There's a whole new glitter inside the Dias family home following the annual Laura Gauthier Memorial (LGM) volleyball tournament in Rankin Inlet this past month.
Four members of the family brought home gold from the event, with Tony Dias, 44, and his two sons, Tristen, 21, and Tyrese, 18, playing together on the men's champion team, HangNBang, and Tony's daughter, Shanti, 15, playing on the women's in her first LGM tournament.
Any father active in sports dreams of winning a championship while playing on the same team as his kids and Tony is no different.
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With only a three-team division this year and all three squads evenly matched, Tony's hopes for a family championship was, by no means, a sure thing.
The Rankin team ran into their arch nemesis, Iqaluit, in the final and after HangNBang took the first two sets, the Iqaluit players stormed back with two of their own.
The final set was a back-and-forth affair, with Rankin finally pulling away late to take the decider15-8.
Tony said he and teammate Kyle Johnston went down to injury and could only cheer the rest of the team on during the final set.
He said it was pretty neat to watch everyone come through, shake off the two set losses and take the last one to claim the championship.
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SA国际影视传媒淯nfortunately, the defending champions, Naujaat, couldn't make it in due to bad weather ... and you never like to see a team not get to defend its championship due to weather.
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Dias said there used to always be six-to-eight teams in the LGM men's division and he's not sure why there's been such a drop-off. He said some of it just might be the cost of travel and some teams waiting a little too late to fundraise.
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SA国际影视传媒淚'm lucky enough to be, for an older fella, still in half-decent shape and I can still play in competition with them in hockey, softball and volleyball.
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