{"id":15531,"date":"2018-03-07T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15531"},"modified":"2018-03-05T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T22:29:54","slug":"chargers-to-host-national-volleyball-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/03\/07\/chargers-to-host-national-volleyball-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers to host national volleyball championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball team will be hosting the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) national volleyball championships at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE) at Interurban this month. The championships will take place from March 7 to March 10; Chargers men\u2019s volleyball player and fourth-year Sports Management student Doug Waterman says that, for him, the chance to play at an event of this scale in front of a home crowd is surreal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity. I\u2019ve been blessed in the past to have gone to nationals, just because I\u2019ve been on such a great team with great coaching,\u201d he says. \u201cBut with the tournament being at home court this time around, it\u2019s become such a huge advantage. In a sport like volleyball, when there\u2019s big momentum swings, I think having a home court advantage will be really nice, as well as knowing a lot of people will come and watch us compete. Even if we don\u2019t win the whole thing, it\u2019s just a really fun experience overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball team after winning the PACWEST volleyball championship title recently; the Chargers are hosting the CCAA national volleyball championships this month (photo by University of the Fraser Valley Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chargers men\u2019s volleyball player and second-year Sports Management student Morgan Humphreys says that there are several advantages when a team gets to play on their home court.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t really have to travel across the country just to face off against the best teams like we had to do last year. It\u2019s going to be really nice to have our families come out and support us in person for once instead of staying at home and watching from a live stream,\u201d says Humphreys. \u201cIt should be pretty packed, considering the women\u2019s nationals last year was a really big success; I heard that this year we\u2019re supposed to have even more support out for ours, which is going to be really hype.\u201d<\/p>\n

Humphreys says that although this tournament should be big for Camosun, the college shouldn\u2019t stop there. He says that the best way for Camosun to continue to get student interest in the Chargers and college sports in general is to keep trying to hold larger events like this one and to expose the fact that the volleyball program in particular has a good reputation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur volleyball program is known as a winning program, so the more we can advertise ourselves winning things like provincial titles and going to nationals every year, that\u2019s a big draw,\u201d says Humphreys. \u201cWhen I came here last year, I was like, \u2018Oh, Camosun\u2019s won three provincial titles in a row and it\u2019s close to home. That\u2019s the school I want to be at.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball team will be hosting the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) national volleyball championships at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE) at Interurban this month. The championships will take place from March 7 to March 10; Chargers men\u2019s volleyball player and fourth-year Sports Management student Doug Waterman says that, for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-march-7-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15534,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531\/revisions\/15534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}