November 3, 2009     

SHAWN ELDER

 

Elder was born and raised in the Alberni Valley and just started coaching in AVMHA 6 years ago. Elder grew up playing soccer the fall and winter and baseball in the spring. It wasn’t until 2002 that Elder put on a pair of skates and started playing hockey. He hasn’t looked back.

That following year, his son started playing hockey too, so Elder became one of the ‘Dad’s helping out on the ice’. He was hooked on coaching, and that led him into taking coaching clinics and his development 1. Elder coached the AV Atom Rep team last season with Dan Sexton, Steve Selva and Greg Smyth.

He is very excited to be coaching alongside Rick Geddes this year and “is looking forward to the team coming together as a group. They are a group of hard working kids and will be competitive in their tier this season”.