Graham Vigrass

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Graham Vigrass
portrait
Date of birth June 17, 1989
place of birth Calgary, Canada
size 2.03 m
position Middle block
societies

2013–2014
2014–2015
2015–2016
2016–2018 		University of Calgary
Arago de Sète
Étoile Sportive du Sahel
Arkasspor İzmir
Berlin Recycling Volleys
National team

since 2012 		Junior national team
A national team
successes
2015
2015
2016
2017
2017
2018 		Tunisian cup winner
3rd place Pan American Games
Olympic fifth
DVV cup finalist
German champions
German champions

Status: October 7, 2019

Graham Vigrass (born June 17, 1989 in Calgary ) is a Canadian national volleyball player .

Career

Vigrass began his career at the University of Calgary . With the university team Dinos he was CIS champion in 2010. A year later he was named CIS volleyball player of the year. His first international assignment was with the Canadian Juniors, with whom he took part in the 2009 NORCECA Junior Championship and in the 2009 Junior World Championship. In 2011 he reached fourth place with Canada at the Universiade . 2012 middle blocker was in a game against the Dominican Republic his debut in the senior national team and participated for the first time at the World League in part. The following year he reached fifth place with the national team in the 2013 World League and the final of the NORCECA championship . In the 2013/14 season, Vigrass played for the French first division club Arago de Sète . In 2014 he took part in the 2014 World League and Vigrass finished seventh with Canada at the World Cup in Poland . He then moved to Tunisia to Étoile Sportive du Sahel and won the national cup there. In 2015 he played in the World League and the World Cup . He also won the bronze medal at the Pan American Games in Toronto . In the 2015/16 season, the middle blocker was active in the Turkish league at Arkasspor İzmir and reached third place in the championship. With Izmir he also took part in the Champions League . After his fifth World League tournament , he took part in the 2016 Olympic Games . Canada reached the quarter-finals as second in the preliminary round and then had to admit defeat to the Russians . Then Vigrass moved to the German champion Berlin Recycling Volleys . With the club he reached the DVV Cup final in the 2016/17 season and became German champion . In the following season, Berlin reached the quarter-finals of the DVV Cup and managed to defend the title in the Bundesliga . Then he left the club.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Profile at olympic.ca (English)
  2. ↑ volley Mondial2014: "Je suis impatient de jouer avec l'Etoile du Sahel," Declare Graham Vigrass. Direct Info, September 6, 2016, accessed December 19, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ A model athlete compacts the middle block. Berlin Recycling Volleys, July 21, 2016, accessed on December 19, 2016 .
  4. ^ Graham Vigrass: An ice cream man for the BR Volleys. Der Tagesspiegel , July 21, 2016, accessed on December 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Vigrass, Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Canada