About these Awards

These prestigious awards recognize coaches whose athletes have excelled at world championships, Olympic and Paralympic Games, and at the Special Olympics World Games. The Coaching Association of Canada and Petro-Canada honour these recipients before their peers at the annual Petro-Canada Sport Leadership Awards Gala.

2023 Recipients

Alberta

Amanda Trenchard
Special Olympics Canada
Soccer, Women's 7-a-side

Bart Schouten, ChPC
Speed Skating Canada
Team Canada (Hayden Mayeur, Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu, Connor Howe); Ivanie Blondin; Ted-Jan Bloemen

Ben Wilkinson
Alpine Canada Alpin
Marilelle Thompson, Reece Howden

Dana Ferguson
Curling Canada
Collinda Joseph

Dave Johnson
Swimming Canada
Ingrid Wilm

Jane Kolodnicki
Athletics Canada
Noah Vucsics

John Kucera
Alpine Canada Alpin
James Crawford

Laurent Praz
Alpine Canada Alpin
Team Canada (Valérie Grenier, Jefferey Read, Britt Richardson, Erik Read)

Marie Powell
Special Olympics Canada
Regan Hofley, Jennifer Riddell

Michael Lizmore, ChPC
Curling Canada
Mark Ideson

Mike Blondal, ChPC
Swimming Canada
Rebecca Smith

Nicole Ban
Volleyball Canada
Team Canada

Patricia Enns
Special Olympics Canada
Caroline Thibault, Shannon Doiron, Colleen Voth, Rachel Peers

Philippe Abbott, ChPC
Cycling Canada
Mel Pemble

Quin Sekulich
Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton
Mirela Rahneva

Remmelt Eldering, ChPC
Speed Skating Canada
Team Canada (Valérie Maltais, Ivanie Blondin, Isabelle Weidemann)

Ron Thompson
Athletics Canada
Marco Arop

Tanya Dubnicoff, ChPC
Cycling Canada
Kate O'Brien

Toben Sutherland
Canadian Freestyle Ski Association
Megan Oldham 

British Columbia

David Wilkinson
Special Olympics Canada
Laura Stremble, Kyle Vogelgesang, Wayne Gowanlock, Jennifer Adams

David McKay
Wrestling Canada Lutte
Karla Godinez Gonzalez

Dylan Armstrong
Athletics Canada
Ethan Katzberg

Geoffrey Harris
Athletics Canada
Zachary Gingras, Austin Smeenk

Haley Bennett
Swimming Canada
Nicholas Bennett

Heather Hennigar, ChPC
Athletics Canada
Nathan Riech

Jennifer Fyfe
Special Olympics Canada
Rebecca Birrs, Patricia Colgan, Jodi Klukas, Kimana Mar

John Stuart
Softball Canada
Men's National Team

Katie Spittlehouse, ChPC
Alpine Canada Alpin
Frédérique Turegeon

Laura Brown, ChPC
Cycling Canada
Dylan Bibic

Marc McDonell
Canadian Freestyle Ski Association
Brendan Mackay

Mohamad Saatara
Athletics Canada
Camryn Rogers

Nicholas Cooper
Alpine Canada Alpin
Team Canada (Valérie Grenier, Jefferey Read, Britt Richardson, Erik Read)

Peter De Marchi
Special Olympics Canada
Jessica Larivée, Louis Charette, Jolyn Watts, Jesse Thibeault

Richard Wooles, ChPC
Cycling Canada
Dylan Bibic

Stephen McBride, ChPC
Sail Canada
John McRoberts and Scott Lutes

Steve Omischl
Canadian Freestyle Ski Association
Mikael Kingsbury

Trennon Paynter
Canadian Freestyle Ski Association
Rachael Karker

William Marshall
Alpine Canada Alpin
Alexis Guimond

Yolande Jones-Grande
Athletics Canada
Bianca Borgella

Manitoba

Jacqueline Mazur
Special Olympics Canada
Reetu Chahal, Josée Seguin, Marley Gayler

Reid Carruthers
Curling Canada
Kerri Einarson

Steven Dreger
Special Olympics Canada
Soccer, Women's 7-a-side 

New Brunswick

Ryan Allen
Swimming Canada
Danielle Dorris 

Newfoundland and Labrador 

Jeff Butt
Special Olympics Canada
Daniel Moores, Aaron Higgins, Ryan Kealey, Phil Brown, David Nicholson

Rosemary Ryan
Special Olympics Canada
Michael Budden, Samantha Walsh, Christian Gerro, Jeremy Wall

