Camryn Giddens was officially announced March 2 as joining the University of Ottawa Gee-gees women\u2019s volleyball team in the RSEQ. Giddens is the Gee-Gees first recruit for the 2023-2024 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giddens said she was exploring universities in Ontario in her grade 11 year and when she met Coach Lionel and Coach Kaly in December 2022, they really stood out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“When I had the opportunity to practice with the team in January, I knew this was the kind of environment I could really thrive in and grow athletically and academically,\u201d said Giddens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Gee-Gees head coach Lionel Woods said the teams decision to sign her is based on more than the Lockview High senior\u2019s impressive resume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We feel Camryn has a special level of work ethic and competitiveness in her game that will fit in with our current core,\u2019 said Woods in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen we fill roster spots throughout recruiting, it is because that player will help our chances of winning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCamryn fits extremely well in our gym and in our room. We are excited to see her development in the coming years.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”194″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Giddens, a multi-sport athlete who also plays with the LHS Dragons basketball team, signing on, the 2023-24 edition of the Gee-Gees will feature three athletes who competed at the 2022 Canada Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicole Hildebrand won gold with Manitoba, while Denae Bristow led Saskatchewan to a fourth-place finish, which was the Prairie provinces strongest finish in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Giddens intends to study Biomedical Sciences with a Neuroscience Option at the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ottawa\u2019s preseason gets started in September, with the RSEQ regular season beginning in mid-October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Gee-Gees 2023-24 regular season schedule is slated to be announced over the summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n -With information from the Gee-Gees.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”84″] FALL RIVER: A Fall River volleyball player will be switching the black and orange and blue and grey for garnet and grey beginning this September. Camryn Giddens was officially announced March 2 as joining the University of Ottawa Gee-gees women\u2019s volleyball team in the RSEQ. Giddens is the Gee-Gees first recruit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3978,2,163,5,4698,4699,123],"class_list":["post-34733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cam-giddens","tag-fall-river","tag-fall-river-fury","tag-lockview-high","tag-oua","tag-university-of-ottawa-gee-gees-2","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/334300797_2342155912612275_5947111418225173971_n-817x1024.jpg\")