Coaches Corner
The coaching staff would like to welcome everyone back for another successful and fun filled season of skating. We have many exciting skating activities planned in the months ahead and can’t wait to begin implementing them. We will continue to strive for excellence in all levels of skating from our CanSkate A & B to our senior level competitors. As always, we are available after skating to answer any questions you might have. Feel free to give us a call at home. There isn’t anything we like more than talking about skating!
Professional Coaches
Our coaching staff is certified which means that they have completed components of the National Coaching Program (NCPP) from Level 1 to Level 5. The NCPP is a 5 level educational program for coaches in over 60 sports. Levels 1-3 cover three components of coaching: Theory, Technical and Practical. Levels 4 and 5 prepare coaches for roles in national and international sport with high performance athletes.
- NCPP Level 2 Certified in all disciplines including Dance, Freeskate, Pairs and Singles.
- Level 3 Theory and Technical
BETH LOCHHEAD
beth.lochhead@yahoo.com- Provincial Certified
- National Trained
GRAYSON LOCHHEAD
gray.lochhead@gmail.comFREELANCE - Thursday
HARNESS TRAINING - Thursday
CanPowerSkate - Thursday
- CanPowerSkate Certified
- CanSkate Certified
- Regional Certified
Grayson was a competitive ice dancer for 10 years, with 4 of those years spent representing Canada!
MELISSA BECKER
melissa.becker5@hotmail.comGROUP COACH - CanSkate Friday
- CanPowerSkate trained
- CanSkate Coach Certified
- NCCP Regional Certified
- StarSkate 1-5 Assessor Certified
Melissa has a Bachelor of Applied Health Sciences: Exercise Science & Health Promotion, is a registered Kinesiologist, Joga Coach and has 7 years experience as a skating coach. She completed 5 Gold Skating Tests: Freeskate, Dance, Skills, Interpretive, Pairs Interpretive. She also skated on Pre-Novice Synchronized Skating team from 12-18 years old, and continue to skate with EnergIce Adult 2 Synchro team out of Woodstock
AIDEN DOTZERT
adotzert@outlook.comGROUP COACH - Wednesday and Friday CanSkate
- CanSkate trained
Aiden has been a competitive ice dancer for the past 8 years and continues to compete nationally at the Junior level. He also competed nationally in synchronized skating.
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KATELYN FRASER
katelynfraser16@gmail.com
GROUP COACH - Monday & Tuesday StarSkate, Tuesday & Wednesday CanSkate
Completed Gold Skills, Dance and Interpretive Skating
I started skating when I was 3 years old and continued to do so until my early adult years. Being a program assistant has definitely opened my eyes to the idea of being a figure skating coach as I love teaching others and watching many young skaters succeed! Looking forward to a great season and coaching many new faces!
MELISSA WILDE
melissawilde@live.ca
- CanSkate Coach Certified
- Gold Skills, Dance and Interpretive
JILL WARD
GROUP COACH - Thursday StarSkate
EMMA PULLEN
GROUP COACH - Thursday StarSkate
JACLYNNE MCINTYRE
j_shanes@hotmail.com
FREELANCE - Monday and Thursday StarSkate
- NCCP Level 2 Certified
- Level 3 Theory and Technical
- Gold Skills, Freeskate, Dance and Interpretive
- Novice Competitive
PAULA KEON MACDONALD
cdnonice@rogers.com
FREELANCE - Tuesday and Saturday Freelance Coach (Thamesford)
- - NCCP Canskate Certified
- - NCCP Level 1 Certified
- - Harness Trained
20 years Coaching Experience all disciplines (free skate, dance, skills, interpretive, synchro)
DAWN BROKERS
atdawns@yahoo.com
FREELANCE - Thursdays
- CanSkate Trained
- Certified Regional Coach
I can coach all disciplines, specializing in dance. I enjoy my own training, continuing my education and many other sports and activities which lends itself to me being able to offer many levels and styles of understanding, teaching and learning to all skaters