Lancers Defeat Western for Bronze at Excalibur 2013

The Windsor Lancers have in one tournament doubled the amount of wins from the dismal first half showing. At the 34th Excalibur Tournament in Toronto the Lancers went 4-1 to earn a bronze medal. This young and up coming team continues to improve with 4 first year starting sophomores that seem to better with every match played.

“The boys are looking for a fresh start. This team is a young team and they need some time to work out the bugs. ” Comments Head Coach Shawn Lippert. “We can easily be 5-4 with a couple breaks in close games from the first half.”

Lippert is referring to a five set battle with Queens and another 5 set match with Western. They had another loss to York 3-0 (25-23, 25-22, 25-23) in OUA regular season play.

Windsor avenged that 3 set loss by defeating York in Pool play at Excalibur. It was a five set Match where the Lancers had the Lions 14-6 in set five and ended winning 15-12.

The Lancers were perfect in Pool play by defeating Sherbrooke 3-2, York 3-2 and the University of Japan Budo 3-2. A tired and beat up Lancers took to the floor in the Semi-Finals against the Ryerson Rams. The Lancers won the first set 28-26 but the Rams controlled the next 3 sets pretty easily.

In the Bronze Medal Match, The Lancers kept control of the first 2 sets from stellar performances out of rookie Gabe Burlacu and Greg Simone. The third set had Western serving tough and the Lancers on their heals on serve receive. In the 4th set, the Lancers had control from beginning to end. Windsor took the bronze 3-1 over Western. It was the first win over Western in 6 years.

“We played 24 sets in 36 hours.” Lippert adds. ” To put that in perspective, that is just shy of the same amount of games we played from The middle of October until Dec. 1st. It’s a grueling tournament and anytime you can come 3rd out of 8 teams in such a short amount of time says that your team is well conditioned. We just happened to play 15 sets in less then 24 hours to add to that exhaustion. I am extremely happy with the team at Excalibur.”

Kyle Williamson was named to the tournament All Star team.

The Lancers are currently tied for the last play off spot with 4 other teams going into the 2nd half. The Lancers will play Western January 11 in London Ontario.

Lancers Split at Home

The Windsor Lancers men’s volleyball team take one and drop one this weekend on back to back games.
Friday, November 2nd, they played at the St Denis Centre. Down 1-0in sets after the first, the boys boys fought back hard to take the next 3 and take the victory 3-1 (23-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-20). Great hits from all the boys and precise setting by the team setter, Andrew Chelladurai, allowed our Lancers to earn the W in the home opener of the season.
Saturday, November 3rd, the boys were back at it on the 2nd night of the double header opening weekend. After coming off of their first home victory, the boys were looking to get past the Waterloo Warriors . Down 1-0 after the first set, our lancers dominated the 2nd set to tie the game up at 1-1. But a mid-game injury on Scott Hickman, Lancer’s 6’ 7” starting middle, proved to be costly to our lancers as they dropped the next 2 sets and the game 1-3 (22-25, 25-19, 17-25, 22-25).

The Lancers will be looking to pull ahead in their next double-header in Kingston as they face the RMC Paladins and the Queen Gaels starting on November 17th.

 

 

Men’s Volleyball set to make their home debut

Men’s Volleyball set to make their home debut

The Windsor Lancers Men’s Volleyball team are set to host their home opening weekend with a pair of matches against the Guelph Gryphons and Waterloo Warriors at the St. Denis Centre.

The Lancers will host the Gryphons on Friday night at 8pm and then will close out the weekend doubleheader on Saturday night against the Warriors also at 8pm.

Coach Lippert’s squad opened up their 2012-13 season last weekend on the road in Toronto as they dropped a pair of contests to the Ryerson Rams and Toronto Varsity Blues.

Windsor is after their first victory of the year and are led by CIS All-Canadian and former OUA Men’s Volleyball player of the year Kyle Williamson.

Be sure to catch all the action this weekend as the Lancer Men’s Volleyball team invades the St. Denis Centre.

Lancers Proud Of Team Import “Timo”.

Jessica Clemencon isn’t the only French import commanding attention on the courts of the St. Denis Centre.

A CIS all-Canadian with the national championship women’s basketball team at the University of Windsor, Clemencon shares the hardcourt with fellow countryman Timo Jaumel.

A  native of Montpellier, Jaumel starts on the leftside for the men’s volleyball team (0-2), which will play its home opener Friday against the Guelph Gryphons Friday at 8 p.m. They’ll host the Waterloo Warriors Saturday at the same time.

Jaumel arrived in Windsor last year but had to take a course and pass an

English language fluency test before Windsor coach Shawn Lippert could insert him in the lineup.

Jaumel played the same day he got clearance but his rookie season was over in less than a week when he rolled an ankle in the next match and missed the rest of the year with torn ligaments.

Lippert figured that was it and Jaumel’s career as a Lancer was tout est fini (it’s all over) before it even began.

When Lippert sent out his annual team email announcing the start of August training camp, to his surprise, Jaumel wrote back that he’d be there.

“It was like I didn’t finish something here,” the 25-year-old said. “With the injury, I couldn’t help the team and I wanted to help.”

