Accomplishments at UBC entering 2019-20
Canada West conference record: 11-11 (.500)
Canada West playoff record: 1-2 (.333)
Hawkins is in his second season as the head coach of the UBC men’s volleyball program.
In his debut campaign with UBC, a young Thunderbirds squad showed consistent improvement in going 11-11 in Canada West regular season play, advancing to the league quarter-finals.
Rookie Michael Dowhaniuk was named a second-team Canada West All-Star, and earned spots on the Canada West and U SPORTS All-Rookie teams.
Hawkins replaced Kerry MacDonald in 2018, who joined Volleyball Canada as its new Director of Sport Science, Medicine, and Information. MacDonald remains with the Thunderbirds as an assistant coach.
Hawkins, from Lethbridge, Alta., has a wealth of coaching experience.
He served as the full-time assistant coach with UBC Okanagan two years ago, and was the interim head coach at his alma mater, Thompson Rivers, during the 2016-17 campaign.
Before heading back to TRU, Hawkins coached two seasons at Lethbridge College of the Alberta College Athletic Conference, serving as an assistant in 2014-15 before taking the head role the next year.
He began his coaching career after his playing days as a setter concluded at TRU. Hawkins was an assistant for two years with the WolfPack men’s team before also taking on a similar role with the TRU women’s squad in the latter part of his final year in Kamloops, B.C.
Hawkins is a rising star on the national coaching stage as he was an assistant to MacDonald on Canada’s youth national team in 2017, and retained the same position the past two years.
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