{"id":23577,"date":"2023-02-08T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23577"},"modified":"2023-02-09T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:39:54","slug":"camosun-chargers-alumnus-up-for-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/02\/08\/camosun-chargers-alumnus-up-for-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Chargers alumnus up for national award"},"content":{"rendered":"

After helping lead the Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball team to the national championship in 2022, Vitor Pereira has been nominated for the Sport BC Athlete of the Year Award under the College Athlete category.<\/p>\n

Pereira\u2014who moved to Canada from Brazil in 2016 and joined the Chargers in 2018\u2014had a lot of ups and downs in the four years he played with the Chargers, including a pandemic, but it all seemed to come together in the end after the Chargers won gold in nationals.<\/p>\n

The cherry on top might come on March 9, when the winner of the award is announced in Vancouver (there are four other students nominated).<\/p>\n

Pereira says that he\u2019s grateful that his head coach of four years, Charles Parkinson, was able to see his team win gold before his retirement from coaching. Although this isn\u2019t Parkinson\u2019s first time leading a team to gold, it was a perfect way to end his coaching career.<\/p>\n

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Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball alumnus Vitor Pereira has been nominated for the Sport BC Athlete of the Year award, in the College Athlete category (photo by Camosun College).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely good. I mean, I didn\u2019t want to get another silver medal,\u201d says Pereira. \u201cSo, it was great to win provincials and nationals was even better. Not only for me but for Charles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pereira\u2019s favourite part of his Camosun experience was playing for the Chargers. He said his team was like a family that echoed a brotherly dynamic. While they would fight from time to time it was always quickly resolved, and they remain friends to this day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe dynamic was incredible. I mean, the best friends I\u2019ve made in Canada [were] the ones from volleyball. So yeah, the dynamic was great,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was awesome to play with them. And yeah, we had little fights during the whole process, because it\u2019s a long process: lots of games, lots of practices, but I think it\u2019s normal and in the end everything was great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parkinson believes that Pereira encapsulates the ideal student-athlete in his work ethic both on the court and in the classroom. He says that Pereira led by example, which inspired others to emulate his hard work and self-driven motivation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s equally important to look at the student side of this equation because all of the athletes at college are students first and athletes second,\u201d says Parkinson. \u201cAnd for Vitor to be able to play at the level that he\u2019s playing, and also graduate with a bachelor of Business Administration… I think, really, he embodies what the student-athlete is all about and the kind of discipline and rigor that\u2019s required to be outstanding in both.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pereira says that he\u2019s excited to be nominated for the Sport BC award, but says that he doesn\u2019t play volleyball for the accolades. He\u2019s more grateful to win and play alongside a strong team. Being a nominee is a result of his hard work, but he says he won\u2019t lose any sleep if he doesn\u2019t win. In Pereira\u2019s mind, playing for the Chargers is a win in itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it looks like a big deal,\u201d he says. \u201cSo, I was honoured by being nominated but it\u2019s also, like, not as special as playing and winning. But it\u2019s also because we don\u2019t play for that kind of stuff too, but I don\u2019t want to sound like I don\u2019t think it\u2019s cool or anything. But we play to win and that\u2019s just like, a consequence of the whole process. I\u2019m definitely honoured, I mean, It\u2019s awesome. I can\u2019t wait to win the award and celebrate with the people who played with me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After helping lead the Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball team to the national championship in 2022, Vitor Pereira has been nominated for the Sport BC Athlete of the Year Award under the College Athlete category. Pereira\u2014who moved to Canada from Brazil in 2016 and joined the Chargers in 2018\u2014had a lot of ups and downs in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23633,"comment_status":"closed","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":[238,8,15,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-sports","category-sports","category-campus","category-february-8-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577","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=23577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23579,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577\/revisions\/23579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}