Shelley Coolidge

Head Coach

Coolidge enters her fourth season behind the Ravens bench after spending six seasons as head coach of the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees, where she led her team to four CIS National Championship appearances. In 2004, she was named the QSSF Coach of the Year and led her team to the national championship final game against the University of Alberta Pandas.

Coolidge was Team Canada’s assistant coach at the inaugural World University Games. Team Canada defeated the host Chinese team, 3-1, to capture the first ever women’s hockey FISU Gold Medal. She is also a former manager of the Female Hockey Development program at Hockey Canada and a past-president of the CIS Women’s Hockey Coaching Association. Coolidge was selected as a mentor coach for the IIHF Female Hockey Development Program. She spend two weeks in Verimaki, Finland, collaborating with female hockey leaders to better the skills of international coaches and athletes.

Coolidge is currently completing her thesis to earn her NCCP coaching certification license “Advanced II” and has begun her NCCP Theory Level 4 courses.

Phone: 613-520-2600 x4220

Email: shelley_coolidge@carleton.ca

Miguel Filiatrault

Assistant Coach

Filiatrault has been coaching and scouting in the CIS since 2005. Born in North Bay, Ont. but raised in Ottawa, Filiatrault began coaching at the age of 16 with the National Capital Competitive Program Peewee AA team and went on to coach at the Bantam AA, Midget AA and Intermediate AA levels. He has earned his High Performance 1 certification. As a player, Filiatrault competed in the Air Canada Cup Midget National Championship (now the Telus Cup).

Julie Healy

Mentor Coach

Healy is highly qualified with two Olympic goal medals in 2006 and 2010, as well as two IIHF Women’s World Championship titles in 2004 and 2007 as the former Director of Female Hockey with Hockey Canada. In 2010, Healy directed the Under 18 and Under 22 teams to gold at the world championship level. She also received gold as an assistant coach with Team Canada in 1996.

The Ravens are Healy’s third affiliation with a CIS team. She was an assistant coach for Concordia University when they were the top team in the CIS, and head coach at the University of Calgary.

As a current member of the Canadian Olympic Committee, Healy’s experience and expertise will help develop Carleton’s team.

Tom Dempsey

Goalie Coach

Tom is in his seventh year as the goalie coach of the Ravens women’s varsity hockey team. He is also the goalie coach of the Ravens men’s varsity hockey team and the Ottawa 67′s of the Ontario Hockey League.

Joe Rathwell

• Certified High Performance 1 Hockey Canada
• NCCP Certified Level 3 Theory
• Certified Skate Canada Can Power Skating Instructor
• Involved with numerous Hockey Canada Projects
• Currently ODHA Master Mentor – monitoring and developing 53 different association mentors to provide assistance and guidance to all minor hockey coaches
• Past 7 years as one of the ODHA Clinic Instructors
• Also involved with on ice instruction for Hockey Canada’s Specialty Clinics
• 17 years as a minor hockey coach coached all levels from Novice B to Midget AAA
• Attended 4 different National Specialty Clinics directed by Hockey Canada
• Head of Hockey Development Ottawa Senators Hockey Programs
• Coached a U16 ODHA team

Sara Seiler

Fitness Coach

•    Sara is a graduate of the Ravens program
•    Member of Germany’s Women’s National Team

 Marta Wein

Fitness Coach

•  appointed to the position of Fitness and Recreational Program Administrator

Hassan Saeed

Fitness Mentor

In addition to being the Ravens fitness mentor, Saeed is completing his Masters in Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa, where he also serves as the strength and conditioning coach for five of the university’s varsity sport programs. Saeed boasts an impressive resume that includes:

•    Experience with local pro and amateur athletes (NHL, OHL, NCAA, CIS, CJHL). He has also spent some time with Hockey Canada’s U18 and U22 Strength and Conditioning Camps as an apprentice coach, as well as with the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers.
•    10 years experience as a fitness consultant / strength coach in the Ottawa area
•    Certified coach
•    Saeed played pro over the summer with The Dunedin Thunder of the New Zealand Ice Hockey League as a defenceman.

