HITT Volleyball Coaches

Coaching Experience: 8 years
Playing Career: Team Alberta Canada Games 2017, University of Waterloo 2017-2022, Junior National Team U21 Worlds Bahrain 2019, Falkenberg Professional Team Sweden 2022-2023
Education:BSc. University of Waterloo 2017-2022, MD student University of Alberta 2023-2027
Marital Status:To volleyball

Colm has spent the entirety of his adult life playing and coaching volleyball. During his playing career he would often spend his summer and winter breaks offering volleyball clinics and coaching camps in his hometown of Lethbridge and his university town of Waterloo. While setting for the University of Waterloo he received various individual accolades for his performance in the OUA; winning multiple rookie, all-star, and MVP awards. In 2019 he was selected to compete in the U21 World Championships and was able to play against some of the top volleyball talents in the world. After completing his bachelor’s, he was offered a contract in Sweden to play with the Falkenberg Falkens where he had a successful professional season before returning to Canada to study Medicine. Now in Edmonton he has been coaching short clinics for high school and junior high students with the Golden Bears.

• Has been privileged enough to work with and learn from many incredible minds of volleyball around the world, being exposed to the many different approaches to training and competition.
• Coached University of Waterloo High performance volleyball camps 2019-2022, running a separate setting camp in between weeks for budding setters and those preparing to enter Usports.
• Worked within the Lethbridge Volleyball club and other local associations, assisting teams in preparing for nationals, running setter clinics, and high school prep camps.
• Coordinated and Head Coached the KW Predators beach camps for a wide range of skill levels from ages 8-18, helping to develop beach in rural Southern Ontario.
• Worked as a head coach within the KW predator program for two years in various clinics and summer camps.
• Currently Coaching volleyball camps and skill clinics with the U of A Golden bears.