Members by Category: Coaches

The backbone of any great team or athlete is their coach or coaches. We’d like to recognize these individuals for bringing positivity, enthusiasm, support, trust, focus, winning goals, knowledge, respect, and patience with athletes in our community.

Ariana Van Der Starre

Speed skating is in Ariana Van Der Starre’s DNA and she has proudly carried on the family tradition.

Barb Hart Harris

Barb Hart Harris is a pioneering figure in Canadian field hockey, having captained the national team at two World Conferences and contributed over five decades to the sport as a

Fuji Miki

Fuji Miki coached Japanese women’s teams for 16 years through four Olympics (Salt Lake City, Torino, Vancouver and Sochi).

Sandeep Gill

Since he opened his Burnaby Karate Academy in 1999, Sandeep Gill has become one of the sport’s elite coaches in Canada. He was a provincial team coach for four years.

Charles Adrian Lavigne

Adrian Lavigne was the brains behind a women’s softball powerhouse known at various times as Green & Louie, Doc’s Blues and Alpha Sports.

Dan Mattinson

Dan Mattinson, a Willingdon Heights product, was coaching soccer for Norburn Athletic Club when legendary lacrosse builder Jack Crosby.

Shelley Howieson

Shelley Howieson as head coach until 2013 created a collegiate powerhouse in her 25 years in charge of the women’s soccer program.

Mike Renney

Mike Renney’s 24 seasons as head coach of the Simon Fraser University women’s softball team is littered with crooked numbers.

Derek Evely

Derek Evely graduated from Burnaby Central in 1983. During his years there, Ken Taylor passed his passion for track and field onto Evely. The young man blossomed into a decathlete,

Darrell Hall

During Darrell Hall's nearly 20-year tenure (1987-2006) as head coach, he led the St. Thomas More Collegiate Knights to eleven Grade 8 provincial high school football titles.