Ryan HoferHead CoachEmail: ryan.hofer@twu.ca Phone1: 604.513.2117 Company: 6th Location: Gym main floor north offices Hofer has been part of Spartan volleyball, as either a men’s or women’s assistant or head coach, since 2000 and has been the women’s team’s head coach since 2006, when he took over head coaching duties from his wife Carol Hofer.
And since then, Hofer has been the catalyst behind five successful seasons of Spartan women’s volleyball.
In his five years as head coach, Hofer has led the Spartans to four Canada West Final Four tournaments – with his team’s best showings silver medals in both 2009 and 2011 – and three CIS National Championship appearances, finishing third in 2011, fourth in 2007 and fifth in 2009.
This past season marked the Spartans women’s volleyball team’s most successful campaign as a member of the CIS. Not only did the team finish the year with a national championship bronze medal – the first CIS women’s volleyball medal in TWU history – they also finished the regular season with a school record-breaking 15-3 mark and, for the first time in school history, were ranked No. 1, for two weeks in January, in the CIS Top Ten.
For his efforts and accomplishments, Hofer was recognized as the 2010-11 Canada West and CIS women’s volleyball Coach of the Year.
Prior to 2011, the Spartans fourth place at the national tournament in 2007 marked the best finish for a TWU women’s volleyball team. That year, Hofer led his team to a top ten national ranking every week, never dipping lower than seventh. The Spartans also beat two No.1 ranked teams that year: the University of Manitoba Bisons and the University of Calgary Dinos.
Prior to being named head coach of the women’s team, Hofer was an assistant for five years and, in 2006, helped the Spartans win a bronze medal at the Canada West Final Four tournament with a victory over Calgary and earn their first ever CIS National Championship appearance.
Hofer was the interim head coach for the 2003-04 season, while wife Carol took maternity leave. In his first head coaching experience at the university level, Hofer led the Spartan women to a 9-23 overall record, with a 5-15 regular season record.
During the summer of 2005, Hofer was named Volleyball Canada's Male Coach of the Year thanks to an outstanding 2004 season as British Columbia's winningest coach at both the club and provincial levels. In the 2004 club season Hofer went 41-6 and won the Provincial and National Gold medals as coach of the Blitz U18 team of the Fraser Valley Volleyball Club.
That year, he was also the assistant coach of the Trinity Western University 20U team that won gold at the provincial championships, and then went on to win silver at the national championships.
Hofer was the head coach of the Team BC Women U-18 squad that won a gold medal at the Western Canada Summer Games in 2003. He was also head coach in the summer of 2003 at the National Team Challenge Cup where his team finished fifth.
Hofer amassed a career record of 227 wins, 44 losses while coaching at the Fraser Valley Volleyball Club. He also has a career record of 42-9 as coach of the TWU Juniors, for a total of 269 wins, 53 losses in club volleyball. During that time, he won three straight U18 Provincial Championships, three straight U20 Provincial Championships and six medals at the Canadian Club National Championships.
In the summer of 2009, Hofer was the named the assistant coach for the FISU Games Canadian National Team that were held in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2005, he was also named assistant coach of Canada's Junior National Team and the following summer was named the head coach of Canada's Youth National Team, which finished fourth at the NORCECAS (North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation).
Hofer graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in Christian Ministry from Briercrest Bible College. He is a certified NCCP Level III (indoor) and Level II (beach) coach. | |
