| Archery |
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 Joan McDonald ChPC
Joan McDonald ChPC, is making her fourth trip to the Summer Olympic
Games as Team Canada’s Archery Coach. Joan will be leading a talented group
of four athletes to Beijing. The Men’s team is comprised of John
David (J.D.) Burnes, Crispin Duenas, and Jay Lyon. “We have our first
full men’s team at the Olympics since 1992. They are all young and
terrifically talented – anything is possible,” comments Joan.
Team Canada will also have one female archer at the Games but that athlete
will have to be the top archer at the qualifier this weekend. 2008 marks
Joan’s 50th year in the sport of archery. She was Canada’s
top female archer for many years and she competed internationally for 32
years (between 1962 and 1994). Joan couldn’t leave the sport when
she could no longer compete at the highest level in the sport. She decided
to take her knowledge and experience and share it with other athletes within
the sport. Joan coaches over 30 athletes with the Archers of Caledon and
Bullseye Buccaneers in Ontario. In 2000, before she left for the Olympic
Games in Sydney she made the decision to further her coaching education
and enroll in the National Coaching Institute Ontario, 2 years later she
emerged as a fully certified Level 4 coach. |
| Athletics |
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 Brent Fougner
Brent coached at the ’07 World Championships and his specialty
is coaching middle distance athletes. He currently holds the role of Director
at the Pacific Sport National Endurance Centre. He is a CIAU Coach of the
Year eight times and he also coached men and women in 10 CIAU Championships. |
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 Glenroy Gilbert ChPC
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Glenroy Gilbert formed along with Robert
Esmie, Bruny Surin and Donovan Bailey the best 4x100 m relay team in the
mid-1990s.
They won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in the 4x100m. Gilbert
made his debut at 21 in the 1988 Olympics, where competed in the Long Jump.
At the 1990 Commonwealth Games, Gilbert was eighth in the long jump and
reached the semifinal as a member of 4x100 m relay team at the 1992 Olympics.
Gilbert won his first medal at the 1993 World Championships, when the 4x100
relay team finished in third place. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games, he
won the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay and was fifth in 100 m. Gilbert
also competed in the bobsleigh at 1994 Winter Olympics, where he finished
fifteenth in the two-man bobsled and eleventh in the four-man bobsled.
After his retirement, Gilbert worked for a short time in radio in Ottawa.
He is also a coach for the Ottawa Lions Track & Field club, where he
coaches sprints and relays. |
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 Wynn Gmitroski ChPC
Wynn is currently a sport/fitness consultant in Victoria B.C and is the
Head Coach at the Pacific Sport Center in B.C. He has been an athletics
coach at three Olympic Games, six World Championships and three Commonwealth
Games. One of the athletes he is currently coaching is 800 m medal hopeful
Gary Reed. |
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 Martin Goulet ChPC |
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 Les Gramantik ChPC
Les Gramantik has over 34 years of coaching experience, starting in the
Sport School System in Romania in 1972, he is a former international pole
vaulter, and has coached internationally for Romania, Israel and Canada.
He has been selected to coach with the Canadian National team over 25 times
in various roles since 1984, including five Commonwealth Games, three Olympics
and eight World Athletics Championships. Les was Head Coach for the Pan-American
Games (2003) Commonwealth Games (2006) and three World Athletics Championships
(1999, 2001, 2005) and presently he is the Head Coach for the 2007 World
Championships, 2007 Pan American Games and 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Mr. Gramantik has coached over 50 Canadian national champions and medalists
in a variety of speed and power events, and Olympic and World Championships
medalists in both able-body and para-athletics. He is involved in all levels
of coaching education from NCCP to NCI, lectures at the University of Calgary
and has conducted numerous clinics around the world for both coaches and
athletes. Les was the Head Coach of University of Calgary for 18 years
and currently consulting with the Canadian Sport Centre Calgary. Mr. Gramantik
has a BA in Physical Education and a Masters in Coaching Science from the
University of Bucharest. |
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 Carla Nicholls ChPC
Carla is currently the Head Coach of the Track and Field Team at the
University of Regina. She is a leader in Women In Coaching for Athletics
Canada. This
will be Carla’s first Olympic Games as an Events Coach. |
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 Ingrid Ruys-George |
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 Larry Steinke ChPC
Larry coaches out of Chinook Track and Field Club in Lethbridge, Alberta.
