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Administration & Coaches
The Halifax Skating Club is administered by a volunteer Board of Directors (including the executive members). The Board holds regular Director meetings and an Annual General Meeting each year. Board meetings are open to all members who wish to attend. The Club encourages any interested member to join the Board of Directors.
The Halifax Skating Club employs NCCP certified, Professional Skating Coaches to deliver all of its skating programs. The Professional Coaches use the assistance of trained volunteer Program Assistants in the CanSkate and CanPowerSkate programs.
Executive
Board of Directors
| Sheila Rae Hillaby |
443-1707 |
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| Tammy Hyland |
455-4470 |
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| Kathryn MacLellan |
429-1610 |
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| Janet Purdy |
443-5691 |
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All of our Professional Coaches are involved in teaching at every skating level from CanSkate to Competitive Skating.
The Halifax Skating Club uses a team approach to coaching our skaters. Skaters have the opportunity to work with several different coaches during their ice sessions. A skater may focus on Free Style training with one coach while taking Dance, Skills and Stroking lessons with other coaches. Our skaters enjoy the diversity and individual coaching strengths that this approach brings to their skating.
Coaches Profiles
Sheila Rae Hillaby
NCCP Level I
Sheila Rae Hillaby is the Head Coach and Director of Recreational Programs for the HSC.
Ms. Hillaby trained in Montreal and Toronto. She has 23 years experience working with Skating Clubs in the Metro area, South Shore and Valley. During her career, she has trained National competitors in singles and in synchronized skating. Ms. Hillaby has served on Provincial and National Boards of the Coaching Associations and continues currently on the Provincial Board. She returned to the Halifax Skating Club in 2000 after retiring to raise a family.
Tammy Hyland
NCCP Level 3, Partial Level 4
Tammy graduated with high honours from Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology in the Coaching Techniques - Figure Skating program in Toronto. While studying, Tammy had the opportunity to mentor under coaches like Doug Leigh, Robert O'Toole, Doug Haw, Robert Tebby, Lori Nichol and Neil Carpenter. She also coached at the Toronto Cricket and Curling Club and Seneca College's Pre Elite program. After graduation, Tammy moved to Newfoundland where she was the head coach of the Conception Bay North and Deer Lake Skating Clubs. She has coached skaters from the Canskate to Competitive level. She was also the section coaches representative in 1999-2000 for Newfoundland and Labrador. Tammy has 13 years coaching experience and presently coaches in the HRM and South Shore. She also works full time as an office coordinator.
Kathryn MacLellan
NCCP Level 2, Level 3 Theory
Choreographer and actress. In addition to her other coaching roles, Ms MacLellan choreographs our skaters' free style programs.
Ms. MacLellan learned to skate at the Halifax Skating Club under the tutelage of Sheila Rae Hillaby. She has competed at Canada Games and Nationally in Ice Dance with partner Rob Fraser, training annually at The Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club with Bernie Ford.
Ms. MacLellan has a teaching degree majoring in Physical Education and a Dance Specialization from Dalhousie University. She coaches skaters from the beginner level to national competitors and has twenty five years of teaching experience. She has taught in Montreal, The Toronto Cricket SC Club, YRSA, Pasadena Skating Club (LA), The Arbutus Club (Vancouver), Holly Burn Skating Club, (Vancouver) and, most recently, The Skate Canada Training Center (Burnaby, BC with Joanne MAcLeod). Ms. MAclellan is an accomplished actress and has worked in theatre, film and television in Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles and her hometown, Halifax
Janet Purdy
NCCP Level 2
Ms. Purdy trained in Toronto and competed in Singles and Dance. She started coaching at the Halifax Skating Club in 1972 while attending Dalhousie University. After graduating with her B.ED. in 1977 she moved to Truro where she taught and continued to coach.
Over the years, Ms. Purdy has coached in all disciplines and levels in CanSkate, Singles and Dance in Halifax, the Valley, Truro and New Glasgow. She has coached skaters at Sectional, Divisional, National and International levels including National Dance Champions Marie McNeil Bowness and Rob McCall and Kathryn MacLellan. She has also been a coach for the Nova Scotia Canada Games team. Ms. Purdy has attended and coached at Canadian National Dance Seminars and served on the Skate Canada National Core Committee for Dance. She has served as the Nova Scotia Coaches Representative on the National Board.
As well as figure skating, she has been coaching Power Skating to all levels of hockey including the Jr. A Bearcats in Truro. With her family's move back to Halifax this year she has returned to the Halifax Skating Club where her career began.
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