Who Is
The Region of Waterloo (Tigers) Volleyball Club is a nonprofit organization that was founded back in July 1978 with a single team. Over time we have grown into one of the most highly respected Volleyball Clubs in Ontario peaking in 2007 with a high of twenty (20) male and female youth teams.
As of July of of this year (2013), we are celebrating our thirty-fifth (35th) year bringing volleyball to the Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge area.
Here at the Waterloo (Tigers) Volleyball Club, we believe in developing our own athletes through our Volleyball Development Program, our Summer Camp, and through our open tryouts every September for our competitive teams.
While we do not condone nor participate in recruiting athletes other Clubs have developed, we welcome athletes who, of their own choice, decide to tryout for one of our competitive teams.
Club History
The Waterloo Volleyball Club, formed in 1978, evolved from a co-ed intramural team at the University of Waterloo during the mid-1970s and subsequently went on to build a base in the Kitchener City leagues. In 1980 the Club first entered the Ontario Volleyball Association with a men’s and women’s Senior A team. The teams saw many successes with the women winning their first provincial gold medal in 1983 and the men winning bronze in 1984 and silver in 1985.
Expansion to include Senior B and Intermediate teams occurred in the mid-80s. The first youth team was formed in 1983 - a midget girls team (16U) coached by Kristi Ellenton. In 1984 Mike Paull started a bantam girls team (14U) and in 1985 Terry Hinschberger brought the K-W Queens midget team over to join the Club. Boys teams soon followed. The men’s and boys’ teams were called Giants; the women’s adult teams were called Kangas and Roos and the youth girls teams were renamed Tigers.
By 1991 there were six adult and five youth teams; by 1995 there were 4 adult and 8 youth teams. All of the youth teams are now called Tigers. The last adult team competed in Men’s A in 1999 and was coached by John Nelson.
They played in the very last OVA match in Ontario to use the old 15-point scoring system - a 2/3 match which took over two hours to play!
The Club today is known as the Waterloo Tigers Volleyball Club and is in its 35th year. Waterloo Volleyball Club was the largest Club in Ontario for 10 years and peaked in 2006-07 with 20 youth teams. We have had many successes and were one of the most dominant clubs in the province from 1996 to 2004 during the Sarah Pavan era. Sarah, who is in her senior year at Nebraska, has won every possible award in the NCAA and is, without a doubt, the finest player ever to be developed in Canada.
Club Philosophy
Our philosophy has always been to promote volleyball at the widest levels possible and to encourage participation and involvement as well as competition.
To that end, we have developed a large number of teams and organized many leagues and tournaments, both locally and throughout southwestern Ontario.
Our future lies in our youth and by giving as many players as possible a chance to develop, we will ensure a bright future for volleyball in the Region of Waterloo.
Mailing Address
Region of Waterloo (Tigers) Volleyball Club
52 Helene Crescent
Waterloo Ontario
N2L 5E5
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