Custom Title: | 2017 U Sports Women's Volleyball Championship |
Year: | 2016–17 |
Sport: | Women's volleyball |
Season: | 2016–17 |
Teams: | Eight |
Finals Site: | Mattamy Athletic Centre Toronto, Ontario |
Champions: | UBC Thunderbirds |
Title Count: | 11th |
Runner Up: | Alberta Pandas |
Coach: | Doug Reimer |
Coach Count: | 8th |
Mvp Label: | Championship MVP |
Mvp: | Danielle Brisebois |
Prev: | 2016 |
Tournament Link: | Volleyball Championship |
Next: | 2018 |
The 2017 U Sports Women's Volleyball Championship was held from March 17 to March 19, 2017, in Toronto, Ontario, to determine a national champion for the 2016–17 U Sports women's volleyball season.[1] [2] The tournament was played at the Mattamy Athletic Centre and hosted by Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University).[3] It was the first time that Ryerson had hosted the tournament.[1]
The third-seeded UBC Thunderbirds defeated the top-seeded Alberta Pandas in the gold medal match 3–1 to claim their league-leading 11th women's volleyball national championship.[2]
align=left | Seed | align=left | Team | align=left | Qualified | align=left | align=left | align=left | |||
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1 | Canada West Champion | 22–2 | 2007 | 7 | |||||||
2 | OUA Champion | 16–3 | None | 0 | |||||||
3 | Canada West Finalist | 20–4 | 2013 | 10 | |||||||
4 | RSEQ Champion | 15–5 | None | 0 | |||||||
5 | AUS Champion | 19–1 | 1982 | 1 | |||||||
6 | OUA Finalist | 15–4 | 1976 | 3 | |||||||
7 | Canada West Bronze | 21–3 | 2015 | 1 | |||||||
8 | OUA Semifinalist (Host) | 15–4 | None | 0 |