Marisa Field Explained

Marisa Field
Nationality:Canadian
Height:1.890NaN0
Spike:312cm (123inches)
Block:297cm (117inches)
College:University of British Columbia
Position:Middle Blocker
Currentclub:Sta. Lucia Lady Realtors
Currentnumber:3
Years1:2009
Team1:CV Las Palmas
Years2:2010
Team2:SV Sinsheim
Years3:2012
Team3:Istres Ouest Provence
Years4:2013
Team4:VolleyStars Thüringen
Years5:2014
Team5:Sagres NUC
Years6:2015
Team6:Panathinaikos
Years7:2016
Team7:Engelholms VS
Years8:2016
Team8:Panathinaikos
Years9:2017
Team9:Sta. Lucia Lady Realtors
Nationalyears:2007-
Nationalteam:Canada
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Marisa Field is a Canadian volleyball player who twice represented her home country in the FIVB World Championship, in 2010 and 2014.

She is a member of the Canada national team. She won the 2009 & 2011 NORCECA Championship Best Blocker award and played the FIVB World Grand Prix in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Career

Field studied in the University of British Columbia Okanagan and played with the Okanagan Lakers from 2004-2006, winning the British Columbia Colleges' Athletic Association All-Star the two seasons she played there. She later moved to the University of British Columbia campus of Vancouver to play for the Thunderbirds where she won the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship in 2008 and 2009[1] individually being awarded Conference First Team All-Star[2] and CIS All-Canadian second team.[3] and majored in Chemistry.[4] In her last year of eligibility, she was part of the Team Canada that ranked 13th in the 2009 Summer Universiade held in Belgrade, Serbia.[5] [6] She was selected for the Canada national team in 2007.[7]

Field teamed up with fellow Canadian Brittney Page among other international players in the Spanish club Ciudad Las Palmas G.C. Cantur.[8] She would later recall that professional experience as the worst she ever had because of the many difficulties while in Spain.[9]

She was part of the Canadian national team at the 2010 FIVB World Championship.[10] She then departed for Germany to play with the professional club SV Sinsheim along with Tonya Mokelki.[11]

Field won the Best Blocker award in the 2011 NORCECA Championship were her national team reached the sixth place.[12]

She returned for her German club, now named Envacom Volleys Sinsheim.

For the 2012/13 she played with the French professional club Istres OPVB.[13] There she had an eye accident and she was blind for two days, since that accident she uses glasses for playing, in order to prevent her eye being hit again.[9] In June 2013, Field played with national team that ranked seventh in the 2013 Pan-American Cup.[14]

The next season, Field moved to Germany playing with VfB 91 Suhl as the VolleyStars Thüringen project,[15] helping her financially troubled club[16] to the German Cup silver medal.[17]

After playing the 2014 FIVB World Championship in Italy,[18] Field moved to the Swiss Sagres Neuchâtel for the 2014/15 season, playing the 2014–15 CEV Cup with this club.[19] Field joined her national team that ranked eight in the 2015 Pan American Games held in Toronto, Canada.[20]

In January 2016, she joined the Swedish club Engelholms VS.[21] Field played with her national team the 2016 FIVB World Grand Prix.[22] She returned for Panathinaikos, as she signed the 2016/2017 season with the Greek club with compatriot Kyla Richey[23] and later played the 2017 Pan-American Cup held in Peru, helping her national team to reach the sixth place.[24] In September, she signed with the Philippine Super Liga club Sta. Lucia Lady Realtors.[25]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Twice as nice as UBC volleyball 'Birds top Dinos to capture second straight CIS title. Tsumura. Howard. The Vancouver Province. 2009-03-01. 2017-09-27.
  2. Web site: 2009 CIS Women's volleyball championship preview. Fredericton, New Brunswick. OUA. 2009-02-25. 2017-09-27.
  3. Web site: 2009 CIS Women's volleyball championship preview. Bélanger. Michel. Fredericton, New Brunswick. McGill University. 2009-02-25. 2017-09-27.
  4. Web site: Meat your team - Marisa Field. Kyla Richey. 2014-07-27. 2017-09-27.
  5. Web site: ANDREA RUSTE IN SERBIA WITH CANADIAN WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL SQUAD. London, Ontario. Western Mustangs Athletics. 2009-02-07. 2017-09-27.
  6. Web site: Former UBC Okanagan student athlete selected to women's national volleyball team. Mortenson. Bud. UBC Okanagan News. 2009-06-25. 2017-09-27.
  7. Web site: Volleyball: CIS stars make national team cut. Bucholtz . Andrew. The CIS Blog. 2008-05-15. 2017-09-27.
  8. Web site: La jornada inaugural depara el primer derbi regional. La Voz de Galicia. Spanish. 2009-10-16. 2017-09-27.
  9. Web site: Kelowna's Marisa Field Has Earned Her Stripes As Pro And National-Team Volleyball Player. Cunning. Dave. Canada West. 2016-03-04. 2017-09-27.
  10. Web site: Canada. FIVB. 2017-08-08.
  11. Web site: Die Ladykracher . Schmidt. Eric. Stimme. German. 2010-11-23. 2017-09-27.
  12. Web site: USA women win NORCECA gold and ticket to World Cup. FIVB. 2011-09-17. 2011-09-29.
  13. Web site: Women's volleyball: Marisa Field, Claire Hanna among former Canada West stars playing around the globe. Winnipeg. Canada West. 2012-10-22. 2017-09-27.
  14. Web site: UBC's Shanice Marcelle paces Canada to 7th in Pan Am Cup women's volleyball. Lima, Peru. Canada West. 2013-06-16. 2017-09-27.
  15. Web site: VFB 91 SUHL MACHT DEN BLOCK ZU. Volleyball Bundesliga. German. 2013-07-31. 2017-09-27.
  16. Web site: Bundesliga-Aus für die Suhler Volley-Stars. Thüringen. German. 2015-04-02. 2017-09-27.
  17. Web site: Chronik. VfB 91 Suhl. German. 2015. 2017-09-27.
  18. Web site: Team Roster – Canada. FIVB . 2014 . 2014-10-01.
  19. Web site: Challenge Cup F: Risultati del mercoledì e programma. Volleyball.it. Italian. 2014-12-18. 2017-09-27.
  20. Web site: Manitoban Athletes Selected for Team Canada at 2015 Pan Am Games. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Canadian Sport Centre Manitoba. 2015-06-24. 2017-09-27.
  21. Web site: Welcome to EVS Marisa Field. EVS Support. 2016-01-27. 2017-09-27.
  22. Web site: Player - Marisa Field - FIVB World Grand Prix 2016. FIVB. 2017-08-08.
  23. Web site: Στον Παναθηναικό Marisa Field και Kyla Richey. The Panathinaikos Press. Greek. 2016-05-31. 2017-09-27.
  24. Web site: Canada women’s team finishes sixth at the Pan Am Cup. Lima, Peru. Volleyball Canada. 2017-06-25. 2017-09-27.
  25. Web site: SLR builds title foundation. Manicard. Julius. Volleyverse. 2017-09-20. 2017-09-27.