He is currently the coach for Hammer Throw athlete for Jim Steacy. Larry
competed in javelin and shot put at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. |
| Badminton |
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 Jean-Paul Girard ChPC
Jean-Paul assumes the dual role of coach and manager at these games.
He was Head Coach of Canada’s 2007 Pan Am Games where Badminton players
won two gold, three silver and one bronze. He is coach at Centre National
Badminton, Club Excellence Yonex in Quebec. |
| Boxing |
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 Charles Stewart ChPC
Charles coaches Adam Trupish, Canada’s sole boxing entry at the
Beijing Games. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Stewart was personal coach
of Trupish
and Andrew Kooner. |
| Canoe/Kayak |
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 Graham Barton ChPC
Graham Barton was named High Performance Director of CanoeKayak Canada
in 1999. Since that time Graham has guided the organization’s high
performance program in a steady climb to be one of Canada’s most
successful Summer Olympic sports. Under Graham’s leadership, CanoeKayak
Canada is now regarded, both nationally and internationally, as a leader
in the development
of high performance athletes and coaches. Canada’s sprint canoekayak
program is consistently ranked in the top 5 nations in the world and was
Canada’s most successful sport at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games with
a third place global finish. Graham brings a wealth of experience to CanoeKayak
Canada’s high performance program. His previous experience as a national
team athlete, club coach, provincial coach, national development coach
and Olympic Team Coach have provided him with an extremely valuable perspective
on the needs of high performance athletes and coaches in paddling. An avid
supporter of coaching education, Graham co-authored many of the coaching
resources used by CanoeKayak Canada. He continues to be an influential
leader in the design and implementation of athlete and coach development
programs across Canada. Graham has a Bachelor Degree in Physical Education
from the University of Western Ontario. |
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 Tamas Buday Sr. ChPC
Tamas has an impressive canoeing background. He has attended every
World Championships since 1973, either as an athlete, or as a coach. In
1976,
Tamas won bronze medals in C-2 500m and C-2 1000m at the Montreal Olympic
Games. Tamas also won four World Championship titles while competing for
Hungary. Tamas moved his family to Canada in 1987 when he became National
Team Coach for CanoeKayak Canada. Tamas has been the National Canoe Coach
at the World Championships and Olympic Games for CKC since 1987. Tamas
coaches the men’s canoe discipline for CanadaKayak Canada and has
been instrumental in the development of one of the strongest canoeing teams
in the world. Tamas coaches, among others, his two sons Attila and Tamas
Jr. who are members of Canada's national team and have competed in three
Olympic Games. The pair narrowly missed qualifying for Beijing. A resident
of Mississauga, Tamas also coaches out of the Mississauga Canoe Club. |
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 Michael Creamer ChPC
Michael has been involved with the sport for over 20 years, beginning
as a summer paddler to now working with the National Team. Michael’s
coaching career started in 1998 when he was a club coach at the Pointe
Claire Canoe Club. In 2003, he became Assistant Head Coach for the club
and worked with Thomas Hall, who is now a member of the National Team competing
in Beijing. Michael graduated from McGill University in 2004 with a Bachelor
of Education degree specializing in Physical Education and Geography. He
has worked as a Phys-Ed teacher for grades 7 and 8 at Lauren Hill Academy
in Montreal, while continuing with his coaching duties at the club and
with Thomas Hall. Michael is a fully certified level 4 coach and became
a National level coach in 2005. That same year, he was named the Head Coach
for the Quebec canoe/kayak team at the 2005 Canada Games in Regina. His
national team coaching career with CanoeKayak Canada started in the winter
of 2006, and he was recently the Head Coach at the Pan Am Games in Rio
de Janeiro in 2007, where Canada’s up-and-coming athletes won a number
of medals. |
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 Mark Granger ChPC
Mark has been a coach in sprint canoekayak for over 20 years. A level
4 certified coach and coach conductor in the National Coaching Certification
Program, Mark is currently the National Men’s Kayak Coach for CanoeKayak
Canada and is Head Coach of the Centre national multi-sport, Montreal.
