Seeing double: MacEwan’s volleyball twins standing out on their own
Alyssa and Addison Piekema. Photo supplied by Addison and Alyssa. Being known as a pair most of their lives, the sisters are now taking the opportunity of university-level sports to express themselves as individuals. This fall, twin sisters Addison and Alyssa Piekema made the leap from Lethbridge to Edmonton, signing with MacEwan University’s women’s volleyball team, where they hope to make strong growth as athletes and individuals. The two have been playing sports together since the fifth grade, and actively choose to play with one another again in university. “We sent emails to a bunch of schools together, we kind of sent them both at the same time and stuff, but MacEwan kind of recruited us together as one thing,” Alyssa says. They...
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