September 3, 2009
GERMANY NEXT STOP FOR DRIVEN WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL GRAD
OTTAWA - A former Gee-Gees women's volleyball player leaves Ottawa Thursday for Germany and a professional opportunity with a third-division club through next spring.
Ariane Thibault, an all-star Gee-Gees power hitter for four years to April, 2009, will be the lone Canadian among three import players in the town of Villingen-Schwenningen in the south of Germany, near the border of both France and Switzerland and on the eastern edge of the famed Black Forest.
"I have no clue what to expect,' said Thibault, of Rouyn-Noranda, Que. "It is fair to say I'm nervous."
Turning 23 in October, Thibault set up the opportunity herself through leveraging contacts.
"I am really looking forward to trying something new and being way out of my comfort zone.”
A first-team OUA all-star in 2008-09, Thibault will complete a uOttawa marketing degree on-line in addition to accepting a team offer to study German, her third language.
"We have games every weekend but may not practice every day, so I will also hopefully get to travel a little bit."
The professional season in Germany runs from October, 2009 to end of March, 2010.
"I've gone this far so why not finish it in Germany?"
Source: Ottawa Gee-Gees
Ariane Thibault, an all-star Gee-Gees power hitter for four years to April, 2009, will be the lone Canadian among three import players in the town of Villingen-Schwenningen in the south of Germany, near the border of both France and Switzerland and on the eastern edge of the famed Black Forest.
"I have no clue what to expect,' said Thibault, of Rouyn-Noranda, Que. "It is fair to say I'm nervous."
Turning 23 in October, Thibault set up the opportunity herself through leveraging contacts.
"I am really looking forward to trying something new and being way out of my comfort zone.”
A first-team OUA all-star in 2008-09, Thibault will complete a uOttawa marketing degree on-line in addition to accepting a team offer to study German, her third language.
"We have games every weekend but may not practice every day, so I will also hopefully get to travel a little bit."
The professional season in Germany runs from October, 2009 to end of March, 2010.
"I've gone this far so why not finish it in Germany?"
Source: Ottawa Gee-Gees
