Landon Currie (born October 16, 1999) is a Canadian professional volleyball player who plays as a libero for the Taoyuan Leopards in Taiwan and represents the Canada men’s national volleyball team. The British Columbia native stands 175 cm and developed through Thompson Rivers University and the University of Alberta before beginning his professional career in Europe.
Currie won the 2022 U SPORTS national championship with Alberta and was selected to the championship all-star team. Internationally, he was named Best Digger at the 2019 U21 Pan American Cup, later became part of Canada’s senior program, helped the team secure its Paris 2024 Olympic qualification, won the 2024 Pan American Cup and competed at the 2025 FIVB World Championship. His club career has included Nice Volley-Ball, VC Greenyard Maaseik and Cisterna Volley before his move to Taiwan for the 2026–27 season.
Player Information
| Information | Details |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Landon Currie |
| Date of Birth | October 16, 1999 |
| Birthplace | Vernon, British Columbia, Canada |
| Hometown | Coldstream / Vernon, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Position | Libero |
| Height | 175 cm / 5 ft 9 in |
| Listed Weight | 77 kg / 170 lb |
| Spike Reach | 310 cm |
| Dominant Hand | Left |
| Universities | Thompson Rivers University; University of Alberta |
| Previous Teams | TRU WolfPack; Alberta Golden Bears; Nice Volley-Ball; VC Greenyard Maaseik; Cisterna Volley |
| Current Club | Taoyuan Leopards |
| Club Number | No. 97 |
| National Team | Canada Men’s National Volleyball Team |
| National-Team Number | No. 97 |
| Senior National Team | 2023–present |
| Career Status | Active |
Current Volleyball World records list Currie at 175 cm with an October 16, 1999 birth date, while his final University of Alberta roster listed him at 170 lb. His left-handedness is also recorded in his player database profile. The Taoyuan roster for 2026–27 lists him as the club’s No. 97 libero.
Early Life & Volleyball Beginnings
Currie grew up in British Columbia and attended Clarence Fulton Secondary School in Vernon. He committed to Thompson Rivers University while still in high school, joining the WolfPack for the 2017–18 season. His development was not limited to volleyball: TRU’s player material also recorded a broad multi-sport background that included baseball, hockey, basketball and rugby before volleyball became the sport that carried him into university and international competition.
His progression at Thompson Rivers accelerated quickly. Currie became the WolfPack’s starting libero and, by his second season, was one of the leading defensive players in Canada West. During 2018–19, he recorded 190 digs across 82 sets for an average of 2.32 per set, ranking third in the conference, and was selected to the Canada West Rookie All-Star Team. He also contributed 34 assists while appearing in all 24 conference matches.
That university form translated into international opportunity. Currie earned a place with Canada’s U21 program and competed at the 2019 Pan American Cup in Peru. Canada reached the final and finished with silver, while the official NORCECA awards named Currie the tournament’s Best Digger. He finished among the event’s leading players both in digging and reception, establishing a defensive identity that would remain central to his career.
After his years at Thompson Rivers, Currie transferred to the University of Alberta. The move placed him in one of Canada’s most established men’s volleyball programs and gave him an immediate starting role at libero.
Club Career
Thompson Rivers & Alberta: The University Years
Currie played for Thompson Rivers from 2017 to 2020 before eventually continuing his university career with Alberta. At TRU, his strongest individual season included the Canada West Rookie All-Star recognition and his breakthrough into Canada’s junior national-team program.
With the Golden Bears, Currie joined a roster built to challenge nationally. During the 2021–22 season, he appeared in 119 sets and recorded 224 digs, an average of 1.88 per set. Alberta progressed through the Canada West playoffs and into the U SPORTS national championship, where the Golden Bears defeated top-seeded Trinity Western 3–1 in the final to capture the program’s ninth national championship and first since 2015.
Currie was selected to the championship all-star team alongside Alberta teammates Jordan Canham and Isaac Heslinga. The title gave him the most significant team achievement of his university career while also reinforcing his status as one of the country’s established collegiate liberos.
He returned for the 2022–23 season as Alberta’s fifth-year libero. The Golden Bears won the Canada West championship, adding another title before Currie left university volleyball for the professional game. His Alberta profile lists Business as his academic faculty and Thompson Rivers as his previous university team.
Nice Volley-Ball & the Move to Europe
Currie began his professional career in France with Nice Volley-Ball during the 2023–24 season. The transfer marked his first full-time professional experience after the university pathway in Canada and came during the same year that his role with the senior national team was expanding.
