Acadia women’s volleyball head coach Michelle Wood has been named the Marilyn Pomfret Award recipient for 2024 as the U SPORTS women’s volleyball coach of the year.
Announced on Wednesday night as part of the U SPORTS women’s volleyball championship awards ceremony, Wood became only the third AUS coach to receive the award.
Last week, the Axewomen defeated the Huskies 3-0 and came away with their first AUS championship banner, much to the delight of the screaming fans. "This amazing group of student-athletes was able to accomplish our first AUS volleyball championship title and raise the standard for Acadia women’s volleyball," said Coach Michelle Wood.
The new Acadia University Inclusive Movement and Health Lab within the Acadia Athletics Complex will support continued work with the S.M.I.L.E. program and other programs and research for children.
You might say that author Amanda Peters has taken the long way home. The daughter of a Mi’kmaw father and a settler mother of European descent, Peters was raised in the Annapolis Valley but has lived and worked in Japan, South Korea, England and Scotland. Now, Peters is back home. In July 2023, she was hired as Associate Professor in the Department of English and Theatre as part of a cluster hire to increase the number of Indigenous and Black scholars at Acadia.
Dr. Késa Munroe-Anderson (’98, ’00) believes in being the change she wants to see. An associate professor in Acadia’s School of Education, she first came to Acadia as an international student from the Bahamas in 1995, earning a BA and an MA in English. Today, Munroe-Anderson is well known as a community-oriented, social justice educator and change agent. She practises an Africentric, anti-racist, and Black feminist/Womanist approach to research, teaching, and leadership.