University of Manitoba Bisons - Women's Schedule
Ken Bentley
Bison Women's Volleyball Head Coach
133 Investors Group Athletic Centre
204-474-6003
bentleyk@cc.umanitoba.ca
Born in Winnipeg, Ken Bentley graduated from Murdoch MacKay Collegiate and completed his post secondary studies at the University of Manitoba.
Entering his 20th season as the Head Coach of the University of Manitoba Women’s Volleyball Program, Bentley continues to produce results at the highest level in Canada in terms of athlete development and team performance.
He is the only coach to have qualified for 16 consecutive CIS National Championships. During those 16 years, the Bison Women won five National Championships (1990, ’91, ’92, ’01, ’02), three silver medals (1987, ’98, 2000), four bronze medals, (1993, ’94, ’95, ’99), one fourth place finish (1997), and three fifth place finishes (1988, ’89, ’96).
Bentley has coached age class volleyball with equal success, winning his first National Championship with the Prairie Blue Senior ‘AA’ team 1984, at the age of 21. Since that time, he has gone to win six more National Championships from the 16 yr to 20 yr old age classes. His resume also includes a gold medal at the 1987 Canada Games in Sydney, N.S.
This brings Bentley to a very impressive total of 13 National Championship wins at every level in Canadian volleyball.
Bentley has also been an assistant coach with the Women’s National Team on several occasions over the past twenty years, culminating with being named as an assistant coach for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
Up to the end of the 2004-05 Bison season, Ken Bentley’s overall won/loss University of Manitoba record stands at 718 wins and 235 losses.
University of Manitoba Bisons - Men's Schedule
Garth Pischke
Bison Men's Volleyball Head Coach
119 Investors Group Athletic Centre
204-474-9159
gpischk@cc.umanitoba.ca
In the 2005-06 season, Garth Pischke completed his 26th season as Head Coach of the University of Manitoba Men's Volleyball program. In the middle of that stint Pischke coached the National Men's Team Head Coach from 1996-2000 taking them from 21st in World rankings to 10th.
During Pischke’s 26 years as Bisons Men’s Volleyball Head Coach, the Bisons have qualified for the CIS National Championships 25 times. Under Pischke, the Bisons have collected nine CIS gold medals, nine CIS silver medals, three CIS bronze medal, three fourth place finishes, and their lowest showing being a fifth place finish.
Pischke reached the milestone plateau of his 1,000th Coaching Victory with the Bisons during the 2003-04 season, on November 9th with a victory over the Trinity Western Spartans. Twenty-nine of Pischke's athletes have gone on to represent Canada in National Team Programs. Pischke has also been involved in coaching various developmental and experienced club teams to three Under-18 National Championships, four Under-20 National Championships, and four Volleyball Canada Open Championships.
Pischke's background with volleyball did not start with coaching. Pischke has also won many National Championships as a player. These include three Canadian Under-20 Championships, three CIS Championships, five Volleyball Canada Open Championships, and three USVBA Open Championships. Pischke was a member of the Canadian Olympic Team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He also played professional volleyball in the United States (El Paso and Denver) in the International Volleyball Association (IVA), where he was named League Rookie in 1978 and League MVP in 1979.
Individually, he has been named to 12 All-Star Teams at Canadian National Championships where he received six MVP awards. South of the Canadian border, Pischke was named All-American at eight USVBA Championships and awarded an MVP award.
In total, he has won 30 National Championships including the 1991 Canadian Beach Doubles Championship.
Pischke was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1989, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1999, the Canadian Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2000 and his greatest accomplishment was being named MANITOBA’S AMATEUR ATHLETE OF THE 20th CENTURY in the fall of 2000. In 2000, True North Volleyball Magazine named Pischke as “Canada’s Best Male Volleyball Player” of all time.
He joins the company of Canadian athletes and builders who have, over the course of their career, distinguished themselves in Olympic and Pan American competition or contributed to the growth and development of the Olympic movement.
Pischke was born and raised in Winnipeg. He currently resides in south Winnipeg with his wife Cindy, their son Dane, and their daughter Taylor.
University of Winnipeg Wesmen
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Women's Volleyball Schedule
Diane Scott
Head Coach, Women's Volleyball
University of Winnipeg
1-204-786-9819 d.scott@uwinnipeg.ca
Men's Volleyball Schedule
Larry Mckay
Head Coach, Men's Volleyball
University of Winnipeg
1-204-786-9238 l.mckay@uwinnipeg.ca