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Rod Walsh / Al Coulter / Cam Crockett / Nick Davies

Rod ia a NCCP Level 2 coach and has coached at Canuck for the past 6 years and enjoys running specialty clinics for promising athletes in Canada. Rod has extensive playing experience having played both at Dalhousie University and here at the University of Calgary and was a 1st Team Canadian All Star at both schools. He played with Team Canada as a setter from 1982 to 1990, and played professional volleyball in the European League with France in 1988 to 1990. More recently Rod has been playing with the Canuck Stuff and FOG senior mens teams and earned several Canadian and US Masters Champioships.
rodwalshmusic@hotmail.com

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Rhonda Schmuland

We are thrilled to welcome back Rhonda to our coaching staff here at Canuck! Rhonda’s playing career started here as an athlete and she continued on to play one year in the ACAC, four years at Trinity Western University and 1 year playing professional volleyball in France. Rhonda is a fully certified NCCP level 2 coach and has coached U13-U18 on and off for the past 10 years, including a head coaching role with the U17 women's team at Canuck in 2008, who won a bronze medal at provincials.

Over the past 3 years Rhonda worked closely with Terry Danyluk (head coach of the U of A Golden Bears men’s team) as team therapist, strength and conditioning coach, and part time assistant coach. Having recently moved back to Calgary, Rhonda wants to give back to Canuck where her “Love of the Game” first started to develop.

rhonda_loves_volleyball@hotmail.com

Ashley Gullekson

We are also really pleased to have Ashley Gullekson returning to our coaching staff at Canuck Stuff this season, and like Rhonda, she started her club playing career here at the dome back in 1999. Ashley is also a level 2 NCCP certified volleyball coach who has coached High School girls teams here in Calgary, and midget boys teams here with Canuck for 5 years (making it to the Provincial Championship Gold medal match twice) before moving to Lethbridge to complete her Bachelor of Arts and Education degrees. (Studying Kinesiology and Phys. Ed.) While attending the University of Lethbridge, Ashley coached club volleyball with LVC and although she enjoyed working with their midget girls program, but is happy to back home at the Volleydome and looking forward to sharing her passion for this sport with our juvenile womens U17 team for this 2011/12 season.
ashley.gullekson@shaw.ca

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Phil Brown & Andy Hayher

A native of Red Deer, Alberta, Phil begins his sixth year at Canuck as coach. Phil was a successful player at both the CCAA and CIS level. He spent time at Kings College in Halifax and at Dalhousie University. After completing his playing days, Phil was an assistant coach at Dalhousie University under Dan Ota. Phil was an assistant coach at Mount Royal University during the 2008 and 2009 season. Phil has enjoyed success at the Juvenile level over the past 5 years. His 18U team finished 11th at nationals in 2008, winning the Tier 2 gold and in 2009 he led Canuck Red to a fourth place finish in Tier 1 at nationals. Phil will be the head coach of the 18U team at Canuck. Phil's coaching philosophy is based on technical skill development, out working opponents and working as a team. Phil's hard work and dedication to skill development has helped numerous male Canuck Athletes move on and play at the CCAA or CIS level.

Andy has been actively involved in amateur volleyball in Calgary. He played club for the Dino Club and was a member of Team Alberta. Andy played college volleyball at SAIT where he helped the team to attain an ACAC silver medal and a CCAA silver medal in 2000. He returned to SAIT as an Assistant Coach in 2001 and 2002 and helped the team to another CCAA silver medal and 2 ACAC silver medals. In 2008 Andy returnedto SAIT in an Assistant Coach role and continues in that capacity. In 2009 he helped select the Canada Games team for Alberta and the 19U Provincial Team. Andy is entering his 6th year of coaching with Canuck Stuff Volleyball Club. Andy's philosophy revolves around technical skill development and improving volleyball skills through work ethic, dedication and commitment to the team ideology.
ahayher@telus.net

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Michele Prince

We are proud to have Michele back with Canuck again this year as she brings a great deal of passion and experience to our club. Michele is from Edmonton where she started her volleyball career at the high school, club and Provincial Team levels. She played her first two years of college ball at Lakeland College in Vermillion where she earned two "All Canadian Awards" Michele joined the University of Calgary team as a setter and played from 1988 to 1991, winning the CIAU National title in the 1989-1990 season. Michele's international experience started with summer training camp in China in 1988 and then played professional volleyball in Switzerland in 1991-92 and returned to Coach in Switzerland during the 1997-98 season. Michele returned to Calgary to take on the role as Head Coach of the Mt. Royal College Cougars from 1992 to 1998 during which time they won consecutive ACAC Provincial Champioships and finished as high as 4th in Canada at Nationals. She also earned the ACAC "Coach of the Year" award in 1993,1995 and 1998. Michele is not only a very successful player and coach but also an oustanding mentor and role model for the young ladies she works with.
kmprince@telus.net

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Candace & Kent Greves

Candace and Kent Greves are a welcomed addition to our Canuck coaching staff, returning for a third season with our U16 boys team this year. Candace played in the Alberta club program as well as the Team Alberta representatives to the Canada Games in 1989. She joined Michele Prince at the University of Calgary as a power hitter in winning the CIAU Championship in 1989. She and her team mates went on to add another in 1994. Candace was awarded the "Mikasa U16 Coach of the Year" in 2011 after winning the Provincial Championship and taking her team all the way to play in National Final.

