Girls’ teams from the Lloydminster-based Momentum club have made early waves in the club volleyball season.
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After the first of three rounds of Sask Cup competition, Momentum had medalled in four of five age categories.
The Border City entries set the standard, despite playing against Saskatchewan clubs from bigger centres like Saskatoon and Regina.
“Of the roughly 275 female clubs in Saskatchewan, we currently have the best placing in those 13U to 17U categories,” said Momentum club president Cory Gratton, also the coach of the gold-medal-winning 16U team.
“So, of all the clubs in Saskatchewan, we’ve medalled more in those age groups. That’s a pretty big accomplishment, considering there’s Saskatoon and Regina clubs — some that are much larger than us.”
Along with the 16U champions, Momentum’s youngest group, the 13U girls, also took home gold from Regina.
“Our 17s won silver and our 15s won bronze,” Gratton said. “The only team that didn’t medal was our 14U group. They got fifth out of 51 (teams).”
Most of the action in Round 1 took place on multiple January weekends at the International Trade Centre in Regina.
In at least one age division, Gratton said, play has already begun for the second round of Sask Cup competition.
Gratton’s crackerjack 16U team has picked up where his previous Momentum club left off last season in winning the provincial 15U girls’ championship.
“It’s a pretty exceptional group,” Gratton said.
“Through round-robin and playoffs (at this year’s tournaments), I don’t think anybody scored more than 17 points against us. We only lost one set, and that was in the final, before winning the final.
“So yeah, it was a pretty dominant performance by that group.”
Gratton’s girls head to Calgary this weekend for the Best of the Rest tournament, setting the table for quality competition back in Saskatchewan in the coming weeks.
“It’ll get more competitive as we go,” he said. “It’s a great start, but lots of hard work ahead to sort of maintain that success over the next few months.”
Momentum’s 16U club resumes Sask Cup play on the Feb. 21 weekend in Regina. Those tournaments generally feature upwards of 50 teams from across the province, with as many as 120 entries overall each Cup weekend, leading up to provincial championships in April.
This weekend in Lloydminster, the 13U and 15U clubs from Momentum are at home for a Servus Sports Centre tournament.
The up-and-coming 13U team is already punching above its weight.
“It’s an all-new experience for them,” Gratton said about those Momentum gold-medallists. “They didn’t lose a set, either, until the final. A pretty dominant group as well.”
The veteran volleyball promoter said such club tournaments in Lloydminster are often an opportunity for participants to watch Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference teams in action at Lakeland College during the same weekend.
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