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Profiles
Many coaches and communities across Canada are participating
in the “We are coaches” women in coaching initiative.
Here are the stories of just a few.
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Laurie
Mueller: Community Soccer Coach
Laurie Mueller’s personality is like champagne.
She effervesces! It helps explain how she accomplished
so much with soccer for girls and young women.
Laurie had played soccer all her life but stopped around
the time she married and moved to Bradford, Ontario.
Her husband encouraged her to coach as a way of keeping
in touch with a sport she loved.
But there were no girls’ teams offered in Bradford
back then. More...
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Molly Killingbeck: Community Coach
At first glance Molly Killingbeck doesn’t seem like
a community coach. She is a four-time national sprint
champion and two-time Olympian in the 1984 and 1988 games
with a silver medal to her credit. She continues to coach
high performance sprint relays to this day.
But Molly is also a mom. And in that role she wanted
to ensure her son and his lacrosse-playing friends learned
the basics of movement. So a year ago she created a
program to teach the fundamentals of running, jumping,
and throwing and began teaching it at a local community
centre. More...
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Orleans, Ontario: Orleans Amateur
Fastball Association (OAFA)
Pam Naylor and her husband Ken are a dynamic duo when
it comes to the Orleans Amateur Fastball Association (OAFA)
in Orleans, Ontario, just east of Ottawa. Regardless of
the formal roles they hold on the Board of Directors their
success comes from being of one heart and one mind. They
love both the game and the people who play it. They implemented
the “We are coaches” program before the 2006
season. After the season ended Pam discussed the experiences.
More...
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Coaching Association of Canada
141 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 300
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5J3
Telephone: 613-235-5000
Fax: 613-235-9500
www.coach.ca
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