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MacSporran out as Brock women’s basketball coach

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Brock University is looking for a new women’s basketball coach.

“I can confirm that on Tuesday, April 2, Brock Sports parted ways with women’s basketball head coach Ashley MacSporran,” Brock athletic director Neil Lumsden said. “We appreciate the role Ashley played in growing the profile of the Brock Badgers women’s basketball program in the Niagara community. As this is a personnel matter, we’ll have no further comment.”

BPSN also texted MacSporran for comment.

“At this time I have no comment,” she wrote.

MacSporran was announced as the replacement for Si Khounviseth in June 2016.

Prior to coming to Brock, MacSporran was head coach at Concordia College in Edmonton, an assistant for two years with the Guelph’s women’s team and spent 2015-16 with the Windsor Lancers women’s squad than won a bronze medal at the Ontario University Athletics championships.

In her first year at Brock, MacSporran guided the Badgers to an 8-11 regular season before losing to Lakehead in the first round of the playoffs. This past season, an injury-plagued Brock team finished with a 6-18 record and missed the playoffs.

Bernie Puchalski, a graduate of Brock University and Niagara College, worked in journalism in Niagara for more than 27 years before taking a voluntary buyout from The Standard at the end of 2016. He started his career as a news reporter for the Niagara Falls Review before switching to sports reporting. He was a sports reporter and sports editor at the Niagara Falls Review before joining the Standard's sports department in 1996. He was named the Standard's sports editor in 2000 and became the regional sports editor, in charge of the Niagara Falls Review, Welland Tribune and Standard, in 2015, a position he held until he left the company. During his time in newspapers, he was a multiple winner and finalist for numerous Ontario and Western Ontario Newspaper Awards for sports reporting, spot news reporting and humour writing. He was a member of the Standard Boys Basketball Tournament committee and co-chair of the Standard Girls Basketball Tournament, helping to raise tens of thousands of dollars for bursaries presented to participants in the tournament. He also served on countless local sports committees both in Niagara Falls and St. Catharines.

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