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Joanne McLeod

Level 5

Champs ISC

2024-2025 BC/YT Team Skaters

Novice Men

Pre Novice Men

Senior Men

Junior Men

Pre Novice Women

Novice Men

Senior Women

Senior Men

Junior Women

Skating Director of Champs International SC of BC

NCCP Level 5 Certified Skate Canada Coach

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • 3-time Olympic Winter Games Team Coach

  • Coach to 2014 Olympic Silver Medalist, Figure Skating Team Event; Sochi, Russia

  • 18-time World Team Coach; top 5 finish 2006 & 2013

  • Coach to over 75 National Medalists (Men’s & Women’s)

  • Coach to over 20 ISU International Medalists

  • Coach to ISU Sr Grand Prix Final Champion; ISU Four Continents Champion; ISU Sr Grand Prix Champions, Jr Grand Prix Champions, & Novice Advanced Champions

EDUCATION

  • NCCP Level 5 Skate Canada Certified Coach

  • Chartered Professional Coach

  • GMCC University Diploma - Performing Arts “Dance Major”

  • GMCC Scholarship for Choreographic Studies, NYC

  • York University Sport Science Enriched Studies - “Planning & Periodization” Dr. Tudor Bomba

  • 2000-2005 Pacific Sport Board of Directors

  • 1986-1988 Coaching Association of Canada Scholarship for High Performance Studies

 

AWARDS

  • Skate Canada National Competitive Coach of the Year (2004)

  • BC Coaches Association International Coach of the Year (2003)

  • 15x Skate Canada Provincial Competitive Coach of the Year (2002-2018)

  • 2016 Richmond Hill, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame Member

  • 2015 Sport BC Female Coach of the Year

  • 2014 Petro Canada National Coaching Excellence Award

  • 2006 Burnaby BC Sports Hall of Fame Member

  • 2001 BMO Possibility Award Winner for Coaching

  • 1998 COS Competitive Coach of the Year


DIRECTOR & PRODUCER

  • Director, Champs International Skating Centre of BC

  • Founder & Former Director, York Region Skating Academy, Richmond Hill, ON (1988-1998)

  • Artistic Director, Ice Theatre of Toronto (1990-1998)

  • Opening and Closing Figure Skating Gala, 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Vancouver, Canada

  • 2010 Opening of Vancouver Convention Centre

  • “The Ice Age” ft. Hard Rubber Jazz Orchestra (2001, 2010)

  • CTV’s “So You Think You Can Dance” Soloist Audition (2009)

  • ISU World Championships Exhibition Gala, Vancouver, Canada (2001)

  • Ice Theatre of New York Choreography, Rockefeller Square Rink, New York

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