University of Victoria Athletics

Women’s assistant coach Dave Dew enters his 10th season with the University of Victoria Vikes, bringing decades of international and regional experience to the women’s program. During the 2001-03 season he was head coach for the Canadian National Women’s U16 and U17 teams. From 2000-03, Dew was the head coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps women’s team where he set a league record for three seasons of 33-2-3, winning three Women's League Western Conference titles. He was also an assistant coach for the Canadian women’s 1994-95 World Cup team in Sweden.

From 1972 – 2008, Dew was involved with the Gorge Soccer Association in Victoria and became an assistant coach with Victoria Highlanders FC in 2008. He was elected head coach of the women’s program in 2010. During the 2013 Pacific Coast League season, Dew’s Highlanders squad opened the season 1-1-2 before going undefeated for the remaining 13 games of the season. 

In Dew's first season as assistant coach in 2005, the Vikes captured their first CIS national championship. Since, then, the Vikes have finished first in Canada West standings twice, winning the conference title in 2008. In 2012, the Vikes captured the CIS bronze medal.

Dew is a graduate of Canada's National Coaching Institue - Victoria (1990), Canadian Soccer Association 'B' License and National Coaching Certification Program Level 4.

Last updated Sept. 2014 by Kaitlyn Rosenburg