CARABINS COACHES TO LEAD CANADA IN VOLLEYBALL-TWU’s Ryan Hofer named women’s assistant

TWU's Ryan Hofer

Women's Volleyball (Announcement)
Saturday, May 02, 2009
2009 Summer Universiade

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CARABINS COACHES TO LEAD CANADA IN VOLLEYBALL
-TWU's Ryan Hofer named women's assistant

OTTAWA (By Volleyball Canada) - Volleyball Canada is pleased to announce the coaches for the 2009 Men and Women's National FISU Games Teams.

Official website 2009 Summer Universiade: www.universiade-belgrade2009.org
Team Canada website: www.cisport.ca/e/international/universiade/belgrade_2009

Selected to lead the Men's FISU Games Team as the head coach is Georges Laplante from the University of Montreal. Laplante will be joined by assistant coaches Dan Ota from Dalhousie University and Aaron Schulha from Red Deer College.

The Women's Team will be led by Olivier Trudel from the University of Montreal as head coach, with assistant coaches Ryan Hofer from Trinity Western University, and Joanne Ross from University of British Columbia.

The purpose of the FISU National Team Program is to identify, select and train a group of young athletes who have future Senior National Team potential and offer them the opportunity to train and represent Canada in international competition. This year's teams will be chosen during the Senior National Team Selection Camps in Gatineau from April 30-May 3 (men) and in Winnipeg from May 18-21 (women). Following their respective selection camps, both teams will train through to the end of June when they will then depart for the World Universiade Games in Belgrade, Serbia from July 1-12.

Volleyball Canada would like to congratulate all of these successful coaches. "The CIS represents one of Volleyball Canada's main partners in our athlete development and we are committed to offering our top Canadian coaches with these professional development opportunities," said Julien Boucher, High Performance Director. "We look forward to a successful summer and a continued symbiotic relationship with CIS for years to come."

About the Summer Universiade

The Summer Universiade is an international multi-sport event that takes place every two years, and is second only to the Olympic Games in the number of participating athletes and countries. The Universiade is open to competitors between the ages of 17 and 28 in the year of the Games who are full-time students at a post-secondary institution (university, college, CEGEP) or have graduated from a post-secondary institution in the year preceding the event.

About Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada. Fifty-two universities, 10,000 student-athletes and 550 coaches vie for 21 national championships in 12 different sports. CIS also provides high performance international opportunities for Canadian student-athletes at Winter and Summer Universiades, and 32 World University Championships. CIS is proud to support the 2015 Edmonton Summer Universiade bid. For further information, visit www.universitysport.ca.

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For further information, please contact:

Michel Bélanger
Communications Manager
Canadian Interuniversity Sport
Tel: (613) 562-5670 ext. 25
Cell: (613) 447-6334
belanger@universitysport.ca
www.universitysport.ca

 

 

Last Updated: 2009-05-02
Author: Scott Stewart