He currently lives in Chateauguay, Quebec. Mark works closely with a number
of athletes who are based in Quebec, including most recently Richard Dober
and Andrew Willows, silver medalists in the K-2 500m event at the 2006
World Championships and medal contenders in Beijing. Mark has been instrumental
in developing Canada’s Mens Kayak discipline to be one of the best
in the world. Some of Mark’s past achievements include coaching athletes
at several World Championships between 1989 and 1992. Mark was Head Coach
at the Junior World Championships in 1989. He was Quebec Provincial Coach
from 1985-1998. Mark competed with the Lachine Racing Canoe Club in his
youth and continues to compete recreationally. From 1992-1998, he was a
physical education teacher in Kahnawake, Quebec. During this time Mark
played a key role in revitalizing the Onake Canoe Club, which went on to
produce a number of national champions and increased interest in the sport
among aboriginal youth. |
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 Scott Oldershaw
Scott Oldershaw, world renowned as one of the best technicians in the
sprint paddling world, has been coaching at the Club, Provincial and National
Team level for more than twenty years. Scott recently joined CanoeKayak
Canada as a full time National Coach and is an important asset to CKC’s
Sprint High Performance Program. Scott has been coaching Adam van Koerverden
who trains at the Burloak Canoe Club in Burlington, Ontario where Scott
was Head Coach of the Club. Scott is also the personal coach for his talented
son, Mark Oldershaw, who will be competing in C-1 at the Olympic Games
in Beijing. Scott also served as Provincial Coach for Ontario for the past
nine years. The Oldershaw family is well known in the world of sprint canoeing.
A former Olympian, Scott competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Scott’s father and brothers are also former Olympians in the sport.
Scott’s contribution to paddling, to his club and to his athletes
is certainly without question and continues the legacy of the Oldershaw
family in Olympic paddling. |
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Kenna Robins ChPC
Kenna is currently Assistant Coach with the National Women’s
Kayak Team. Certified as a National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP)
Level
Four Coach, she coached at the 2002, 2003 and 2005 Junior World Championships.
Prior to her current position, Kenna was National Development Coach with
CanoeKayak Canada. Kenna followed her older brothers to the Rideau Canoe
Club in Ottawa and took up the sport in 1984. She was a member of the 1989
Canada Games team for Ontario and raced the K-2 and K-4 at the Junior World
Championships in 1991. She took on the role of Head Coach of the Rideau
Canoe Club from 1999-2003 and helped her club win the Canadian Championships
in 2002. She graduated with a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering
and worked as a hardware designer for 3 years. Kenna then went on to become
a teacher and taught high school physics and math, before taking on her
coaching roles with CKC. She is also certified in strength and conditioning
from NSCA. |
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 Michal Staniszewski ChPC
Michal is the head coach of the National Whitewater Slalom Team with Canoe
Kayak Canada. Born and raised in Drzewica, Poland he currently lives in
Gatineau, Quebec. Michal was a member of the Polish National Whitewater
team for fifteen years. He was also World Junior Champion in 1990, World
Senior Champion in 1995, second at the Senior World Championships in 1999
and he was the Olympic Silver medalist in the C-2 category at the 2000
Olympic Games in Sydney. Michal retired from competition following the
Sydney Olympic Games and quickly transitioned to coaching. In 2001, Canoe
Kayak Canada and the Ottawa River Runners Club jointly hired him from Poland.
From 2001 until 2004 he was primarily responsible for the Whitewater Slalom
Development Program in Canada and was Head Coach of the Ottawa River Runners
Club. Following the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens where he was a National
Coach, he became National Head Coach for Whitewater Slalom in Canada. Since
then he has been leading and preparing the Canadian National Senior Team
for the Beijing Olympic Games. Michal completed his Coach/Instructor Diploma
in Poland at the University in Cracow and recently graduated from the NCCP
level 4 High Performance Coaching Program in Toronto. |
| Cycling |
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 Tanya Dubnicoff ChPC
Tanya was an international cyclist for 12 years. She was a three-time Canadian
Olympian in sprint cycling for the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Games. She is currently
the Head Coach of the National Cycling Centre at the Olympic Oval in Calgary. |
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 Daniel Proulx |
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 Houshang Amiri ChPC
Houshang was appointed Head Coach of the Canadian Cycling Association’s
six training centres. He won national titles and several international
medals for his native Iran and also cycled professionally for HRC team
in Hanover, Germany. |
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 Vincent Jourdain ChPC |
| Diving |
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 Mitchell Geller ChPC
Currently holds the role of Chief Technical Officer and High Performance
Director at Diving Canada. Mitchell was a diver on the National Team and
has stayed with the sport after retirement. He was Head Coach of the Olympic
Diving Team at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
Mitch has been credited with improving Canada’s National Diving Team
consistently, with many World Championships, World Titles and Olympic Medals. |
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 Cesar
Henderson ChPC
César Henderson has coached in Montréal since 1986. As
a diver, he participated at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games and competed
at the Pan American Games in 1979 and 1983. On April 24, 2000 César
was named Athlete of the Century in aquatics for the Dominican Republic.
