Marc Albert is a former Canadian Olympic

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 volleyball

Volleyball

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 player.

Albert led his Polyvalent Louis-Mailloux to New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

 provincial high school volleyball championships in 1978 and '79. While attending the Université de Moncton

Université de Moncton

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 he was named to the Canadian junior national team and in 1981 relocated to Calgary

Calgary

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 to join the senior national team. He left the team however after 18 months to become a Calgary police officer

Police officer

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. He returned to the program in 1985 but left again after only a year to focus on work and family. In 1989 however, an arrangement with the Calgary police force allowed him to return to national program.

Albert was named tournament MVP of the 1992 pre-Olympic qualifying tournament. At the Olympics

1992 Summer Olympics

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, the Canadian

Canada men's national volleyball team

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s barely missed on advancing to the quarterfinals losing three 5-set matches along with defeating France. They ended the tournament losing the 9-10 place game to South Korea. Albert's personal accolades also include being the 3rd highest ranked attackers and 5th ranked receiver in the 1992 World Volleyball League.

In club volleyball during the 1980s his Canuck Stuff Club of Calgary was a three-time Canadian senior champion and Albert was a five-time all-star selection at the tournament. After the '92 Olympics he returned to New Brunswick where he has been involved in teaching and coaching volleyball in grade school and university.

As of 2001 he was assistant coach at the Université de Moncton. Albert was inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame

New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame

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 in 2001. He has worked as sales manager for the Edmundston-Grand Falls

Grand Falls, New Brunswick

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-Campbellton

Campbellton, New Brunswick

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 area for the financial services company Assumption Life

Assumption Life

Assumption Life is a financial services company based in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. The company is a Canada wide life insurance provider with over 75,000 active policies and also operates a large asset management agency with over one billion dollars of assets under management.-History:The...

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