Club Leadership

Club Director

Volleyball Operations

Devon May

Devon is a full time training professional beach volleyball player and coach, as well as a co-founder and coach at @thebeach.co, Vancouver’s premier beach volleyball program. 

In her role as Club Director, Devon will bring her work ethic, perseverance and tenacity to the team in helping athletes achieve their volleyball goals. 

Devon spent her younger years playing for Thunder Beach and Sideout before playing indoor varsity volleyball at SFU. She followed that up with a victory lap at the University of Alabama in Birmingham where she competed on the NCAA 1 pairs beach team. Devon then returned to UAB as an assistant coach before pursuing her dream of making Team Canada beach volleyball.

Devon can also be reached through her personal webpage at devonmay.ca 

Club President

Financial and Admin

Mike Walkinshaw

Mike is a Trained Advanced Development Coach, and has a long history of playing competitive sports, including volleyball, ultimate, football, and soccer.   

Mike combines passion for coaching volleyball with strong analytical skills to help Powerwest teams achieve their best performances. 

Mike re-started Powerwest in 2019 to fill the huge gap in demand for volleyball on the North Shore building the club from 1 team to 9 teams in the up-coming season.