{"id":27071,"date":"2025-08-06T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=27071"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:03:16","slug":"chargers-womens-volleyball-welcomes-new-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/08\/06\/chargers-womens-volleyball-welcomes-new-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers women\u2019s volleyball welcomes new coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Camosun College Chargers women\u2019s volleyball team will usher in a new coach courtside this coming semester. Scott Freeburn will be succeeding Brent Hall as head coach during the 2025-26 season as Hall moves into an assistant coach position with the women\u2019s volleyball team at the University of the Fraser Valley.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For 15 years, Freeburn has worked with a range of young athletes as an educator at Claremont Secondary and in local volleyball clubs. Still, he says he looks forward to being challenged by this new role.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so excited. It\u2019s going to be a big learning curve. I\u2019ve got a lot to catch up on. But I\u2019m really thankful for the coaching staff,\u201d he says. \u201cEverything has been built up, and I\u2019m really excited to get an opportunity to rise to that challenge. It\u2019s going to push me a lot, I think, as a learner. I\u2019m pretty excited about that… I never thought, when I was a little kid, that I would be in a position where I got to run a program like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Scott Freeburn is stepping in as the new Camosun Chargers women\u2019s volleyball coach for the 2025-26 season (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Freeburn hopes to bring an encouraging morale to the team with his coaching style. He says his attitude and background allow him to support athletes new to Camosun.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think typically I\u2019m pretty positive. I\u2019m pretty happy-go-lucky. I like things to be high energy and enthusiastic and engaging,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s not a necessity of the job, but it doesn\u2019t hurt at all that I have an experience in education because I have a lot of experience managing young athletes, and I see the transition in how hard it is from high school. So I think I have a good perspective on that transition period, especially for newer athletes in the program. I haven\u2019t had the opportunity to work with the 22 and older age group yet, so this will be that first experience for me, but I think, hopefully, I can make that transition for high-school athletes into their first and second year a little bit easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freeburn says this opportunity will allow him to broaden his work with the community. He says that this step is significant toward his personal and professional goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, for me, this is a really exciting next step in my personal development as a coach and as a community leader,\u201d he says. \u201cI have done a ton of work at the school level and built my own community and program at Claremont that I\u2019m really proud of with the help of just an outstanding community out here. And so this is the next big challenge for me, is to continue that at a larger scale, not just at a post-secondary level, but expanding that whole little community to the entire lower island, really embracing that community that\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chargers women\u2019s volleyball outside Erica Bolink says that the team is eager to familiarize themselves with Freeburn this season. She says the change brings with it several different emotions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everyone\u2019s feeling a little bit of a mix of curiosity and excitement. Like, any time there\u2019s a new coach, it always brings some unknown, and that can always be a bit nerve-wracking, where there\u2019s a big change like this,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I\u2019d say we\u2019re pretty hopeful. People are ready to show up, work hard, and get to know this new coaching style. And personally, I\u2019m really looking forward to seeing how he can push and challenge us in new ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolink says while it is difficult to lose former coach Hall, she and the team are proud of the next steps he is taking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it always comes as a little bit hard. It\u2019s definitely hard to lose a coach, especially,\u201d says Bolink. \u201cWe\u2019ve been with him for a couple of years and Brent did so much for his program, but he\u2019s moved on to [University of the Fraser Valley], which is really good for him, and we\u2019re all super excited to see his career excel and see him go further. I think he\u2019s going to do amazing things there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freeburn says his intention with the women\u2019s volleyball team is to maintain the foundation that has been formed. He says that he\u2019s inspired to be a part of a developed program.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy vision long-term for the program is to continue the tradition of success and excellence that has already been established,\u201d says Freeburn. \u201cIt\u2019s been a very good program for a long time. It\u2019s such an important feature for volleyball in Vancouver Island. I want to continue to live up to that legacy and add my flavour to it here and there where it works. Luckily for me, it\u2019s not a program that needs to be built, again, from the ground up; it\u2019s very well established with a history of success, and I just want to continue to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Camosun College Chargers women\u2019s volleyball team will usher in a new coach courtside this coming semester. Scott Freeburn will be succeeding Brent Hall as head coach during the 2025-26 season as Hall moves into an assistant coach position with the women\u2019s volleyball team at the University of the Fraser Valley.\u00a0 For 15 years, Freeburn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27100,"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":[13,336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-august-6-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071","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=27071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27073,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071\/revisions\/27073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}