Canada: Canadian Olympic Hope Soars As Danny Kerry, Gold Medalist, Named New Head Coach!

OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLIST TAKES THE REIGNS OF THE CANADIAN WOLF PACK

Area Hockey Canada is thrilled to announce Olympic gold medallist Danny Kerry as the brand new Head Coach of the Ladies’s Nationwide Staff.

The previous England and Nice Britain (GB) head coach led the GB girls’s staff to a bronze medal on the London 2012 Olympic Video games, a 2015 EuroHockey championship (with England) and an Olympic gold medal on the 2016 Rio Video games.

Kerry grew up in Norfolk, UK and studied at Loughborough College then studied Sport, Tradition and Society on the College of Warwick. He obtained his first teaching certificates in 1994 and started combining his work as a College lecturer, teaching within the nationwide membership competitors and work with the nationwide junior groups in 1997.

Kerry grew to become the pinnacle coach of the GB Ladies’s Staff in 2005 and led this system to unbelievable success throughout his tenure, culminating within the Olympic gold in 2016. In 2018, he was appointed the pinnacle coach of the GB Males’s aspect and led the staff to their first FIH Hockey Professional League Grand Last in 2019. By the point he stepped away from the GB program, Kerry was probably the most profitable coach within the historical past of hockey within the UK. Having gone on to work with England Rugby and as a advisor to quite a few sports activities, Kerry is now again the place he feels most snug, on the sphere teaching and main in direction of lofty ambitions.

The Canadian Ladies’s Nationwide Staff is contemporary off a summer season that featured them enjoying at their first FIH Hockey World Cup in 30 years, following up by tying their all-time finest efficiency on the Commonwealth Video games ending fifth. The Wolf Pack is at present ranked fifteenth on this planet and trying to acquire momentum in direction of the 2023 Pan American Video games and 2024 Paris Olympic Video games.

Kerry, who obtained the FIH Coach of the 12 months award in 2010 and 2016 and the Member of the British Empire (MBE) in 2017, is thrilled to be taking the place, saying that he’s wanting ahead to beginning with the expert and keen group. On a latest journey to Canada, he stated he was motivated by the perspective and enthusiasm of the hockey neighborhood as a complete.

“I met a number of of the Ladies’s Nationwide Staff athletes, NextGen gamers and members of the broader Canadian discipline hockey neighborhood. What struck me was the ‘can do’ perspective, the heat of welcome and a powerful sense of rising the game in Canada,” Kerry stated. “I hope to help constructing a powerful frequent goal and pleasure in what we’re going after, why, and the way.”

For Kerry, the instant targets are clear, however he additionally intends to contribute to the success and development of discipline hockey in Canada.

“The short-term marketing campaign is the preparation to the Pan American Video games. Arriving there with a powerful id of how we play, and goal about our play. In creating and bringing these qualities, we will likely be giving ourselves the perfect likelihood of progressing in that match. We will even be setting ourselves up for future and continued development,” Kerry stated.

THE PERFECT FIT FOR THE CANADIAN WOLF PACK

Area Hockey Canada CEO Susan Ahrens is delighted to proceed to deliver top-level worldwide coaches to help the senior males’s and girls’s nationwide groups. She stated that Kerry is the proper particular person to steer the Ladies’s Nationwide Staff as they gear up for an thrilling stretch of competitors and qualification.

“We’re delighted to welcome Danny to Canada. His resume, from Olympic bronze and gold, European championship to the MBE, wants no introduction within the nationwide and world hockey neighborhood,” Ahrens stated. “He’s fairly merely an impressive coach and chief.”

Ahrens stated that high quality international-level teaching is an organisation’s precedence and that Area Hockey Canada is lucky to be welcoming Kerry to the hockey neighborhood.

“World-class teaching and technical management is crucial to satisfy our ambitions. In Danny, now we have secured one of many all-time finest. Delighted as I’m for our girls’s program and athletes, I’m additionally happy for our neighborhood as a complete, as Danny’s attain and influence will undoubtedly prolong out in constructive and lasting methods to the advantage of all.”

Emma Bray, Area Hockey Canada’s Excessive-Efficiency Director, says the method took time. However the intentionality and persistence devoted to appointing the best particular person has paid off.

“We’ve got taken actual intention to nominate a pacesetter for our Ladies’s Nationwide Staff that can assist us create an atmosphere for efficiency collectively,” Bray stated. “Danny brings an array of elementary components to our high-performance staff, however his ardour for teaching and his humility to by no means cease studying are two gadgets which can be vastly revered. We all know Danny goes to have an enormous influence inside our Canadian discipline hockey neighborhood and we can not wait to get began.”

The Ladies’s Nationwide Staff will kick-start their 2023 marketing campaign with a centralized coaching camp in Vancouver in the beginning of April. They may add competitors components in the summertime to organize the staff for the 2023 Pan American Video games, in Santiago.