A total of 39 teams from all regions of southern B.C. will be taking part in this weekend’s 20th annual Ladies’ Volleyfest tournament. The three-day event begins round robin play Friday at 5 p.m. and runs through until the champion finals early Sunday afternoon.
Games will be held at both Merritt Secondary School and Coquihalla Middle School all three days, and at Collettville Elementary School on Saturday only.
According to Merritt Volleyball Association spokesperson Angela Russell, there are a dozen local volleyball teams entered. They include Jodi Latremouille’s Suck It Up Princess squad in the elite Competitive 1 division, and the Powder Puff Girls (a local club volleyball youth team) and Gloria Sheena’s I-DA-HO crew in the Competitive 2 category.
All-told, nine Merritt-based teams are entered in the busy Recreational division: Girls With Balls, Big Bad Bruins, Brew Crew, Bumpettes, GI Janes, Serve-ivors, Kiss My Pass, Party Rockers and Super Neons.
Expect to see lots of heroic and bad-assed play on the courts all weekend as the theme for both MVA Volleyfest tournaments this year is ‘Superheroes and Villains.