The French chapter was relatively short. During the second half of the season, Belgian club VC Greenyard Maaseik recruited Currie to reinforce its libero position. Maaseik’s official club archive records the signing, while later career records place his arrival during the 2023–24 campaign after his spell with Nice.
VC Greenyard Maaseik: 2024–25
Currie remained with Maaseik through the 2024–25 season, giving him his first extended period with one European club. The Belgian side regularly highlighted his defensive interventions in match coverage, with his floor coverage becoming an important component of its back-court structure.
His period in Belgium also overlapped with an increasingly substantial role for Canada. By the end of the 2024–25 club campaign, Currie had accumulated experience in French and Belgian professional volleyball as well as multiple seasons of senior international competition.
The next move represented a significant jump in domestic league level. In July 2025, Cisterna Volley announced Currie as its new libero for the 2025–26 SuperLega season, bringing him into Italy’s top division for the first time. Italian coverage described him as arriving from Maaseik after previous experience with Nice and highlighted his growing international résumé.
Cisterna Volley: 2025–26
Currie wore No. 1 for Cisterna and became the club’s principal libero during the 2025–26 SuperLega campaign. Volleyball World’s roster records list him directly in the libero role, while season data show him carrying by far the largest reception workload among Cisterna’s defensive specialists.
The move also placed him against many of the world’s leading attackers every week. For a player whose earlier career had moved through U SPORTS, France and Belgium, a complete season in SuperLega represented another step in the level and speed of opposition he was asked to handle.
Currie’s year in Italy ended after one season. In July 2026, the Taoyuan Leopards announced him as one of their international additions for the new Taiwanese professional season. The club specifically targeted a foreign libero as part of an effort to strengthen its defensive structure, making Currie’s specialist role itself a central reason for the signing.
Taoyuan Leopards: 2026–Present
Currie joined the Taoyuan Leopards for 2026–27 after leaving Cisterna. His arrival came alongside other high-profile international additions, including Osmany Juantorena and Dutch international Michiel Ahyi, as Taoyuan reshaped its roster for the new season.
For Currie, the transfer also opened a new geographic phase after three seasons in Europe. He became the team’s foreign libero and remained No. 97 on the 2026–27 roster, matching the number he has worn with Canada. Taiwanese coverage of the signing emphasized both his national-team experience and his defensive specialization.
Club Career Timeline
| Seasons | Team | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2017–2020 | Thompson Rivers WolfPack | Canada |
| 2021–2023 | Alberta Golden Bears | Canada |
| 2023–24 | Nice Volley-Ball | France |
| 2023–25 | VC Greenyard Maaseik | Belgium |
| 2025–26 | Cisterna Volley | Italy |
| 2026–present | Taoyuan Leopards | Taiwan |
Currie’s 2023–24 season included the mid-season move from Nice to Maaseik, so those two club periods overlap within the same campaign. His current Taoyuan move is confirmed by both Taiwanese reporting and updated career databases.
National Team Career
Currie’s Canadian career began at the junior level. After earning a place on the U21 roster in 2019, he helped Canada advance to the Pan American Cup final in Lima. Canada finished second to Cuba, and Currie received the Best Digger award after the tournament. NORCECA’s final statistics also placed him among the event’s stronger receivers.
His transition into the senior program came in 2023. Currie was selected for Canada’s Volleyball Nations League roster and soon became part of the group preparing for the most important international stretch of the Olympic cycle. Later that summer, Canada reached the final of the NORCECA Men’s Continental Championship and won silver behind the United States. Currie was included on the Canadian roster.
The next objective was Olympic qualification. Canada traveled to Xi’an, China, for the 2023 qualification tournament and secured a place at the Paris Games. Currie was part of that qualification group, although he was not subsequently selected to Canada’s final 12-player Olympic roster in 2024. His contribution therefore belongs to the qualification campaign rather than to an Olympic appearance itself.
Currie remained within the Canadian program during 2024. While the senior Olympic squad prepared for Paris, he joined the NextGen team at the Men’s Pan American Cup in Santo Domingo. Canada defeated the United States 3–1 in the final to claim gold, with Currie included among the championship roster.
The 2025 season brought a larger senior workload. Currie handled 187 serve receptions across 46 sets during that year’s VNL, with 53 percent graded positive and 28 percent perfect in VBLineup’s competition tracking. He also recorded 45 digs. Those figures reflect a libero who was being trusted with a substantial share of Canada’s first-contact responsibility rather than used as an occasional defensive substitute.
