After being a part of the figure skating community for nearly 40 years, I have done more than just skate. Being a competitive figure skater in Alberta through the 90’s, and after getting my Quad Gold (Gold Figures, Gold Freeskate, Gold Dance and Gold Skating Skills) I began my path to becoming a certified figure skating coach. My first coaching job was in Fort McMurray when I was 18 years old, and continued to coach within the Edmonton area for the first few years of my coaching. After having my sons in my early 20s, we moved our family out to a smaller community in the North East region of Alberta. This is where I honed my coaching career, and developed my coaching life to offering supreme training in the smaller communities that always struggle for good coaching simply due too the travel required.

After a 20 year career I was forced to retire from my coaching career due too a fibromyalgia diagnosis. At this point I decided to reinvent myself as a Figure Skating official with Skate Canada. I’m now nearly a Sr. Sectional level official, and will be working on my next promotion over the coming couple of seasons. I was also a skating mom to my one son who was a competitive figure skater until covid became to much for him to maneuver through during his last couple years of high school as well as his ever growing work schedule. When I could be “just a mom”, I also became a volunteer executive member of numerous skating clubs. I continued to work with smaller skating clubs that didn’t have as many opportunities as some of the larger city skating clubs.

Being the athlete whom had little natural talent (not many 6 foot tall female skaters out there), I have learned many tools over my 40 years with the sport that can help athletes of all shapes, and sizes. I can also navigate within all sports, to work through some of the hardest challenges that athletes face. As sports progress and morph in this new era of athletics, we have to learn to adapt and overcome. I’ve been the underdog, and I’ve been the one person that many of my students learned early on, that they could count on to always support them no matter what.

Even with my own family, I had 3 sons for the last 10+ years all navigating different paths with athletics. One son in Ju-jitsu that at times was never given the credit he deserved for the hard work he put in over the 8 years he trained. The other leaving hockey early on to try and reach success in school sports, to then always be the smallest on the team when he finally made the teams. Then the youngest in figure skating, who had to learn to work with other coaches after I retired, and never receiving the same support within his ability prior to covid. Being the parent can often be just as hard as being the athlete when we see certain things or results.

I look forward to helping all athletes to keep fighting for their dreams, to conquer their goals, as well as surpass and exceed their own dreams and expectations of what they even thought possible.

Professional Achievements & Qualifications:
– Gold Figure (discipline from the 90s)
– Gold Freeskate
– Gold Dance
– Gold Skating Skills
– Bronze Rhythm and Silver Interpretive Dance (tests from the 90s)
– Ballet Trained
– Drama and musicality trained
– Senior Sectional Official
– Helped grow Professional Skate figure skating department at West Edmonton location (1998)
– Developed United Cycles figure skating department Edmonton, Alberta (2000-2003)
– Level 2 Coach in Figure Skating (ISPC) Coaching Association of Canada
– Nearly 30 years experience in small business and marketing
– 20 years experience as club development and growth experience with non profit organizations
– Volunteer with Skate Canada and Skate Ab/NWT/Nun
– Gold Assessor Trained
– 30 years experience with goal planning
– 38 years experience in figure skating