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ASDC-Central Female Athlete of the Month: Samantha Gagnon

May 3, 2018 | 10:08 AM

A competitive volleyball player has been named the Alberta Sport Development Centre – Central Female Athlete of the Month for April.

Samantha Gagnon, 18, is a grade 12 student at Notre Dame High School in Red Deer and comes from a volleyball family with both parents having played university and professional volleyball. Her father in fact represented Canada in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in Volleyball.

Gagnon has played the past two seasons with the Senior Volleyball team at Notre Dame High School and the past five seasons with the Queens Volleyball Club. Gagnon was also a member of Team Alberta in the (17U) age group last summer that competed at the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships in Florida.

Described as an excellent student and athlete, Gagnon is said to excel on the court, in the classroom and an accomplished musician and fluent in French.