Currie then traveled to the Philippines for the 2025 FIVB Men’s World Championship. Canada opened its tournament strongly and produced one of the group stage’s notable results by defeating Japan in straight sets. The team advanced to the Round of 16 before its run ended against Poland. That tournament represented Currie’s first senior World Championship and another step from VNL roster player toward an established international libero.
He continued in the role during 2026. In the opening VNL week in Ottawa, Currie recorded seven digs against Germany, five against France and ten against the United States. His ten-dig performance against the Americans came from 16 defensive attempts and was his strongest digging output of the week.
Canada’s September NORCECA campaign provided the next major result. Currie started at libero as Canada moved through pool play unbeaten, and head coach Dan Lewis specifically highlighted his performance after a straight-set win over Mexico in which Currie led Canada with seven digs. Canada later defeated Cuba in the semifinal before pushing the United States to five sets in the championship match, taking silver.
The same Moncton window continued into the continental Olympic qualification stage. Canada beat Mexico in the semifinal but lost the qualification final to Cuba, leaving the team without NORCECA’s direct Los Angeles 2028 berth. Currie nevertheless finished 2026 as an established part of Canada’s libero group and entered his new club season in Taiwan directly after another senior international campaign.
Playing Style & Strengths
Currie’s career is built most clearly around floor defense. The evidence stretches from his university years through senior international volleyball rather than depending on one tournament. At Thompson Rivers, he ranked third in Canada West with 2.32 digs per set during 2018–19. A few months later, NORCECA named him Best Digger at the U21 Pan American Cup. With Alberta in 2021–22, he accumulated 224 digs across 119 sets on the way to the national championship.
The same strength has remained visible against senior international opposition. During the first week of the 2026 VNL, Volleyball World credited Currie with 24 digs across four matches, including ten against the United States. At the 2026 NORCECA Championship and subsequent qualification matches, he recorded 30 digs across six matches in the available competition tracking, including 12 against Mexico in the Olympic-qualification semifinal.
Serve reception is the other major part of his workload. During the 2025 VNL, Currie received 187 serves in 46 sets, producing a 53 percent positive-reception rate while committing 13 reception errors. The volume is important: it shows that Canada repeatedly put him into the primary passing structure rather than simply using him for situational defense.
His professional progression also supports that reading. Cisterna brought him into SuperLega specifically as a libero, while Taoyuan’s 2026 recruitment was unusual in that the club deliberately used an international roster spot on a defensive specialist. The Taiwanese club’s public explanation emphasized stable reception and defense as the qualities it wanted Currie to bring to the back court.
At 175 cm, Currie does not rely on size to create his role. His value comes from reading attacks, controlling the first contact and keeping rallies playable after difficult defensive touches. Those are analytical conclusions consistent with his repeated digging recognition, reception volume and the way his clubs and national team have deployed him, rather than generic traits assigned simply because he is a libero.
Major Achievements
Selected National Team Honors
| Year | Competition | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | U21 Pan American Cup | Silver |
| 2023 | NORCECA Men’s Continental Championship | Silver |
| 2024 | Men’s Pan American Cup | Gold |
| 2026 | NORCECA Men’s Continental Championship | Silver |
Canada’s 2019 U21 silver was accompanied by Currie’s Best Digger award. At senior level, he was part of Canada’s 2023 NORCECA silver-medal roster and the 2024 NextGen group that defeated the United States for Pan American Cup gold. In 2026, he returned to the NORCECA podium as Canada pushed the United States to five sets in the continental final.
Selected Club & University Honors
| Season | Competition | Result | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–22 | U SPORTS Men’s Volleyball Championship | Champion | Alberta Golden Bears |
| 2022–23 | Canada West Championship | Champion | Alberta Golden Bears |
The 2022 national championship was Alberta’s ninth U SPORTS title. The Golden Bears defeated Trinity Western 3–1 in the final, and Currie was subsequently selected to the tournament all-star team.
Selected Individual Awards
| Year / Season | Competition | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 2018–19 | Canada West | Rookie All-Star |
| 2019 | U21 Pan American Cup | Best Digger |
| 2022 | U SPORTS Men’s Volleyball Championship | All-Star Team |
The 2019 distinction is sometimes described in secondary club material as a libero award, but NORCECA’s official tournament summary specifically lists Currie as Best Digger, while Garland Peed of the United States received Best Libero.
Personal Life & Education
Currie studied Business during his university career. His Thompson Rivers and University of Alberta profiles both place his academic background in that field, and Alberta’s final roster continued to list him in the Faculty of Business.
His sporting background was broader than volleyball alone. Thompson Rivers’ university material documented experience in baseball, hockey, basketball and rugby before he became established as a collegiate libero. That multi-sport background preceded his rapid progression from high school volleyball in Vernon to Canada’s junior program and eventually the professional game.
