Aside from swimming, Mayumi enjoys various sports including ball hockey and was the captain of her high school ball hockey team. While both swimming and ball hockey are tough sports, swimming can be a very lonely one. Mayumi understands from firsthand experience that sometimes it’s hard to grind through those early morning swim practices without the support of family, friends, teammates, and coaches, which is why Mayumi wants to be the coach who motivates swimmers to keep swimming. She is looking forward to working with all the coaches, swimmers, and parents at RHAC to all swimmers achieve their goals.

Bio:

Victoria is a RHAC alumni and a graduate of University of Toronto; she trained and raced under the RHAC banner in our Senior National Group as a top sprinter, middle and long distance, and placed 6th at Summer Canadian National Championships in 2014.

Her swimming career might have started with RHAC but continued to great success as part of the well recognized UofT Varsity Blues Swim Team. Victoria is no stranger to hard work and disciplined approach to swimming, having trained for over 20 hours a week to achieve great results: silver and gold medalist at the Canadian University Championships, Ontario University Championships and Canadian Olympic Trial Finalist in 2016.

Victoria is a well-rounded individual on and off the swimming deck; her academic and athletic accomplishments (Sharon Guinness Athletic Scholarship, Ontario Award of Distinction and Varsity Blues Silver T-Holder) are testament to the fact that the discipline and hard work required to achieve athletic success are life skills, which can lead to the achievement of academic excellence as well. Victoria brings lots of swimming experience to our younger groups and has experience coaching athletes from lower age to masters swimming.

Certifications:

NCCP Swimming Level 1 (in progress)

NLS, Standard First Aid and CPR

Fun fact:
Victoria likes to solve puzzles and satisfies her problem-solving skills by being an avid software programmer. Drawing, learning new languages (currently French) and staying active by swimming and running are only some of her interests.

Bio:

Kimiko grew up as a competitive Volleyball player in Ontario, and maintained touch with her love for being in the water by taking up Life Saving as a teen.  In 2012 she discovered her passion for Olympic Weightlifting and competitive CrossFit; most recently she qualified and competed at the 2019 CF Sanctional in Milan Italy (Individual Elite Women).  As a Strength and Conditioning Coach of 6 years for competitive athletes of various sporting backgrounds, she looks to share her love for training and to help guide RHAC athletes in becoming the best they can be.

Certifications: 

CF-Level 2 Trainer

CF Gymnastics Certification

NCCP Swimming Level 1 

NCCP’s  “Mental Health In Sport” and “Coaching Athletes with a Disability”

Standard First Aid and CPR

Fun fact:
Kimiko's favourite stroke is freestyle… but only with a pull buoy.