OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLIST TAKES THE REIGNS OF THE CANADIAN WOLF PACK
Subject Hockey Canada is thrilled to announce Olympic gold medallist Danny Kerry as the brand new Head Coach of the Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce.
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 commenced 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 Workforce 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 Closing 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 marketing consultant to a lot of sports activities, Kerry is now again the place he feels most comfy, on the sphere teaching and main in the direction of lofty ambitions.
The Canadian Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce is recent off a summer time 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 presently ranked fifteenth on the earth and trying to acquire momentum in the 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 angle and enthusiasm of the hockey group as a complete.
“I met a number of of the Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce athletes, NextGen gamers and members of the broader Canadian subject hockey group. What struck me was the ‘can do’ angle, the heat of welcome and a robust sense of rising the game in Canada,” Kerry stated. “I hope to assist constructing a robust widespread objective and pleasure in what we’re going after, why, and the way.”
For Kerry, the instant objectives are clear, however he additionally intends to contribute to the success and progress of subject hockey in Canada.
“The short-term marketing campaign is the preparation to the Pan American Video games. Arriving there with a robust identification of how we play, and objective about our play. In growing and bringing these qualities, we will probably be giving ourselves the perfect likelihood of progressing in that match. We can even be setting ourselves up for future and continued progress,” Kerry stated.
THE PERFECT FIT FOR THE CANADIAN WOLF PACK
Subject Hockey Canada CEO Susan Ahrens is delighted to proceed to convey top-level worldwide coaches to assist the senior males’s and ladies’s nationwide groups. She stated that Kerry is the right particular person to guide the Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce 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 international hockey group,” Ahrens stated. “He’s fairly merely an excellent coach and chief.”
Ahrens stated that high quality international-level teaching is an organisation’s precedence and that Subject Hockey Canada is lucky to be welcoming Kerry to the hockey group.
“World-class teaching and technical management is important to satisfy our ambitions. In Danny, we’ve got secured one of many all-time finest. Delighted as I’m for our girls’s program and athletes, I’m additionally happy for our group as a complete, as Danny’s attain and influence will undoubtedly lengthen out in constructive and lasting methods to the good thing about all.”
Emma Bray, Subject Hockey Canada’s Excessive-Efficiency Director, says the method took time. However the intentionality and persistence devoted to appointing the correct particular person has paid off.
“We’ve taken actual intention to nominate a frontrunner for our Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce that can assist us create an surroundings for efficiency collectively,” Bray stated. “Danny brings an array of elementary parts to our high-performance staff, however his ardour for teaching and his humility to by no means cease studying are two objects which are enormously revered. We all know Danny goes to have a large influence inside our Canadian subject hockey group and we can not wait to get began.”
The Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce will kick-start their 2023 marketing campaign with a centralized coaching camp in Vancouver at the start of April. They may add competitors parts in the summertime to arrange the staff for the 2023 Pan American Video games, in Santiago.
