Blake Nill, the head coach of last season’s Vanier Cup champion UBC Thunderbirds, was featured in a Vancouver Sun article.
The football TBirds played in Canada West’s Hardy Cup conference championship game and lost to the Calgary Dinos.
Nill discussed his role as a coach and mentor.
“When you recruit an athlete to come to UBC, he’s 18 and he is the most prized possession of mom and dad. So you have to be more than just a football coach,” Nill said. “You have to be someone who is there for the stresses in their lives, and in doing this job for a very long time, I have dealt with every imaginable situation.”
Similar stories appeared on Sportsnet, the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun and a story on the TBirds loss to the Dinos appeared in The Province.
UBC football player Will Watson was also featured in an article in The Province and Vancouver Sun.