Her husband Kent started his college career at Mt Royal College where he was named "All Canadian" in the 1987-1988 season. He went from there directly to the National team and became the starting setter in 3 short years to lead Team Canada in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Head Coach Glenn Hoag had lots to say about Kent Greves at his induction into the Hall of Fame, but the summary of it all was "He is the best setter Canada has ever produced". Kent played 11 seasons of professional volleyball in Europe and in the span of 5 years he led the Paris Volleyball team to an unpresidented 10 major titles. Paul Duerden who has played 15 years with Team Canada and 13 years of Pro volleyball in Europe said "Kent is easily the best setter I have ever played with....The guy is a magician."

Candace and Kent have 4 children. Their son Tanner joined our club as a U13 athlete and we are thrilled he brought his Mom and Dad to join in the fun.
greves6@shaw.ca

Kevin Buck

Kevin Buck’s coaching career started in 1998. Some of the coaching experiences he has been involved in are guest coach Women’s National B team, assistant coach The Kings University College, head coach for Zone 8 for the Alberta Summer Games, and various head coaching positions at the junior/high school levels. Kevin’s volleyball teams have been to city finals 6 straight years winning twice. Kevin has also coached for several clubs with Canuck being the latest. Last year, Kevin was the assistant coach with the Canuck U 15 boys team that won provincials and finished 2nd in Nationals. During the summers Kevin can be found coaching volleyball camps at the U of A, Jasper, Sylvan Lake and Grant MacEwan. Kevin looks forward to an exciting year as a co-coach for the U 16 Canuck men’s volleyball team.

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Janette & Greg Solecki

Janette began her volleyball career in the club system and developed into one of the integral members of the U of C Dinos which included the 1988 CIAU Championships. Later that year she joined Team Canada as a middle hitter. Upon retiring from the indoor game, Janette took her talents to the beach and won two national championships while also representing Canada on the FIVB tour.

Greg was a BC and Alberta provincial team captain that played his university volleyball at UBC before competing for Team Canada in 1988, after which he joined the legendary Canuck Stuff Classics club team that won 7 Canadian National Championships and the 1997 US Open.
jsolecki@shaw.ca

Doug Hill

Doug is fairly new to the Canuck Stuff club starting as the assistant coach of the U14 Girls Canuck team last year, but is not new to coaching competitive athletes as he has coaching experience in competitive swimming, baseball, soccer and hockey as well. Doug has also worked as the head coach of the Olds High School boys senior team and a Calgary Women's club team. Doug played with the U of C Dinos under John Paulson and Greg Ryan as well as played club volleyball for 15 years after University. My philosophy is definitely athlete centric, where I prefer to focus on the player’s development. I believe if you focus on the basics of every skill, try and do the skills right every time success will come. I respect that athletes and their parents spend a vast amount of time committing to sports they love. My hope is to develop the athletes desire to play and compete hard by offering a positive environment to learn in.

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Brian Gullekson /

2012 will mark Brian's 12th season coaching volleyball at Canuck and in the High School system, although it also marks his 33rd year involved in athletics as either a coach, official or administrator. Brian is a Level II NCCP certified coach in both Softball and Volleyball and spent 16 years officiating Basketball at all levels including community, ACAC, CIAU and the World Basketball League. Brian believes strongly in the lifelong benefits children gain when they participate in competitive sports as witnessed in his own children as well as many others in his 30 + years in sports. Over the years Brian's teams have earned many championship banners, and many of the athletes he has coached have gone to play at the post secondary level, but his greatest pride is in watching these young athletes grow to become great young men and women. One of the Canuck parents wrote this about Brian:

"Evidence of the strength of character Brian builds within the boys he coached and his high expectations both on the court, and outside volleyball, was never more obvious than when seven players he coached over the years 2004 -2008 were all nominated for the 2008 Al Taylor Award for outstanding 2009 Senior High School Varsity Boys Volleyball Player."
bgullekson@volleydome.net

Steve Szentmiklossy / Wayne Mah / Jordan Leong

Steve is another home-grown product of the Calgary VB system having played club for Dino’s ….”a long time ago”…. His college years were spent playing for the SAIT Trojans in the ACAC conference. Steve was selected as an All Conference player each year, and captured an ACAC Bronze, Silver and Gold as well as finishing 2nd and earning a Silver medal at the CCAA National Championships. Steve’s latest coaching activities have been with the CalAir Volleyball Club and the High School system with Ernest Manning Sr. Girls and during the 2011 club season he helped coach the Canuck U14 boys team to a Provincial Championship and a fourth place finish at the U14 Nationals.