Alanna Veerman

Fitness Coach/Mental Skills Consultant Intern

John Nelson

Academic Coach

•    B.Eng
•    Manager, Carleton Science Faculty Academic Success Centre

 Jennifer McCarthy

Academic Coach

•  Carleton University Student Academic Success Centre

Brigitte Roy

Athletic Therapist

This is Roy’s fifth year with the Ravens. She is a graduate of the University of Manitoba’s Athletic Therapy Program.

Taryn Taylor

Team Physician

Dr. Taylor is a member of Carleton University’s Sports Medicine Clinic. She is also the chair of the OHL Physicians Committee. She has extensive experience in providing medical services in Major Junior and CIS hockey as well as to other sports teams internationally.

Kim Thompson

Mental Skills Consultant

Thompson brings a wealth of experience to the Carleton program, having captured gold with Team Canada’s Under 18 squad, Team Ontario and the Canadian World University Games team. She also qualified for CIS nationals in four of her six seasons with the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees.
•    Mental Skill Consultant Team Canada – U22 National Team 2011-2012
•    Mental Skill Consultant Team Canada – U18 National Team 2009, 2010
•    Assistant Coach 2003-2008
•    PhD in Education (University of Ottawa) Thesis – Parent Behaviour in Hockey
•    Advanced 1 Coaching Level
•    Graduated Human Kinetics (2001), Masters degree in Sport Psychology (2003)
•    Assistant captain with the University of Ottawa women’s hockey team (1999 to 2001)
•    Coached competitive ringette teams and helped lead Team Ontario to a gold medal at the National Championships in 1999
•    Member of Team Canada’s women’s world ball hockey champions. Competed at numerous Provincial Championships and 7 National Championships – 3 ringette and 4 ball hockey
•    Other interests: soccer, roller hockey and squash

Beth Mansfield, MSC, RD

Sport Nutritionist

Mansfield is a Registered Dietitian, CSEP-Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist and sport nutrition specialist. She has a Masters degree in the combined fields of clinical nutrition, exercise physiology and lipid biochemistry. She is a Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology certified exercise physiologist and an American College of Sports Medicine fitness instructor and personal trainer. Mansfield also studied in Agricultural Sciences and has a degree in Animal Science, specializing in animal nutrition. Beth is currently working on her PhD at McGill University, focusing on health and nutritional well-being of Canadian women runners.

Mansfield integrates sport nutrition into training programs for teams and athletes competing at the international, national, provincial, regional levels. She also applies training principles developed for sport performance to business executives and workplace wellness programs in both governmental and NGO sectors. Mansfield runs nutrition, weight management and sport nutrition workshops through the Heart Health Education Centre of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. She also develops sport nutrition and conditioning programs for the “equine athlete.” She writes about sport nutrition for irun magazine, the running magazine available at all Running Room stores throughout Canada and has a regular television segment the first Wednesday of every month with Leanne Cusack on the CTV News at Noon.

Todd Jackson

Equipment Manager

•    Senior Manager Safety and Insurance, Hockey Canada
•    1994-1998 Equipment Manager, Team Canada Women’s Program
•    2003-2009 Equipment Manager, uOttawa Gee-Gees
•    2009-Present Equipment Manager, Carleton Ravens

 Allie Monuk

Equipment Manager

Susannah Juteau

Nutrition Intern

Juteau is a Registered Dietician with a background in neuroscience. She has a Masters degree from McGill University and specializes in sports nutrition, weight loss and early years’ nutrition. She is currently working at the Centretown Community Health Centre as a community dietician which involves clinical work, running programs, cooking workshops and nutrition presentations. With her free time she is either playing sports or helping athletes with their nutrition practices.

Juteau competed in four national ringette championships. She is also an active cross-country skier and dragon boat paddler and plays on volleyball, ultimate, hockey and soccer teams. Susannah was luckily able to intern with Beth Mansfield where she started working with the Carleton Ravens women’s hockey and basketball teams. That experience has led to helping out many other teams such as Hockey Atlantic. She also stays involved and up to date by giving Peak Performance Powerfuel sport nutrition seminars or individual counselling to athletes and sports teams.

 Danyca MacDonald

Team Photographer

Jamie Chapman

Scout

Marc Power

Skating Coach

 Rod Jacobs

General Manager