Our Coaching Team
The Leduc Skating Club offers a unique coaching strategy for all of its members. Many of our coaches actually learned to and continue to skate right here in Leduc! This group of coaches strives to provide the best instruction, support and encouragement for every LSC skater, whether they are in their first ever PreCanSkate class or a Senior level STARSkate class. They bring a wealth of experience and technical training to our programs, offering unique strength and abilities. One thing all of these individuals have in common is an incredible passion for skating and dedication to helping each skater achieve their very best!
Emily Johnston
- ITS Director
- CanSkate & Regional Certified
- 8 years of coaching experience
- Gold skills & dance, silver artistic
- BEd student & BSc graduate
- Star 6-Gold Skills Coach Assessor
- Special Olympics volunteer coach
- Aboriginal Coaching Module course trained
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Hailey Rhae Johnson
- CanSkate Certified & Regional In-Training
- 7 years of coaching experience
- Star 7 Skills, Free-Skate & Artistic, Star 10 Dance
- LSC club member since 2006
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Erika de Ruiter
- CanSkate Co-director
- CanSkate Certified
- 8 years coaching experience
- Gold dance, skills & interpretive
- Currently competing in synchronized skating
- B.Sc from UofA
Sage Kondratski
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- Junior StarSkate Director
- CanSkate & Regional Certified
- 7 years coaching experience
- Gold skills, free skate, dance and artistic
- B.Sc with specialization in psychology
- Non-binary and prefer gender neutral language
Heidi Isherwood
- Intermediate & Senior STAR Skate Director
- Professional Coach 30+ years
- Coaches all LSC programs
- Regional & CanPowerSkate Certified
- trained provincial, national singles
- Multi-Sport Coach (hockey & softball)
- hockey coach level 2
- Gold dance (novice competitive) dance, Senior Bronze free skate, 6th Figure, Bronze Artistic
- NAIT Graduate in Graphic Sign Arts
Katie Friesen
- Regional trained
- two years coaching experience
- Gold skills, Star 9 dance, Star 7 free skate and Star 9 artistic
Nancy Fischer
- CanPowerSkate certified
- Hockey Canada Coach & Checking Skills Certified
- 6 years PowerSkate coaching
- 10+ years hockey coaching U7-U155
- competitive and recreational hockey player
- B.Sc (Agr), M.Sc (Animal Nutrition), Ph.D (Animal Nutrition)
Vicky Kish
- CanSkate & Regional Certified
- Provincial Coach In-Training
- 10 years of coaching experience
- Gold Free-skate, Figures, Dance, Skills & Artistic
- Star 1-5 Coach Assessor
- Special Olympics Competition Coach trained
- Masters in Education
- 22 years of experience working in the field of education (teacher and consultant)
Gabrielle Beauclair
- CanSkate Trained
- 2nd year of coaching
- LSC member for 8+ years
- 2025 graduate!
- French speaker
Jenna Taylor
- CanSkate Trained
- 2nd year of coaching
- Star 5 Free-Skate, Star 6 Dance, Star 7 Skills
- 2025 graduate!