César is a certified level III coach working to complete his level
IV. He has coached at the 2003 and 2005 World Aquatics, 2003 Pan American
Games and 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. César is a six-time recipient
of Diving Canada’s Age Group Coach of the Year award and a finalist
with Michel Larouche at the 2003 Canadian Sport Awards for Coach of the
Year. |
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 Michel Larouche ChPC
Michel competed in international diving meets for 12 years, earning
two gold medals at the Canada Games in 1977 and having been recognized
as Canadian
Champion in 1976. He joined the CAMO Diving Club in 1985 and became head
coach three years later. A National Team coach since 1988, Michel currently
works with Olympic silver medallist and 3 time world champion Alexandre
Despatie. Michel has coached at the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games,
at seven World Championships and at four Pan American Games. Michel is
a nine-time winner of Diving Canada’s Senior Coach of the Year award,
a seven-time recipient of the Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence award, and
the first recipient of the Jack Donohue Coach of the Year award in 2003. |
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 Yihua Li ChPC
As an Olympic diver with the Chinese National team, Yihua won gold
in the springboard event and silver on the platform at the 11th World University
Games in 1981, and silver at the 1986 World Championships. She took the
springboard title at both the Ninth Asian Games in 1982 and the Third World
Cup in 1983. She was honoured by Swimming World magazine with the title
of Best Springboard Diver in 1983. Yihua moved to Canada in 1990. Ten years
later, she was named Diving Canada’s Senior Coach of the Year and
received the Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Award. She is the former
coach of Anne Montminy, two-time medallist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics,
and Olympian Myriam Boileau. Yihua coaches world champion and two-time
Olympic medallist, Emilie Heymans as well as National Team divers Arturo
Miranda, Melanie Rinaldi and Reuben Ross. |
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 Tommy McLeod ChPC
Canadian Junior Diving Coach of the Year in 1998, 1999, and 2003, Tommy
has been coaching at the Boardworks Diving Club since 1997. He has been
a B.C. provincial team coach since 1998 and a national junior team coach
since 1994. Tommy`s coaching credentials include 20 junior national medalists,
10 juniors international medalists, and one Canada Games medalist. These
include Riley McCormick and Rachel Kemp, who, under Tommy’s tutelage,
became the youngest Canada Games athlete and the youngest Canada Games
medalist in history, respectively. Tommy’s divers currently hold
11 provincial records and four national records. As a diver, Tommy trained
at the Pointe-Claire Diving Club in Montreal, Quebec, the Thunder Bay Diving
Club in Ontario, and the CAMO Diving Club in Montreal, Quebec. He was on
the Canadian national team from 1990 to 1992 and placed 11th at the World
Cup in 1991. |
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 Igor Paskov ChPC
Igor is a former member of the USSR National Diving Team & Republic
of Belarus National Diving Team. Igor has sixteen years of coaching experience
in diving and swimming, and fourteen years as a competitive athlete. He
holds an MA degree in Physical Education and Sport, is a certified lifeguard,
a tumbling coach and a former stuntman. |
| Equestrian |
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 Norbert Van Laak ChPC |
| Fencing |
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 Jean-Marie Banos ChPC |
| Field Hockey |
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 Louis Mendonca ChPC
Louis started playing Field Hockey at the age of six on the streets
of Karachi, Pakistan. He has been involved with Field Hockey in Ontario
since
1985. He coached Ontario’s U-18, U-21 and Senior Teams and he coached
the Jr. National Program since 1994. Most recently he coached the team
to a first place finish at the Pan American Games in 2007, in Brazil. |
| Football |
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 Ian Bridge ChPC |
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 Even Pellerud ChPC
Even holds the record for most matches coached at the FIFA Women’s
World Cup – 21 from 1991 to 2007. He is also the first person to
coach two teams at the FIFA World Cup – Canada and Sweden. He coached
Canada to 4th place at the 2003 FIFA World Championship. Even has a World
Cup win and an Olympic Bronze medal. |
| Gymnastics |
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 Edouard Iarov ChPC
