The Moose Jaw Warriors announced a handful of personnel moves in advance of the team's 2023 Western Hockey League training camp at the end of the month.
Scott King, the long-time Warriors assistant coach, has been promoted to associate coach and will take on an expanded role this season under head coach Mark O’Leary.
King has been with the Warriors since the 2016-17 season and takes on the extra duties in light of former assistant coach Gord Burnett moving on as the head coach of the University of Manitoba Bisons men’s hockey team.
The Warriors have also hired Layne Richardson as the team’s new athletic therapist and Elizabeth Black joins the organization as Game Day and Special Events manager.
Richardson joins the Warriors after completing his degree in athletic therapy at the University of Winnipeg. The Penticton, B.C. product spent the past season with the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League.
Richardson has also served as a Western Hockey League linesperson since 2018.
Richardson takes over from Brooke Kosolofski, who joined the Saskatchewan Roughriders training staff at the end of the 2022-23 season.
Black is originally from Regina and is a recent graduate of York University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Fine Arts honours in Screenwriting and a Bachelor of Arts honours in Communication and Media Studies.
She comes to the Warriors after spending this season working with the Toronto Blue Jays’ game day staff.
Black takes over from Hayley Hart-Rushinko, who took on the role of communications and economic development officer for the City of Moose Jaw late last season.
The Warriors open their 2023 training camp on Thursday, Aug. 31 at the Moose Jaw Events Centre
