Custom Title: | 2024 U Sports Women's Volleyball Championship |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Sport: | Women's volleyball |
Season: | 2023–24 |
Teams: | Eight |
Finals Site: | Burridge Gymnasium Hamilton, Ontario |
Champions: | UBC Thunderbirds |
Title Count: | 14th |
Runner Up: | Alberta Pandas |
Coach: | Doug Reimer |
Coach Count: | 11th |
Mvp Label: | Championship MVP |
Mvp: | Lucy Borowski |
Mvp Team: | UBC |
Television: | CBC[1] Stephen Clark (play-by-play) Lauren Breadner (colour analyst) Matthew Davison (play-by-play) Theresa Skubic (colour analyst) Francis Maheu (French play-by-play) |
Prev: | 2023 |
Tournament Link: | Volleyball Championship |
Next: | 2025 |
The 2024 U Sports Women's Volleyball Championship was held from March 15 to March 17, 2024, in Hamilton, Ontario, to determine a national champion for the 2023–24 U Sports women's volleyball season.[2] [3] The second-seeded UBC Thunderbirds defeated the fourth-seeded Alberta Pandas 3–1 to win the program's 14th national championship, which extended their record for the most in U Sports women's volleyball.[4] The Thunderbirds became the first team to repeat as champions since UBC won their sixth consecutive championship in 2013.[4]
The tournament was played at McMaster University at the Burridge Gymnasium on the school's campus.[2] This was the third time that McMaster had hosted the tournament with the most recent occurring in 2012.[5]
Seed | Team | Qualified | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manitoba Bisons | Canada West Champion | 20–4 | 2014 | 7 |
2 | UBC Thunderbirds | Canada West Finalist | 22–2 | 2023 | 13 |
3 | Brock Badgers | OUA Champion | 18–2 | None | 0 |
4 | Alberta Pandas | Canada West Bronze | 18–6 | 2007 | 7 |
5 | Montréal Carabins | RSEQ Champion | 17–4 | None | 0 |
6 | Acadia Axewomen | AUS Champion | 15–5 | None | 0 |
7 | McMaster Marauders | OUA Finalist (Host) | 15–5 | None | 0 |
8 | Saint Mary's Huskies | AUS Finalist | 14–6 | None | 0 |