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Canada's women's volleyball squad fell 3-2 (22-25, 25-13, 21-25, 25-22, 18-16) to Belgium successful Volleyball Nations League enactment connected Sunday successful Istanbul.
Canada was up 2-1 earlier the Belgians stormed backmost successful Istanbul
The Canadian Press
· Posted: Jun 22, 2025 12:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago
Canada's women's volleyball squad fell 3-2 (22-25, 25-13, 21-25, 25-22, 18-16) to Belgium successful Volleyball Nations League enactment connected Sunday successful Istanbul.
The Canadians were up 2-1 earlier Belgium stormed backmost to triumph the last 2 sets.
"It's a spot upsetting, arsenic I felt we deserved to triumph erstwhile you are 13-9 up successful a tiebreak," said Canada's caput manager Giovanni Guidetti. "We person to larn however to adjacent sets. We inactive person a batch to larn and amended connected — we tin play bully volleyball, but we are not capable to decorativeness the acceptable due to the fact that we are making excessively galore unforced errors astatine the extremity of the set.
"But I americium arrogant of the mode this squad is improving arsenic we are playing with galore players that haven't played with the [senior] national squad earlier oregon are learning a caller relation with this team."
Hilary Johnson led Canada with 21 points, including 5 blocks. VNL rookie Anna Smrek followed with 19 points, with 4 blocks and 2 aces.
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Belgium takes down Canada successful choky lucifer astatine VNL Nations League Istanbul
Canada earned much points from blocks (17-10) and aces (6-5). However, Belgium held the vantage successful onslaught points (70-57) and surrendered less points to errors (21-26).
It was Belgium's 2nd consecutive win, climbing to 13th successful the VNL standings astatine 3-5. Canada (2-6), meanwhile, is 15th.
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Canada roster
- Jessica Andrews — Guelph, Ont.
- Lucy Borowski — Vancouver
- Abby Guezen — Sherwood Park, Alta.
- Hilary Johnson — Calgary
- Kacey Jost — St. Albert, Alta.
- Emily Maglio — Coquitlam, B.C.
- Andrea Mitrovic — Mississauga, Ont.
- Julia Murmann — Toronto
- Brie O'Reilly — Langley, B.C.
- Quinn Pelland — Wanham, Alta.
- Anna Smrek — Welland, Ont.
- Raya Surinx — Winnipeg
- Nyadholi Thokbuom — Calgary
- Kiera Van Ryk — Surrey, B.C.
- Delaney Watson — St. Jacobs, Ont.
- Jazmine White — Oshawa, Ont.
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