Aaron, originally from NZ, first joined Velox Valhallians in 2004 at the Gordon Head facilities as a starting player on the Men\u2019s Premier teams, continuing to play on both Premier and 1st Div teams until 2015 in the backfield and full back. During this time he started his coaching career in 2004 with age grade teams for the youth\/junior programs for Velox in the grass root era coaching every team up to and including U18\u2019s. Aaron was part of the Executive Council as the Director of Rugby Operations for 2 years from 2009-2011, before taking over as the Head Coach for the Velox Premier Women\u2019s Valkyries team, leading them to a BCRU Provincial Title in 2011. He has represented four Super League teams as a player over his career: Crimson Tide, Vancouver Island Raiders, Calgary Mavericks and the Prairie Fire. Aaron took on the role as Player\/Head Coach for the first time for the Velox Men\u2019s program from 2011-2014, winning both the VIRU Times and Cowichan Cups, with multiple semi-final BCRU Provincial finalists during this time frame. He was then selected by BCRU Staff as Head Coach to lead provincial teams, starting in 2015 with the BC Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Next Gen 7\u2019s Teams, and BC Women\u2019s 15\u2019s Team: positions he continues presently to this day. Which lead to him to be included as the 2018 Crimson Tide Men\u2019s 15\u2019s co-Coach. During the past 3 years Aaron has again taken on his Player\/Coach role leading the Westshore Velox 3rd Div Men\u2019s team to back to back BCRU Provincial Champions for 2017 & 2018 seasons. <\/span><\/p>\n When asked about his coaching history listed above, he responded \u201cI started my coaching career at Velox in 2004 with age grade teams, coaching every team from the U18s, Third div men, premier women and the top men\u2019s side at the club over a 9 year period. After some successful years coaching provincial 7s and 15s programs, it\u2019s great to be able to step back into the club at an exciting time at Westshore.\u201d <\/span>When asked further on the direction of the club, he stated \u201cThings are starting to click at the club with the premier women on top, the third div on top and the men returning to the Premiership, everything is heading in the right direction at Westshore. We have a core group of players within the men\u2019s program that can start to make waves in the premier division and I\u2019m excited to see what they can do this coming season.\u201d<\/p>\n NANYAK DALA<\/strong><\/p>\n Nanyak Ponzin Gideon Dala was born in the central plateau state in the city of Jos, Nigeria in early 1980\u2019s.\u00a0 Moving to the city of Durban, located in the eastern province of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa with his family at the age of 12 in 1996. It was here that he started playing rugby for Glenwood high school team in the #8 position, lacing up for the Glenwood Falcons – the High School Old Boys team as well.\u00a0 Nanyak quickly achieved selection for higher play for age grade levels representing Kwazulu-Natal provincial teams through much of his high school years, and being selected as the MVP for the provincial U20 team in 2003.<\/p>\n His family immigrated to North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada also in 2003 due his father\u2019s profession in the medical field. Where in 2004 at the age of 20 he moved to nearby Saskatoon to start his higher education at the University of Saskatchewan.\u00a0 Nanyak continued his love for rugby again joining the Saskatoon Wild Oats RFC as a Flanker for the next 4 years, reaching the provincial finals with his team every year, and capturing the provincial champions in 2005.\u00a0 He was a member of the Saskatchewan Prairie Fire in the Rugby Canada Super League (RCSL) for the 2005 to 2007 seasons where they were the Western Champions and runner ups for the national title each year, and winning the McTier Cup as National Champs in 2007.\u00a0 Nanyak had caught the eye of Rugby Canada (RC) through all this hard work, but passed up the opportunity to go to the Rugby World Cup (RWC) in 2007, choosing to finish his studies instead, graduating with a Bachelor of Commence in early 2008.<\/p>\n Nanyak moved to Victoria, BC in 2008 to continue his playing career with RC, as he started playing club rugby for the Oakbay Castaway Wanders in premier Men\u2019s action as a flanker, winning the Rounsfell Cup as the BC premier league provincial champions in 2011.\u00a0 During this time Nanyak was also a member of the newly formed Canadian Rugby Championship (CRC) (replacement for the RCSL) Prairie Wolf Pack team from 2010-2016, winning the McTier Cup as a national champion once again in 2015, with achieving runner up for 5 additional years at this level.<\/p>\n Nanyak joined the RC national 15s team with his 1st<\/sup> cap on 02 Jun 2007 at the Churchill Cup in Twickenham, England with a sound win over the USA.\u00a0 He continued to represent Canada at 2 Rugby World Cups (RWC) in both 2011 and 2015, earning 37 caps and scoring 4 international tries before playing his last 15s match on 6 Oct 2015 with a win over Romania.\u00a0 Nanyak was also a member of Canadas National 7s team at the same time starting in 2008, playing in the 2010 Common Wealth Games in India, and winning a gold medal in Mexico at the 2011 Pan Am Games.\u00a0 He played in the RWC for 7\u2019s action in both 2009 in Dubai and 2013 in Russia, captaining the team from 2012-2013 seasons. Finishing his last international 7s game for Canada in Sydney, Australia in Feb 2016.<\/p>\n He coached at St. Michaels High School from 2008 through to 2017 focusing on grades 10-12. As well at CW in the 2017-2018 season as an assistant Coach and player for Men\u2019s premier action. Before joining Westshore Velox RFC for the start of the 2018-2019 season as a an assistant\/forwards coach.<\/p>\n Nanyak was self-employed as a contractor for RC over the past many years, before currently working for Capital City Fire and Safety as a Fire and Safety Technician.\u00a0 He is very passionate about junior development and involvement, looking forward to growing the junior catchment of players in the Westshore area through club and schools academy programs with the grass root rugby type of sessions. He is enthusiastic when asked his thoughts, stating \u201cWas excited to work with some top rugby minds and people to help build a strong rugby foundation in the Westshore, spearheaded by the ME\u2019s and championship winning Women\u2019s premier teams at Westshore RFC.\u201d<\/p>\n Westshore would like to announce Aaron Frisby as the new Men\u2019s Head Coach, and Nanyak Dala as Forwards Coach for the 2018-2019 season. 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