Vancouver Goalball Club

Vancouver Goalball Club hopes everyone is having a happy and healthy start to the new year! We're sure it comes as no surprise that we regretfully will not be hosting our annual Vancouver Goalball Grand Slam in 2021. We are optimistic that by 2022 we will be able to have athletes, coaches, officials, and spectators come together for a great competition!

We miss being on the court, training and playing the sport we love! We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy, and following the physical distancing guidelines recommended by public health officials - then we can get back to the game as soon as possible. In the meantime, keep staying active through whatever creative means you have found - like US goalball athlete Tyler Merren's accessible workout videos: ReVision Training with Tyler Merren, Fitness VIP's BC residents can ...stay informed here: https://www2.gov.bc.ca//covid-19-provincia/bc-restart-plan Photo: Wakefield Agency

Check out this fantastic video of the women's and the men's gold medal games at the 2020 VGC Surrey Goalball Grand Slam! See some game play and post-game interviews with the Women's team Canada 1 and the Men's Team America. - Japan GoalBall Association-, Canadian Women's Goalball, USA Goalball, Goalball Finland

Here are some photos from the 2020 VGC Surrey Goalball Grand Slam taken by Manto Artworks. As these are not our photos, they unfortunately do not have alt-text image descriptions. We apologize.

This is one stellar team of referees. Not pictured here are all the amazing table officials, goal judges, and volunteers. Thank you all so very much!

Results! Men's Gold - Team America Men's Silver - Old Power Men's Bronze - Alberta Young Guns... Women's Gold - Canada 1 Women's Silver - Japan A Women's Bronze - Japan B Congratulations to all teams.

Old Power scores in their game against Quebec #VanGoalballGrandSlam

Today's scores: Women's Division Canada 2 vs Japan B (2-7)... BC vs Japan A (0-10) Japan A vs Canada 2 (8-2) Japan B vs Canada 1 (2-3) Men's Division Alberta vs BC (13-3) VGC vs Team America (6-14) Old Power vs BC (11-1) Team America vs Quebec (14-7)

Introducing your host team! Our next game is at 1pm against Alberta Young Guns.

As day 2 of the 2020 VGC Surrey Goalball Grand Slam is well underway, we'd like to thank our long list of sponsors and partners who have helped make this tournament possible: Vancouver International Airport, City of Surrey, Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel, Accessible Media Inc., Goalfix Sports Ltd, Tim Hortons, Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society, Guildford Town Centre, viaSport British Columbia, and BC Blind Sports. Thank you, thank you!

Today's live streams are brought to you by Canadian Men’s Goalball (Gym A) and Canadian Women's Goalball (Gym B).

Score update from yesterday's games: Women's Division Canada 1 vs Japan A (1-8)... Canada 2 vs BC (12-2) BC vs Canada 1 (0-10) Japan A vs Japan B (6-3) Japan B vs BC (10-0) Canada 1 vs Canada 2 (12-8) Men's Division Alberta Young Guns vs Quebec (9-6) VGC vs BC (12-4) VGC vs Old Power (6-12) Alberta vs Team America (11-11) Old Power vs Team America (11-21) VGC vs Quebec (4-4) Old Power vs Alberta Young Guns (9-5) BC vs Quebec (4-9)

Vancouver Goalball Club has made the decision to implement additional precautionary measures in light of ongoing developments regarding the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). We are prohibiting any spectators from attending the 2020 VGC Surrey Goalball Grand Slam. We apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment caused by this. We wish for everyone to stay healthy and safe.

These promotional ads are being displayed on digital boards across Surrey in lead-up to for this weekend's Goalball Grand Slam! We love to see this kind of exposure for goalball. Please also see the City of Surrey's update on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation: https://www.surrey.ca/city-government/30805.aspx

Taking advantage of having everyone in the same place, the Canadian Men's National Team used the opportunity to hold a great practice today! We would like to thank Guildford Recreation Centre for all their support in hosting a this tournament. From providing a very discounted rental rate, to doing an accessibility audit of their facility, it truly has been a pleasure working with their staff. Thanks Guildford!