Our Founders

Kerry founded the Maverick Volleyball Club in 1985, just one year after beginning a distinguished 29-year teaching career at Colonel By Secondary School. Throughout his career, he dedicated himself to two enduring passions: his family and the development of young athletes through volleyball.

As a coach, Kerry led both boys' and girls' programs to remarkable success, including back-to-back Ontario 16u boys Championships. His teams captured 31 league championships, completed 18 undefeated regular seasons, earned four top-four finishes at OFSAA, and won an OFSAA Gold Medal in 1988. Beyond his school coaching achievements, he served as Chair of the Region 6 Athlete Development Program for four years and coached the Regional Team for three years.

A Certified Advanced Development Coach, Kerry has played a pivotal role in the athletic journeys of countless young athletes. Over four decades, he has helped generations of players pursue their goals of competing at the university level and beyond. Many former Maverick athletes have gone on to play professionally around the world, while others have represented Canada on the international stage, including National Team athletes Cheryl Stinson and Jordan Canham, as well as numerous National B Team players.

Following his retirement from teaching, Kerry continued his commitment to athlete development by coaching the women's volleyball team at the Royal Military College in Kingston, guiding the program through one of its most successful seasons.

After 40 years of building and nurturing what became Canada's largest single-city youth volleyball club, Kerry officially retired as President of Maverick Volleyball in August 2025 during the Club's 40th Anniversary Celebration.

Today, Kerry serves as Chairman of the Board, where he continues to contribute his experience and leadership to the organization he founded. As Board Representative for Athlete Relations and Conflict Management, he helps ensure that the athlete voice remains central to club governance. He also remains actively involved in coach placement, continuing to shape the culture and success of Maverick Volleyball.

Chris stood alongside husband Kerry at every step, building the dream of the Maverick Volleyball Club from the ground up. The 40-year journey culminated in a MavsFest Celebration and their "emotionally-charged" retirement in August 2025.

Beyond Maverick, Chris is an accomplished executive with five decades of diverse business experience. Her extensive career spans high-stakes corporate management, operational turnarounds, public communications, infrastructure & resource scaling, workspace modernization, and media publishing.

For 20 years, she served as the award-winning Editor-in-Chief of FrontLine Defence and FrontLine Security magazines, analyzing sensitive defence and national security issues. Her balanced commentaries and in-depth articles on military and national defence topics earned her the prestigious Ross Munro Media Award from the Conference of Defence Associations Institute in 2015.

Through it all, Chris served as a dedicated guardian of the Maverick brand and could be depended on to step in wherever operational needs arose. Her business expertise proved invaluable during the club’s early years when she modernized the summer camps' fragmented tracking and financial systems, creating a stronger foundation for future growth. As Maverick expanded, she oversaw countless critical behind-the-scenes functions, helping the organization operate effectively through periods of rapid growth and change.

Chris’ rare combination of corporate advisory expertise, organizational leadership, and crisis management has been integral to Maverick’s multi-decade success, helping shape its growth, strengthen its community impact, and sustain its reputation as a leading youth volleyball organization.

She is now trying to focus on a life of global travel, but will undoubtedly show up at a gym somewhere in the near future!