COACHES
sunfish 2023 COACHING TEAM
Olivia Roschat is our Club/Swim Head Coach. This will be her first year as Club Head Coach and the Club is excited to have her lead our members and coaches. She is currently in her second year at UVIC pursuing a B.A in Psychology and Environmental Sciences and has been swimming for their Varsity Swim Team. She was the Assistant Swim Head Coach in 2022 and has been swimming with Sunfish starting as a Little Fishy. She also began her coaching career with Sunfish at age 13. She has had many successful years at BCSSA Swimming Provincials with podium placements in both individual and relay team events.
She has qualified and competed at USports Championships with UVIC in 2022 and 2023. She also competed at Bell Swimming Canada's National Trials in 2022. She is also a two-time recipient of the Canada West Student Community Service award for volunteer work and academic successes.
Email: oliviaroschat@ndsunfish.com
She has qualified and competed at USports Championships with UVIC in 2022 and 2023. She also competed at Bell Swimming Canada's National Trials in 2022. She is also a two-time recipient of the Canada West Student Community Service award for volunteer work and academic successes.
Email: oliviaroschat@ndsunfish.com
Aleks Oclarino is our Assistant Head Swim Coach and a senior swimmer who is hard to miss as he clearly has the best hair in all of sunfish. He is a coach who believes that any swimmer can be an excellent swimmer with hard work, commitment and focus. He has received top Regional and Provincial rankings in swimming. He has also been one of our coaches for several years, starting off as Volunteer Coach. He is currently attending University of Victoria.
Cameron Hexter will be coming back to Sunfish as the Water Polo Head Coach. He is in his second year at the University of Toronto where his University Water Polo Team has won the OUA Championship. Most recently, Cameron has played and will continue to play for Canadian Junior Men’s National Team. Cameron was also a successful water polo player with the Fraser Valley Water Polo Club for many years.
Isabel Howie is a swim coach and the Assistant Head Coach of our water polo program. Isabel was a competitive swimmer with PSW for 8 years, and competed at the provincial and national level. Isabel also played high performance water polo with Fraser Valley water polo for 4 years. She is currently attending the University of Victoria where she plays water polo and studying Biology and Psychology
Sophia Howie is a Senior Water Polo Coach. She has been playing water polo for many years and has been swimming for over 10 years initially with WRASA and then PSW. She currently plays for Fraser Valley Water Polo and in 2022 her 17U team won the National Championships.
Cohen Coughlin is both a Senior Swim Coach and U10 - U14 Water Polo Coach. He has been playing with the Fraser Valley Water Polo Club for 6 years and has swam competitively with Sunfish for 8 years. He is a regional gold medalist in 100m butterfly, and has swam provincially for numerous strokes. During his time in Fraser Valley his team placed bronze in Western champions, followed by a silver the next year. Cohen is currently in his last year in the IB program of Seaquam Secondary School.
Ryder Coughlin is both a Junior Swim Coach and U10/U12 water polo coach. He has been swimming and playing water polo with Sunfish since he was a little fishy. He He is also playing for Fraser Valley Water Polo Club where he is currently playing on both 17U and 19U/Senior water polo teams.
Jenna Dickie is our Artistic Swimming Head Coach. Jenna has been involved in the sport since 2013; in the six years she spent competing for the BC Aquasonics and Pacific Wave Synchro, she earned 11 regional and four provincial first place titles. Jenna’s greatest accomplishment is her National Gold title that she and her team won in 2019; after that great success, Jenna chose to step back from swimming and focus more on furthering her artistic swimming coaching portfolio. She is currently studying at Universitry of Victoria pursuing a B.Sc in Mathematics.
Email: jennadee3@gmail.com
Email: jennadee3@gmail.com
Anaya Jhutti and Karina Aujla are Junior Coaches for Artistic Swimming. Both have been competing in the sport with many years with Anaya at BC Aquasonics and Karina is a National Stream Artistic Swimmer with Caprice Artistic Swim Club.
