Kyla Richey (born 20 June 1989) is a Canadian

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player. She is a member of the

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since she made the Senior A team in 2008. Prior to that, she was a part of the Junior National team for three years from 2015-2017. Kyla is the current captain of Team Canada under head coach Tom Black. Her career is one of the longest Team Canada Women's Team stints in history competing at three consecutive World Championships. She was part of the Canadian national team at the 2010 World Championships in Japan, the

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in Italy, and

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University career

Richey played U Sports volleyball for the

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Thunderbirds for five seasons from 2007 to 2012. She won the U Sports National Championship in each of her five seasons with UBC and was named the Championship MVP for the 2009 match. For the 2011-12 season, in her final year, she won the

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for U Sports Women's Volleyball Player of the Year.

Clubs

* SC Potsdam (2013) * Yeşilyurt Istanbul (2013–2014) * Tiboni Urbino (2014) * Rote Raben Vilsbiburg (2015) * Azeryol Baku (2015–2016) *

Panathinaikos Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos ( el, Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, literally in English: "Panathenaic Athletic Club" or Panathinaikos A.C.), also known simply as Panathinaikós , is a major Greek multi-sport club ba ...

(2016–2017) *

Jakarta Pertamina Energi Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...

(2017-2018) * CV Universidad de San Martín de Porres (2018–present)

References

1989 births Living people Canadian women's volleyball players Place of birth missing (living people) Volleyball players at the 2015 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Canada UBC Thunderbirds women's volleyball players Outside hitters Expatriate volleyball players in Germany Expatriate volleyball players in Turkey Expatriate volleyball players in Italy Expatriate volleyball players in Azerbaijan Expatriate volleyball players in Greece Expatriate volleyball players in Indonesia Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Greece Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia Panathinaikos women's volleyball players Yeşilyurt volleyballers Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Peru Expatriate volleyball players in Peru {{Canada-volleyball-bio-stub