The six-foot-four outside hitter  started in a pair of road games against Ryerson and Toronto last weekend. He had 10 kills and a dozen digs in a four-set loss to Ryerson and nine digs and six kills in a three-set loss to Toronto.

“He’s one of the best passers I’ve ever seen,” Lippert said. “It’s effortless.”

Jaumel’s father and grandfather played for the French national team and his brother plays in the country’s top division of professional volleyball.

Eager to carve out a different path for himself, Jaumel looked into NCAA opportunities and after talking to a Canadian player he also searched north of the border.

“I wanted to discover a new world and have a new experience,” he said.

He stumbled on some of the YouTube videos the Lancers crank out and that’s what led him to Windsor.

He finds the OUA game slower than the club ball he grew up with but “more physical.”

As for Clemencon, he didn’t know her until arriving on campus.

“She helped me a lot in my first year,” he said. “Sometimes it’s good to speak real French.”

Jaumel is studying biology and has three more years of CIS eligibility if he chooses to use them all.

“It depends what I want to do after (school),” he said.

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Coach Shawn Lippert discusses Mckeen with Windsor Star.

Hear what Coach Lippert had to say about newest rookie Mckeen, about making the squad, when interviewed by the Windsor Star.

 

 

Three Times A Charm

Persistent Comber native finally makes Lancers volleyball squad.

BY MARY CATON, THE WINDSOR STAR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Rejection is just another way to spell motivation as far as Brandon McKeen is concerned.

Twice McKeen was cut following tryouts for the Windsor Lancers of the OUA men’s volleyball league.

Undeterred, the sociology student continued to work on his game and showed up for camp again this fall.

This time, he made the grade.

“He’s the hardest working guy I know,” Lancers coach Shawn Lippert said of the 21-yearold native of Comber.

During the team’s annual testing combine, McKeen jumped through the roof of the St. Denis Centre.

His numbers were higher, longer and bigger than veteran Kyle Williamson, a CIS all-Canadian.

Of 13 different categories, McKeen bested everyone on the team in eight categories, including an approach jump that topped out at an astonishing 11 feet, six inches.

“To come into camp and have those kinds of crazy numbers is unreal,” Lippert said. “He just wouldn’t give up.”

Like a true prize fighter, McKeen absorbed the first gut punch two years ago thinking, “I’ll get you next year.”

When he got the bad news again last fall, he thought, “Well, that wasn’t nice.”

Ironically, Lippert accidentally left McKeen hanging for several days after the 2012 camp ended with the traditional Blue and Gold game on a Friday night.

He usually sits down with all the candidates the following Monday but other duties kept him from that, forcing him to reschedule McKeen’s meeting to that Wednesday.

“I had anxiety attacks the night before,” McKeen said. “I spent the night puking in the bathroom.”

A man of few words, McKeen was asked what kept bringing him back, especially after being spurned a second time.

“I was determined I wasn’t going to quit,” he said. “I’m very goal oriented and I’m not afraid to fail.”

McKeen heeded Lippert’s advice and spent the past two winters improving his skills with the Riverside men’s travel team, which serves as a quasiLancer practice squad.

“I’m 100 times better,” he said of his skill set since that first tryout. “In everything, defence, offence, I can attack a ball, I can serve.”

At six-foot-three and 210 pounds, McKeen has the potential to put up an imposing block on the right side for the Lancers.

“He’s got all the physical attributes, now he has to follow them up with the skills,” Lippert said.

McKeen’s success comes as no surprise to his Tilbury high school coach, Tim Leidl, who saw his tenacity up close.

“He’s the epitome of everything you look for in an athlete,” said Leidl, who is now coaching at Chatham-Kent.

“He’s a physical specimen but the big thing for him is his determination. When he told me the first time that he had made the (Riverside) practice squad, you could see in his eyes he was happy but you could also see he wasn’t done yet.”

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Lancers Announce 2012-13 Roster

 

The University of Windsor is pleased to announce the players that will be representing the Blue and Gold in the CIS.

These athletes will be on the floor for the first home game of the regular season on November 2nd at 8PM in the St. Denis Centre.

 

 

 

Blasé Wasser                     Setter                  5’11”      155 lbs.

(Burlington, Ontario, Canada)

 

Andrew Chelladurai        Setter                   6’ 2”       161 lbs.

(London, Ontario, Canada)

 

Laine Poirier                       Lib                          5’ 11”     157 lbs.

(Chatham, Ontario,  Canada)

 

Shawn Reaume                    OH/Lib                  6’            201 lbs.

(Windsor, Ontario. Canada)

 

Adam Thompson             MB                         6’6”        167 lbs.

(Portage, Manitoba, Canada)

 

Scott Hickman                   MB                         6’7”        232 lbs.

(St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada)

 

Gabe Burlacu                     MB                         6’6”        175 lbs.

(Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada)

 

Cameron Landry               MB                         6’6”        212 lbs.

(Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

 

Kyle Williamson                  OH                          6’5”        170 lbs.

(Essex, Ontario, Canada)

 

Greg Simone                      OH                          6’ 4”       176 lbs.

