2025 Senior Open Richmond
Volleyball Canada is excited to announce that we will be running two Senior Open events for 2025! The Senior West Open will be hosted at the Richmond Oval in British Columbia, March 21-23, 2025, and will include both an Open Men’s and Open Women’s division.
We will also be returning to Gatineau, Quebec from March 28-30, 2025 for the Men’s and Women’s Senior East Open. The event will be hosted at the Centre Sportif de Gatineau, which serves as the Men’s National Team training facility.
Both divisions are open to university, college, and senior competitive teams.
For questions or to express interest in a Masters (40+ or 50+) division, please contact: jbattiston@volleyball.ca / Abbigail Verge: averge@volleyball.ca
Registration Information & Links
Registration
Registration
Registration opens December 5th, 2024, at 12PM (noon) EST.
Registration Link
Registration How-To
All team registrations for the Open are done on SportLoMo. For assistance with registering a team, please consult the Registration Guide.
Vollleyball Canada Registration Guide (Coming Soon)
We encourage teams to be prepared to register at the time of registration opening as events fill quickly.
Please note that registration closes March 1, 2025.
Registered Teams
Check back after registration opens for a list of confirmed teams.
Schedule
Schedule
The schedule and results will be made available on AES, once the schedule has been completed.
Match play is scheduled to begin around 1pm.
Results
Past Results
View all National events' past results here.
Livestream
Webcast
Volleyball Canada will be livestreaming 1 court per round on YouTube, with all matches available at the end of the day.
Venue
Richmond Olympic Oval
Address
6111 River Road, Richmond, BC, V7C 0A2
Parking
Richmond Olympic Oval encourages athletes and spectators to walk or use public transportation to the facility due to that parking is at a premium.
Parking Rates
Hourly: $2.25
Weekday Daily Rate: $17.00
Weekend Daily Rate: $20.00
Free after 9:30pm
For parking lot and pay station map, please follow this link.
For overflow parking map, please follow this link.
Safe Sport
Safe Sport
Volleyball Canada is committed to a sport environment free from abuse that is safe for all participants. For more information, our policies, and resources, please click here.
Safe Sport Reporting
Volleyball Canada has zero tolerance for any type of abuse. Individuals are required to report abuse or suspected abuse. If you are the victim of abuse, harassment, or discrimination, or you’ve witnessed such an incident within our sport, you are encouraged to contact the Abuse-Free Sport Helpline by phone or text at 1-888-83SPORT (77678), or by email to info@abuse-free-sport.ca, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
When the incidents recounted appear admissible, operators can assist you in filing a report through a confidential online platform, if desired.
To see the complaints process, click here.
Education
Volleyball Canada is requiring that all individuals involved with the sport across the country take the new safe sport training module, available via the Coaching Association of Canada website.
As of April 1, 2020, anyone associated with a Sport Canada-funded organization must be trained on conduct to prevent and address maltreatment. This includes coaches, referees, parents of youth athletes, high-performance staff and contractors, officials; and all administrative staff and volunteers whether they may have direct contact with athletes or not.
Through the adoption of Volleyball Canada’s Pan Canadian Safe Sport policies, all Provincial/Territorial Association registered coaches, referees, staff/contract members and volunteers, are required to take approved Safe Sport Training. VC also currently mandates training for parents of Youth National Team Program athletes, however, PTA’s currently implement safe sport training requirements for parents of youth athletes in their province and it is not currently included in the Volleyball Registration System and is not a requirement for registration for National Championships.
The safe sport module is a free, 90-minute eLearning module that gives all participants the tools to recognize, address, and prevent maltreatment in sport. The module aligns with the principles of the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport and meets Sport Canada requirements for Safe Sport education.
Visit the safe sport training site for more info: https://safesport.coach.ca/
Background Screening
All coaches, staff members, volunteers, referees, team staff members and Integrated Support Team (IST) members involved in VC domestic competitions are required to have completed a criminal record/police check issued within 36 months of the activity being attended. These requirements apply to all disciplines.
To provide further clarification, we have compiled the following Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
Rules & Policies
Rules & Policies
For rules and policies please follow this link that will take you directly to Volleyball Canada's policy page.