Coaching Team
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John Child - Technical Director, HC 18U Girls Sparks
John is a 3-time Olympian (Atlanta, 1996; Sydney, 2000; Athens, 2004) and Bronze Medalist (Atlanta, 1996) in Beach Volleyball. In addition to playing 15 years of professional beach volleyball, John has played many years of indoor volleyball too. John has coached for many years at various levels from aspiring Olympians to young beginners, including being the head coach of the Havergal College Volleyball program and their 5 teams. John will be the head coach of the Leaside 18U girls team this year. |
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Octavia Wong - AC 18U Girls Sparks
Leaside 18U Girls Assistant Coach 2019-2020 (1st in Province at season end) Leaside 18U Girls Assistant Coach 2018-2019 (National Champions) Leaside 17U Girls Assistant Coach 2016-2017 (17U Provincial Gold Medalist, 17U National Silver Medalist) Leaside 17U Girls Assistant Coach 2017-2018 (17U Provincial Bronze Medalist, 17U National Bronze Medalist) Player Bio: York University Women's Varsity 2013-15 Jason Senechal Memorial Award Winner 2014 22U Beach Volleyball National Champion 2015 Adult Beach Volleyball Provincial Bronze Medalist 2017 Trained with Team Canada Beach Volleyball 2015-16, 2018-present 9man - Connex, Outtahand, Toronto Storm (NACIVT Bronze Medalist 2013), Philly CIA (NACIVT Bronze Medalist 2017) Education: BSc Specialized Honors in Psychology MSc Candidate in Kinesiology with a focus on quantitative methods |
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Melvin Lowe - AC 18U Girls Sparks
Melvin is excited to be coaching with Leaside again this season. He started his coaching career with boys and girls volleyball at Sir Oliver Mowat Collegiate Institute, where he has developed and led the volleyball program to 7 city championships in just 5 years. In addition he has spent the last 5 years coaching at the OVA Club level. He has led these various teams to numerous medals at the Tier One level. In the past year, Melvin has worked with the ADP (Athlete Development Program) with the OVA that identifies and trains the top level athletes of their various age groups. He was an Assistant Coach with the Region 5 program when they won a Gold medal at the Ontario Summer Games held in Sudbury during the summer of 2010. |
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Josh Nichol - HC 18U Boys Thunder
Josh Nichol is excited to coach the 18U Boys team this season. Josh is currently a Performance Analyst and Program Coach with Canada's Beach National Team. Before joining the National Team Josh has worked with Team Ontario (both beach and indoor), Canada Games - Beach, George Brown College, and the Ngun Lam Volleyball Club. He has also worked with various teams at the grassroots, high school, college/university and professional levels. Josh is also a learning facilitator for the Ontario Volleyball Association, facilitating coaching clinics all over Ontario. His passion for volleyball reaches beyond coaching, Josh and Dallas Keith created the Podcast Passin Dimes, new episodes every Friday! |
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Jake MacNeil - AC 18U Boys Thunder
Currently training and competing with the Senior National Beach Volleyball member since 2017. His playing highlights include proudly representing Canada in Beach Volleyball at the Youth Olympics Games in Nanjing China in 2014 as well as the U19 and U21 World Championships in 2014, 2015, 2016 and the World University FISU Games in Germany in 2018. Currently Jake competes on the Senior International FIVB tour where he has competed in over 20 international events. He is a 2x Canadian National Beach Volleyball Champion and a 3x Ontario Beach Champion. Jake is also the winner of the prestigious Jason Senechal Award. Jake played Indoor volleyball for Georgetown Impact and London Fire and attended Windsor University - winning All Star Rookie Team. Jake is the co-founder and Coach/Mentor of the Georgetown Beach Volleyball Club. Jake both has coached at York University and at the Club level. Jake is super excited to spread passion and energy and awareness to this great game. I want to inspire guys to learn and love this game, work hard and help them to achieve the next level of greatness. |
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Mike Killeen - AC 18U Boys Thunder
Mike is looking forward to rejoining the coaching staff of the 18U boys. Mike has been coaching with Leaside VC boys teams for close to 10 seasons and has been involved in competitive volleyball for over 30 years in a wide range of capacities as player, coach, mentor, beach volleyball promoter, and parent. As a young player, he had a successful five-year career as a setter, captain and all-star with the University of Western Ontario Mustangs (1984-1989). In addition to volleyball, he has coached and taught basketball and tennis over the past 15 years. |
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Bob Armstrong - HC 17U Girls Heat
Bob is back for his 9th year coaching at Leaside! He's excited to be back to coach with the 17U girls team for the upcoming season! Having coached the team last season to a 5th place provincial finish, he's excited to help push the team even higher. As a certified Level 1 coach, Bob is currently taking his Level 2 coaching certification. Bob has coached many teams at the club and school level as well as beach teams for the 2018 Ontario Summer Games. Bob will also be the head coach for a 5th year at Havergal College where he helped the Junior team to win the CISAA championships 3 of the last 4 years. With over 20 years of experience as a beach and indoor player, Bob is constantly striving to be a better coach and to help his athletes push for excellence. You can reach Bob at 416-606-1555 or bob.armstrong22@gmail.com |
