Kriski retiring as volleyball bench boss
Posted By Eric MacKenzie, The Daily Graphic
Updated 2 months ago
Staff photo by Eric MacKenzie...After 28 years coaching volleyball around the province, PCI Trojans varsity boys coach Bob Kriski is calling it a career. The vice-principal led PCI teams to eight Zone 4 titles and one AAA provincial crown in 18 years coaching at the school.
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Take one step into Bob Kriski's office at Portage Collegiate Institute, and it's pretty clear what the vice-principal remembers most fondly about his days at the school.
Plastered on the walls are memories of a 28-year volleyball coaching career that came to a close last week when Kriski's Trojans varsity boys were left out of the provincial playoff picture with a wildcard play-in game loss to the John Taylor Pipers.
Eighteen of those years have been spent coaching varsity ball at PCI — 14 with boys and four more with girls — and not a one could elude Kriski's memory with pictures, certificates and medals hanging in his room that recall teams from the early 1990's right up to this year's West Winnipeg Athletic Conference bronze medal-winning squad.
But with the pressures of both work and play becoming too much for the 49 year old, Kriski has decided to put away the whistle and clipboard — this time permanently.
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