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Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? The road from Lucky Lake, Sask., to U Sports volleyball is unlikely, but not unprecedented. In fact, Brandon University Bobcats recruit Kash Meyers may only be on it because of one of the two who blazed the trail.
Siblings Mark Dodds and Tiffany Dodds-Little grew up in the town of fewer than 300 people about 90 minutes south of Saskatoon. They went on to storied U Sports careers, both being named national player of the year before suiting up for their respective senior national teams. Kash Meyers of Lucky Lake, Sask.
, has committed to the Brandon University men's volleyball team for the 2025-26 Canada West season. (Submitted) After Meyers’ Grade 10 year, Dodds came home to run a camp for the school barely big enough to field a 1A varsity boys’ volleyball team. Meyers hadn’t taken the sport too seriously by that point but stood out among his class of four boys.
“(Dodds) noticed my skill and was like ‘Have you ever played club before?” Meyers recalled. “‘I think you should really try it out. I think you could really excel.
’ “That fall, I tried out for HVC (Huskie Volleyball Club) and made one of the teams and it’s been club volleyball ever since.” Two years after his first club volleyball season, he’s the latest member of the defending national champion Bobcats’ rookie class, including Brandon’s Kingston Thomas and Ethan Baraniuk, Saskatchewan’s Matt Lefebvre, New Zealand’s Jobe McAuley and Australian Cooper Bevan. “It’s an honour to play for a team like that,” Meyers said.
“The fact that they won nationals is even crazier but it’s a jump I’m willing to make and work hard for.” Meyers said back home 90 per cent of the kids play hockey and he was no different until he saw his potential in volleyball. He saw how much more fun the game could be when he joined HVC and actually made the Team Saskatchewan roster that summer.
The six-foot-four middle blocker, who can touch 11-foot-four, quickly learned he couldn’t get away with just being bigger and higher than his competition — because he wasn’t anymore. “My jump improved because I was training and practising, just getting smarter with my shots, going up against bigger blocks it’s something that you do,” he said. “There’s a lot of middles that are way taller than I am but if I work on my foot speed and my jump, if I get that and I can jump even higher than I do now, I’ll be able to play like I’m six-foot-six.
” Meyers saw his potential and knew he might not have been able to reach it staying home for Grade 12. His school was in danger of not having a team and he had a few friends at St. Joseph High School in Saskatoon, so he transferred for the fall semester to ensure he had a senior season.
He’s back home to ensure his class of 12 graduates together while playing with HVC again. Kash Meyers of Lucky Lake, Sask., has committed to the Brandon University men's volleyball team for the 2025-26 Canada West season.
(Submitted) Then he’ll head east with his provincial team setter Lefebvre and start BU’s physical education program. Bobcats head coach Grant Wilson wanted to add a middle blocker to his depth chart to replace Philipp Lauter, likely pushing for time behind Riley Brunet and Chris Bryant. “He’s a guy that just stood out to us,” Wilson said.
“Really athletic, explosive. “He’s a little bit undersized compared to some of our middles but we had some success with Paycen Warkentin here recently. You can be undersized if you do all the little things well and have some explosiveness, and we feel he has that.
” Meyers knows he faces a tough but not insurmountable path to floor time in Canada West. “Being an undersized middle is always a challenge but I’m probably working out four to five times a week trying to get up my vertical and it’s important because I need to be able to jump high,” Meyers said. “Seeing those guys around my height playing U Sports and (NCAA) DI, it’s really motivating to me knowing even though I’m six-foot-four, I can still excel in a position known to be the biggest position on the court.
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