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Quinn Pelland

Canadian volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ121326992 ↗
Source-derived summary

Quinn Pelland (born 11 May 1999) is a Canadian female volleyball player. She is part of the Canada women's national volleyball team and competed at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Olympic Qualification Tournaments.

Early life and education

Pelland was born 11 May 1999 and grew up in Wanham, Alberta. She attended Mount Royal University in Calgary, where she studied Business Administration and Management.

Career

University

While studying at Mount Royal University, Pelland played for the university's volleyball team. In 2022, she played as team captain and was named to the Canada West First All-Star team and the U Sports Second Team All-Canadian team. In February of the following year, she was named both Canada West and U Sports Volleyball Player of the Week. At the end of the season, she received the university's Brian Fleming Award, which is presented annually to two "student-athletes who excel in academics, athletics and the community". She was also named the women volleyball team's most valuable player.

Club

In July 2023, Pelland signed a contract to play volleyball professionally with Pays d'Aix Venelles in France.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Quinn Pelland” is canadian volleyball player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Quinn, Pelland and Canadian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2023, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-05-11. For this dossier, Quinn, Pelland and Canadian is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q121326992. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2023 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Quinn Pelland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.