Marisa Field

Marisa Field (born 10 July 1987) is a Canadian volleyball player who twice represented her home country in the FIVB World Championship, in 2010 and 2014.
She is a member of the Canada national team. She won the 2009 & 2011 NORCECA Championship Best Blocker award and played the FIVB World Grand Prix in 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Career
After graduating from Kelowna Secondary School, Field studied in the University of British Columbia Okanagan and played with the Okanagan Lakers from 2004-2006, winning the British Columbia Colleges' Athletic Association All-Star the two seasons she played there. She later moved to the University of British Columbia campus of Vancouver to play for the Thunderbirds where she won the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship in 2008 and 2009 individually being awarded Conference First Team All-Star and CIS All-Canadian second team. and majored in Chemistry. In her last year of eligibility, she was part of the Team Canada that ranked 13th in the 2009 Summer Universiade held in Belgrade, Serbia. She was selected for the Canada national team in 2007.
Field teamed up with fellow Canadian Brittney Page among other international players in the Spanish club Ciudad Las Palmas G.C. Cantur. She would later recall that professional experience as the worst she ever had because of the many difficulties while in Spain.
She was part of the Canadian national team at the 2010 FIVB World Championship. She then departed for Germany to play with the professional club SV Sinsheim along with Tonya Mokelki.
Field won the Best Blocker award in the 2011 NORCECA Championship were her national team reached the sixth place.
She returned for her German club, now named Envacom Volleys Sinsheim.
For the 2012/13 she played with the French professional club Istres OPVB. There she had an eye accident and she was blind for two days, since that accident she uses glasses for playing, in order to prevent her eye being hit again. In June 2013, Field played with national team that ranked seventh in the 2013 Pan-American Cup.
The next season, Field moved to Germany playing with VfB 91 Suhl as the VolleyStars Thüringen project, helping her financially troubled club to the German Cup silver medal.
After playing the 2014 FIVB World Championship in Italy, Field moved to the Swiss Sagres Neuchâtel for the 2014/15 season, playing the 2014–15 CEV Cup with this club. Field joined her national team that ranked eight in the 2015 Pan American Games held in Toronto, Canada.
In January 2016, she joined the Swedish club Engelholms VS. Field played with her national team the 2016 FIVB World Grand Prix. She returned for Panathinaikos, as she signed the 2016/2017 season with the Greek club with compatriot Kyla Richey and later played the 2017 Pan-American Cup held in Peru, helping her national team to reach the sixth place. In September, she signed with the Philippine Super Liga club Sta. Lucia Lady Realtors.
Clubs
Ciudad Las Palmas G.C. Cantur (2009-2010)
SV Sinsheim (2010-2012)
Istres OPVB (2012-2013)
VfB 91 Suhl (2013-2014)
Sagres Neuchâtel (2014-2015)
Panathinaikos (2015-2016)
Engelholms VS (2016)
Panathinaikos (2016-2017)
Sta. Lucia Lady Realtors (2017-2018)
AO Thiras (2018-2019)
Awards
Individuals
2009 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship “Best Blocker”
2011 NORCECA Championship "Best Blocker"
Clubs
2014 German Cup – Runner-up, with VfB 91 Suhl
2015 Swiss Championship – Bronze medal, with Sagres Neuchâtel
2016 Swedish Championship – Champions, with Engelholms VS
2017 Greek Championship – Bronze medal, with Panathinaikos
References
External links
CEV Profile
1987 births
Living people
Canadian women's volleyball players
People from Comox, British Columbia
Sportspeople from British Columbia
Volleyball players at the 2015 Pan American Games
Middle blockers
UBC Thunderbirds women's volleyball players
Expatriate volleyball players in Spain
Expatriate volleyball players in Germany
Expatriate volleyball players in France
Expatriate volleyball players in Switzerland
Expatriate volleyball players in Greece
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Expatriate volleyball players in the Philippines
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in France
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the Philippines
Pan American Games competitors for Canada