Dea Cenolli is one of our new junior coaches . She started with Sunfish at age 5 yrs old and is one of our senior members who has had both Regional and Provincial medals for swimming and water polo. She currently plays high performance water polo with Surrey Water Polo. Her best strokes are 200m Individual Medley and 100m Freestyle.
Evan Bayley is one of our new junior coaches. He is one of our senior members who has had both Regional and Provincial medals for swimming and water polo. He currently plays lacrosse for Surrey Lacrosse and water polo for Fraser Valley Water Polo. His best strokes are 200m Individual Medley and 100m Freestyle.
Matthew Royer is one of our new junior coaches. He started with Sunfish at age 7yrs old and is one of our senior members who has had both Regional and Provincial medals for swimming and water polo. He currently plays with Fraser Valley Water Polo. His best strokes are 100m Butterfly and 100m Freestyle. In 2022, he won provincial gold medal for 100m butterfly.
Noah Oclarino is one of our new junior coaches. He started with Sunfish at age 4.5 yrs old and is one of our senior members who has had both Regional and Provincial medals for swimming. He currently plays U15 AAA hockey with Valley West Giants. His best strokes are 100m Backstroke and 200m Individual Medley.
Mia Mori is one of our new junior coaches. She started with Sunfish at age 6yrs old and is one of our senior members who has had both Regional and Provincial medals for swimming and water polo. She currently plays for Surrey Water Polo. Her best stroke is 100m Freestyle.
Adam Rashed is one of our new junior coaches. He started with Sunfish at age 5 yrs old and is also one of our senior members who has had both Regional and Provincial medals for swimming and water polo. He currently plays high performance water polo with Fraser Valley Water Polo and in 2022 his 17U team were Western Champions. His best strokes are 200m Individual Medley and 100m Freestyle. In 2022, he won provincial gold for 200m Individual Medley.
Keithan To is one of our new Development coaches. He started with Sunfish at age 9yrs old and is one of our senior members who has had both Regional and Provincial medals for swimming. He currently plays high performance soccer with Coastal. His best stroke is 100m Breaststroke.
Adie Silva is one of our new Development coaches. She started swimming at age of 5 with Tritons and then pursued winter swimming with Pacific Sea Wolves and came to Sunfish in 2022 for our water polo program. She currently plays for Fraser Valley Water Polo. Her best strokes are 100m Butterfly and 100m Breaststroke.
Jonaas Landry is one of our new Development Coaches.
He started with Sunfish at age 6 yrs old and is one of our senior members who has had both Regional and Provincial gold medals for swimming. He currently plays hockey with NDMHA. His best strokes are 100m Backstroke and 200m Individual Medley.
He started with Sunfish at age 6 yrs old and is one of our senior members who has had both Regional and Provincial gold medals for swimming. He currently plays hockey with NDMHA. His best strokes are 100m Backstroke and 200m Individual Medley.
Arden Pan, Daniel Chen, Lily Rashed, Kate Kishor and Eden Bayley are our Volunteer Coaches for the summer session. Sunfish looks forward to developing this group as part of our ongoing priority for coach succession.
INTERESTED IN BEING A VOLUNTEER OR COACH?
Sunfish takes great pride in our coaching staff. We believe we have one of the strongest and most dedicated coaching team in BCSSA.
Our coaches are top swimming and excel in their respective sports as well. They know how to coach because they know how to compete and we provide support and on-going mentorship and feedback!
In addition to being great athletes, every Sunfish coach brings their own set of credentials whether they are certified through NCCP National Coaching levels and/or Life Saving BC certification through swim and lifesaving instructor, first aid and other related Coaching Association of Canada courses.
In helping build a greater and bigger community within the Club, many Sunfish coaches also began as Little Fishy swimmers/players who can relate to their membership and have progressed their way from being a volunteer coach to being a junior/senior coach who have also spent several years learning from our Head Coaches.
If you are interested in being a Coach, send an email to vpcoaching@ndsunfish.com and take the first step by volunteering.
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LEARNING PATHS FOR OUR COACHES
(still under review)
coach hiring
Deadline for summer positions is January 13, 2023 or until positions are filled.
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