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<\/a>\u201cI obviously didn\u2019t enjoy being terrible so I just worked hard and got better and better and started to like it more and more and pretty soon became passionate,\u201d he says. \u201cI went on to play in college at Langara and we were the best in the country at that time, so I was invited to try out for the national team, and I made it.\u201d<\/p>\n
After four years at the national level, Parkinson moved back to the west coast, got married, and started his coaching career. Since then he has continued to work in the volleyball business, including providing colour commentary during professional volleyball events for major television networks. He does admit, however, that he\u2019s not as young as he used to be, and he says that it shows on the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could probably still play a specialized defensive position at the national level, and I could probably play for one or two sets, and then my gas tank might be a little emptier,\u201d says Parkinson. \u201cIn my mind, of course, I could still play with everybody; as you get older, your brain still remembers, but your body can\u2019t respond the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite this, Parkinson still strives to demonstrate excellence when teaching his student athletes. He pushes them in training to be excellent and knows that leading by example is the best way to facilitate that. The same goes for exhibiting his love of the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m as passionate about the game today as I was when I was 19. I could have the worst day in the world and I\u2019d go into the gym with the team and it just basically changes my whole perspective,\u201d he says. \u201cI appreciate that so much from them. They infuse that energy into me, and it makes me re-double my efforts to make them better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chargers men\u2019s volleyball team captain Vitor Macedo says Parkinson has had an \u201cincredible journey\u201d as a player and that definitely contributes to his coaching abilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cCharles is an incredible coach and we all have a lot of respect for him,\u201d says Macedo.<\/p>\n
Parkinson says that he would not have been able to achieve what he has in his career if it weren\u2019t for the support he gets from his wife and children.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy family has endured 40 years of road trips,\u201d he says. \u201cI was either playing with the national team or coaching and gone with my students, and they were always so supportive; that\u2019s part of why I believe I\u2019m so successful. It means a lot, because, you know what? I\u2019m still doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball head coach Charles Parkinson was recently inducted into the Volleyball BC Hall of Fame. Parkinson, who is also a faculty member of Camosun\u2019s Centre for Sport and Exercise Education, is both appreciative of and humble about being chosen for induction. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome. I can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve ever thought about it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11413,"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":[15,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-december-2-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412","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=11412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11414,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412\/revisions\/11414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}