Edouard became the Head Coach in Canada in 2000. He is a native of
Kazalhstan and he trained several top gymnasts in Russia and France. |
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 Carol-Angela Orchard ChPC |
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 Tony Smith ChPC |
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 David Ross ChPC
David a trampoline gymnast and now National Coach helped coached Karen
Cockburn to two Olympic medals at the 2004 Olympics and they are back again
in Beijing to medal yet again. |
| Judo |
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 Nicolas Gill ChPC
Canada’s high performance judo team has a brand new look this
year. It is now led by two-time Olympic medallist Nicolas Gill, who is
making
his first trip to the Olympic Games as head coach. His first major experience
in such a capacity was at the 2007 Pan American Games. Gill has competed
in the past four Olympic Games, capturing silver in 2000 and bronze in
1992. He was flag bearer for Canada in Athens four years ago. He will now
make the transition from athlete to coach and head a Canadian squad that
will feature one of his former teammates and an Olympic rookie. |
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 Sergio Pessoa ChPC
Sergio competed in the Judo competition at the 1988 Olympic Games as
a member of the Brazil National Team. He has been a coach with Judo Canada
since 2007 and he guided athletes at last year’s World Championship
and Pan American Games. |
| Rowing |
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 Alan Morrow
For many years, Hamilton, Ontario native, Al Morrow, has been at the helm
of Canada's women's rowing program - coaching World and Olympic medallists
including Marnie McBean, Kathleen Heddle, Emma Robinson, Alison Korn, Lesley
Thompson and many other talented women. In 1999, the London, Ontario-based
coach was recognized by the world rowing federation (FISA) as Coach of
the Year. The women's eight brought home a bronze medal from the Sydney
2000 Olympic Games. Morrow was recently inducted into the Canadian Sports
Hall of Fame (2006). He is now concentrating on the development of the
women's program. |
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 Terry Paul ChPC
As a cox for the 1992 men's eight, Terry Paul helped the crew bring home
gold for Canada from the Barcelona Games. Since then, he has gained much
experience as a coach in Canada with the men's program and with the Swiss
National Team. Terry coached the 2002 World Cup gold medallist lightweight
men's four, and women's double, and is now in charge of the Under-23 and
non-Olympic programs. In 2006, he coached the Under-23 men's eight to a
gold medal and the senior coxed four to a silver medal at the World Championships. |
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 Michael Spracklen ChPC
Mike Spracklen has coached at the national level in Canada, the U.S. and
his native Great Britain. He has led the Canadian men's eight to wins at
the World Championships (2002, 2003 and 2007) and was named 2002 FISA Coach
of the Year. In the early 1990s, he also coached the Canadian men's eight
to a gold at the 1992 Olympics and was Silken Laumann's coach for both
the 1992 and the 1996 Olympics. In 2000, he served as chief coach (women)
in Great Britain - coaching the women's quad to a silver in Sydney. Spracklen,
who was recently named British Columbia Coach of the Year, is based in
Victoria, and is currently preparing the heavyweight men for the 2008 Olympics. |
| Sailing |
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 Ken Dool ChPC
Head Coach of the Canadian Sailing Team and is currently the High Performance
Director with the Canadian Yachting Association. In his youth Ken sailed
in both the Laser and Finn events. He has Olympic and World Championship
experience behind him and he had a large role in comprising this year’s
National Team. |
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 Tommy Wharton ChPC |
| Shooting |
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 Patrick Haynes
Patrick has been a coach since 1989 and is an Advanced Internation Pistol
Coach. He is the current Head Coach of the Ontario Junior Psitol Team and
is a shooting coach with the CNRA club in Toronto. He has coached at 8
World Cup events from 2004-2008. Beijing marks his first Olympic Games. |
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 Cory Niefer ChPC
Cory competed in the men’s rifle event at the 2007 Pan American
Games. He recorded four top-10 finished at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
and competed
at the 2005 World Championships. |
| Softball |
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 Lonni Alameda ChPC
Alameda has helped develop Canada’s National Softball Team and served
