Hooray for Coaches Day!
This is an exclusive look into the lives’ of the extraordinary men and women
who give their time and talent to mentor young athletes and help grow our local sporting community.
Read our stories below to hear the secrets to their success,
the challenges they face and how they’re paving the way for the next generation of coaches
and leaders in local sports.
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Hooray For Coaches: Stephanie Bird
During Hooray For Coaches Day, we'd like to showcase a woman that's continually invest in youth's success in music. Meet Stephanie Bird, a current guitar coach. Bird began playing guitar at age ten in Scotland. She worked under a strict teacher there, but one day Bird's teacher...
Aug 31, 2023
Hurray for Coaches Day: Travis Mercer
We're putting coaches in the spotlight with our Hurray for Coaches Day brought to you by Christine and Diana Real Estate Team, Royal LePage Pro Alliance. This year's Northumberland Spirit Award winning coach was Travis Mercer. He was voted by you, our listeners, as the Outstandin...
Aug 31, 2023
Hooray For Coaches: John Partlow
During Hooray for Coaches Day, we'd like to introduce you to John Partlow. John is a minor baseball coach who we spoke to as part of our Hooray for Coaches Day. The lifelong baseball player says he grew a knack for helping out a friend of his get to-and-from different games i...
Aug 31, 2023
Hurray for Coaches Day: Jennifer Mercer
We'd like to introduce you to the force behind Jennifer's Jazz it Up! Studio of Dance, as well as Empower: Talent, Music and Sport. Jennifer is going into her 24th season of operating Jennifer's Jazz It Up! Studio of dance. Prior to opening her own studio, Jennifer danced profess...
Aug 31, 2023
Hooray For Coaches: Valery Philip
During Hooray for Coaches Day, we'd like to give spotlight to a coach that changed her life to service her clients. Valery Philip is a practicing coach at Curves Fitness in Cobourg. She studied Massage Therapy and Nutrition before becoming a coach. Philip began in the "cor...
Aug 31, 2023
Hurray for Coaches Day: Alicia Smith
Alicia has played baseball all her life; for some of that time with the Cobourg Angels. After moving back from Alberta, Smith got involved with the CanPitch Program which teaches young girls, from 7 to 14 years old, how to pitch fast ball. It was a homecoming in a number of ways ...
Aug 31, 2023
