Audrey h. vandervelden

Athlete

Audrey’s volleyball career started in high school playing for Burnaby Central where she was named First Team All-Star and led her team to a third place finish at the High School Provincial Championships in 1971. She attended the popular Winfield Camp where she met Moo Park who would later go on to be her coach at the national level. She attended UBC and joined the Chimo Volleyball Club led by Art Wilms in 1972. Audrey got her first taste of international action as part of the Junior Canadian National Team where they finished first. She went on to be selected to the Senior National team later that same year where they won gold at the 1973 Canadian Senior Nationals. The following year, Audrey was selected to be one of 14 players to represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Prior to the games, Audrey was awarded Top Blocker in a pre-Olympic Games competition in Romania and was selected as an All-Star in Japan. The team would surprise many and finish 8th place at the Montreal Olympic Games. Following this success, Audrey attended law school at UBC which preoccupied much of her time but she also trained in Vancouver and Toronto with the National Team. She relocated to Toronto and continued with Team Canada, playing in the World Championships in Russia and Peru, in the Pan-Am Games in Venezuela, and at the 1983 NORCECA Championships in Indianapolis where the team achieved an impressive third place finish. Audrey finished her national career with an appearance at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles where the National Team finished 8th at the Games. She concluded her impressive volleyball career with appearances at the Masters Games which included defeating Russia in the final of the 2009 Hunstman Games, Masters Global Cup.

Listen to Audrey’s Hall of Fame Induction Podcast HERE

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