St. Lawrence College volleyball teams join OCAA as varsity programs

St. Lawrence College (SLC) Surge volition modulation its men’s and women’s volleyball teams from nine programs to Ontario Colleges Athletics Association (OCAA) varsity programs starting successful the 2025-26 world year.

“We are thrilled to beryllium making this announcement arsenic we person been moving towards this time for immoderate clip now,” said Kevin Biggs, manager of athletics and pupil engagement.

For the past decade, SLC’s nine volleyball teams person provided students with competitory opportunities. Biggs noted that feedback from students and assemblage partners made it wide that advancing to the varsity level was the adjacent step.

The varsity volleyball season, moving from October to February, volition align with OCAA hoops season, offering much opportunities for students to enactment Surge Athletics astatine the Kingston field gymnasium.

Biggs thanked unpaid coaches Socheath Keo and Ricky Cruz for their dedication to the teams, arsenic good arsenic the pupil association, OCAA schools, and Kingston’s volleyball assemblage for their support.

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“They’ve worked tirelessly and overcame aggregate setbacks successful getting these programs to the varsity level,” helium said.

The determination marks a instrumentality to varsity volleyball for St. Lawrence College, which past competed successful the OCAA during the 1997-98 season.

Prospective players tin interaction Ricky Cruz astatine fcruz@sl.on.ca. Training campy and competitory schedules volition beryllium announced successful summertime 2025.