OUR COACHES

HEAD  COACH

 
Todd Landon, ChPC
Head Coach
Lead Coach, Competitive Programs


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

Hayden Hickey
Coach, Competitive Programs

Hayden has been skating for roughly 12 years and coaching for at least 6 of those years. Most of his time was with Team Nunavut but he joined Dartmouth Crossing in the last three years while at Dalhousie University.  He has skated at three Arctic Winter Games and two Canada Winter Games where he set 2 territorial records.  He is a level one official and is working on becoming a Competition Development level coach for speed skating.

Connor Taugher
Coach, Competitive programs

Connor is from a small town in Ontario and started his skating career with the St. Lawrence Rapids out of Brockville Ontario. Since then Connor has competed in both short track and long track at the provincial level and national level, representing Ontario at the Canadian Age Class Long Track Championships.  Connor is currently attending Dalhousie University doing an undergraduate degree in Kinesiology where he is taking courses on coaching and athlete development.

INTRODUCTORY / INTERMEDIATE AND
SPECIAL OLYMPICS PROGRAMS

Bert Losier
Lead Coach, Off to a Good Start Introductory Programs and
Speed Skating Skills Development 2 Program

Bert is the Lead Coach for the Off to a Good Start Introductory Programs, including the On the Ice Together, Skating on My Own, and Full Speed Ahead programs, and the intermediate level Skills Development Program.  Bert has been coaching in minor hockey for over 15 years. When his sons took on speed skating he turned his interest toward that exciting sport. He has obtained his National Coaching Level 2 (hockey). With his wealth of experience, he truly enjoys teaching the basics of skating to skaters of all ages.

 Sheila McGinn
Coach, Special Olympics
Lead Coach, Speed Skating Skills Development 1 Program

Sheila took up speed skating as a sport in 2005, and competed in long track at the 2007 and 2011 Masters International Allround Games in Calgary, where she set a number of Canadian masters age class records, and in a number of Canadian Masters Open Championships.  She also competed in short track, including provincial championships in Ontario.  She has been coaching Masters since 2014, and started coaching Introductory and Special Olympics programs in 2016.  In June 2017, she completed the Special Olympics Competition Sport Coach Workshop.  Sheila was the head coach for the Special Olympics Nova Scotia speed skating team at the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games in Thunder Bay in February 2020.

ASSISTANT COACHES

Sofia MacMichael, Assistant Coach, Speed Skating Skills Development 1

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 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

COACHING ALUMNI

Some coaches we'll miss as they pursue their studies and careers.

Hassan Al-Jarabeh, Assistant Coach

Barrett Ferguson-Losier
Assistant Coach

Noah Ferguson-Losier
Coach, Off to a Good Start Introductory Programs, and Skills Development Program

Shawn Harmon
Assistant Coach

Rob Knapp
Coach, Special Olympics Programs

Taylor Saravanamuttoo
Coach, Off to a Good Start Introductory Programs, and Skills Development Program

Jennifer Steffens
Assistant Coach