Volleyball Canada – Volleyball Canada has finalized its 2019 men’s team roster of coaching staff.

“We have gathered a great mix of veterans and younger talented coaches this year, and we’re looking forward to a another action-packed season for the men’s program,” said Julien Boucher, Volleyball Canada High Performance Director (Indoor).

Joining the senior men’s team under Head Coach Glenn Hoag is Gino Brousseau. Brousseau, Laval University Rouge et Or men’s team assistant coach since 2010, is a former National Team player and member of Volleyball Canada’s Hall of Fame.

He competed in the 1992 Olympics as well as World League competitions, a World Championship, the World Cup and the World University Games.

He also enjoyed a stellar professional international career competing for 13 years as a professional volleyball player in Italy, Japan and France where he helped his teams win numerous titles. Brousseau was part of teams that won the French Championship five times and the Coupe de France on four occasions.

Brousseau will assist Hoag alongside returning assistant and Volleyball Canada men’s NextGen coach Dan Lewis.

The 2019 senior B men’s team will be led by John Barrett. Barrett has been the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men’s volleyball program head coach since 2011-12. In the spring of 2018, he was voted President of the U SPORTS men’s volleyball coaches association.

As an athlete, Barrett was a CIS gold medalist and tournament MVP (1985) while competing for the University of Manitoba. He competed at the 1984 Olympic Games and the 1983 Pan Am Games and at the 1990 world championships, and went on to serve as head coach for both the men’s and women’s beach volleyball teams at the 2003 Pan Am Games. Barrett also brings the experience of playing 14 seasons of professional volleyball in Europe.

Joining John Barrett as an assistant will be Ryan Marsden.

Marsden is head coach at Olds College in Alberta, and has been a guest coach at National Team camps, named Head Coach of the Junior National Team, and was the Head Coach at the Volleyball Canada Centre of Excellence in Calgary. He was an assistant coach for the National B team who won a silver medal at the 2007 FISU games in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Junior team will have the same staff as in 2018, with Joao Paulo Bravo as head coach assisted by Adam Simac and Shayne White.
 
SENIOR A TEAM
Head Coach – Glenn Hoag
Assistant coach – Dan Lewis
Assistant coach – Gino Brousseau
 
SENIOR B TEAM
Head Coach – John Barrett
Assistant coach – Ryan Marsden

JUNIOR TEAM
Head Coach – Joao Paulo Bravo
Assistant coach – Adam Simac
Assistant coach – Shayne White
  Volleyball Canada media contact:
Jackie Skender
Director of Communications
613-794-7676
jskender@volleyball.ca