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<\/a>This has been Dahl\u2019s most successful year with the team, and the team\u2019s best-ever showing, with a bronze medal in their first national championship appearance. Dahl says that when he first came into the position he was instrumental in shaping the team program, but now that he\u2019s established it, his athletes have a huge part in the team\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
\u201cFive years ago I came into this program with a coaching staff and had a vision of where we\u2019d like to take this,\u201d says Dahl. \u201cAnd we\u2019re fortunate to have two athletes who have stuck with us for the duration. We have a symbiotic relationship; the coaches are more successful with the athletes\u2019 assistance and support, and vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the athletes who has been with the team as long as Dahl has is Hilary Graham, a provincial first-team all-star player who says that Dahl\u2019s Coach of the Year title is long overdue.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe should have gotten the award in past years, but the team has to do well for the coach to win, and we haven\u2019t had the same success in previous years,\u201d says Graham. \u201cBut it\u2019s amazing to see how much a difference he\u2019s made in the past five years with this program, and this award tops it all off. He\u2019s deserved it more than for this year; he\u2019s deserved it the entire time he\u2019s been here.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of Dahl\u2019s assistant coaches, Chris Koutougos, says that Dahl\u2019s success is due in part to his coaching style and personality, his attention to detail, and the close relationship he has with his players.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a great guy and he\u2019s an exceptional coach. Not only does he know volleyball inside out, he knows people,\u201d says Koutougos. \u201cHe really sets up a program to be not just about the game; he\u2019s tireless and he provides a really good overall experience for the players.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charger Erika Sheen, a first-team all-star at the national championships, says she would have been shocked if Dahl didn\u2019t receive the award.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe does so much behind-the-scenes work that only the players see, so when we heard he was nominated we all knew he deserved it,\u201d says Sheen. \u201cWhen he won the award it was pretty emotional thinking that our coach was Canadian Coach of the Year. And it\u2019s about time that he got recognized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dahl downplays the importance of the award and places the emphasis on team success. Riding high off the best showing the Camosun women\u2019s volleyball team has ever had, he\u2019s looking ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo take this crew and this program to their first ever national championships and to perform as well as we did, it\u2019s definitely a highlight of my time as a Charger,\u201d says Dahl. \u201cBut like every season, it\u2019s an experience I\u2019ll never forget, and now we\u2019re looking ahead to next season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The head coach of the Camosun Chargers women\u2019s volleyball team has won the national Coach of the Year award, an honour that his players and coaching staff agree is well overdue. Chris Dahl, now in his fifth year coaching the Camosun Chargers women\u2019s volleyball squad, was awarded Coach of the Year while his team was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-april-1-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10471,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469\/revisions\/10471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}