OUR COACHES
HEAD COACH
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Todd is a Certified and Chartered Professional Coach with over twenty years of speed skating coaching experience. Following 12 years of developing skaters and coaches with provincial and national organizations Todd will lead the club’s Competition Training Programs and develop coaches in the Club. |
COMPETITIVE PROGRAMS
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Lauren Muzak Ruff
Coach, Competitive and Skills Development Programs Lauren skated for 10+ years in New Brunswick, and has been coaching for more than 10 years in recreational, competitive, Special Olympics and adult programs. She spent three years as the competitive program coach at the Annapolis Valley Speed Skating Club before moving to Truro and joining the coaching team at the Dartmouth Crossing club. She is a Sport Nova Scotia VIP Coach, and was the 2019 Speed Skate Nova Scotia Coach of the Year.
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Connor Taugher
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INTRODUCTORY / INTERMEDIATE AND
SPECIAL OLYMPICS PROGRAMS
Bert Losier
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Krista Vey
Coach, Special Olympics Krista started helping with the speed skating program a few years ago when her sister joined the Special Olympics Program. She has joined the Special Olympics/Unified Sport Relay program. Krista has played ringette for the last 23 years during which she competed at many Eastern and National Championships. She has also coached at recreational and competitive levels of all ages of ringette.
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ASSISTANT COACHES
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Shannon Dallaire
Assistant Coach, Off to a Good Start and Special Olympics Programs Shannon has been skating for more than 10 years and has been coaching for 5 of those years as part of the Saskatoon Lions Speed Skating Club. After representing Team Saskatchewan in short track at the 2019 Canada Winter Games, Shannon has switched her focus to coaching. She is relocating to Halifax for her second year of Medical Sciences at Dalhousie, and is excited to join the Dartmouth Crossing coaching team!
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Kenny Fraser
Assistant Coach, Off to a Good Start Programs Kenny Fraser grew up in Cole Harbour, playing competitive hockey from the ages of 5 - 18. He tried out speed skating in 2017, and has really enjoyed it. Once his young daughter caught onto skating, she tried out speed skates as well, and has never looked back. They are both looking forward to this upcoming season, and Kenny's first season helping coach, and getting more time on the ice together.
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Sofia MacMichael
Assistant Coach, Off to a Good Start and Special Olympics Programs
Sofia began skating at age 4 and figure skated until she was 12. After taking a year off from skating, she realized how much she was missing the ice, but wanted to try something new. This is how she discovered speed skating! Sofia was a program assistant with her figure skating club's CanSkate program for many years, so when the opportunity arose to help with Speed Skating Development Programs, she jumped at the chance. She loves helping new and developing skates discover their love of the ice.
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Colin Murchison
Assistant Coach, Off to a Good Start and Special Olympics Programs Colin grew up in Sydney and skated competitively for the Cape Breton Speed Skating Club for 10+ years. He now lives with his family in Fall River. He’s excited to be back on the ice as a Coach for the Off to a Good Start program and to be able to share all of the great experiences that speed skating affords with his two children, who are both DCSSC members.
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Myah Payne-Landon
Assistant Coach, Off to a Good Start, Skills Development 1, Special Olympics Programs Myah began figure skating at age four until she was ten. After taking a year off, she began to speed skate occasionally at the oval. In 2018 she attended Dartmouth Crossing Speed Skating Club’s Open House and then started speed skating once a week. Myah enjoyed it so much she moved into the Competitive Program where she could skate multiple times a week. After representing Team Nova Scotia in the 2023 Canada Winter Games for short track, she continues to skate with Dartmouth Crossing Speed Skating Club. Myah loves to help young skaters improve and find their love for sport.
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COACHING ALUMNI
Some coaches we'll miss as they pursue their studies and careers.
Hassan Al-Jarabeh
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Barrett Ferguson-Losier
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