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COACH PROFILE
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National Sledge Hockey Team |
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Hockey Canada | | Hometown: | Elmira, Ont., CAN |
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Preliminary round action at the 2008 World Jr. A Challenge |
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In his eighth year of coaching sledge hockey … Coached able-bodied hockey for 14 years at various levels …
Was an assistant coach with the Ontario Hockey League’s Kitchener Rangers during the 1998-99 season, and head
coach of the Rangers from 1999 to 2001 … Was head coach of the Elmira (Junior B) Sugar Kings of the
Midwestern Junior Hockey League (MWJHL) from 1994 to 1998, and general manager of the Sugar Kings from 1996
to 1998 … Won two MWJHL championships (1997, 1998) and one Sutherland Cup provincial championship (1997) with
the Sugar Kings … Was named the MWJHL coach of the year in 1997 … Won a silver medal as an assistant coach
with Team Ontario at the 2000 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Timmins, Ont. … Worked as a scout with OHL
Central Scouting for five years … Was a guest coach and evaluator with Canada’s 1998 Men’s Olympic Team |
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Has been head coach of Canada’s National Sledge Team since 2004 … Won a silver medal with Canada at the
2009 World Sledge Hockey Challenge in Charlottetown, P.E.I. … Won a bronze medal with Canada at the 2009 IPC
Sledge Hockey World Championship in Ostrava, Czech Republic … Won a gold medal with Canada at the 2009 Hockey
Canada Cup in Vancouver, B.C. … Won a gold medal with Canada at the 2008 World Sledge Hockey Challenge in
Charlottetown, P.E.I. … Won a gold medal with Canada at the 2008 IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship in
Marlborough, Mass. … Won a gold medal with Canada at the 2007 World Sledge Hockey Challenge in Kelowna, B.C.
… Won a gold medal with Canada at the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy … Was Canada’s head coach
at the 2004 IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, finishing fourth … Was an assistant
coach with Canada’s National Sledge Team from 2002 to 2004 |
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Lives in Elmira, Ont. with his wife, Jacky, and two children, Blaire and Nicole … Works as the
vice-president of sales for the Precept Group … Is the uncle of the late NHLer Dan Snyder, who passed away in
2003 following an automobile accident … Favourite NHL team: Toronto Maple Leafs |
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For more information:
Adam Crockatt Manager, National Men's Teams | Responsable, équipe nationale masculine (hockey sur luge)
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