The Burnaby Winter Club hired Aaron Wilber as the head coach of the new Hockey Academy prep team for 2013.
Wilber joins Leland Mack, who was earlier named as the head coach of the elite 15s division at the academy.
Last month, the winter club and Burnaby Central Secondary School came together to form a midget hockey academy that will compete in the Canadian Sports School Hockey League this fall.
The elite school league, founded in 2009, will compete in an under-18 prep division for grade 11 and 12 students, as well as a new elite 15s division against opposing academy teams from Alberta, the Okanagan, Washington State and Abbotsford and South Delta.
Wilber is coming off a championship year as head coach with the Pacific Junior Hockey League Richmond Sockeyes.
He is also the co-founder and managing director of The Coaches Site - an online resource for amateur coaches and the management of professional coaching conferences.
Wilber also has a decade of coaching experience at the university, junior A and junior B levels.
He has served as a scout for both Everett and Tri City of the Western Hockey League, and is the current head instructor at the Vancouver Hockey School.
BWC hockey academy teams will compete in both prep and elite 15 levels.
For more information on the hockey academy program, email aaron_wilbur@ yahoo.ca.
