{"id":21397,"date":"2018-08-22T19:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T23:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21397"},"modified":"2018-08-22T19:14:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T23:14:49","slug":"biasis-highlight-year-continues-with-provincial-beach-volleyball-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/biasis-highlight-year-continues-with-provincial-beach-volleyball-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Biasi\u2019s highlight year continues with Provincial beach volleyball win"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

At just fifteen years old, Holly Biasi may already be shopping for a larger trophy case.
\nThe multi-sport phenom from Aurora capped off an incredible season on the volleyball court last week with a gold medal at the Ontario Beach Volleyball Championships, held in Ashbridges Bay, Toronto.
\nIt took just two sets for Biasi and partner Sonya Bogatchev to earn the title in the tournament\u2019s final match, capping off a total of nine set wins in a row.
\nA shaky first day of preliminaries left the duo with a semifinal matchup against the number one ranked team, to which they had fallen to twice earlier this summer, before cruising through to the finals on straight sets.
\nJumping through partners for the past few years, it was this past February that Biasi hooked up with Bogatchev to create a winning combination, Bogatchev hailing from the Markham Revolution club in indoor volleyball.
\nA number-five ranked team heading into the tournament, Biasi and Bogatchev competed in the top-tier Premier division based on points accumulated through regional beach tournaments running all summer.
\nBefore hitting the sand, Biasi was coming off a career year on the hard court, leading her 16U Aurora Storm Monsoon to a national championship in Edmonton in May, while picking up tournament MVP honours.
\nShe was also a key component of the Monsoon\u2019s provincial championship in April.
\nPrior to making the decision to leave the pool to set her sights solely on volleyball this year, Biasi was also a leading member of the Aurora Ducks swimming team, earning over fifteen provincial championship medals in four years of competitive swimming.
\n\u201cShe moved her focus to volleyball upon arriving at high school this past year and produced an amazing year that is unlikely to be matched again,\u201d said Stef Biasi, Holly\u2019s father.
\nA regular at the annual prestigious Mayor\u2019s Breakfast of Champions event in October, Biasi was noted in 2016 for being the first to attend as champion of multiple sports in the same year.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At just fifteen years old, Holly Biasi may already be shopping for a larger trophy case.
\nThe multi-sport phenom from Aurora capped off an incredible season on the volleyball court last week with a gold medal at the Ontario Beach Volleyball Championships, held in Ashbridges Bay, Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-23-07.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5z7","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 17:16:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}