JOHN CAMPBELL

If one had to pick just two words to describe John Campbell, those words would surely be ‘innovator’ and ‘communicator’. John traveled to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and returned to the small B.C. mining town of Revelstoke (Population, 5,000) with an wealth of knowledge from watching the Silver Medal winning Japanese National Team play their innovative, 5-1, up-tempo, multi-attack style. He then brought that knowledge to the high school team he was coaching and taught his students how to replicate their style to perfection. The result, seven consecutive B.C. High School Provincial Championships, rarely losing a set and multiple awards & medals in various other tournaments. But with all that said, perhaps John’s
biggest contribution is the lasting legacy he’s left with the players who played for him that are now some of volleyball’s brightest and best teachers of the game.