COACHES
2023 sunfish COACHING TEAM
Olivia Roschat is our Club/Swim Head Coach. She is currently in her third year at UVIC pursuing a B.A in Psychology and Environmental Sciences and has been swimming for their Varsity Swim Team. She 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. This past summer she won Provincial gold for 100m backstroke and bronze for 200m freestyle relay.
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 started as a Little Fishy and has also been one of our coaches for several years. He is currently attending University of Victoria.
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Cameron Hexter is the Water Polo Head Coach. He is in his third 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.
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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
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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.
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 University of Victoria pursuing a B.Sc in Mathematics.
Email: jennadee3@gmail.com |
Anaya Jhutti and Karina Aujla are 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.
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Evan Bayley is one of our junior coaches. He started as a Little Fishy and is 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. His best strokes are 200m Individual Medley and 100m Freestyle.
Adie Silva is one of our Junior 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 and swim program. She currently plays with Fraser Valley Water Polo. Her best stroke is 100m Breaststroke, 100m Backstroke and 100m Freestyle.
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Adam Rashed is one of our junior coaches. He started as a Little Fishy and is 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. His best strokes are 200m Individual Medley, 50m and 100m Freestyle.
Keithan To is one of our Junior Coaches. He started as Junior Fish 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.
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Matthew Royer is one of our junior coaches. He started as a Little Fishy 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 50m/100m Butterfly and 100m Freestyle.
Mia Mori is one of our junior coaches. She started as a Little Fishy 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 strokes are 50m/100m Freestyle and 100m backstroke.
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Dea Cenolli is one of our junior coaches. She started as a Little Fishy 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 Backstroke.
Noah Oclarino is one of our junior coaches. He started as a Little Fishy and is one of our senior members who has had both Regional and Provincial medals for swimming. He currently plays U17 AAA hockey with Valley West Giants. His best strokes are 100m Backstroke and 200m Individual Medley.
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Jonaas Landry is one of our new Junior Coaches. He started as as Little Fishy 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, 50m/100m freestyle and 200m Individual Medley.
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Arden Pan, Lily Rashed, Kate Kishor, Eden Bayley, Neil Zhou, Alex Zhou are Volunteer Coaches. Sunfish looks forward to developing this group as part of our ongoing priority for coach succession.
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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 PATHWAYS FOR SUNFISH COACHES
List of courses required
Sunfish coaching paths are guided by the NCCP Streams
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coach hiring
We are now accepting resumes and cover letters for our 2024 summer coaching positions. Deadline is January 12, 2024. Email your interest to vpcoaching@ndsunfish.com
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