KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University athletics director announced the hiring of a new women’s basketball head coach today.
Scott Reeves, who holds a Bachelor of Human Kinetics degree from Trinity Western University, a Bachelor of Education degree from UBC and NCCP Level III certification, comes to the WolfPack with a wide range of coaching experience and an impressive record.
His coaching experience includes work with CIS, high school and club teams. He was assistant coach with the Trinity Western University Spartans in 2003/04 and at Basketball Canada’s Center for Performance from 2003 to present, and was head coach for Basketball British Columbia’s U16 Girls Provincial Team in 2004 and 2005, and head coach for the Brookswood Senior Secondary School Senior Girls team from 2003 to present.
Reeves has a phenomenal 155-4 record as a head coach, and a 243-31 record as an associate head or assistant at the high school level, making for a 91% win percentage. He has taken teams to the Senior AAA BC Provincial Championships for the past three years.
“I am confident in my ability to develop student-athletes in a way that corresponds with the high standards of a CIS institution such as Thompson Rivers University,” said Reeves. “I am looking forward to becoming a part of and building a great women’s basketball program at TRU.
“Our women’s basketball team will be competitive each and every outing and they will develop the life skills necessary for success after their university careers,” added Reeves, who plans a strong recruiting push this spring.
TRU Athletics Director Ken Olynyk, who coached the team last year, is excited about having Reeves at TRU.
I think Scott’s high school and and provincial team experience will bode well for the future of women’s basketball at TRU,” said Olynyk. “I believe that the young women in our basketball program here at TRU will help Scott in his first year and that the team will have a lot of success by the time these girls finished their varsity basketball careers. They’re still a very young team.”
For more information or a photo, please contact Scott Reeves at 604-309-2297 or Ken Olynyk at 250-320-4263.
