Nick Tran took over as head coach of the York women’s volleyball team in 2009 after two years as an assistant.
He has turned the Lions into one of the pre-eminent programs in the OUA. The squad won the OUA silver medal in 2013 and has made regular appearances in the CIS rankings, reaching a high of No. 4 in 2013. He earned the OUA coach of the year award in 2012.
As an assistant, he helped the Lions win the OUA championship in 2009.
Tran was the recipient of the Ontario Volleyball Association Coach of the Year award in 2005 and he also runs a successful Vipers volleyball club in Toronto. Previously, he was an assistant coach for the provincial team and an assistant coach for the gold-medal winning Region 5 team at the provincial championship. Tran was a member of the coaching staff for the Canada Games provincial team that won silver in P.E.I. in 2009.
In addition to his coaching duties, Tran is the principal of Bloordale Middle School, a medium-sized middle school within the Toronto District School Board. He believes that schools today are teaching a generation of students who, in most cases, are more technologically knowledgeable than their parents and teachers. In order to engage students in their own learning, he believes that we must recognize the power of technology and actively implement it to improve the teaching and learning process on a daily basis.
Prior to becoming principal, Tran taught Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to middle school students where he was a co-recipient, along with Ben Tran, of the Prime Minister’s Awards for Teaching Excellence: Certificate of Achievement. He received this prestigious award for recognizing and using the teaching potential of ICT to its fullest while assembling a state-of-the-art ICT facility to facilitate the integration of information and communication technology across the curriculum.
