TORONTO (U SPORTS) – With the 2019 FISU Winter Universiade set to open later this week, U SPORTS announced Wednesday the full Mission Staff for the Canadian delegation with Gaels women's volleyball coach
Ryan Ratushniak being appointed Team Leader/Assistant Coach for the women's volleyball team.
The full group consists of 28 staff in the areas of operations, transportation, logistics and accreditation, sports and team services, translation, communications, and medical.
Canada will compete in 13 sports at the 30
th FISU Summer Games including archery, athletics, diving, fencing, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, taekwando, rugby sevens (men and women), and water polo (women) – all of which will be selected and managed in partnership with each respective National Sports Organization (NSO).
Canada will also field teams in men's and women's basketball, men's and women's volleyball and women's soccer, all of which will be composed exclusively of U SPORTS student-athletes and managed by the national office.
Alberta's Laurier Eisler
(women's volleyball) and will serve as head coach of the U SPORTS All-Star team with Ratushniak and Rick Scott from Dalhousie working as assistants.
Ratushniak and the Gaels are in the midst of a playoff run after a season that saw them finish third in the OUA East with a 13-6 record. Ratushniak is in his second year as the Gaels women's volleyball head coach and has posted back-to-back 13-6 seasons in the OUA.
Canada finished in 16
th at the 2017 FISU Summer Universiade in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei with 13 medals (four gold, five silver, four bronze). This year's event is slated for Naples Italy, July 3-14.
The 2019 FISU Winter Universiade begins Friday in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Follow Team Canada on
Twitter, Instagram and
Facebook @USPORTSIntl for full coverage.
TEAM CANADA MISSION STAFF: 2019 FISU SUMMER UNIVERSIADE
Chef de Mission: Ari Grossman, Waterloo
Assistant Chef de Mission: Charonne Thomasos, U SPORTS
Operations Manager: Karla Karch, Mount Royal
Operations Assistant: Barbara Giroud, U SPORTS
Operations Officer: Curt Warkentin, Manitoba
Logistics & Accreditation Officer: Renee Ridout, U SPORTS
Logistics & Accreditation Officer: Julie Dionne, Laval
Sports Services: Guy Dubé, RMC
Team Services: Scott Ring, U SPORTS
Translator: Antonella Lee
Communications Manager: Ben Matchett, Calgary
Communications Officer: Ali Baggot, Victoria
Communications Officer: Jill Clark, Toronto
Communications Officer: Stéphane Jobin, Laval
Photographer: Mathieu Bélanger, Laval
Videographer: Sam Charles, UBC Okanagan
MEDICAL STAFF
Chief Medical Officer: Connie Lebrun, Alberta
Physician: Darrell Menard
Physician: Olesia Markevychl, Alberta
Physician: Rose Martel
Chief Therapist: Andrea Prieur, York
Athletic Therapist: Jason White
Athletic Therapist: Connie Klassen, Camosun College
Athletic Therapist: Tina Szeto, Centennial College
Physiotherapist: Jacques Lavergne
Physiotherapist: Joe Rotella
Massage Therapist: Karen Hyslop-Gibson
Massage Therapist: Michael Wolfe-Grafstein
U SPORTS-MANAGED TEAMS
Men's Volleyball
Head Coach: Dave Preston, McMaster
Team Leader/Assistant Coach: James Gravelle, Windsor
Assistant Coach: Grant Wilson, Brandon
Athletic Therapist Natalie Paladino, Windsor
Women's Volleyball
Head Coach: Laurie Eisler, Alberta
Team Leader/ Assistant Coach: Ryan Ratushniak, Queen's
Assistant Coach: Rick Scott, Dalhousie
Athletic Therapist: Jennifer Childs, Laurier
Women's Soccer
Head Coach/Team Leader: Peyvand Mossavat, UOIT
Assistant Coach: Cindy Tye, Dalhousie
Assistant Coach: Jose-Luis Valdes, McGill
Athletic Therapist: Charlotte Vallières-Villeneuve, Laval
Men's Basketball
Head Coach: Shawn Swords, Laurentian
Women's Basketball
Head Coach: Michèle Bélanger, Toronto
Full coaching staffs for men's and women's basketball, as well as rosters for all five U SPORTS-managed teams will be announced at a later date.