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Don & Mylene Saxton

The owners of The Volleydome and co-founders of CSVC, Don and Mylene have dedicated the last twenty years to making volleyball not only more accessible but more enjoyable for players of all ages. Don's volleyball career as a player started nearly 35 years ago, when after 2 years of playing Basketball at Uof S he saw the light and switched to play for their Volleyball team instead, winning CIAU Gold in 1979. Don went on to play a total of 8 years with Team Canada earning a second place finish at the FISU Games, a third place finish at the Pan Am Games and a forth place finish at the 1984 Olympics. Don played Pro Volleyball with the Dutch team in 1980 and played in Spain from 1989 to 1991. He started the Canuck Stuff Volleyball Club in 1991 as a mens team which won 7 Canadian Championships and 1 USA Open Championship. During the last 10 years he has still enjoyed playing and winning in the masters and seniors categories, earning 4 more World Titles. Mylene played at the University of Ottawa where she was awarded the CIAU Most Valuable Player Award in 1980. She played 1 year with the Jr, National Team and then went on to play six years for Team Canada, mostly as a middle blocker. After moving to Calgary Mylene taught and coached volleyball at St Mary`s High School. Mylene has developed many great young volleyball players through the Canuck Stuff program winning two Canadian National Championships in 2003 and 2005. Don's coaching career started with a couple of seasons as an apprentice and assistant coach with Team Canada and his first youth club team was a group of 13 year old Bantam boys most of whom had never seen a voleyball before. Since that time Don and Mylene have run programs for players of all ages including the very popular adult co-ed leagues, Volleyball Academy, for kids grade 3 to 11, Dome, Club, School and Club Tournaments and of course The Canuck Stuff Youth Volleyball Club for male and female players between the ages of 13 and 18. Don was awarded the Tachikara Coach of the Year Award in 2008 after taking a group of U18 girls on an unexpected journey which ended with a Silver medal at the Canadian Open Juvenile Championships. This past season Don was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame again, this time as the 2009 recipient of the Sport Builder Award. The Saxton`s contribution to the game of volleyball can only be described as ``unmeasurable.``
dsaxton@volleydome.net

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The Canuck Stuff Volleyball Club and The Volleydome are proudly running a joint venture program called Project 16 aimed at developing Bantam age (born 1998 or 1999) volleyball players at the competitive club level.

This program will work with 40 male and 40 female athletes who will practice / train 3 times per week from late November through to the May long weekend under the direction of Don and Mylene Saxton, who will be running the program along with 8 other coaches.

All of the athletes will receive the same training and play in regular invitational tournaments, with the option of paying additional fees to play in AVA Premier Tournaments, AVA Provincials and Nationals.

The focus of Project 16 will be to expose more athletes to the kind of extensive training and superior coaching that will give them the opportunity to become successful school and competitive players through to their graduation in 2016 and beyond. These groups of athletes will practise together, play various positions and play games and tournaments with various team mates in an attempt to broaden their volleyball experience beyond that which is available with a regular 10 or 12 person club team.

This type of program is very much in line with the Canadian Long Term Athlete Development Program, but is by no means new to Canuck Stuff or the Volleydome. We have used this program in the past with outstanding results (National Championships at the juvenile level), and are looking forward to kick starting another group of amazing young athletes.

FEES

The fee structure for this program will allow families to choose the option and level of financial commitment that best suits their situation.

Basic Training and Invitational Tournaments (Approx. $700.00)
Including; Practice courts, Coaching, Equipment, Shorts and T-shirts.

Option 1)
Participate in AVA Premier/s and Provincials (Additional $350.00 +/-)
Including; AVA Registration, Entry Fees, Coaching and Additional Uniforms (not including travel or hotels)

Option 2)
Participate in the tryout for a team that will compete at U14 Nationals which is being held in Toronto from May 20th to 22nd for this age group. (Additional $1500.00+/- for selected players)
Including; Entry Fee, Flights and Hotels

SELECTION PROCESS

Athletes for this program will be selected / invited from the Fall Dome Club program to attend a tryout at the end of November (at no charge). Interested athletes not participating in Dome Club can register on line through the Volleydome website. www.volleydome.net for a tryout fee of $10.00

For athletes that choose option 1 or 2, Teams will be made up based upon the number of athletes wanting to participate and will change from one tournament to the next. These teams will be registered under the Canuck Stuff Volleyball Club.

For the athletes that choose Options 2, the team will be selected through another tryout to be held later in March to select 1 boys team and 1 girls team (max. 10 athletes on each) that will represent Canuck Stuff at Provincials and Nationals.

Likely Practice Times: