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If +30 was a requirement to play beach volleyball, then this was easily present over the past two weekends here in Manitoba. Beach 4 Life saw it's premiere August Long Weekend 2 day Event @ Grand Beach & 2010 Manitoba Beach Volleyball Provincials August 7th & 8th expeirence FANTASTIC weather! Nothing short of scorching hot temperatures was the competition for these events. August Long Weekend  
Beach 4 Life's August Long Weekend Event see's all the teams play over a 2 day period. Saturday has the teams playing down on Lot 5 at Grand Beach, where by 8 courts are available for all the pool play round robin matches and quarter finals to take place. Sunday is the feature day with all semi final, bronze and gold medal matches taking place. This day has one feature court set up on west beach on the board walk for all Grand Beach patrons and residents to watch some of the top Manitoba beach volleyball players perform, all the while allowing all of Beach 4 Life's suppoters to maximize their exposure through advertising signs, banners, tents, product and more, with an average of 30,000 plus park visitors and residents in attendance over the August Long Weekend. For the players, this allows them to experience a professional event atmosphere with a feature court, lots of spectators, full officiating crew, MC, & more! Sunday brought us some great action and one new partnership to the beach of Chris Voth and Stefan Savoie taking the Men's Gold Medal over a more experiend team/partnership of Brian Enns and Rich Wiebe. Capturing the Bronze was one of Manitoba's strongest up and coming men's teams of Ryan Munt and Jason DeRocco. On the Women's side, a veteran team/partnership of Christa Desrochers and Erin Vish-Krahn captured Gold, with one of Manitoba's strongest up and coming women's team of Rachel Cockrell and Taylor Pischke. Capturing the Bronze was a new partnership, but nothing short of experience Lise Lamoureux and Stephanie Smith. Men
1st Chris Voth/Stefan Savoie 2nd Brian Enns/Richard Wiebe 3rd Ryan Munt/Jason DeRocco Women 1st Erin Vish-Krahn/Christa Desrochers 2nd Taylor Pischke/Rachel Cockrell 3rd Lise Lamoureux/Stephanie Smith 
2010 Manitoba Beach Volleyball Provincials Once again the weather was nothing short of perfect with hot temperatures and a little wind to somewhat cool things down. But what couldn't be cooled down was all the action on the courts taking place in all the respective age categories for the 2010 Manitoba Beach Volleyball Provincials. Taking place at Melrose Community Center, Sunday August 8th saw 14 U, 16 U Girls, 18 U, 21 U Women categories and 16 U Boys and 18 U, 21 U Men's categories taking place. With the opportunity to receive funding to participate at the 2010 Canadian National Beach Volleyball Championships, the game was on for all teams invovled. The 14 U girls category saw the highest number of entrants and is something Beach 4 Life and the MVA are really pushing to develop. Youth is a major key to the growth and development of beach volleyball in Manitoba and it is extremely nice to see all the youth (14 U, 16 U, 18 U) starting to increase in interest and participation. Beach 4 Life and the MVA are going to contiue it's efforts on developing and educating all the youth, all the while continuing to educate and provide as many opportunities for all levels of beach players out there. Manitoba posesses one of the largest volleyball communites in Canada and we want to keep that growing for many years to come! Manitoba Beach Volleyball Provincials Results 14 U Girls Gold Lacroix/Loewen Silver Wensel/Kille Bronze Needham/Friesen
16 U Girls Gold Kidd/Westwood Silver Sigurdson/Llyniak 
18 U Women Gold Cockrell/Pischke Silver Riemer/Nikolic Bronze Dyck/McLennan  21 U Women Gold Asham/Krahn Silver Loewen/Wasyliw Bronze Montgomery/Unrau (missing in the photo) 
16 U Boys Gold Sedor/Sedor Silver Ireland/Makara Bronze Rogalsky/Falconer
18 U Men Gold Bommersbach/Friesen Silver Vandenberg/Duncan Bronze Derksen/Ireland 
21 U Men Gold Jason DeRocco/Ryan Munt Beach 4 Life would like to extend a big thank you for all the teams who participated in the 2010 Manitoba Beach Volleyball Provincials and all the parents who stayed the course, helped out and in most ways competed in their own minds on one heck of a hot day. Beach 4 Life wishes all the teams participating in the 2010 Canadian National Beach Volleyball Championships in Toronto August 27th-29th @ Ashbridges Bay the best of luck! Any questions regarding Nationals or Nationals funding options for the winning teams of their respective age categories should contact Catherine Grace Peters at:
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