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Stan Hum, Coach of Cornwall’s Seaway Valley Rapids Minor

Bantam AA Team, to Coach His Team in Their Game Against

Sweden’s Kungälv IK U-14 Team

By Molly Kett Polytechnic Institute Rams and the Seneca Hum says he’s really looking forward to the
College Braves at the collegiate level in upcoming exhibition game his team is to play
his April 14th at the Benson Centre, an Toronto, where I received my post secondary against Sweden. “I’m looking forward to a
Texhibition game will be held between the education and graduated in Civil Engineering great game between the Kungälv and Seaway
Seaway Valley Rapids Minor Bantam AA and Technology in 1989.” Valley kids. Hockey truly is an amazing sport
Kungälv IK U14 Team coming all the way from Over the past eight years, Hum has been where kids from opposite sides of the “pond”
Sweden. For the paast ten years, the Seaway involved with coaching minor hockey teams have an opportunity to meet new friends,
Valley Minor Hockey Association has hosted and instructing players and various camps and experience new cultures, and play a game they
Minor hockey teams from Kungälv Sweden, love,” says Hum. “I’m really hoping for an
clinics. entertaining game. A win by the boys to cap
off the season would be really nice for sure!”
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Hum has some very impressive and well
MVP of the Month thought-out coaching philosophies which,
after hearing, one could only conclude that his
team is being taught in a positive environment,
Name: Quinn Blaine full of learning, competition, fun, and respect.
Age: 12 “My objective as a coach is to: provide
leadership, be a good role model, foster and
Hometown: Alexandria develop a child’s hockey and social skills in a
School/Grade: École secondaire team environment, while experiencing fun and
catholique Le Relais with the players being matched to stay with the enjoyment along the way,” says Hum. “The
families of a Seaway Valley player for a week. measurement of success should not necessarily
Quinn Blaine, a talented soccer player The exhibition game will be one of the many be measured by wins or losses. Winning
who participates in the Glengarry Soccer other activities and social events the two teams hockey games are merely outcomes and losing
will participate in during this week. games is not really losing but learning, gaining
League and Glengarry Hearts, is excited feedback from the experience and making
This year, Stan Hum who was born and adjustments for future success.”
to transition her passion for the game from indoors to outdoors. raised in Cornwall, has been coaching the
One of Blaine’s favourite memories is scoring four goals in an Seaway Valley Rapids Minor Bantam AA Hum also says that skills, of course, are
team. Hum says his interest in athletics and the foundation to a player’s success. Hum
indoor soccer game. As a returning Hearts player, she is looking particularly coaching comes from the profound strives to focus on development as well as
forward to this summer as she and her U13 girls’ team recently influence athletics and competitive sports had equal opportunity as part of his coaching
on his life in a positive manner, helping shape philosophies.
resumed practices. “Soccer is my favourite sport because it is
Hum into the man he is today. “It’s my responsibility as a head coach to
great exercise and I get to make new friends,” she says.
“Growing up in Cornwall, sports kept me introduce, develop, and refine individual core
Along with soccer Blaine also participates in volleyball and and many of my childhood friends out of skills, teach individual and team tactics, and
swimming. trouble. Individual and team sports allowed work on team concepts and systems of play,”
the neighbourhood kids to come together says Hum.
socially, have fun, and be respectful of one Hum’s favourite coaching memory truly
and other. It challenged all of us physically, lies in watching his team grow. “Just watching
mentally and emotionally. It taught us that kids develop and succeeding through hard
INC. hard work, determination, perseverance, and work and perseverance. I coached a Novice
since/depuis 1994 good decision making can achieve goals, group in 2010-11 who went 0-21-1. They
“ id v ry ” bring success, and bring dreams closer to improved their record the following season to

reality,” says Hum. “As a kid, I was a product
1325 Pitt Street, Cornwall of the Cornwall Minor Hockey Association 18-5-1 with 3 of 4 tourney wins,” says Hum.
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www.fl owerscornwall.com Chantal Martin teams at various levels. Later, I continued my the teams in their upcoming exhibition game.
hockey journey and played for the Ryerson