University of Toronto Varsity Blues women's volleyball assistant coach Vincenzo Mallia has been named an assistant coach of the Canadian women's national team for the 2017 season.
 
Mallia became a full-time assistant coach with the Varsity Blues women's volleyball program at the beginning of the 2014-15 season. Since then, he has helped the Blues to two straight OUA banners, as well as the program's first-ever national title following a perfect 25-0 season in 2015-16.
 
He most recently worked as an assistant coach with Volleyrò Casal de pazzi in Rome from 2012-14, winning four regional and two national championships.
 
He was the assistant coach and training partner in Modica b1 series from 2007-10, and also served as an assistant coach with the Slovenia national beach volleyball team from 2009-10. 
 
Mallia worked as the Data Volleyball expert with Team Canada at the 2015 junior men's world championship in El Salvador alongside Blues men's head coach John Barrett.  

Among other competitions, the women's senior team, will compete in 2017 FIVB Women's Grand Prix, which includes a stop at the team's base in Richmond, July 21 to 23.

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