Canada's U19 women's volleyball team defeats Dominican Republic to earn bronze at Pan Am Cup

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 29, 2025 3:44 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Canada's under-19 girls' volleyball squad collected the bronze medal with an breathtaking triumph implicit the Dominican Republic connected Saturday astatine the Pan American Cup successful Kingston, Ont.

Canada won the best-of-five lucifer 3-2, taking the tiebreaker 15-10 astatine Queen's University Athletic and Recreation Centre.

The United States bushed Mexico successful the gold-medal final.

Canada led successful onslaught points 58-50, blocking 10-4, portion Dominican Republic had 1 much ace (11-10). Canada besides made much errors 35-24.

Opposite Sydney Bell (16) and extracurricular hitter Sol Henson (14) led successful points for Canada. Ambar Hernandez (16) and Julie Millaray Arias (13) were apical scorers for the Dominican Republic.

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"It was a large squad effort for us," said Canada's caput manager Gina Schmidt. "The Dominican squad served tougher than they did successful the erstwhile lucifer we played against them. We were successful strategy a batch successful our archetypal match, and they added immoderate work unit today, which got america retired of our bushed with our offence.

"Once we benignant of settled that down and enactment connected much unit from work from our side, we were capable to enactment our mode backmost into the match. I loved the mode our squad reacted successful that 5th set. Everyone recovered a mode to contribute, truthful that's important arsenic we caput into the adjacent tournament."

Most teams, including Canada, astatine the Pan Am Cup were utilizing the tourney to hole for the FIVB Girls' U19 2025 World Championship, which volition beryllium held successful Serbia and Croatia successful aboriginal July.