Pair of lauded football coaches take over helm of Langley Rams
There’s a new man at the helm of Langley Rams junior football team. The announcement was made official this week that Matt Blokker has stepped into the head coach role with the Rams, announced club president Dana Matheson. Blokker is a four-time BCFC coach of the year, and he was honoured as the CJFL coach of the year twice. He has posted the most career wins by a head coach in BCFC history, and his 106-regular season and 26 play-off wins places him second on the all-time list for most victories by a head coach in CJFL history, Matheson boasted. Blokker began his junior football head coaching career with the Victoria Rebels in 2003 and guided them to a B.C. championship title and the national championship game in his first season. Blokker coached two seasons in Victoria, before moving to Nanaimo where he became head coach of the expansion VI Raiders program in 2005. Blokker’s Raiders lost the BCFC semi-final game in their inaugural season and then went on to post the most succes...