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Our Coaches

All of our coaches are highly trained, enthusiastic, and encouraging mentors, sharing their passion for skating with skaters of all levels.

We're always looking for more coaches to join our team for full-time and casual positions. Contact us for more information!


 

Learn To Skate  Figure Skating  Power Skating

 

Twila Hird

Head Coach - Learn to Skate, Figure Skating, Power Skating

Twila has over 15 years of coaching experience at clubs in Saskatchewan, Edmonton, and Calgary. She is NCCP Level I certified. Twila competed on the provincial level and was a member of Team Sask for 3 years. Twila has been with the CCA Figure Skating Club since 2013. 

Kristy Ng

Coach - Learn to Skate, Figure Skating

Kristy has 8 years of coaching experience at clubs in Calgary, Blackie, and Black Diamond. She is NCCP Regional Coach certified and has been skating since age 3 with 12 years of competitive skating experience. Kristy joined the CCA Figure Skating Club in 2019.

Morgan Elliott

Coach - Learn to Skate, Figure Skating, Power Skating

Morgan has over 25 years of coaching figure skating and power skating experience in Ontario, Vancouver, and Calgary. She’s an achieved gold level skater and certified Skate Canada Regional, CanSkate, and CanPowerskate coach, as well as Special Olympics trained coach. She still competes as a member of the Calgary Synchronized Skating Club - Black Gold. Morgan Joined the CCA Figure Skating Club in 2023.


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Coach - Learn to Skate, Figure Skating

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Darrell Palagaian

Coach - Learn to Skate, Figure Skating

Darrell has many years of coaching experience at competitive and non-competitive clubs and especially enjoys instructing persons of all ages in their passion to learn to skate. Darrell competed up to the national level and spent 18 years skating with the Disney on Ice program, eventually progressing to be the Performance Director for one of the shows. Darrell joined the CCA Figure Skating Club in 2022.

Pre-School  Hockey Buddies

 

Danita McCormick

Head Coach - Daytime (Pre-School & Hockey Buddies)

Danita brings over 30 years of coaching experience and coaches provincial champion skaters at clubs across Calgary. She is NCCP Intermediate Level III Coach certified. 

Sherry Patram

Coach - Pre-School

Sherry has been teaching kids and adults to skate for over ten years. As a mom, and a playschool teacher, she is passionate about teaching kids and making skating fun. Sherry competed as a singles skater; then returned to skating as an adult, competing in synchro. Sherry has been with the CCA Figure Skating Club since 2021. 

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Coach - Hockey Buddies

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