BVTW AA 2024-2025 HEAD COACHES

Head Coach Announcements: 2024-2025 Hockey Season

U11AA Head Coach:  TBA for 2024-2025

U13AA Head Coach:  TBA for 2024-2025

U16AA Head Coach: TBA for 2024-2025

U15AA Head Coach:   TBA for 2024-2025

U18AA Head Coach:  Wayne Potter

Wayne has enjoyed over 10+ years of coaching at all different levels throughout Minor Hockey including U15AA, U18AAA, both as an Assistant Coach and a Head Coach, as well as many successful seasons as a U18AA Head Coach with the Calgary Royals prior to transferring over and accepting a new role and a great opportunity with the Calgary NorthStar’s Hockey Association. Wayne also played the great game of Hockey at different levels as well while growing up, and concluding at the Junior level, as well as being fortunate enough to participate in several World Police and Fire Games Competitions held throughout North America during a very rewarding and successful career as a Police Officer. Wayne also has had extensive experience as a Minor Hockey evaluator at all levels throughout the last 10 - 12 years. Wayne was fortunate enough be selected to attend and completed the High Performance 1 Course through Hockey Alberta and was also selected to be a part of the Alberta Cup as an Assistant Coach for Calgary White in the Prospects Cup taking place in Red Deer in May 2024.

Wayne believes the most important aspect of Coaching first and foremost is building relationships with the players and gaining their trust. Helping the players build confidence to be able to perform at the highest level, continue to grow and develop and to have successful careers and opportunities moving forward. Wayne also believes that all players are people first and players second, and that as a Coach you are also there to be able to assist them in life and to teach respect, compassion, and discipline, which he has practiced and preached throughout his professional career and his coaching career. Wayne does not put wins and losses as the most important aspect of the game, but feels getting better every day, trusting the process, and being a good teammate and a good person goes further than the wins and losses. If you are successful in doing that, the process will take care of everything else, if you do everything else right.

Wayne believes if you play the right way, hockey becomes a lot easier. If you practice discipline, play with good habits, these become routine, and that forms your identity both as a player and as a team. Taking shortcuts makes the game a lot tougher, and even harder to have success.

Wayne is currently residing in Cochrane with his family and loves being close to the mountains and residing in a smaller town. After retiring as a Detective from the Calgary Police Service in 2016, Wayne has been employed as an Investigator with the Government of Alberta and is happy that he has a little more time to Coach Hockey, which has become a passion, as has cheering for the Maple Leaf’s. Wayne is looking forward to this amazing opportunity and to continue to challenge elite athletes and to ignite their passion within to achieve their full potential, and to be placed in positions and opportunities where they will enjoy the most success.