Custom Title: | 2023 U Sports Men's Volleyball Championship |
Year: | 2022–23 |
Sport: | Men's Volleyball |
Season: | 2022-23 |
Teams: | Eight |
Finals Site: | Burridge Gymnasium Hamilton, Ontario |
Champions: | Trinity Western Spartans |
Title Count: | 7 |
Runner Up: | Sherbrooke Vert et Or |
Coach: | Adam Schriemer/Ben Ball |
Coach Count: | 1 |
Mvp Label: | Championship MVP |
Mvp: | Mathias Elser |
Mvp Team: | Trinity Western Spartans |
Television: | CBC[1] Stephen Clark (play-by-play) Matthew Davison (play-by-play) Kyle Compeau (color analyst) Everett Delorme (color analyst) |
Prev: | 2022 |
Tournament Link: | Volleyball Championship |
Next: | 2024 |
The 2023 U Sports Men's Volleyball Championship was the 56th edition of the U Sports men's volleyball championship, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of the 2023 U Sports men's volleyball season. The tournament started on March 17 and ended with the bronze-medal and championship games being played on March 19 in Hamilton, Ontario.[2] [3]
The third-seeded Trinity Western Spartans defeated the fourth-seeded Sherbrooke Vert et Or in straight sets to claim the seventh championship in program history.[4] [5]
The tournament was hosted by McMaster University at the Burridge Gymnasium on the school's campus.[2] This was the sixth time that McMaster had hosted the tournament with the most recent occurring in 2018.[6]
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 | 2022 | 9 | |||||||
2 | OUA Champion (Host) | 18–2 | None | 0 | |||||||
3 | Canada West Finalist | 18–6 | 2019 | 6 | |||||||
4 | RSEQ Champion | 15–1 | 1975 | 1 | |||||||
5 | OUA Finalist | 15–5 | None | 0 | |||||||
6 | RSEQ Finalist | 11–5 | 1970 | 1 | |||||||
7 | Canada West Bronze | 17–7 | 2004 | 4 | |||||||
8 | OUA Bronze | 13–7 | None | 0 |