Marisa Field

Marisa Field (born 10 July 1987) is a Canadian volleyball player who twice represented her home country in the FIVB World Championship, in 2010 and 2014.

Marisa Field
Personal information
NicknameReese
NationalityCanadian
Born (1987-07-10) 10 July 1987
Comox, British Columbia
HometownKelowna, British Columbia
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Spike312 cm (123 in)
Block297 cm (117 in)
College / UniversityUniversity of British Columbia
Volleyball information
PositionMiddle Blocker
Current clubSta. Lucia Lady Realtors
Number3
Career
YearsTeams
2009CV Las Palmas
2010SV Sinsheim
2012Istres Ouest Provence
2013VolleyStars Thüringen
2014Sagres NUC
2015Panathinaikos
2016Engelholms VS
2016Panathinaikos
2017Sta. Lucia Lady Realtors
National team
2007-Canada

She is a member of the Canada national team. She won the 2009 & 2011 NORCECA Championship Best Blocker award and played the FIVB World Grand Prix in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Career

After graduating from Kelowna Secondary School, Field studied in the University of British Columbia Okanagan and played with the Okanagan Lakers from 2004-2006, winning the British Columbia Colleges' Athletic Association All-Star the two seasons she played there. She later moved to the University of British Columbia campus of Vancouver to play for the Thunderbirds where she won the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship in 2008 and 2009[1] individually being awarded Conference First Team All-Star[2] and CIS All-Canadian second team.[3] and majored in Chemistry.[4] In her last year of eligibility, she was part of the Team Canada that ranked 13th in the 2009 Summer Universiade held in Belgrade, Serbia.[5][6] She was selected for the Canada national team in 2007.[7]

Field teamed up with fellow Canadian Brittney Page among other international players in the Spanish club Ciudad Las Palmas G.C. Cantur.[8] She would later recall that professional experience as the worst she ever had because of the many difficulties while in Spain.[9]

She was part of the Canadian national team at the 2010 FIVB World Championship.[10] She then departed for Germany to play with the professional club SV Sinsheim along with Tonya Mokelki.[11]

Field won the Best Blocker award in the 2011 NORCECA Championship were her national team reached the sixth place.[12]

She returned for her German club, now named Envacom Volleys Sinsheim.

For the 2012/13 she played with the French professional club Istres OPVB.[13] There she had an eye accident and she was blind for two days, since that accident she uses glasses for playing, in order to prevent her eye being hit again.[9] In June 2013, Field played with national team that ranked seventh in the 2013 Pan-American Cup.[14]

The next season, Field moved to Germany playing with VfB 91 Suhl as the VolleyStars Thüringen project,[15] helping her financially troubled club[16] to the German Cup silver medal.[17]

After playing the 2014 FIVB World Championship in Italy,[18] Field moved to the Swiss Sagres Neuchâtel for the 2014/15 season, playing the 2014–15 CEV Cup with this club.[19] Field joined her national team that ranked eight in the 2015 Pan American Games held in Toronto, Canada.[20]

In January 2016, she joined the Swedish club Engelholms VS.[21] Field played with her national team the 2016 FIVB World Grand Prix.[22] She returned for Panathinaikos, as she signed the 2016/2017 season with the Greek club with compatriot Kyla Richey[23] and later played the 2017 Pan-American Cup held in Peru, helping her national team to reach the sixth place.[24] In September, she signed with the Philippine Super Liga club Sta. Lucia Lady Realtors.[25]

Clubs

Awards

Individuals

Clubs
  • 2014 German Cup – Runner-up, with VfB 91 Suhl
  • 2015 Swiss Championship – Bronze medal, with Sagres Neuchâtel
  • 2016 Swedish Championship – Champions, with Engelholms VS
  • 2017 Greek Championship – Bronze medal, with Panathinaikos

References
  1. Tsumura, Howard (1 March 2009). "Twice as nice as UBC volleyball 'Birds top Dinos to capture second straight CIS title". The Vancouver Province. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  2. "2009 CIS Women's volleyball championship preview". Fredericton, New Brunswick: OUA. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  3. Bélanger, Michel (25 February 2009). "2009 CIS Women's volleyball championship preview". Fredericton, New Brunswick: McGill University. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  4. "Meat your team - Marisa Field". Kyla Richey. 27 July 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  5. "ANDREA RUSTE IN SERBIA WITH CANADIAN WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL SQUAD". London, Ontario: Western Mustangs Athletics. 7 February 2009. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  6. Mortenson, Bud (25 June 2009). "Former UBC Okanagan student athlete selected to women's national volleyball team". UBC Okanagan News. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  7. Bucholtz, Andrew (15 May 2008). "Volleyball: CIS stars make national team cut". The CIS Blog. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  8. "La jornada inaugural depara el primer derbi regional" (in Spanish). La Voz de Galicia. 16 October 2009. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  9. Cunning, Dave (4 March 2016). "Kelowna's Marisa Field Has Earned Her Stripes As Pro And National-Team Volleyball Player". Canada West. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  10. "Canada". FIVB. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  11. Schmidt, Eric (23 November 2010). "Die Ladykracher" (in German). Stimme. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  12. "USA women win NORCECA gold and ticket to World Cup". FIVB. 17 September 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  13. "Women's volleyball: Marisa Field, Claire Hanna among former Canada West stars playing around the globe". Winnipeg: Canada West. 22 October 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  14. "UBC's Shanice Marcelle paces Canada to 7th in Pan Am Cup women's volleyball". Lima, Peru: Canada West. 16 June 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  15. "VFB 91 SUHL MACHT DEN BLOCK ZU" (in German). Volleyball Bundesliga. 31 July 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  16. "Bundesliga-Aus für die Suhler Volley-Stars" (in German). Thüringen. 2 April 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  17. "Chronik" (in German). VfB 91 Suhl. 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  18. "Team Roster – Canada". FIVB. 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  19. "Challenge Cup F: Risultati del mercoledì e programma" (in Italian). Volleyball.it. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  20. "Manitoban Athletes Selected for Team Canada at 2015 Pan Am Games". Winnipeg, Manitoba: Canadian Sport Centre Manitoba. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  21. "Welcome to EVS Marisa Field". EVS Support. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  22. "Player - Marisa Field - FIVB World Grand Prix 2016". FIVB. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  23. "Στον Παναθηναικό Marisa Field και Kyla Richey" (in Greek). The Panathinaikos Press. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  24. "Canada women's team finishes sixth at the Pan Am Cup". Lima, Peru: Volleyball Canada. 25 June 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  25. Manicard, Julius (20 September 2017). "SLR builds title foundation". Volleyverse. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
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