Talk about deja vu, first you lose your head coach and now you lose your star player. The university of Fraser Valley Cascades star player Joel Friesen has announced that he will be leaving the program to join former Cascades Head Coach Barnaby Craddock.

The 6’4” guard will have to redshirt the upcoming season due to transfer rules, but he’ll be eligible to make his Golden Bears debut in 2013-14.

Friesen said Craddock’s departure caused him to evaluate his options. His goal is to become a high school teacher, teaching phys-ed and/or French, but he’d been unable to switch from UFV’s bachelor of arts program to kinesiology after applying multiple times.

At the U of A, he’s already been accepted into the faculty of education.