Joe Grdisa, Pakmen coach and a Health and Physical Education teacher shares his love of the game.

 

I love volleyball. After making the team in middle school, I didn't really enjoy the game. When I played in high school I began to enjoy it more. When I played in university I began to actually enjoy the game. After years of outstanding coaching, athletic and skilled teammates and a successful end in my final year, I loved volleyball.

 

I continued to play some beach and club ball. I started to coach first with Toronto West. Then as a teacher for 23 years Then with Pakmen.  I now play adult rec volleyball.

 

25 years of volleyball as a player, coach, ref, tournament host. I love all aspects of the game. I thought I had seen it all.

 

I was fortunate to be asked to be the Supervisor of the Training Facility for Indoor Volleyball at the TO2015 Pan Am Games.  read more

 

 

  

Volleyball Camp Promo Video

For the 10th consecutive year, Pakmen is pleased to offer our most popular program: Volleyball Camp.

 

Volleyball Camp is for boys and girls, 7 to 14 years, and of all skill levels. The camps are held by the week, Monday to Friday, for the first two weeks of August. We have both full day and half day options with free early drop off and late pick up options.

 

For the first week of August, Volleyball Camp is held at Thomas Street Middle School and David Leeder Middle School. Both locations have indoor gyms and outdoor beach courts so your child gets the best of both worlds!

 

For the second week of August, Volleyball Camp is held at Canlan Sportsplex

For more information about Volleyball Camp, please go here

 

 

 

 

 

By DAVID WINER

 

Sharone Vernon-Evans is at the top of his game -- literally.

 

The question remains, while those around him argue the sky is the limit for the 6-foot-7 star of the Mississauga Pakmen, does he display the focus and determination to reach Canadian prominence?

 

Vernon-Evans gave the national volleyball community a taste of what he's capable of at a High Performance Camp earlier this month, when he became the first person in Ontario Volleyball Association history to touch 12 feet, 3 inches in a running vertical jump.

 

To put such a jump into context, that's the equivalent of touching the rim of a basketball hoop with 2 feet, 3 inches to spare.

 

Not only was he the first to climb such heights in OVA history, he was also the only person to jump that high in Ontario University Associations history, and at 16, Vernon-Evans has another year of high school remaining at Agincourt Collegiate Institute.

 

"Only one person in Canadian volleyball touches higher," beamed Pakmen founder and president Kelly Smith, "And that's Gavin Schmitt from our National team at 12 feet, 6 inches, and he's one of the top five players in the world."

 

Smith was so proud of Evans' achievement, he posted the jump on the club's you tube channel, calling it, "The jump that changed youth volleyball."

 

 

 

 

Pakmen Volleyball Club is pleased to announce that the newest addition to our coaching staff, Matt Harris, has been appointed as head coach of the Pakmen 17U Gold boys team.  Matt will be assisted by Aleks Mamuzic. 

 

"Matt has a wealth of experience coaching and working with both 17U and18U athletes.  Pakmen will benefit from his depth of technical and tactical knowledge" remarked Pakmen head coach, Orest Stanko.

 

Currently Matt is fulfilling his duties as head coach of the Team Ontario 16U boy's team that will be competing at Volleyball Canada's National Team Challenge Cup (NTCC), in Edmonton, July 15th to July 19th.  Congratulations to Pakmen athletes who have been selected to the team including: Deman Dulat, Navreet Suhan, Andrew Cianci, Tomas Sorra, Matthew Powell, and Pranshu Patel.

 

Matt will also be working closely with Pakmen head coach Orest Stanko to develop the Pakmen Athlete Development Pathway.  We all look forward to Matt's contribution to help Pakmen sustain its high-level of achievement.