New challenges await new Memorial women’s volleyball head coach next season

Coaches are inclined to need new challenges.

These new challenges can are available the best way of latest opponents or simply new leagues typically. Every of them presents new methods for a coach to use their expertise and clear up issues.

After spending a lot of her collegiate volleyball profession within the Canada West Universities Athletic Affiliation, newly minted Memorial College girls’s volleyball head coach Sydney Purvis will get these new challenges subsequent season in Atlantic College Sport (AUS).

“It needs to be a ton of enjoyable,” mentioned Purvis. “I’ve already began watching some movie of, once more, not solely clearly our group, Memorial, but additionally different groups in our convention and whatnot.

“That needs to be very thrilling.”

The Memorial College gig will probably be Purvis’s first head teaching place after spending the final couple of years as an assistant with the College of Manitoba. A Selkirk, Man., native, the 29-year-old Purvis was additionally a setter for the Bisons between 2010 and 2016.

As a participant, she was a member of the Bisons’ nationwide championship staff in 2014.

It’s at all times been a aim of hers to teach at a college that has a sought-after tutorial program, so when the Memorial College job got here up, it was a simple determination to use, though she wasn’t positive she would get the place.

Then she bought the job.

“I’m past enthusiastic about getting the place and in a metropolis we have by no means been,” mentioned Purvis. “It may be a ton of enjoyable.”

Purvis takes command of a staff that completed sixth within the AUS with a report of 2-13.

Within the playoffs, the Girl Sea-Hawks fell to eventual champion Dalhousie Tigers 3-0 within the first spherical.

Whereas the report wasn’t there, there have been positives to seek out in Memorial’s season. Freshman exterior hitter Melissa Hatfield was honoured for her season because the AUS Rookie of the 12 months.

She was additionally named to each an AUS second all-star staff and the convention’s all-rookie staff. On high of these honours, Hatfield additionally acquired a U Sports activities all-rookie staff nod.

There are additionally a handful of latest recruits, together with Purvis’s first recruit as the pinnacle coach, that ought to have this system wanting ahead with positivity.

Within the a number of weeks since she was employed, Purvis has been involved with help workers for the staff and a few gamers have contacted her.

Whereas there hasn’t been a lot discuss how she desires the staff to play subsequent season, that may come over the following couple of minutes, and Purvis is bound of 1 factor in the case of her new staff.

“I feel the largest factor for us this 12 months will probably be creating a great staff tradition that folks need to be part of, which are in a position to and keen to sacrifice for the larger good and be capable of create that neighborhood,” she mentioned.

That’s one thing she hopes will begin with the staff after which bleed into the bigger St. John’s volleyball neighborhood.

“Simply creating a very good residence staff that everybody desires to be part of,” mentioned Purvis.

Purvis is working as an assistant with Volleyball Canada’s under-19 nationwide staff program and when that concludes, she’s going to pack her issues and head east.

Earlier than taking the Memorial job, the closest Purvis got here to the province was Cape Breton.

That may change, after all, as soon as she crosses the Gulf and takes on her new function with the Sea-Hawks.

“I am an enormous sucker for the ocean, so for us to be near the ocean is simply going to be a dream come true,” mentioned Purvis.