sessions. Time depends on instructors and participants.

  • DEPOSIT OF $150 + HST IS REGUIRED TO SECURE SPOT
  • FULL PAYMENT DUE BEFORE FIRST DAY
  • NO REFUND OF DEPOSIT AFTER APRIL 30TH
  • NO REFUND OF PAYMENT AFTER JUNE 15TH

Schedule & Locations:

Starting July 3rd – 7 weeks, 2x per week (July 3rd – August 14th)

Tuesdays & Thursdays,Mondays available for extra indoor sessions

Indoor 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM @ Brookfield HS.

Conditioning 11:00AM – 11:30 AM @ Brookfield HS

Beach 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM @ Ottawa Tennis & Lawn Bowling Club

Competitive Beach

May 26th – June 26th,

Tuesdays & Thursdays: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM @ Mooney’s Bay 

July 2th – August 15th:

Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:00 – 4:00 @ Ottawa Tennis & Lawn Bowling Club

** all sessions are weather dependant
*** no sessions will be added to make up for missed sessions

OUR 2024 Coaching Staff

Colin Walker

Colin has been coaching at a variety of levels from elementary school to National Youth Program and everything in between for the last 30 years. Presently he is the Head Coach of the Trent Men’s and Women’s Varsity Team. He brings a wealth of experience in athlete and coach development. Colin has coached all levels of athlete at both genders. He has taken on various high-performance roles as Regional Head Coach both indoor and beach, Provincial Team Assistant Coach, twice Provincial Team Head Coach and Assistant Coach for Canada’s National Youth Men’s Program (16U & 17U Select programs).

Colin will be taking the on the administrator role ensuring things are running smoothly all summer.

Aaron Wade

Aaron Wade is a dedicated volleyball coach with over five years on the La Cité Coyotes coaching staff, where he focuses on developing high-performance collegiate athletes. He holds an NCCP Advanced Development Coach Certification and has been active in the volleyball community for over a decade. Aaron also leads La Cité’s community outreach program, working with clubs and running March Break Camps.

 

He has been part of Sportscan for over eight years, helping young athletes refine their skills. His experience also includes coaching with Team Ontario and Region 6 volleyball for two seasons each. A lifelong Kaizen champion, Aaron is passionate about player development and looks forward to continuing his work with aspiring athletes.

Audrey Belanger-Griffith

Audrey was a SportsCan athlete in the past and is joining the coaching staff for here fourth year this summer! Audrey is a member of the Laval University Women’s team. She is a graduate of the a Maverick Volleyball Club. 

Audrey will be working with our athletes on the indoor side and running our OVA Beach Tournaments this summer providing her high energy and great work ethic!

Alize Lemieux

Alize started playing volleyball at the age of 11. Played for the Mavericks volleyball club in highschool. Started playing beach volleyball when I was 13. Did one summer of SportsCan Beach Volleyball training. During the summer 2018, Alize was selected to be part of the Ontario Region 6 Beach Volleyball team. Now she is finishing up her 3rd year at Jacksonville University playing D1 beach volleyball.