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Griffins Day Photo - January 20, 2018

NAVC Griffins 13W Coaching Staff

Head Coach - Miles Spencer

Miles has been a part of the NAVC club for 5 years as an assistant coach. He currently is coaching at S Bruce Smith Jr High.  Miles started coaching a very long time ago (1983) and coached at the High School level, club level and assisted at the provincial team level.  He has 5 years of ACAC experience, coaching 2 years at NAIT and 3 years at RDC.

Associate Head Coach - Lynne Spencer

Lynne has been teaching for 26 years, the past 8 years of which have been at S. Bruce Smith Jr. High School.  She has assisted with the volleyball program for both Jr. and Sr. girls, off and on, throughout her time at SBS.  Both Lynne's children played all of their club volleyball with NAVC beginning with her son from 2009-2013 and her daughter from 2010-2015.   Lynne wanted to give back to the club by helping to develop a love of the sport that was such a great experience for her kids.  Lynne is currently working toward finishing her level one coaching certification and is excited for the season ahead with the 13W Griffins. 

Associate Head Coach - Madison Lakey

Madison played club volleyball for 6 years: FOG (U13), NAVC (U14,U15, U16), and Pandas (U17 and U18).  She also played 3 years post-secondary (Two years ACAC and one year CIS with MacEwan University Griffins).  During her player career, Madison played in every position giving her great versatility.  Madison received several awards including the TVT MVP 2011 and Harry Ainlay Female athlete of the year 2012, was a Team Alberta 2010 Western Canada Gold medalist,  U18 AVA provincial gold medalist as well ACAC provincial bronze medalist.  She has also coached various camps and teams throughout Alberta for the past 6 years including most recently one of the head coaches for the NAVC 13U Griffins.

Associate Head Coach - Maddison McRobert

This is Maddison’s first year to be coaching with the NAVC Griffins. Maddison has been involved in a variety of volleyball experiences through being a player, coach and a volleyball official.  She grew up in the town of Brooks where she played with the Elite and Prairie Power volleyball clubs, as well as the Brooks Composite High School team.  In 2009 they won 3A Provincials and in 2010 they received silver. After highschool, Maddison moved to Edmonton to enroll in the Bachelor of Education program at the University of Alberta.  Upon graduation, Maddy’s first year of teaching included coaching a wide variety of sports, but her main focus of volleyball found success as she coached the S. Bruce Smith senior boys team to a victorious city championship. Overall, she is very much looking forward to working with and developing strong athletes, as well as improving her abilities and skills as a coach.

Assistant Coach - Alyssa Spencer

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Assistant Coach - Karly Edgar

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Assistant Coach - Haley Gilfillan

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Assistant Coach - McKenna Stevenson

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Recent NAVC Griffins 13W Maroon/White/Black Cohort News

Season Planning

By Miles Spencer - Head Coach 11/23/2017, 11:00pm MST

Welcome to the NAVC 13U Griffins women's 2018 season.  Any athletes who's birthday falls between Sep 1, 2004 and Dec 31, 2005 are eligible to play U13 club volleyball.  Please go to the NAVC homepage and click on the "Tryout Registration and Payment" link to register with Volleyball Alberta and NAVC to begin the tryout process.  The tryout dates are posted on the U13-15 schedule link on the home page also.

The NAVC Griffins U13 women's team will be taking 27 athletes this year and splitting them into 3 teams of 9 for all competitions.  

We will be practicing Tuesdays 6pm-8pm and Thursdays 7pm-9pm.

Jan 28 Edmonton Tournament

March 3-4 Premier 1 in Calgary

March 24-25 Premier 2 in Edmonton

April 21-22 Provincials in Calgary

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