Concordia Stingers head coach Kevin Figsby has been named an assistant with Canadian Interuniversity Sport’s men’s hockey team for the 25th Winter Universiade set for Jan. 27 to Feb. 6, 2011 in Erzurum, Turkey.
Brian Bourque of the Waterloo Warriors will serve as Team Canada’s general manager, while Western Ontario’s Clarke Singer has been named head coach. Guelph’s Shawn Camp will also assist the coaching staff.
It will be a second tour of duty at the University Games for both Figsby and Singer, who served similar roles in 2005 at Innsbruck, Austria, where Canada finished fifth.
The Canadian squad for the event will be comprised entirely of players from the Ontario University Athletics conference.
Since 1997, Canada has participated in the Universiade men’s hockey tournament with representation from each of three CIS leagues on a rotating basis.
OUA skaters won bronze in 1999 (Slovakia) before their fifth-place finish in 2005.
Canada West players claimed bronze medals in 1997 (South Korea) and 2003 (Italy) and silver in 2009 in Harbin, China, where they dropped a 4-2 decision to Russia in the gold-medal final.
Atlantic University Sport all-stars returned home with silver in 2001 (Poland) before winning the competition in 2007 in Turin, Italy.
