14/02/09 - Ian Legrand's 50th
Ian Legrand coached in his 300th Docklands match. Below are images of the photo montage he was presented to mark the occasion. See below for some facts about Ian's Docklands career.
Docklands Debut: 8th October 1994 v Essex Estonians - a NVL Div 2 match that Docklands (or Crofton as they were known then) won 3-1.
Fact: His brother, Kevin, played in the very first Docklands match.
Fact: He won the coach of the year award in 1996 - Ian is pictured below with Jefferson Williams after receiving his award.
Wins: 190 (63%).
Black Knight
wins: 1
England matches: 70 (34 wins) - Ian has been Head Coach since 2001. Before that he was the England Junior Men's coach for nine years.
Favourite
drink: Tennants Super
First car: Ford Escort Mark III XR3i
Current car: Soft top VW Beetle
First job: Sports shop assistant
Current job: Strategic Services Advisor for the charity Whizz-Kidz
Favourite holiday destination: Upper Heyford
Fact: He
once turned up to watch an England match and ended up scoring - he got
a t-shirt for his trouble.
Below you
can see Ian (circled) with the rest of his class on the FIVB level 1 coaching
course at Lilleshall in approximately 1991. Also in the photo are Sheffield's
coach Keith Trenam (top row, far right) and the course tutor Dr Lorne
Sawula (middle of front row) who is now the GB women's head coach.