Dan Valley was named the OUA Women's Rugby Coach of the Year for the third time in 2025, leading the Gaels to their fourth OUA Championship in his 10-year tenure with the team.
Queen's finished the regular season first in the OUA standings at 6-0, their sixth straight undefeated regular season, before capturing the OUA Championship, for the third time in the last four years. Queen's capped the season with a second straight U SPORTS Women's Rugby bronze medal.
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Valley also led Queen's to OUA Championships in 2019, 2022, and 2023.
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Valley was named the OUA Coach of the Year in 2021 after leading Queen's to a national championship, their first in program history, in front of a home crowd at Nixon Field at the U SPORTS Women's Rugby Championship. The Gaels also captured the OUA silver medal in 2021.
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Valley led the Gaels to an OUA silver medal in each of his first two seasons as Head Coach, before claiming the OUA title for the second time in program history in his third season at the helm in 2019.
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In his first season as Head Coach, Valley led the Gaels to an OUA silver medal finish and got the team to the U SPORTS national championship.
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In the spring of 2018, Valley was named an Assistant Coach for Canada’s Senior Women’s National Team.
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Prior to his time at Queen's, Valley was the Head Coach of Rugby Canada's U18 Women’s 15’s program, and was also a Technical Lead for Canada 7’s NextGen program in Ontario.
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Valley was an Assistant Coach of the McMaster Marauders Women’s Rugby program that won a CIS Championship in 2015 and his high school program at Oakville Trafalgar (Oakville, Ont.) is regarded as one of the most successful rugby programs in Ontario, winning six provincial medals (three gold, two silver, and one bronze) since 2011.
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Valley holds a Master of Sport Coaching from the University of Queensland, a Master of Teaching from Griffith University, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) from the University of Western Ontario.
Three-time OUA Coach of the Year: 2019, 2021, 2025
Career Record at Queen's
|
Regular Season |
OUA Playoffs |
U SPORTS Championship |
| Year |
W-L |
W-L |
W-L |
| 2025* |
6-0 |
2-0 |
2-1 |
| 2024 |
6-0 |
1-1 |
2-1 |
| 2023* |
6-0 |
2-0 |
2-1 |
| 2022* |
6-0 |
2-0 |
2-1 |
| 2021^ |
4-0 |
1-1 |
3-0 |
| 2020 |
Season cancelled due to COVID-19 |
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| 2019* |
4-0 |
2-0 |
2-1 |
| 2018 |
3-1 |
1-1 |
1-2 |
| 2017 |
2-2 |
2-1 |
1-1 |
| Overall |
37-3 |
13-4 |
15-8 |
*OUA Champions
^ U SPORTS Champions
