Crossing Borders A Canadian volleyball team volunteers in a Mexican border town, and learns many important lessons along the way. By Blair Socci
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hile undergoing yoga instructor training this past summer, Ryerson University volleyball player Kasandra Bracken made a connection that would greatly impact the future for both her and her Torontobased college team. On one particular yoga sojourn to Phoenix, Ariz., completely unrelated to her volleyball passion, Bracken and her mother befriended fellow yogi Gil Gillenwater, the founder and president of the Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation, and a fruitful partnership was born. 44 | volleyballmag.com | June 2012
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