Coaches

More than 15 years experience coaching club volleyball.

• OUA, CIAU all-star and team captain, University of Ottawa Women's Volleyball
• OVA Developmental Coach of the Year
• Graduate of Kineldiego Volleyball Club, precursor to FCVC

NCCP Level 2 (in training)

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. (Magic Johnson)

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Coached club and highschool for more 5 years.

• Worked 3 years as a youth development coach
• Selected as Region 3 assistant coach for Ontario Summer Games gold-medal winning team
• Worked as leader in Summer Camp

NCCP Level 2

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. (Babe Ruth)

More than 10 years experience coaching club volleyball.

• Head coach for 8 years of club soccer
• Assistant coach with national championship FCVC 16U girls team
• Graduate of Kineldiego Volleyball Club, precursor to FCVC

NCCP Level 1

I can't play being mad. I go out there and have fun. It's a game and that's how I'm going to treat it. (Ken Griffy Jr.)

More than 15 years experience coaching boys and girls volleyball at the high school and club level.

• Multiple OFSAA and OVA provincial championships with both boys and girls teams
• Provincial and National championship winning girls club coach at 13U and 14U
• National bronze-medal winning girls club coach at 15U

NCCP Level 1

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden)

More than 5 years experience coaching club at Head Coach and Assistant Coach level.

• Ontario All-Star, McMaster Marauders Womens Volleyball
• Supreme Sunday Series and FCVC tournament organizer

NCCP Level 2

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team. I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team - and not the individual - is the ultimate champion. (Mia Hamm)

More than 20 years experience coaching at university and international level.

• Multiple OUA championships and 282-80 win/loss record as Western University Women's Head Coach.
• Asst Coach, Senior Nat'l Team, Head Coach, Youth and Junior Nat'l Team
• Former Technical Director, Alberta Volleyball Association

NCCP Level 4 (in training)

Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you do repeatedly. (Shaquille O'Neal)

More than 15 years experience coaching club volleyball.

• Youth Development Chair, Forest City Volleyball Club
• Head Coach, Acorn Sunday Edition
• Former Region 3 and Ontario Summer Games coach

NCCP Level 2

When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less. (Paul Brown)

Former Assistant Coach, Western University Men's Volleyball.

• Former Assistant coach, Western University Women's Soccer
• OUA and OCAA all-star athlete with Western University and Durham College volleyball
• Head Coach, FCVC Mini-Acorn
• Graduate of the Forest City Volleyball Club

NCCP Level 2

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. (Derek Jeter)

15 years of coaching experience, and varsity volleyball and soccer player for the University of Windsor Lancers.

• 7 years of OVA club coaching experience.
• 10 years of Brownlee Volleyball coaching experience, along with other clinics and camps.
• 15 years of teaching and coaching with the Thames Valley District School Board.

NCCP Level 1

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. (Michael Phelps)

More than 20 years experience coaching at the high school, club, regional and college level.

• Two-time OCAA Coach of the Year, Fanshawe College Women's Volleyball
• Winner of multiple OVA provincial championship medals
• Qualified NCCP Level 1 Coach Instructor

NCCP Level 3 (in training)

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between. (Pat Riley)

Corey Crossan is an exceptional athlete in the true sense of the word.  She excelled at multiple sports during her youth career - hockey, volleyball, track & field - and ultimately attended Eastern Michigan University on a golf scholarship.   An FCVC graduate, Corey comes to coaching with knowledge, enthusiasm, intelligence and dedication.

Welcome Corey!

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. (Picabo Street)

More than 25 years coaching experience at the club and university level.

• Former Head Coach, Acadia and Western University Women's Volleyball
• AUS and OUA West Coach of the Year
• Chair and Head Coach of Volleyball Nova Scotia Indoor and Beach Volleyball

NCCP Level 3 (Indoor and Beach)

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. (Babe Ruth)

Niki is joining FCVC this year for his first season as a Head Coach.  Having graduated from FCVC and Oakridge volleyball, Niki has been an Assistant Coach with FCVC for a couple of seasons, and he is ready to take the reins with a young group ready to learn and develop.  A great volleyball player himself, Niki's enthusiasm, energy, knowledge, and commitment will be a great gift to the young athletes he will work with this season.

Welcome aboard, Niki!

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. (Michael Jordan)

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More than 25 years experience coaching volleyball, hockey, basketball and soccer.

• Former Western Men's Volleyball player
• National Championship winning coach at midget boys level
• OFSAA gold and silver medal winning coach

NCCP Level 1

Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss. (Doug Williams)

More than 20 years experience coaching volleyball, basketball and hockey.

• London Conference champion and OFSAA champion Head Coach, Oakridge Secondary School
• Head Coach of OVA Champion and National silver-medalist teams, Forest City Volleyball Club

NCCP Level 1

It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. (Paul "Bear" Bryant)

Involved in playing and coaching volleyball for more than 25 years at all levels.

• OUA All-star UWO Men's Volleyball, OFSAA gold medalist Oakridge Oaks, Summer Games '92 Gold Medalist, Former Top 13 Ranked Player - Canada Beach BVP
• 2015 Indoor Coach 14U Tier 1 Silver National Champs
  2014 Beach Coach 14U Tier 1 Bronze National Champs
  2013 Beach Coach 13U Tier 1 Gold Provincials
• Graduate of the Forest City Volleyball Club.

NCCP Level 1

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog! (Archie Griffin)

Played internationally for two seasons with Team Canada as a setter.

• Team captain, Ohio State Men's Volleyball
• OCAA Silver-Medal Head Coach, Fanshawe College Women's Volleyball
• Graduate of the Forest City Volleyball Club

NCCP Level 2

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. (Andre Agassi)

More than 25 years coaching experience at the high school and club level.

• National Championship, provincial championship winning club coach
• Four-time WOSSA, OFSAA championship coach
• Former Head Coach, Region 3 Ontario Winter Games team

NCCP Level 2

Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch court, the space between your ears. (Bobby Jones)