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• Gabor Csepregi
  Chair

  Gabor Csepregi is Vice-President, Academic and Research, at the Saint-Boniface University College, and auxiliary professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Laval University, in Quebec City. Previously, he was President and Regent of Studies at the Dominican University College, in Ottawa. Before starting his academic career, he was coach of the Canadian Water Polo Team (1978-1984). He participated, as coach, in the 1984 Olympic Games and, as player, in the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games. In 1977-1978, he was one of the first apprentice coaches of CAC.

• Paul Carson
  National Sport Organization Member

  Paul Carson is Hockey Canada's Director, Development. His day-to-day activities include the supervision of all grassroots programming initiatives within coaching, officiating, risk and safety, and player development programs. Along with these programming components, Paul also oversees the operations of four Hockey Canada Regional Centre offices in Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, and Saint John. He has played an integral role in the development of the Hockey Canada Skills Manuals and Skills Camps, the National Coach Mentorship Program, the Skills of Gold Technical DVD series, and was instrumental in the design and implementation of the Hockey Canada Skills Academy Program, a cooperative effort to deliver a hockey curriculum in schools and school boards across Canada. A former physical education teacher, Paul has completed NCCP coursework in multiple sports and is a Level 3 certified coach in ice hockey.

• Jean Blackie
  Community Coach Member

  Curling coach Jean Blackie is a National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) Level 3 coach, a Master Learning Facilitator, and a Learning Facilitator. She has been involved with the Canada Games as team manager, coach, and mission staff member since 1991. For many years she was junior coordinator and technical coordinator for Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2006, she won the Investors Group National Volunteer Sport Administrator Award.

• Roger Duval
  Provincial/Territorial Government Representative

  Roger Duval is Director of the Sport and Recreation Branch of the New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport. He serves on the Federal-Provincial/Territorial Sport Committee and is a member of the Interprovincial Sport and Recreation Council. Internationally, Roger is a member of the CONFEJES, an inter-governmental Francophonie organization responsible for the development of youth and sport.

• Martin Cléroult
  Provincial/Territorial Coaching and Sport Leadership Council Representative

  Martin Cléroult is sport consultant for the Quebec Minister of Education, Sport and Recreation. In 2004, he became a Learning Facilitator for the NCCP Competition stream after retiring from being a Level 4 certified swimming coach for 11 years and former athlete.

• Greg Guenther
  Provincial/Territorial Coaching and Sport Leadership Council Representative

  Bio coming soon.

• Gérald Janneteau
  Member-at-Large

  Gérald Janneteau was a broadcaster whose career spanned 27 years, including 10 years as president and general manager of RDS (Le Réseau des sports). He is a member of the COC, the president of Sportcom, and a vice president of the Centre national multisport-Montréal. He served as the chair of the Fondation Sport-Études for several years.

• Susan Kitchen
  Vice-Chair and Provincial/Territorial Coaching and Sport Leadership Council Representative

  Susan Kitchen has been the executive director of the Coaches Association of Ontario since its formation in 2002. As a Ministry of Tourism and Recreation consultant, she handled the coaching program portfolio and represented Ontario on the National Coaching Certification Council. She has served on the boards of Coaches of Canada (C of C), the Sport Alliance of Ontario, and the Argonaut Rowing Club, and has been involved in the sport of rowing as a competitive athlete, coach, official, and volunteer.

• Larry McMahon
  National Sport Organization Member

  Larry McMahon is a recently retired 40 year career Banker with the Bank of Montreal, primarily in the fields of corporate risk management and general operations management. He has been a board member of Triathlon Canada for the past 10 years and is currently their vice-president and director of coaching and LTAD. In this role over the past several years, he has been responsible for leading the development of and implementation of the Community, Competition – Introduction and Competition – Development contexts within the new NCCP framework and triathlon’s LTAD program. For many years, he coached distance running at all athlete levels as a Level 3 NCCP coach and is an active age group distance runner.

• Jane Watkinson
  Canadian Council of University Physical Education and Kinesiology Administrators Representative

  Bio coming soon.

• Ranil Sonnadara
  Member-at-Large

  Ranil Sonnadara is a research scientist at the University of Toronto where he studies, amongst other things, skill acquisition, and the implementation of proficiency-based models of training and evaluation. Ranil is also an experienced fencing coach, whose coaching career includes several world championships and major games. He has been involved with the sport for over 25 years, and is a referee, Master Learning Facilitator and Master Evaluator for the Canadian Fencing Federation. In his ‘spare time’, Ranil is president of the Ontario Fencing Association, and is the head coach of the Westdale Fencing Club.

• André Lachance
  National Sport Organization Member

  André Lachance is Baseball Canada manager of baseball operations and head coach of the women’s national team since 2003. He is responsible for baseball’s transition to the NCCP and for the development of its LTAD program. André is also a professor at the University of Ottawa in the School of Human Kinetics and received the university’s 2007 Part-Time Professor of the Year award. He also serves on committees with the International Baseball Federation and remains today the only Level 5 certified baseball coach in Canada.

• Gail Donohue
  Coaches of Canada Representative

  Gail Donohue brings more than 15 years of progressive experience in all phases of sport development from local to international levels as an administrator, coach, and former athlete. A Level 1-4 master course conductor and 1984 Olympic coach for the New Zealand synchronized swimming team, Gail is Coaches of Canada’s board vice president.

• Danielle Goyette
  Federal Government Representative

  Danielle Goyette was appointed as federal government representative to CAC’s board of directors. She is head coach for women's hockey at the University of Calgary. She played 16 years for the women's national team and participated in nine world championships. A three-time Olympian, Danielle was Canada's flag bearer at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. In 2007-2008 she was assistant coach with the U18 women's national hockey team and currently works as a skating instructor with the national team program. She is a Level 3 certified coach in ice hockey.

• Ian Mortimer
  Athlete Member

  Ian Mortimer is a member of the Canadian national canoe team, and an active athlete and coach at the Rideau Canoe Club in Ottawa. Ian missed the 2007 season due to a serious shoulder surgery, and took the opportunity that the year away from racing afforded to work as a coach both with the younger athletes at his home club and with the national team. This experience on the other side of the coach/athlete relationship was a valuable and enlightening experience, which has helped Ian become a better athlete now that he is back racing for Canada on the national team. Ian continues to coach at the Rideau Canoe Club, coordinating the war canoe program which has won three national titles in the last two years. Along with his experience of high performance sport and coaching, Ian served on the Rideau Canoe Club board for four years, and is currently a history student at Carleton University.