Sports At Glashan
Glashan Public School is proudly known as a popular volleyball school. Mr. Rick Desclouds was the coach of the Glashan Boys Spikers, Glashan's AA team but retired at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. In 2005, Glashan lost two of its best volleyball players to a deadly fire. Danny and Gary Thatch will always be remembered by the students. The boys volleyball team have won the provincial championships a total of 18 times and two straight years in 2006 and 2007. This year however the boys lost in the semi-finals and came in third. The girls came fourth. It is the first time in 18 years the girls made the Final Four. Glashan hosts two volleyball tournaments, one in November and another in January. The November tournament is a friendly tournament. The one in January is a very competitive one, sometimes with as much as 30 teams from all around the Eastern Ontario region participating. Glashan participates and is successful in many other sports, including Touch football (In the school year of 2010-2011 the Glashan girls finished first at the regional tournament and went on to take gold at the board wide tournament as well), Track and field, and Badminton.
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