{"id":26341,"date":"2025-01-22T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=26341"},"modified":"2025-01-17T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:14:12","slug":"chargers-coach-joins-female-apprentice-coach-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/01\/22\/chargers-coach-joins-female-apprentice-coach-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers coach joins female apprentice coach program"},"content":{"rendered":"

First-year Camosun Chargers women\u2019s volleyball assistant coach and former standout player for the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) volleyball team Katie Ludvig is participating in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association\u2019s Female Apprentice Coach Program (FACP), which fosters the development of female coaches in varsity sports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ludvig has a myriad of academic and athletic accomplishments\u2014five highly successful seasons at TRU, being named captain and Leader of the Year in her fifth year, and receiving All-Canadian honours each year she was at TRU. And after playing one year of professional volleyball in Czechia, she moved to Victoria to start her coaching career with the Chargers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I wanted to get back involved with volleyball but in the coaching sense,\u201d says Ludvig.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Camosun Chargers women\u2019s volleyball assistant coach Katie Ludvig (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once in the position, Hall informed her about FACP and helped her apply. Since then, she has been developing her coaching skills under the wing of her program mentor Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal is to kind of look at him, shadow him, and see how he runs the team, which has been great. I\u2019ve learned a lot from him,\u201d says Ludvig. \u201cWe meet with the program, the faculty and the people who run the program every month. So that group is a bunch of girls across Canada who are doing the exact same thing as me.\u201d<\/p>\n

While learning from Hall, Ludvig has also been able to talk to other FACP participants about her experience in the field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe get to connect monthly and talk about our experience coaching and give each other some help, advice, and feedback and kind of open up the floor to what our experience has been,\u201d she says. \u201cWe have a workbook that we go through, kind of helping us to develop our own mentorship and leadership style\u2026 It\u2019s nice to chat with people who are doing the same thing as you and who have been there before.\u201d<\/p>\n

While FACP is a great resource and learning experience for her, Ludvig says that she has learned a lot just from being under the presence of Hall and how he treats his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s definitely taught me to be very open-minded. [The] coolest thing I admire about him is he\u2019s so open-minded with his team, and it makes me want to [have] a similar coaching style. He opens the floor to his players every practice for their feedback, their opinions, and their feelings. It feels like everyone\u2019s kind of contributing to the team and it\u2019s not just one person,\u201d says Ludvig. \u201cAnd he\u2019s also very patient. I think he explains things in a way that everyone can really understand and kind of grasp.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ludvig says that this year\u2019s Chargers team is talented and has potential for future success.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been super cool watching them compete. And I think the most exciting part is how much better everyone [is getting] but especially the younger players [have] gotten since the start of the year,\u201d says Ludvig. \u201cThey had a pretty strong first semester, but I think the best is yet to come in the second semester\u2026 Practices are pretty intense and I think that speaks to the way they show up in games because they\u2019re definitely pushing themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First-year Camosun Chargers women\u2019s volleyball assistant coach and former standout player for the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) volleyball team Katie Ludvig is participating in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association\u2019s Female Apprentice Coach Program (FACP), which fosters the development of female coaches in varsity sports.\u00a0 Ludvig has a myriad of academic and athletic accomplishments\u2014five highly successful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26342,"comment_status":"closed","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":[15,325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-january-22-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341","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=26341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26343,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341\/revisions\/26343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}