2011 VMFL Executive Bios

President: Paul Sparrow

After serving two years as Vice President of the VMFL he succeeds Gord Johnson as the new President of the league.  In the past he has coached for North Surrey Minor Football where he filled roles of Head Coach, Co-ordinator and more from Atom through to his last head coaching role in Junior Bantam.

Paul had been active for many years within the North Surrey Minor Football association including Vice President, acting President and web developer/administrator.

Other sports involvement by Paul include former General Manager of a Junior 'A' lacrosse team as well as President and player of the South Fraser Stickmen Masters lacrosse team.  As a former coach in minor lacrosse Paul fulfilled many head coaching positions from Novice through to Bantam including a Provincial Silver medal for Surrey Minor.

He continues the role of web administration for many sports associations including the VMFL website as well as his Birds Eye Photography company where he is the official photographer of the BC Junior 'A' Lacrosse League.

Paul's daughter was a former Cheerleading Queen with North Surrey Minor and currently coaches a cheer squad there.   His son played football for North Surrey and currently plays Intermediate 'A' lacrosse.

Vice President: Valder Belgrave

Valder has been involved with minor football for over 10 years, both of his sons having played from Flag through to Junior Bantam with the Coquitlam Minor Football Association. He sat on the Coquitlam Minor Association Executive as Treasurer for two terms and more recently as Field Coordinator for the past two years.

A former competitive swimmer, he is still bewildered about the source of his sons' passion for football. Both now play at at their respective high schools, but retain their ties to community football as referees. Outside of painting Mackin field and providing transportation for the young referees to their weekly game assignments, Valder can be found at various lacrosse fields and arenas, as well as the Justice Institute, where he manages to put in sufficient hours to earn a pay cheque.

Secretary: Helen Johnson

After serving several years on the board with Langley Minor Football as an intergral part of the building of that Minor association, Helen has shifted her focus to various governing bodies. Currently Helen holds the Secretary title for the VMFL where she has worked for some time now under several presidents.  As well Helen also is Secretary for the BCFC Junior Football League.

Director / Treasurer: Dan Bouchard

Dan returns for his second year on the board where in his position of Treasurer he has been pivotal in the development of short and long term budgets and has been able to bring a high standard of quality to the financial reports.

Director / 12 Man Commissioner: Gord Johnson

After filling in the position of President for a year Gord Johnson returns to his previously held spot of League Commissioner where he spent seven years going back to 2003.  Starting off as a player in his younger days Gord got involved with coaching with Langley Minor back in 1993 where he held positions of Head Coach and Assistant Coach from through to Bantam over a fourteen year history.

As well Gord became a director in Langley football in 1995 before taking the role of Vice President a few years later.  In 2001 Gord held the position of President until four years later in 2005.  He then switched some of his time over to Junior Football where he became involved with the Abbotsford Airforce team including Present in 2006 and 2007.  The following year Gord joined the Vancouver Island Raiders Junior club where he currently holds the Vice President position.

Married for 23 years to Helen, they have two kids, one currently playing for the Simon Fraser University football team while the other volunteers in the football community.

Director / 9 Man Commisioner: Gord McPhail

Gord McPhail returns to the executive for his third year as Director and will again hold the role of commissioner for 9-Man football this year.  He has been involved with community football for over 14 years starting out as assistant coach in Coquitlam for his son's flag team. A short time later after moving up  Atom he coached the team to the VMFL finals two years in a row.

Upon moving to Vancouver Gord then became involved with the Westside Warriors where he spent the next ten years as head coach working with all ages including the the last four years at the Midget level.  As well as coach Gord lead the club as Vice President and then President for four years and now sits as Past President.

Director / Head of Coaching: Vacant -

Director / Spring Flag Football: Doug Pauls

Doug may be new to our executive team this year but he already has a lot of VMFL experience.  In getting Westside and Coquitlam to work together Doug managed to spear head the Spring flag football movement, starting off with four teams between the two associations.  Last year he provided some much needed help and time in driving this new VMFL program to where 20+ teams participated last year.  Doug will take on this role now officially as part of our VMFL executive team in 2010. 

A former player in the late seventies for Richmond High School Doug later went on to play ball for Simon Fraser University in the early eighties and then spent a year of Junior Football with the Richmond Raiders in 1983.

His coaching resume includes Vancouver College High School where he started in 2004 and continues to coach with the Varsity team.  As well Doug has maintained the roles of coach for the Westside Warriors as well as Vice-President in the past.  Doug's two sons both played for Westside with one currently playing for Vancouver College while the older is playing for Azusa Pacific University in L.A.

 

Director: Derek Faggiani