Brandon's Sanderson named player of the year  

- March 11 2010

Fourth-year Brandon left side hitter Paul Sanderson was named the CIS player of the year in men's volleyball.

A native of Melbourne, Australia, Sanderson became the first CIS major award winner in the short history of the Bobcats, who joined the league in 2005-06. He is also the 12th consecutive MVP from a team currently competing in the Canada West conference.

Other award winners announced at the All-Canadian Banquet in Kamloops, B.C. were Thompson Rivers' Kevin Tillie of Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, who was chosen rookie of the year, UBC's Blair Bann of Edmonton, named the nation's top libero for the second time in three years, Laval's Pascal Clement, who earned coach-of-the-year honours for the third time, as well as Montreal's Emmanuel Andre-Morin of Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, Que., who received the Dale Iwanoczko award recognizing his excellence in volleyball, academics and community involvement.

The 2010 CIS championship gets underway Friday at Thompson Rivers University with the quarter-final match-ups, and concludes Sunday at 6 p.m. Pacific Time with the gold-medal final. SSN Canada will have live webcasts of all main-bracket duels.

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