Olympic and Paralympic Coaches and Team Staff Members from uOttawa

Sherraine Schalm - Women’s Épée Coach for Canada at the 2024 Olympics. Gee-Gees fencing team alumna.

Dr. Penny Werthner - Mental Performance Coach with Canoe-Kayak Canada at 2024 Olympics. Track and field athlete at 1976 Olympics. Earned MSc and PhD from uOttawa, former Director and Associate Dean of the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa.

Kim Thompson - Mental Performance Coach with Women's Hockey Olympic Team 2018 (silver), 2022 (gold). Gee-Gees women's hockey alumna, asisstant coach, and professor in the School of Human Kinetics.  

Dr. Andrew Pipe - 12 Olympic Games from 1978-2016 - Chief of the Division of Prevention and Rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.

Roger Archambault - 8 Olympic Games from 1998-2022, coach for Biathlon at 1998, 2006 Olympics. uOttawa alumnus and varsity athletics staff member 2016-2023.

Jacques Martin - Gee-Gees hockey alumnus 1975-76 - Assistant Coach, Team Canada Men's Hockey 2002 (Gold Medal), 2006

Michel Goulet - Gee-Gees men's hockey coach 1989-2003, Head Coach, Team Italy Men's Hockey 2006

Paul ApSimon - Gee-Gees fencing coach 1987-2000, Head Coach, Team Canada Fencing 2012, Modern Pentathlon 2016

Dave Heinbuch - Gee-Gees swim coach 2013-2024 – Olympian in swimming, 1976

Jack Hannraty - Gee-Gees women's rugby coach 2024-2025- Women's Rugby Sevens Head Coach for Canada at the 2024 Olympics (Silver Medal)

Ali Domenico - Gee-Gees women's hockey coach 2024-present - Assistant Coach, Team Canada Women's Hockey 2022 (Gold Medal)

Jennifer Wakefield - Gee-Gees women's hockey assistant coach 2023-24 - Olympian in hockey, 2018 (Silver Medal) and 2022 (Gold Medal)

Betty Baxter - Gee-Gees volleyball coach 1979-80 - Olympian in volleyball, 1976

Denise Dignard - Gee-Gees women's basketball coach 1997-98 - Olympian in basketball, 1976

Hubert Brooks - Gold medal winning Olympian in hockey (1948), uOttawa Housing Director 1971-84.

This list includes current and past Gee-Gees or University staff members who have had roles as athletes or coaching staff members at Olympic and Paralympic Games. In addition to the list above, many uOttawa graduates work in sport management, sport medicine, and sport science with national sport organizations and contribute to athlete success at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, with others serving as technical officials or media members.

uOttawa alumnus Daniel Robitaille represented Canada as a technical official in weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. In 2021, six graduates of the uOttawa Physiotherapy program were on Canada's mission staff at the Tokyo Olympic Games: Guylaine Boutin, Céline DesLauriers, Janice Drover, Chiaki Inoue, Andrea Prieur, and Geneviève Renaud, while uOttawa alumnus Dr. Andy Marshall was the Chief Medical Officer for the Canadian Paralympic Team. uOttawa alumnus and Gee-Gees event photographer Greg Kolz was an official team photographer for Speed Skating Canada and Skate Canada in Beijing and Milano Cortina. A historical list of these types contributions to the games is not currently available. If you have any questions about the list, please email sportinfo@uottawa.ca

Games by Games listing (refer to above for more info):

Summer Games Athletes

2024: Anne Fergusson (bronze), Brianna Hennessy (silver), Eliezer Adjibi, Toshka Besharah, Bianca Borgella, Natalie Davison, Julia Hanes, Sophia Jensen, Trinity Lowthian, Courtney Stott

2021: Camille Bérubé, Andrew Todd, Caleb Agada, Anne Fergusson, Brianna Hennessy

2016: Camille Bérubé, Natasha Watcham-Roy (bronze), Sekou Kaba, Oluwasegun Makinde, Christy Nurse, Andrew Todd (bronze)

2012: Camille Bérubé, Andrew Heffernan­­, Sherraine Schalm-MacKay, Jason Dunkerley (silver, bronze) 

2008: Sherraine Schalm-MacKay, Jason Dunkerley (bronze)

2004: Sherraine Schalm-MacKay, Jason Dunkerley (silver), Andrew Haley 

2000: Glenroy Gilbert, Dominique Tremblay,  Sherraine Schalm-MacKay, Jason Dunkerley (silver), Andrew Haley (gold, bronze)

1996: Glenroy Gilbert (gold), Dominique Tremblay, James Ransom, Andrew Haley (bronze, bronze) 

1992: Glenroy Gilbert, John Halvorsen, Brian Saunderson, Thalie Tremblay, Andrew Haley (bronze) 

1988: Glenroy Gilbert, John Halvorsen, Thalie Tremblay  

1984: Vicki Harber

1976: Hugh Fraser, Coleen Dufresne, Bruce Simpson, Serge Gravelle

1972: Claudia Hunt, Bruce Simpson

1968: Claudia Hunt, Barry Brooker, Joan Fisher, Aldo Roy

1964:

1960:

1956:

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1948:

1936: Jim M. Courtright

Winter Games Athletes

2026: Rachel Homan (bronze), Emma Archibald, Shilo Rousseau

2022: Rachel Homan, Lisa Weagle, Dawn McEwen

2018: Rachel Homan, Lisa Weagle, Suyeon Eom

2014: James McNaughton, Dawn McEwen (gold), Caroline Bisson, Margarita Gorbounova, Marc Dorion (bronze)

2010: Margarita Gorbounova, Marc Dorion (gold)

2006: Marc Dorion (gold), Diedra Dionne 

2002: Diedra Dionne (bronze)

1998:

1994: Glenroy Gilbert 

1992:

1988:

1984: Clarke Flynn

1980: Kathy Kreiner

1976: Kathy Kriener (gold)

1972: Kathy Kreiner

1968: Raymond Cadieux (bronze), Paul Conlin (bronze)

1964: Raymond Cadieux, Paul Conlin