Meet our Coaches

WELCOME TO OUR SUMMER 2021 COACHES

Ashton Erickson will be continuing 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 has had 2 years with us as our Head Coach and helped us navigate through the Covid protocols since last April 2020 when we did our virtual training. We are looking forward to him continuing in our Club's successes.

Ashton currently attends UVIC and 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

Email : ashtonerickson@ndsunfish.com

Brayden Kells 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

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

Junior Swim Coaches are: Aleks Oclarino, Owyn Jones, Taylor Saito and Joselyn Jones. 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.

Joselyn Jones is a junior coach this summer. She has spent the past 2 years as a volunteer coach and is very
excited to use her skills to coach this summer. She has also been swimming for the past 10 years and this will
be her 11th summer with sunfish. She has qualified for provincials 8 consecutive years successfully medaling
in bronze, silver and gold. She enjoys helping kids develop their swimming skills and most importantly having
fun while doing so. She looks forward to another great summer with sunfish!

Email: aleksanderoclarino@ndsunfish.com
 Email: owynjones@ndsunfish.com
Email: taylorsaito@ndsunfish.com

Levente Mady will be the new Water Polo Head Coach. Levente has been swimming since he was five, starting with the Crisul Swim Club. During that time he did not attended any BCSSA Provincial Championships in either speed swimming and water polo. Levente also earned several records, including a Club World Record, a New Zealand Open Record and a couple of Canadian Records. He also participated on Water Polo Canada’s National Team program for a few years. Levente also swam on the University of Arkansas and University of Toronto Varsity Swim Teams. He has previously coached swimming and water polo at a bunch of different places from recreational to high performance programs. He is excited about joining the Sunfish program and having lotsa fun this summer.

Levente currently works at PIF as a futures trader. He has also completed his NCCP 2 Water Polo.

Isabel Howie is the U10and U12 waterpolo coach. Isabel swam competitively with the Pacific Sea Wolves for 7 years and joined summer swimming at the age of 10. Before moving into waterpolo, Isabel was invited to TeamBC training and was a provincial medalist in backstroke and many-time gold medalist in BCSSA.
In addition to individual placings, she has been on 3 provincial record-breaking relays in BCSSA. At age
11, Isabel joined the Sunfish waterpolo team, and later joined Fraser Valley high performance
waterpolo. Isabel has been coaching both waterpolo and swimming for the past 4 years, and has been
coaching with the North Delta Sunfish for 2 years. Isabel is looking forward to another great summer
with Sunfish Waterpolo!

Isabel has completed her Bronze Cross and National Lifeguard Certifications, and Standard First Aid.

Jenna Dickie will be returning as the Artistic Swimming (Synchro) 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 coaching portfolio. Jenna swam competitively for Sunfish until 2013, when she pursued synchro full-time, but she came back to volunteer in the summer of 2016, and she has been coaching for the club and rising through the ranks ever since. She is completing her NCCP level 1 Synchro certification, she is Aqua Go trained, and she has completed her National Lifeguard Certification. She graduated from Seaquam in April of 2021, and in the fall, she will start her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.
Email: jennadee3@gmail.com

Anaya Jhutti this year is our Junior Coach for Artistic Swimming (Synchro). Anaya Jhutti has been involved with this sport for 6 years and now wants to share all her knowledge with swimmers themselves. She has competed with the BC Aquasonics and enjoys teaching swimmers techniques by giving them helpful feedback and passion. Anaya shows dedication to helping swimmers as she has volunteered for the North Delta Sunfish multiple times. She is very excited to share her knowledge and love for the sport of Artistic Swimming with the swimmers this summer!
Email: anaya_jhutti@hotmail.com