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SPARTANS BEAT ALBERTA TO OPEN VOLLEYBALL SHOWCASE

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LANGLEY, B.C. – Trinity Western’s women’s volleyball team opened the Volleyball Showcase with a 3-1 (25-22, 25-23, 23-25, 25-13) win over Alberta Friday at the Langley Events Centre. The game was a rematch of last year’s Canada West championship, which the Spartans won.

The Spartans, who enter the year as the defending national and conference champions, improved to 7-1 in the preseason. TWU is 5-0 at home in the preseason, after winning also all four of its matches in the West Coast Classic. 

TWU will now prepare to play Waterloo on Saturday (2:30 p.m. PT) and Queen’s on Sunday (3 p.m. PT).

NOTABLE
·       TWU has won seven of its last eight meetings with Alberta. The only loss over the last three years against the Pandas was a five-set defeat in Week 2 of the 2022 Canada West Playoffs.

About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 13 sports in the Canada West conference, including women’s and men’s soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, cross country and track & field, as well as women’s rugby sevens. TWU also competes as an independent team in men’s rugby, as well as women’s and men’s disc golf. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 13 U SPORTS team championships and 31 Canada West team championships.

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