Tim Kelly is taking over as head coach of the Coquitlam Adanacs.
Kelly played with the squad for six years and was on the roster when the team won the Nations In 1980 world championship at the Pacific Coliseum. It was the first world indoor championship in Canada.
“After six years of bleeding purple and gold as a player with the Coquitlam Adanacs, it is an honour to be asked to coach,” he said in a press release. “I am proud to call myself an Adanac and I’m looking forward to the upcoming season.”
Kelly has been active in Coquitlam lacrosse since he retired as a player coaching the intermediate, junior and senior levels. He also coaches field lacrosse, a game he played during his career with the Burnaby Labatt’s and the National Champion Coquitlam Field Lacrosse Club.
The new coach will take over from Peter Tellis, who stepped down a couple of weeks before the 2017 Western Lacrosse Association draft to spend more time with his family.
Under Tellis, the team just missed the fourth and final WLA playoff berth, finishing 2016 season in fifth place with a 7-11 record.
