Coaching Team

The Yellowknife Skating Club has a highly qualified team of very dedicated, professional coaches who work together to ensure that each skater achieves personal excellence. All of our coaches have been certified through the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) and abide by Skate Canada’s Coaches’ Code of Ethics. 

The Yellowknife Skating Club coaching team asks that all skaters and parents adhere to the YKSC Policies and the Skate Canada’s Parent Code of Conduct.

Brenda Dalton

Cell:  (867) 445-9892

Email: brenda_backen@hotmail.com

• 24 years of coaching experience
• Special Olympics - Level 1 Certified
• Provincial Coach Certified
• National Coach Trained
• Partial NCCP Level 3 Singles & Dance - (technical, theory)
• Gold Dance
• Bronze Freeskate 
• Gold (8th) Figure
• Special Olympics Provincial & National Team Coach for 2000, 2008.
• AWGs Team Coach for 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2018.
• CWGs Team Coach for 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2019.
• Has served terms as: Club Coach Rep, Region Coach Rep with Skate Canada Alberta Section and NWT Coach Rep with the NWT Figure Skating Association. 
• Experience organizing skating clinics.
• Private Lesson Rate:      $12.00 for 15 minutes 

Lemy Douleva

Cell: (867) 765-8180

Email:  l.douleva@hotmail.com

• 5 years of coaching experience
• Regional Coach Certified 
• Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (CSEP)- Certified Personal Trainer 
• National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)- Corrective Exercise Specialist
• NAIT Personal Fitness Training Diploma
• Choreography Specialist 
• Pre-Novice Competitive
• Gold Dance
• Gold Freeskate
• Gold Skills
• 2008 & 2012 AWG team member
• Gold medalist at STARSkate at the gold level (2013 & 2014)
• Private Lesson Rate:     $8.50 for 15 minutes  

Jodi Brennan

Cell: (867) 445-1869

Email: jodibrennan@theedge.ca

• 11 years of coaching experience (4 yrs as sole club coach)
• Provincial Coach Certified 
• 5 years of coaching experience
• 6 years of certified skating judge experience
• 1993/94 Newfoundland Coach of the Year
• Experience with both individual and group choreography
• Senior Bronze Dance
• Senior Bronze Freeskate
• AWG's Team Coach for 2018
• Private Lesson Rate:   $10.00 for 15 minutes

 Lisa Do

Cell: (867) 445-4828 

Email: lisafmdo@gmail.com 

• Certified NCCP CanSkate Coach
• In Training Regional Coach
• Choreography Specialist
• Gold Freeskate
• Novice Competitive
• Gold Dance
• Gold Skills
• Gold Interpretive
• AWG Team Member for 2004, 2006 – Bronze Medalist, 2008, 2010, 2012
• CWG Team Member for 2011
• STARSkate Competitor
• Regionals and Sectionals Competitor 
• Private Lesson Rate:   $8.00 for 15 minutes