One of the more unusual details from his pre-university years was his involvement in baseball. TRU’s player material identified a victory over an American team at the 2016 Latin America Baseball Classic in the Dominican Republic among his memorable sporting experiences. By the time he entered university, however, volleyball had become the pathway that would take him through the Canadian national-team system and into professional clubs overseas.
Where Is Landon Currie Playing Now?
Currie plays for the Taoyuan Leopards in Taiwan for the 2026–27 season. The club announced his signing in July 2026 after his year with Cisterna Volley in the Italian SuperLega. He is listed as No. 97 on Taoyuan’s current roster.
The move makes Taiwan the fourth overseas league environment of his professional career after France, Belgium and Italy. Taoyuan’s decision to recruit an international libero was itself notable: club-provided coverage described Currie as part of an attempt to strengthen the team’s defensive structure rather than use every foreign-player position on attacking power.
Currie also remains active with Canada. He wore No. 97 at the 2026 NORCECA Championship, where Canada won silver, and continued through the subsequent Los Angeles 2028 qualification stage. Volleyball World’s current international profile still lists him as a 175 cm Canadian libero.
His current career therefore sits at the intersection of two established roles: first-choice defensive specialist in the Canadian national-team system and an overseas professional whose path has moved progressively from university volleyball through France, Belgium, Italy and now Taiwan.
Frequently Asked Questions
What position does Landon Currie play?
Landon Currie is a libero. He has played the position throughout his university, professional and senior international career.
Where does Landon Currie play now?
Currie plays for the Taoyuan Leopards in Taiwan. He joined the club for the 2026–27 season after spending 2025–26 with Cisterna Volley in Italy’s SuperLega.
How tall is Landon Currie?
Currie is 175 cm, or approximately 5 feet 9 inches. Volleyball World and his recent professional records consistently use that height.
What number does Landon Currie wear?
Currie wears No. 97 for Canada and is also listed as No. 97 with the Taoyuan Leopards for the 2026–27 season. He previously wore No. 1 with Cisterna Volley and No. 11 at the University of Alberta.
Did Landon Currie play at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
Currie helped Canada secure qualification for Paris 2024 through the 2023 Olympic qualification tournament, but he was not selected to the final 12-player Olympic roster. His role belongs to Canada’s qualification campaign rather than an Olympic appearance.
What individual award has Landon Currie won with Canada?
Currie was named Best Digger at the 2019 U21 Pan American Cup in Peru, where Canada won the silver medal.
Did Landon Currie win a U SPORTS championship?
Yes. Currie won the 2022 U SPORTS men’s volleyball championship with the Alberta Golden Bears. He was also selected to the tournament all-star team.
Which professional clubs has Landon Currie played for?
Currie’s professional career has included Nice Volley-Ball in France, VC Greenyard Maaseik in Belgium, Cisterna Volley in Italy and the Taoyuan Leopards in Taiwan.
References
- Volleyball World — Landon Currie, VNL 2026 Player Profile
- Volleyball World — Landon Currie, 2026 NORCECA Player Profile
- Volleyball Canada — Landon Currie Athlete Profile
- University of Alberta — Landon Currie Golden Bears Profile
- University of Alberta — 2021–22 Golden Bears Roster
- University of Alberta — A Golden Day for Golden Bears Volleyball
- University of Alberta — 2022 Golden Bears Season Statistics
- NORCECA — 2019 U21 Pan American Cup Final Statistics & Individual Awards
- NORCECA — 2019 U21 Pan American Cup Final Bulletin
- Volleyball Canada — Canada Wins Silver at the 2023 NORCECA Championship
- Volleyball Canada — Canada Wins 2024 Pan American Cup Gold
- Volleyball Canada — Canada Awarded 2026 NORCECA Silver Medal
- NORCECA — Canada Advances to the 2026 Continental Semifinals
- Volleyball World — Cisterna Volley 2025–26 Roster
- VC Greenyard Maaseik — Club News Archive Including Landon Currie Signing
- Tuttosport — Cisterna Signs Canadian Libero Landon Currie
- Taiwan Television — Taoyuan Leopards 2026–27 International Signings
- NextApple — Taoyuan Leopards Announce Landon Currie Signing
- TSNA — Taoyuan Leopards 2026–27 Team Presentation
- VBLineup — Landon Currie VNL 2025 Reception & Dig Statistics
- VBLineup — Landon Currie 2026 NORCECA Defensive Statistics
- Volleybox — Landon Currie Player & Club Career Profile