(London, Ontario, Canada)

 

Timothee Jaumel             OH                          6’4”        192 lbs.

(Montpellier, France)

 

Ryan Leknois                      OH                          5’10”      160 lbs.

(Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

 

Brandon Mckeen             OPP/OH               6’3”        210 lbs.

(Comber, Ontario, Canada)

 

Nathan Snippe                  OPP                       6’8”        206 lbs.

(Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

 

Chuck Kahelin                    OPP/MB              6’6”        186 lbs.

(Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

 

 

Head Coach:  Shawn Lippert

Asst. Coach:  James Gravelle

Asst. Coach: Jeff Hackett

Con. Coach:  Jason Miner

Lead Therapist:  Dr. Dave Piche

Lancers Hold Open Try Out.

Open Try Outs for Lancer Men’s Volleyball.     September 10th in the St. Denis Center.  5:15 Check in .   Bring practice gear and be prepared to scrimmage.   5:30 – 7:30PM.

 

Lancers Open Up 2013 Season With Training Camp

The University of Windsor opened training camp this weekend with the annual combine.  Saturday morning had 19 athletes going through multiple drills for measurements to see how off season training had progressed.

“I am very pleased with some of these numbers.” Comments Head Coach Shawn Lippert.  “It is obvious that some of these guys worked hard over the summer and you can never hide from the numbers.  Accountability is big with our program and if you want to have any longevity with me, having great numbers in pre-season camp goes a long way.”

Highlights from the combine include Kyle Williamson and Adam Thompson increasing all their speed related drills by shaving off sometimes a full second.

Rookies Gabe Burlacu and Nathan Snippe on Push Up testing.

The three rookies comprised of 6’6”, Gabe Burlacu (Tecumseh, Ontario), 6’6”  Cameron Landry (Windsor, Ontario) and 6’7” Nathan Snippe (Hamilton, Ontario) had some highlight moments.  Nathan Snippe’s approach touch was measured in at 11’ 1/2” and Burlacu ran 1.5 miles in 9:41.

The biggest surprise of the camp was the over the top numbers from Brandon Mckeen ( Tilbury, Ontario) who has played on the Riverside Men’s travel team for three years.  His measurements are all at an elite level with team highs in Block Touch 10’10” , Approach Touch 11’6” and shuttle run under 7 seconds.  He lead in all measurements but 3 categories.

This year Conditioning Coach Jason Miner has added Functional Movement Systems.

“I am hoping to find inefficiency in our athletes to prevent injury.” Says Coach Miner. “This system identifies issues before they become real problems as the season drags on.”

Adam Thompson on FMS testing.

Put simply, the FMS is a ranking and grading system that documents movement patterns that are key to normal function. By screening these patterns, the FMS readily identifies functional limitations and asymmetries. These are issues that can reduce the effects of functional training and physical conditioning and distort body awareness.

The FMS generates the Functional Movement Screen Score, which is used to target problems and track progress. This scoring system is directly linked to the most beneficial corrective exercises to restore mechanically sound movement patterns.

Exercise professionals monitor the FMS score to track progress and to identify those exercises that will be most effective to restore proper movement and build strength in each individual.

“I never want to stop moving this Program forward. Comments Coach LIppert.  “I am always pushing our coaching staff to never be satisfied and it keeps us hungry year after year.  The fresher I feel about what we do, will wash on to the athletes in their constant battle to stay focused.”

The Lancers continue with the training camp all this week and end on September 2^nd with the annual River Run.

 

Lancers over 11′  in Approach:

Petar Dobrich  11′

Scott Hickman  11′  1  1/2″

Brandon Mckeen  11′ 6″

Kyle Williamson  11′  5  1/2″

Shawn Reaume  11′

Nathan Snippe  11′  1/2″

Adam Thompson  11′  2  1/2″

Lancers Shine On The Beach

The University of Windsor is pleased to announce that 2 members of the Lancer Volleyball squad have been named to the Team Ontario Beach Volleyball squad that will compete at the National Championships in British Columbia.

Trodel serving at Provincial Tournament.

Rookie Sven Trodel will be wearing the blue and gold for the first time this year.  He was named to the 18U beach team for Team Ontario earlier this week.  Trodel hails from Sudbury Ontario and was recruited from the OFSAA Championships where his team received the bronze medal.   See the official Profile of Sven Trodel  here.

Sophmore Greg Simone was named to the 24U Team Ontario squad.  Simone was recruited out of the London area where he played for Central High school and was recruited heavily from the Forest City Club team.  Simone played for Coach Lippert in 2009 when they won the Regional Games in Ontario.   See the official Profile of Greg Simone here.

 

 

Simone on Receive in Kingston Ontario.

“It doesn’t surprise me that these athletes have been named to this team.´ Comments Head Coach Shawn Lippert.  “The work ethic on these guys is one of the reasons we wanted them to be wearing a Lancer jersey.   There has been a revolution with athletics in the last five years around campus.  The teams are breeding an elite level of athlete.  It’s not enough just to be good at Windsor.  You have to want to be the best.  And these athletes are proving they belong to walk around here.”