Admission is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! The University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's and women's volleyball teams host the Waterloo Warriors in their grand opening event this Friday, January 9 at the brand new Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport.

The event marks the official countdown to the 2015 CIS women's volleyball championship, set to hit the Kimel Family Field House February 26-March 1.

The men start the action at 6 p.m., with the No. 4 nationally ranked women to follow at 8 p.m. Admission is free and the first 1,000 fans will receive a Varsity Blues rally towel as well as a free slice of pizza.

There will be tons of prizes from Pizza Pizza, Daddy O's, the Duke of York and more to be won!

The new Ron Kimel Field House in the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport is arguably the best court facility in the CIS. The 2,000-seat international standard field house for basketball and volleyball also features a high performance strength and conditioning centre overlooking Varsity Stadium and a state-of-the-art sport medicine clinic. 

The Blues women are a perfect 9-0 at the midway point of the season and have dropped only two sets in regular season action thus far. As a team, Toronto leads the OUA and CIS with 13.55 kills, 18.07 digs and 12.69 assists per set, and ranks second in the CIS, averaging 17.7 points per set and holds a .256 hitting percentage.

Third-year setter Madelyn Mandryk leads the nation with 10.79 assists per set, while fifth-year left side hitter and 2014 CIS all-Canadian Charlotte Sider ranks second in the province with 3.79 kills and 4.6 points per set.

Toronto's men are 3-8 and in ninth place, only four points out of seventh.

Team captain Michael Denton sits fifth among OUA setters, averaging 9.60 assists per set, while rookie Alex Ferris has notched 2.15 digs per set, good for a sixth place ranking in the province.

Offensively, veterans Kyle Fick and Jake Dysselhof lead the squad with 3.1 points per set each. 

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