WELCOME TO OUR SUMMER 2020 COACHES
Ashton Erickson will be returning as our Summer Club Head Coach. Ashton has been swimming since he was five, starting with the Sunfish Swim Club. During that time he has attended thirteen consecutive BCSSA Provincial Championships in both speed swimming and water polo. At those events he medaled a total of 23 times, including 11 golds. Ashton also earned several meet records, four Fraser South Regional Records, and one Provincial Record. He also participated on Water Polo Canada’s Youth National Team training roster twice. Ashton would later go on to swim on the UVIC Varsity Swim Team. He has previously coached at the Surrey Sea Lions Summer Swim Club and White Rock Wave Masters Swim Club. He had a great first year with us our newest Head Coach and we are looking forward to him continuing in our Club's successes.
Ashton currently attends UVIC in the winter where he is completing a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Math. He has also completed his National Lifeguard Pool Certification, Standard First Aid and is NCCP 1 Swimming - In Training.
Email: ashtonerickson@ndsunfish.com
Ashton currently attends UVIC in the winter where he is completing a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Math. He has also completed his National Lifeguard Pool Certification, Standard First Aid and is NCCP 1 Swimming - In Training.
Email: ashtonerickson@ndsunfish.com
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Our newest member to our Coaching team, is Brayden Kells who has taken the role of 1st Senior Coach/Assistant Head Coach and will directly work alongside our Head Coach and be supporting our other Senior Coaches. With his experience teaching youth about water safety and technique/stroke refinement—as well as an accomplished swim career, he will be a great addition to our Club. His experience extends from being a former competitive Surrey Knights Swim Club (achieving Senior National Level Ranking), selected to Team BC Swim Team and Coaching for White Rock Amateur Swim Association. With a passion for helping swimmers achieve their goals and his additional strengths as a previous winter competitive swimmers combined with his communication and organizational skills, we are certain he will thrive as our 1st Senior Coach.
Brayden has achieved National Coaching Certification Program (Level 1 Fundamentals Coach), Water Safety Instructor (WSI) and certified in CPR, basic first aid, and water rescue. Email: braydenkells@ndsunfish.com |
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Olivia Roschat is a Senior Coach this summer! This will be her fourth summer coaching, but she has continues to coach our fall/winter sessions for years. She is also a swimmer with the North Delta Sunfish for the past 10 years! She has qualified and medaled at both Regionals and Provincials for her high calibre of swimming. She enjoys teaching technique with positive feedback and passion. She is very excited to share her knowledge and love for the sport of swimming with the kids this summer!
She has completed her Bronze Cross, Water Safety Instructor and National Lifeguarding. Email: oliviaroschat@ndsunfish.com |
Oscar Ure is a Senior Coach this summer and is excited to share his passion for swimming. He has also continued to build his coaching skills and swimmer relationships during our fall/winter sessions. He has also qualified and medaled at both Regionals and Provincials. He believes in creating a positive environment through games and reinforcement and in providing group and individually focused feedback to ensure proper stroke technique. Coach Oscar has been swimming with the North Delta Sunfish for 8 years, and also has participated in water polo. He has attained distinction at the Provincial BCSSA meets on several occasions, and completed the Bronze Cross and Medallion courses as well as National Lifeguarding.
Email: oscarure@ndsunfish.com
Email: oscarure@ndsunfish.com
Junior Coaches for Summer 2020 will be: Aleks Oclarino, Cohen Coughlin, Owyn Jones and Taylor Saito. These coaches are some of our top skilled swimmers and we are very fortunate to have them share their skillset and passion for the sport with our young developing swimmers. They have continued to show interest and dedication in our coaching team and have taken the steps to pursue this path. All have completed the Bronze Cross and Medallion courses and have been Volunteer Coaches for several years.
Email: aleksanderoclarino@ndsunfish.com
Email: cohencoughlin@ndsunfish.com
Email: owynjones@ndsunfish.com
Email: taylorsaito@ndsunfish.com
**Unfortunately, Brandt LaVallee is unable to coach this summer but we look forward to his return in our next maintenance session.
