Stumble Upon

del.icio.us

Digg

Facebook

Print

Email

Speak Up

KINGS COUNTY -

Volleyball New Brunswick recently announced the appointments of its Canada Games coaching staff for the 2009 Canada Summer Games to be held in Prince Edward Island.

Cherie Campbell (Fredericton) will lead the female beach volleyball team. Originally from Prince Edward Island, she has been an active member of the VNB beach tour and has been named VNB beach player of the year in 2005 and 2007. Campbell played at the 2003 Canada Games indoor volleyball with Team PEI in Kamloops. Campbell was also an Atlantic University Sport conference all-star while she played indoor volleyball at Dalhousie University and University of Prince Edward Island. She is a constable of the Fredericton Police Force

Corey Akerley will take the helm of the men's volleyball team at the Canada Games. He is one of the top beach players in New Brunswick, capturing VNB beach player of the year in 2005 and attended the 2001 Canada Summer Games in London, Ont., in beach volleyball. He also played indoor volleyball at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University in Fredericton.

Leading the women's indoor team will be Monette Boudreau-Carroll, John Richard and Pauline Cormier.

Boudreau-Carroll will be coaching at her third Canada Games as she traveled to Regina for the 2005 Summer Games, where she led the team to a seventh-place finish and also at the 1997 Canada Games in Brandon, Man. She is the head coach of the Aigles Bleues de l'Université de Moncton where she was awarded the Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's volleyball coach of the year for 2008 as well as a four-time winner of the AUS coach of the year for women's volleyball.

Richard completed his 10th year as head coach of the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds in which the team captured the AUS women's volleyball championship. He was named AUS women's volleyball coach of the year in 2007 and has led the Varsity Reds to two consecutive regular season titles in 2007 and 2008.

Cormier is participating in her third Canada Games as she was the women's volleyball team manager in 2005 in Regina and traveled to Whitehorse in 2007 as mission staff for Team New Brunswick. She is a community development officer for the City of Dieppe.

Men's indoor staff will be announced shortly.