Stephen Maar will be a player of Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza for the next two seasons. Equipped with a very heavy arm in attack, a lot of quality and effectiveness, both blocking and serving, the Canadian player will enrich the spikers department that will be available to Andrea Anastasi for the next Credem Banca SuperLega.
Born in 1994, Canadian, 201 centimeters tall, Stephen Maar approached volleyball during his school years, starting to play with the Bill Crothers SS team. After high school he joined the McMaster men’s volleyball team, participating in the CIS Championship from the 2012-2013 to the 2015-2016 seasons.
Stephen Maar played seven seasons in the Super League. In the top flight he played 229 matches of which 119 won: 2862 points scored by the spiker of which 2387 in attack, 215 aces, 260 blocks and he was named MVP 20 times.
For Stephen Maar, who grew up at McMaster University, next season will be the eighth season overall in the top Italian category, the fifth in a row after the period in Russia with Dinamo Moscow.
Stephen Maar: “I am too happy to come and play in a club like Piacenza which has made and is making great investments, I will do everything to help the club achieve its objectives. In the last season in Monza we did well and we came very close to winning something but we didn’t succeed, I am a person who wants to win and continue to grow, I arrive in Piacenza with a great desire to do well and with a lot of enthusiasm. We have all it takes to have a great season, there are strong players in the team and the coach is very good and prepared, we will not play in Europe but there will be a Super Cup, Italian Cup and Scudetto, we will fight for these three important goals, they are very confident. I greet the club, the fans: I’ll see you in Piacenza as soon as my commitments with the national team are over, I can’t wait.”