Email: aleksanderoclarino@ndsunfish.com
Email: cohencoughlin@ndsunfish.com
Email: owynjones@ndsunfish.com
Email: taylorsaito@ndsunfish.com
**Unfortunately, Brandt LaVallee is unable to coach this summer but we look forward to his return in our next maintenance session.
** Unfortunately, our Head Coach is unable to coach this summer but we look forward to her return in our next maintenance session.
Our Water Polo Head Coach continues to be Terril Ashton. We are very fortunate to have her in our Club. Terril is a very accomplished water polo coach from local rating to an international national level in Australia. She is very eager to share her skillset, experiences and love for water polo with Sunfish. She has been a moving force in the local water polo community building Sunfish water polo awareness and is a key Club member in developing leaders.
Our Water Polo Head Coach continues to be Terril Ashton. We are very fortunate to have her in our Club. Terril is a very accomplished water polo coach from local rating to an international national level in Australia. She is very eager to share her skillset, experiences and love for water polo with Sunfish. She has been a moving force in the local water polo community building Sunfish water polo awareness and is a key Club member in developing leaders.
Adam Banarer is our Water Polo Assistant Head Coach. He has made great strides in building our Junior Water Polo team throughout our Fall/Winter seasons. He was a previous Sunfish swimmer and water polo player. He has continued to play high performance water polo with Fraser Valley Water Polo Club U19 team. We are looking forward to him continuing to be an integral member of our coaching team as well as in our priorities in building a bigger and stronger foundation of water polo players in our community.
He has completed his bronze cross medallion, national lifeguarding and CPR.
Email: adambanarer@ndsunfish.com
He has completed his bronze cross medallion, national lifeguarding and CPR.
Email: adambanarer@ndsunfish.com
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Alex Tharmapala is our Water Polo Junior Coach. He has been a great partner to Coach Adam building a strong junior team throughout our Fall/Winter seasons. He was a previous Sunfish swimmer and water polo player. He has continued to play high performance water polo with Fraser Valley Water Polo Club U19 team. We are looking forward to him continuing to be an integral member of our coaching team.
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**Unfortunately, we are unable to offer Artistic Swimming (previously known as synchronized swimming) at this time.
Our Artistic Swimming Head Coach is Jenna Dickie. She is enthusiastic about the sport of
synchronized swimming and has been doing synchar for 6 years. In her years of experience, she
have been coached by some of the best coaches in the nation including Susan Kemper, Tanya
Magee, Tina Naveri and Jennifer Koptie. She aims to bring the coaching techniques she has learned from these coaches to Sunfish. Jenna has been involved in Sunfish Synchro as a volunteer coach and a junior coach since summer 2016. She also swam for the Club in her early years till 2014 when she stopped to do synchro full time. She has always loved the community that this club has and how a lot of the swimmers could end up doing two or all three sports the club offers. Jenna has completed bronze medallion, bronze cross standard first aid, water safety instructor, NCCP Synchro Level 1 - In Training and national lifeguarding.
Our Artistic Swimming Head Coach is Jenna Dickie. She is enthusiastic about the sport of
synchronized swimming and has been doing synchar for 6 years. In her years of experience, she
have been coached by some of the best coaches in the nation including Susan Kemper, Tanya
Magee, Tina Naveri and Jennifer Koptie. She aims to bring the coaching techniques she has learned from these coaches to Sunfish. Jenna has been involved in Sunfish Synchro as a volunteer coach and a junior coach since summer 2016. She also swam for the Club in her early years till 2014 when she stopped to do synchro full time. She has always loved the community that this club has and how a lot of the swimmers could end up doing two or all three sports the club offers. Jenna has completed bronze medallion, bronze cross standard first aid, water safety instructor, NCCP Synchro Level 1 - In Training and national lifeguarding.