STARSKATE BASE COACHES
Take on and manage skaters
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Jenna Hodnefield
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Email: j.hodnefiel1@gmail.com
- Provincial Coach In-Training
- Regional Coach Certified
- Club Coach Certified
- Program Coordinator
- 10 yrs experience coaching CanSkate and STARSkate
- 7 yrs Program Assistant experience
- Gold Skills, Gold Interpretive, Gold Dance, Rhumba Diamond Dance, Senior Bronze FreeSkate Elements & Program, Accredited Star 7 Elements
- Experience coaching up to gold levels
- STAR competition coaching experience
- Coordinator - Devon Skating Club
- BSc in Agricultural Business Management
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Abi Seewald
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Email: a.seewald98@gmail.com
- Regional Coach Certified
- Club Coach Certified
- Program Coordinator
- 10 yrs experience coaching CanSkate, STARSkate, Competitive
- Diamond Dances, Gold Skills, Gold Interpretive, Senior Silver Freeskate (now Star 10 Freeskate)
- 4th, 6th at 2012 Nationals, two time Gold medalist at AB/NWT/NUN Sectionals Novice & Junior Ice Dance, 3-time Challenge competitor
- Experience coaching Star 1 to gold levels, diamond dance, and competitive.
- Specialized in choreography, footwork, and partner work.
- 16+ yrs Dance experience (RAD Ballet, Contemporary, Ballroom, Bharathanatyam and Bollywood)
- BSc, MPH, MD in progress
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Rhea Sherman
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Email: rheajsherman@gmail.com
- Regional Coach Certified
- Club Coach Certified
- CanPowerSkate Certified
- 9 yrs experience coaching CanSkate and STARskate
- 5 years program assistant experience
- Junior Silver Skills, Junior Bronze Freeskate, Junior Silver Dance and Bronze Interpretative
- Bachelor of Economics
- Bilingual (French - English)
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Elène Haave Audet
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Email:  ehaaveaudet@gmail.com
- Regional Coach Certified
- Club Coach Certified
- 9 years coaching experience of StarSkate and competitive skate
- Quad gold (FreeSkate, Dance, Skills, Artistic) and Diamond dances
- FreeSkate competitor and competed at the Junior level at AB Sectionals (Provincials)
- Experience coaching all levels, from PreCanskate to Senior Competitive, and adults
- STAR competition coaching experience
- French fluency
- BSc and an MSc, and a PhD candidate in biology
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STARSKATE SUPPLEMENTAL COACHES
Provide focused lessons as directed by base coach
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Jaelyn Hodnefield
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Club Coach Certified
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Regional Coach Certified
- Event Assistant Administrator
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4 yrs coaching experience
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7 yrs PA experience
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Gold Skills, Gold Dance, Sliver Artistic, Jr Bronze Freeskate
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BA in Anthropology at U of A in progress
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Marie- Terez Abou Rjeily
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- Club Coach Certified
- Regional Coach Certified
- PA Coordinator
- 5 years coaching experience
- 3 years coaching Synchronized skating
- Competitive Synchronized Skating Experience
- Coaching synchro competition experience (Sectionals)
- Star 6 Skills, Star 6 Dance, Star 2 FreeSkate, Pre-Novice Synchro
- Active skater
- French and Arabic fluency
- BA in Psychology and Political Science at UofA in progress
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| Melanie Cheng |
- Club Coach Certified
- Regional Coach Trained
- French speaking
- 3 yrs experience coaching
- 3 yrs Program Assistant experience
- Gold Skills, Gold Artistic, Gold FreeSkate Program, STAR 10 Elements, STAR 7 Dance
- Active figure skater
- Student at Lillian Osborne High School
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| Grace Fedor |
- Regional Coach Trained
- Club Coach Certified
- 3 years coaching experience
- 7 years PA experience
- Gold Dance, Gold Artistic, Gold Skills, Star 9b Freeskate
- BScN in progress at Macewan University
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| Andrea Parry |
- National Trained Coach
- 12 years coaching experience
- Coach all disciplines star skate levels 1 through Gold and competitive programming.
- Coach to Provincial Medalist.
- Competed Junior Competitive u19 with Gold Freeskate,
- Gold Dances, Gold Skills and Gold Interpretive (artistic).
- Bachelors of Social Work with focus on child psychology
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| Megan Semmens |
- CanSkate Certified
- Regional Trained
- Learn to Skate Assistant Administrator
- 3 years coaching experience
- 4 years PA experience
- Gold Artistic, Star 8 Skills, Star 7B Dance, Star 6 Freeskate
- Active skater
- Diploma in Christian Leadership and Mission
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| Melissa Lam |
- CanSkate Certified
- Regional Trained
- 4 years coaching experience
- 5 years PA experience
- Star 9 Artistic, Star 7 Dance, Star 5 Skills, Star 5 Freeskate
- Active Skater
- Master of Counselling in progress at City University of Seattle
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| Nidhi Patel |
- Club Coach Certified
- Regional Coach Certified in Training
- 3 years of coaching experience
- 4 years Program Assistant experience
- GOLD Artistic, Star 8 Skills, Star 8 Dances, Star 8 Freeskate, Star 8 Freeskate Program
- Active figure skater
- Current Student at the University of Alberta studying Physiology
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LEARN TO SKATE COACHES
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Katrina Abou Rjeily
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- Club Coach Trained
- 3 yrs experience coaching
- 6 yrs PA experience
- Star 5 Skills, Star 2 Dance, Star 1 Freeskate
- Competitive synchro skating experience - sectional
- French fluency
- BEd UofA
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Ellen Kim
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- Club Coach Trained
- Regional In-Training
- 1 year PA experience
- 1 year coaching experience
- Star 7 FreeSkate, Star 7 Skills, Star 6ac Dance
- Korean fluency
- Active skater
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Astha Shah
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- Club Coach Trained
- Regional In-Training
- 4 year PA experience
- 1 year coaching experience
- Star 5 FreeSkate, Star 6 Skills, Star 6 Dance
- Hindi fluency
- Active skater
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Alyssa Higo
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- Club Coach Trained
- Regional Trained
- Trained Special Olympics Community coach
- 2 year coaching experience
- Star 3 FreeSkate, Star 6 Skills, Star 7 Dance, Star 5 Artistic
- PA experience
- Active skater
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Zoe Larson
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- CanSkate In-Training
- Active skater
- Star 5 Artistic, Star 6a Dance, Star 6 Skills, Star 4 FreeSkate
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CANPOWER COACHES
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Brodie Case
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Email: brodoe15@gmail.com
- CanPower Coach Trained
- 20+ yrs of hockey experience
- Played Tier 1 hockey
- Taken several credited competitive coaching courses at the college and university level
- Professional photographer with a Certificate from the New York Institute of Photography
- Bachelor of Kinesiology
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