as Assistant Coach since 2004. She is the Head Coach at the University
of Nevada – Las Vegas for women’s softball. |
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 Don Bates
Don has been helping coach the pitching staff of Canada’s women’s
softball team, a staff that is now the strongest in the world. |
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 James Peterson |
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 Lori Sippel ChPC
Lori is the Head Coach of the Women’s Softball team in Beijing. Sippel
pitched for Canada at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games and Canada finished
5th. She was an athletes with the National Team from 1983 to 1996. She
is a coach with the University of Nebraska – Lincoln since 1989. |
| Swimming |
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 Randy Bennett ChPC
Director of Swimming – Island Swimming, Victoria Head Coach – VASC
(National & Senior 2 Groups). Randy came to IS at the start of the
2002/2003 season from the UBC/Pacific Dolphin Swim Club. In his first year
he was named to the 2002-2003 Swim BC Coach of the Year for both the 13-14
and 15-16 Age Groups. Recently at the 2005 BC Coaches Conference, Randy
was once again awarded the Swim BC Coach of the Year honours for the 16 & Under
category for the 2004-2005 swim season. Another coaching career highlight
for Randy, came in 2000, when he was an assistant coach for Team Canada
during the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
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 Jan Bidrman ChPC
Head coach of the Calgary Academy of Swimming Excellence 2006 University
of Calgary National Swimming Centre since 1997. He was an Olympian with
Sweden’s National Team for the 1988 Seoul and 1992 Barcelona Olympic
Summer Games. He was head coach of the South African Olympic Team for the
1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta. Since the 2000 Olympic Summer Games
in Sydney Jan has been a coach with Team Canada. |
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 Thomas Johnson ChPC
Currently holds the position of Head Coach at the National Swimming
Center in Vancouver, coached swimmer Brent Hayden (Mission, BC) to a Gold
medal
in the 100m freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatic Championships in Melbourne,
Australia. Hayden was also part of the Bronze medal 4x200 freestyle relay
with UBC Dolphins teammate Brian Johns (Richmond, BC), also coached by
Johnson. Tom Johnson has one of the most impressive coaching records in
Canadian swimming. He’s been named to Canada’s coaching staff
at seven Olympic Games, nine World Championships and eight Commonwealth
Games. Nationally his clubs have won 15 overall national team titles and
21 Canadian Interuniversity Sport Crowns (12 for men and nine for women). |
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 Pierre Lafontaine ChPC
Pierre was appointed CEO of Swimming Canada in 2005 and he has had a lot
of success in the pool at the past Olympic Games. He was the Head Coach
of the Australian Institute of Sport where he led four Australian swimmers
to the podium at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. At the 2000 Olympic Games
in Sydney he coaches U.S. swimmers to eight medals. He has been the Head
or Assistant Coach at swim clubs in Montreal, Calgary, Atlanta, Phoenix
and Canberra, Australia. |
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 Benoit Lebrun ChPC
Benoit is the National Centre Coach in Montreal. He has coached at
the ’07
Pan American Games, the ’07 World Championships, the ’06 Commonwealth
Games, the ’92 Olympic Games and the ’82 Commonwealth Games. |
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 Paul Midgley
Paul is the Head Coach and High Performance Director with the London
Aquatic Club, he has held the title of Head Coach since 1984. Paul’s
swimmers have set numerous provincial and national records, as well as
a generous
representation on National Teams. LAC swimmers have represented Canada
at Pan-Pacific, Pan-Am, Commonwealth and Olympic games. In 2002, Paul also
became the Head Coach for the University of Western Ontario Swimming Teams.
He looks forward to continuing his work with both organizations and moving
his groups into the new UWO Aquatic Centre in Fall 2008. |
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 Josez Nagy ChPC
Josef was a member of the Canadian coaching staff for the ’07
Pan American Games. He has coached with a number of different countries
including
Spain, the United States, Hungary, and Canada at many different International
events over the last two decades. |
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 Claude
St-Jean ChPC
A level three NCCP coach, Claude St-Jean has been coaching for 35 years.
