Club Coaches
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Mike O'Connor
 Richard
Collier
Throws / Head Coach
Email: rcollier@lynx.bc.ca
Tel: 604-271-0851
Profession: Businessman
Head Coach: 3 years
Throws Coach: 15 years
IAAF Certification: High Performance Theory / Practical / Technical Shot
Put / Discus / Hammer
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Former BCA Board of Director & Sr. Coaches Committee
- National and Provincial Team Coach
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 Byron
Jack
Horizontal Jumps
Email: byronjack@canada.com
Tel: 604-341-5879
- Kajaks Member since 1980 as an athlete
- National level athlete
- Coaching since 1985
- Degrees in Physical Education and Education
- Certifies Level 3 for Jumps
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 Marek
Jedrzejek
Distance:
Junior/Senior
Tel: 604-822-6259 (work)
Email: marekj@interchange.ubc.ca
EDUCATION
- 1995 Coaching Certification Level 4, Theory NCCP
- 1986 – 1987 Coaching Diploma Level 3, Theory NCCP
National Coaching Institute, Victoria, BC
- 1985 Level 4, Technical NCCP
National Level coach for middle distance
- 1981 M. Sc. Physical Education
Academy of Physical Education
Poznan, Poland
COACHING EXPERIENCE
- 2000 – present: Head Coach, UBC Track & Field
M&W Program
- 1996 – present: Athletics Canada, Off-Track
Coordinator for Cross Country and Road Running
- 1987 – present: Full Time Middle Distance Coach,
Pacific Sport Greater Vancouver – CCSD National Training Centre
Vancouver, BC
- 1987 – present: Head Coach, UBC Men’s & Women’s
Cross Country Program
- 1994 – 1999: Head Coach, Kajaks Track & Field
Club
- 1984 – 1986: Distance Coach, SFU Track & Field
Team
COACHING ASSIGNMENTS
- 2001 Canadian Distance Coach, World Track & Field
Championships, Edmonton, Canada
- 2000 Canadian Coach, Olympic Games, Sydney, Australia
- 1999 Middle Distance Coach, Canadian National Team at
the World Track & Field Championships Seville, Spain
- Head Coach, Canadian National Team at the World Cross
Country Championships: Oestende 2001, Belfast 1999, Cape Town 1996,
Budapest 1993, Antwerp 1991
- 1996 Canadian Observer Coach, Olympic Games, Atlanta
- 1992 Canadian Observer Coach, Olympic Games,
Barcelona
- 1991 Distance Coach, Canadian Team – World Student
Games, Sheffield, England
- 1989 Distance Coach, Canadian Team – World Student
Games, Duisburg, Germany
NOTABLE ATHLETES COACHED
- Jeff Schiebler
Canadian Record Holder 10.000m – 27:36.01, 5000m – 13:13,
3000m – 7:43
Olympian from Atlanta
1999 Canadian Champion in Cross Country and 5000m
1999 PanAm Games Championships – 5000m bronze medallist
- Bruce Deacon
Olympian from Atlanta
11th in Marathon at the World Track & Filed Championships in
Göteberg, Sweden
2:13.25 personal best in marathon
- Cindy O’Krane
4th in 1500m at the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg
5th in 1500m at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur
4:06.33 personal best in 1500m
- Dianne Cummins
1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur
1998 Canadian Champion in 800m
- Lori Durward
5000m silver medallist at the World Student Games in Palermo, Sicily
1500m Gold medallist at the Pan Am Junior Championships in Kingston,
Jamaica
5th world ranked junior 4:15.45 for 1500m in 1991
- David Milne
5th in 3000m S/C at the 99 Canadian Champs in Winnipeg
98 Canadian Junior Cross Country Champion
Represented Canada at the World Cross Country Championships in
Marakesh, Morocco and will compete at the World Cross in Vilamoura,
Portugal
- Margaret Butler
Canadian Junior Record holder in 5000m – 16:45
Represented Canada at the Ekiden Road Relay in Seoul, Korea
Canadian Record 3000m S/C – 10:12 in 2002
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 Ken
Johns
Sprints: Junior Development
Email: penjohns@shaw.ca
Tel: 604-275-0708
Ken Johns has been coaching Junior Development athletes
at Kajaks for 7 years. Ken grew up in Victoria where he ran middle
distance and cross country in school in the 70's. He left the track and
field scene after High School and moved to Toronto to attend Film School.
He currently works the graveyard shift at a local post production facility
while he attempts to change his status as an unproduced screenwriter.
It wasn't until 1996 when his oldest daughter joined
Kajaks that Ken returned to track to help with the coaching. Ken started
as an assistant to Mosely Jack, then he began taking his levels in BC and
attending sprint coaching seminars in the US.
Ken is currently a level 2 sprint/hurdles coach. He now
coaches the Midget (14 and 15-yr-olds) Sprint/Hurdle Group year round.
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 Gordon
Johnson
Head Coach, Kajaks Masters
Email: gordjohnson@shaw.ca
Tel: 604-940-7027
Gordon began track in 1958 as a sprinter with the Arctic
Club under Jack Harrison (BC Hall of Fame) and later joined the Optimist
Striders under coach John Minichiello (1968 Olympic coach).
He attended UBC in the early 60's and graduated with a
degree in physical education. He began teaching elementary school in
Vancouver in 1966. He competed in the 440 and 880 yards and was a teammate
of the late Harry Jerome in the sprint and 4X440 yard relays.
In 1967, Gordon attended the Canadian Legion Coaching
Clinic in Guelph, Ontario. In 1968, he received certification for coaching
middle-distance runners and began coaching high school athletes for the
"Striders". He coached Rob and Mike Lonergan, Chris White, Al
Dukowski and others.
In 1974, he retired from club coaching to raise three
children (the oldest, Chris, a current BC 800m runner). Gordon joined the
Kajaks Masters in 1988 and participated in road relays and master's track
events.
In 2000, he began coaching masters sprinters and
middle-distance runners with the Kajaks. Some of the athletes he currently
coaches are: John Caruso, Nirmal Khunkhun, Jake Madderom, Alex Jamieson,
Avril Douglas, Gary Kuno, Bob Cheng, Louise Reed, Sharon Hann, and Charlie
Loo.
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