Nova Scotia

David Kikuchi
Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique
Ellie Black

Doug Branscombe
Special Olympics Canada
Basketball, Men's 5v5 

Ontario

Andrzej Sadej, ChPC
Judo Canada
Priscilla Gagne

Caleb Flaxey
Curling Canada
Brad Gushue

Carol Lane
Skate Canada
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier

Carol Love, ChPC
Rowing Canada Aviron
Team Canada

Chris Powers
Alpine Canada Alpin
Cameron Alexander

Evan Krofchick
Special Olympics Canada
Jesse Canney, Miori Hénault, Chris Innes

Glenn Cundari
Special Olympics Canada
Taylor Carter, Derrick Wiseman, Melvin Hanhams, Krista Stockman, Allie Price, Natasha Stasiuk, Erin Thom

Glynn Leyshon
Athletics Canada
Damian Warner

Gregory Portnoy
Athletics Canada
Pierce Lepage

James Richardson
Special Olympics Canada
Basketball, Men's 5v5

Jon Lane
Skate Canada
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier

Juris Razgulajevs
Skate Canada
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier

Ken Hall, ChPC
Athletics Canada
Renee Foessel

Patrick Paradis
Swimming Canada
Sabrina Duchesne

Renée Stewart
Special Olympics Canada
Alec Baldwin, Patti Connors

Richard Parkinson, ChPC
Athletics Canada
Sarah Mitton

Bob Westman
Athletics Canada
Marissa Papacontantinou

Ryan Mallette
Swimming Canada
Javier Acevedo, Finlay Knox

Sandy Boville
Canadian Freestyle Ski Association
Megan Oldham

Québec

André Tourigny
Hockey Canada
Team Canada

Antoine Valois-Fortier
Judo Canada
Kyle Reyes, Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard, Christa Deguchi

Brian Smith
Canada Snowboard
Elizabeth Hosking

César Nicolaï, ChPC
Canadian Cerebral Palsy Sports Association
Iulian Ciobanu & Alison Levine

Dany Racine
Athletics Canada
Guillaume Ouellet

David Zilberman, ChPC
Wrestling Canada Lutte
Linda Morais

Eric Van Den Eynde, ChPC
Cycling Canada
Shelley Gautier

Greg Arkhurst
Swimming Canada
Mary-Sophie Harvey, Katerine Savard

Gregor Jelonek, ChPC
Speed Skating Canada
Team Canada (Christopher Fiola, Laurent Dubreuil, Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu); Team Canada (Brooklyn McDougall, Carolina Hiller, Ivanie Blondin); Laurent Dubreuil

Hui Tong
Diving Canada
Pamela Ware

Janusz Pawlowski
Judo Canada
Jessica Klimkait

Jean-Michel Lavallière
Swimming Canada
Tess Routliffe

Jeff Ain, ChPC
Cycling Canada
Mike Sametz

Marc-André Pelletier
Swimming Canada
Aurélie Rivard, Abi Tripp, Nicolas-Guy Turbide

Marilyn Langlois, ChPC
Skate Canada
Les Supremes

Michel Hamelin, ChPC
Canadian Freestyle Ski Association
Mikael Kingsbury

Pascal Denis
Skate Canada
Les Supremes

Patrik Gaudet
Canada Snowboard
Arnaud Gaudet

Pierre Caron
Alpine Canada Alpin
Laurence St-Germain

Sebastien Travers
Cycling Canada
Kate O'Brien  

Sébastien Cros, ChPC
Speed Skating Canada
Steven Dubois; Pascal Dion; Courtney Sarault; Kim Boutin; Team Canada (Kim Boutin, Claudia Gagnon, Courtney Sarault, Renée Steenge, Rikki Doak)

Serge Gagnon
Special Olympics Canada
Marc Richardson, Ian Cushon, Stephen Denham, David Whittington

Stéphane Lapointe
Diving Canada
Molly Carlson and Jessica Macaulay

Yihua Li, ChPC
Diving Canada
Caeli McKay 

Saskatchewan

Ben Lozinsky
Special Olympics Canada
Basketball, Women's 5v5

Jackie Powell, ChPC
Special Olympics Canada
Chelsey Makaro, Tyler Servant, Abby Wilson, Kelsey Wyse

Megan Penno
Special Olympics Canada
Basketball, Women's 5v5

Ryan Jones, ChPC
Swimming Canada
Shelby Newkirk