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Adam Billedeau - AC 17U Girls Heat
Strengths: Coaching and being an all around great guy Weaknesses: Submitting a Bio for the coaches page |
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Anna Feore - AC 17U Girls Heat
This is Anna's second year at Leaside. Anna has had an great volleyball career that included 5 Years with the Varsity Blues at the University of Toronto as a left side hitter and as captain for 3 seasons. She's a 3 time provincial champion and won National Championships in 2016. She's a 3X Provincial All Star, 3X Academic All-Canadian, 2019 Clara Benson Award Winner and a Varsity Board Member (athlete union). More recently she played in the FISU Games (University Games) 2017 Taiwan, Taipei and 2 seasons with Team Canada (senior women’s national team) as a libero. She is excited to be working with the 17U Heat team this year! |
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Eddie Coleman - HC 17U Boys Warriors
Eddie is a Chartered Professional Coach (ChPC) with international experience coaching at Youth and Junior World Championships, on the Continental (NORCECA) and World (FIVB) Tours, at the World University Games and Canada Games. For 11 seasons, Eddie has led Team Ontario Beach athletes to podium finishes at Provincial and National Championships. In 2013, he was named Coach of the Year by the Ontario Volleyball Association. Last year, Eddie coached the 16U Leaside Thunder Warriors through a successful season and he looks forward to continuing the program this season. Eddie has completed the NCCP Advanced Coaching Diploma program from the Canadian Sport Institute of Ontario. |
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Tuck Yiong - HC 16U Girls Flash
The past three years, Tuck has been coaching a 14U girls team medalling in Cups, Provincials and Nationals. Tuck believes in the development of sound volleyball fundamentals through drills and hard work. The rewards are the experiences gained through competition. Tuck is looking forward to the upcoming season, working with Leaside to develop sound fundamentals and build strong relationships. |
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Devon May - AC 16U Girls Flash
Devon grew up playing for BCO Volleyball Club and then continued to play in her post secondary years where she played 4 years of NCAA Div 2 indoor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby BC (2013 - 2016) followed by 1 grad year at University of Alabama at Birmingham (2018, NCAA Div 1). She is a current member of the Canadian Women's Beach National Team. Devon graduated from Simon Fraser University with a bachelors of Education and minor in Kinesiology (2017) and then completed my Masters in Human Communications Management from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (2020). Over the years, Devon has head coached at BCO Volleyball Club, North Shore Beach Volleyball Club, BC Summer games and Team BC. She was also the assistant coach for SFU women's volleyball team (2016 - 2018) and an assistant coach for UAB Beach Volleyball (2019-2020). |
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Larry Tung- HC 16U Girls Lightning
Larry is in his third year of working with Leaside Volleyball club having some 40 years of volleyball experience. He has coached various teams at both the school and club level and is enthusiastic about coaching this years Girls U16 Lightning team. As a player, he was a member of University of Toronto Varsity Blues volleyball team, several Provincial teams as well as the playing many years at the club level. He's also had over a decade of beach volleyball experience and continues to play competitively today with his men's indoor team. By day, Larry is a practicing veterinarian at Laird-Eglinton Pet Hospital in...where else but Leaside. He looks forward to passing on some of the knowledge and passion he has for the game to his new team. |
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Jackie Boyle - AC 16U Girls Lightning
Jackie started her volleyball career in Grade 8 at Leaside Volleyball Club under our very own, John Child. After playing club volleyball throughout high school, she joined the Gaels Varsity Volleyball Team at Queen's University from 2015-2019. Jackie played both right side and left side throughout her university career and was the strength captain in her fourth year. Since graduating, Jackie was recruited through RBC Training ground and invited to tryout for the National Bobsleigh Team and Indoor Cycling Team. Jackie is now pursuing her Olympic dream and has joined the Next Gen Sprint Cycling team in hopes of representing Canada in 2024. Jackie is very excited to not only share her knowledge of the sport but the physical and mental aspects of what it takes to be an elite athlete. |
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Brad Willock - HC 16U Boys Thunderbirds
Brad Willock is a former Olympic, professional, and Canadian University volleyball player. Brad played 5 years for the University of British Columbia (winning the Canadian championship in 1983) and played 7 years for the Canadian National team where he played over 400 matches for Canada and participated in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Brad also played and coached professionally in Spain for 4 years. He retired from playing in 1993 but looks forward to getting back on the court and developing a new generation of players on the 16U boys team. For the past 4 years, Brad has coached baseball in the Leaside community. |