He was coach of the year for Swimming Canada in 1996 and 2006 and for
the Quebec Swimming Federation from 1997 to 1999 and 2001 to 2006. He
coached Marianne Limpert to a sliver medal at the 1996 Olympic Games
in Atlanta and Karine Chevrier to silver at the 1997 Pan-Pacific Championships
as well as to an Olympic participation in Sydney. |
| Synchronized Swimming |
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 Denise Sauve
Denise has been a Coach and Choreographer of Synchronized Swimming
since 1978. She is well known as Montreal Synchro's Club Coach but also
for her
choreopher talent and work with Cirque du Soleil. In Coaching, Denise was
the Assistant Coach with the National A Team at the 2005 FINA World Aquatic
Championships in Montreal. Her Choreography experience includes Opening
Ceremonies at the 2005 FINA World Aquatic Championships, Cirque du Soleil's "O" as
well as other international Cirque du Soleil Shows. Denise began swimming
synchronized swimming 28 years ago and competed for her club, the Montreal
Synchro Club, at International events and Nationals. Synchro Canada's National
Team Program was not established until 1982. Denise is Marie-Pier Boudreau-Gagnon's
Club Coach and coached her in Solo at the Commonwealth Games. Denise's
sister Julie, who coached Olympic Medallist Sylvie Frechette to Gold at
the 1986 and 1990 Commonwealth Games. |
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 Julie Sauve ChPC
Renowned synchronized swimming coach Julie Sauvé, whose 31-year
career is studded with more than 100 international medal-winning performances,
was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame on November 1, 2006. Her
training and choreographic innovations have propelled Canada to worldwide
domination of the sport though the 1980s and 1990s. Julie's career is inextricably
tied to 1992 Olympic solo gold medallist Sylvie Fréchette, whom
she coached for 22 years, and 1992 duet silver medalists Penny Vilagos
and Vicky Vilagos, whose careers with her spanned 18 years. “Julie
is a visionary in our sport. She has an instinct for detecting athletes
with talent and potential,” says Sylvie. “She can take raw
talent and develop it to the fullest and that is what she did with me and
the Vilagos twins. Everyone who works with her, coaches and athletes, is
touched by her passion; everyone learns something from her. We all worked
very hard, but at the same time, we had fun.” Julie was drawn to
synchro as a youngster in Montreal, inspired by her own charismatic coach,
Mariette Juitton, and went on to compete at national and international
events. An original member of the Club Aquatique Montréal Olympique
(CAMO), she began coaching at the club in the mid-1970s and joined Synchro
Canada's inaugural national program in 1982 after Sylvie won the national
junior solo title. |
| Table Tennis |
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 Enlong Wang ChPC |
| Taekwondo |
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 Alain Bernier ChPC
Alain coached Canadian star Karine Sergerie at the 2007 World Championships,
where she claimed Canada’s first world title. Bernier has practiced
taekwondo for more than a quarter-century and has been a coach for the
last two decades. |
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 Woo Yong Jung ChPC |
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 Shin Wook Lim ChPC |
| Triathlon |
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 Joel Filliol |
| Water Polo |
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 Robert Couillard ChPC
Couillard has been coach of the Quebec team CAMO since 1978. He began his
national team coaching career in 1985, where he was the assistant coach
until 1990. He was the national team head coach from 1992 to 1994 and has
been head coach of the Quebec team from 1990 to 1992. Couillard is also
the current head coach of the National Development Centre in Montreal. |
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 Dragan Jovanovic ChPC
Jovanovic was named Senior Men’s Head Coach in May 2004. From 1978 – 2000
he was a water polo goaltender in the former Yugoslavia and he hopes to
improve Canada’s world ranking and set in place a system for the
men’s program. |
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 Gyula Toth
Gyula is the head coach of Canada’s Senior B Men’s Water Polo
team. He was the former head coach of Canada’s Junior Men’s
Water Polo Team and an Assistant at the 2006 Commonwealth Water Polo Championships. |
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 David McKay ChPC |
COACHES OF CANADA
