The volleyball market of the Cucine Lube Civitanova opens with an ace, an Italian vice champion will put his talent at the service of Giampaolo Medei. A.S. Volley Lube announces the hiring of Canadian international Eric Loeppky, 198 cm tall, born in 1998, with a contract until 2026, who is about to face his fifth experience in the SuperLega Credem Banca. Fresh from a brilliant season with the Mint Vero Volley Monza, where he demonstrated an uncommon flexibility, revealing himself to be a precious wildcard even in place 2, the athlete native of Steinbach managed to unleash all his power in Brianza, helping the Lombard collective to reach the last act of the Scudetto Play Offs, the Final of the Del Monte® Italian Cup and the showdown in the Challenge Cup. Without counting the European spoils, in the Lega Volley events this year the talented hammer scored 421 seals finishing at the foot of the top ten for personal points. The definitive statistics indicate relevant numbers in serving (39 aces) and attack (348), but also good receiving skills.
Data that Lube also knows perfectly, given that the now former Monza native demonstrated his value against the red and whites by playing the role of one man show in Game 1 of the Play Off quarter-finals, a match closed by MVP and top scorer at the Eurosuole Forum with the beauty of 28 points on the scoresheet.
A nine-yard specialist who was nicknamed the “king of aces” in college for his explosive serve, Loeppky grew up at Trinity Western University, where he shined for the Spartans earning three Conference and two National titles. In 2020 Eric packed his maple leaf flag in his suitcase to leave the country and test himself in Italy. The arrival in Emilia Romagna guaranteed that Ravenna would remain in the Olympus of volleyball thanks to great plays. Then salvation also took shape in Padova and in Taranto (second best finisher and ace of his team behind Antonov), until the subsequent consecration after the upgrade with the move to the Vero Volley consortium.
