Brandie Wilkerson

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Brandie Wilkerson Volleyball (beach)
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birthday July 1, 1992
place of birth Morges, Switzerland
size 1.79 m
Partner 2013–2014 Claudia Séguin
2015–2016 Julie Gordon
since 2016 Heather Bansley
World ranking Position 9
successes
2017 - World Cup Fifth
2018 - Third 4-Star Itapema
2018 - Second 4-Star Ostrava
2018 - Winner 4-Star Warsaw
2018 - Third 5-Star Gstaad
2018 - Fifth World Tour Final
2018 - Winner 4-Star Las Vegas
2018 - Winner 3-Star Chetumal
2019 - Third 4-Star Itapema
(As of July 23, 2019)

Brandie Wilkerson (born July 1, 1992 in Morges , Switzerland ) is a Canadian beach volleyball player .

Career

Wilkerson played with Claudia Séguin in 2013 and 2014 and was mainly active on the continental tour where she got some top ten results. Their first tournament on the FIVB World Tour played Wilkerson / Séguin 2013 in Puerto Vallarta , where they finished 25th. At the end of 2014 they took part in the Paraná Open (17th place). In 2015 Wilkerson competed with Julie Gordon for the first time and reached the final of the NORCECA tournament on the Cayman Islands with her . Wilkerson / Gordon made their first joint appearance on the World Tour at the Luzern Open. However, in 2015 they did not get past the back seats. The best result was a 17th place at the Xiamen Open. In 2016 they reached the finals in the NORCECA series in Guatemala City and Guaymas before they won the final in La Paz . On the World Tour 2016 they took 17th place at the Cincinnati Open and 25th place at the major tournament in Gstaad . Their only joint top ten result at an FIVB tournament, they finally achieved ninth in the Grand Slam in Long Beach .

At the World Tour Final 2016 in Toronto , Wilkerson competed for the first time with her new partner Heather Bansley . With the Olympic participant, she was ninth there. In Trinidad and Tobago , she played another tournament with Gordon and finished fifth. Bansley / Wilkerson came in ninth place at the tournaments in Fort Lauderdale (five stars) and Rio de Janeiro on the 2017 World Tour . After a fifth place at the three-star tournament in The Hague , they finished ninth again at the higher-quality tournaments in Poreč and Gstaad .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of July 22, 2019)
  2. ↑ Profile at the FIVB World Tour (English)
personal data
SURNAME Wilkerson, Brandie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Morges , Switzerland