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Meet the ever-improving Sam Pedlow

Meet the ever-improving Sam Pedlow Canada’s Sam Pedlow was named the FIVB’s Most Improved Player in 2017 – so we asked him what it meant after a consistent season on the sand Sam in action typical action at the net during the World Championships in Vienna The first thing Sam Pedlow’s friends asked when they heard he had won the FIVB’s Most Improved Player award was ‘hey, doesn’t this mean you weren’t very good last year?!’ After the laughter dies down, the 30-year-old Canadians composes himself to give a very good answer. “Actually in the 2016 season I thought I played the best volleyball of my career,” Pedlow tells swatchmajorseries.com. “This year, however, I also went on to play the best of...

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Canada’s Sam Pedlow to compete in p1440 Huntington Beach

  It’s a bit early for Sam Pedlow’s annual winter visit. Typically, this comes in January or February, depending on the training schedule. It comes with much social media fanfare (when it comes to Pedlow, most beach volleyball action comes with much social media fanfare). It comes with high level training, as he and partner Sam Schachter schedule a week or two against the best in the U.S. But this is a different visit from the usual. Pedlow’s trip to Southern California at the end of November, stretching through the first week of December, is no training trip, but a final destination to cap a long and winding 2018 season. He’s coming to see if he’s the world’s Top Gun. p1440’s event...

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Canadian men could be team to beat in Commonwealth Games beach volleyball

Canadian beach volleyball player Sam Pedlow is fitting in nicely on the Gold Coast, judging from his smiling Instagram photo astride a giant pink inflatable flamingo in the pool at the Commonwealth Games athletes village. It was a day off, he noted. And the smoothie hut had just opened. Come April 6, Pedlow and partner Sam Schachter will be all business as they start their quest for gold in beach volleyball’s debut at the Games in Australia. The two Canadians are currently ranked 14th in the world. With none of the teams ahead of them coming from the Commonwealth, Australians Damien Schumann and Chris McHugh are the next highest-ranked team in the field at No. 20. Schachter, a 27-year-old from...

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