Women's Volleyball Head Coach Jayme Menzies Leaves Program in a Good Place
Head Coach Jayme Menzies rallies the Blazers at their CCAA Nationals appearance in 2024.
The CMU Blazers would like to give a heartfelt thanks and bid farewell to Women's Volleyball coach Jayme Menzies, who leaves the program in a good place after a busy spring of recruiting for the 2025/26 team.
Menzies joined the Blazers program in 2019, and took the helm of the women's team for the 2019/20 season, finding immediate success by capturing the MCAC title in 2020, during the MCAC's first probationary year of inclusion in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association. The Blazers took home the MCAC title once again under Menzies during the 2023/24 season, securing the program's first-ever berth in the CCAA National tournament held in Red Deer in 2024.
Following a playing career at University of Winnipeg, where she was captain for three of her five years on the team, Menzies started her coaching career and has built many successes along the way. Menzies has also been heavily involved on the club volleyball side as the founder and director of Agoojin Club Volleyball where she will continue to coach and use sport as a vehicle for social change. Provincially, Menzies has also represented Manitoba as a coach and player, including on the gold-winning Manitoba team at the 2017 Canada Games, as well as for numerous North American Indigenous Games teams since 2017. Menzies has also accumulated numerous awards and accolades from her coaching pursuits, including the MASRC's Manitoba Indigenous Female Coach of the Decade in 2021 during her time with CMU, as well as recognition in the Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame in 2024 as part of the Neelin High School Spartans run of provincial championship winning teams.
Blazers Director of Athletics, Russell Willms, weighed in on what Menzies has brought to CMU stating "Jayme's influence on the program has been transformative and profoundly positive. Jayme's commitment to student athlete development along with her deep technical and tactical understanding, has elevated the program to new heights." Blazers Athletics would like to once again wish Jayme well in her future endeavours in the sport, and thank her for her pivotal role in growing the program during such a historic period in the conference's history, and for her incredible tenure at the helm of the CMU Women's Volleyball program!
