Nate Fleming will take charge of the Valley West Giants’ U18 AAA team this season, marking his third year in the BCEHL. Fleming has held multiple coaching positions over the last seven years, including positions within Vancouver Thunderbirds Minor Hockey Association, Cloverdale Minor Hockey Association and most recently, as the full-time assistant coach with the University of British Columbia (UBC) Thunderbirds Men’s Hockey Team, where they qualified for the National Championship for the first time in 40 years.
Fleming played his minor hockey in St. Albert, AB, before playing his junior hockey for the Spruce Grove Saints of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. He is a graduate of UBC, where he continued to play hockey and earned degrees in Kinesiology and Education. He finished his playing career with a couple of seasons overseas in the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) and Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL). He now works as a PHE teacher in Surrey.