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StarSkate & Podium Pathway Coaches

Toni Livingston

Head Coach

  • Canskate Certified 
  • Regional Certified 
  • Provincial Trained
  • Program Assistant experience 
  • Coaching since 2015
  • Gold Dance 
  • Gold Freeskate 
  • 4th Figure
  • Novice Competitive Test
  • Junior Competitive Test
  • Scotia Select Team Member
  • Competed up to Junior Ladies
  • NS Team Member (Divisionals/Easterns/Challenge)
  • 1994 Glenwright Memorial Trophy Winner
     
     

 

Kayla Deveau

CanSkate Coordinator

  • CanPower Certified 
  • Canskate Certified 
  • Regional Certified 
  • Provincial Certified 
  • Started skating at the age of 3
  • 7 years Program Assistant experience 
  • Coaching since 2018 
  • Gold Skills 
  • Gold Dance 
  • Gold Freeskate 
  • Competed up to Junior Ladies
  • Attended the Atlantic Canada Skating Championships numerous times
  • Qualified for Skate Canada Challenge (Team NS) 4 consecutive years 
  • Attended the 2019 Winter Canada Games
  • Bilingual (French & English)

Katy Martins

 

  • Canskate Certified 
  • Regional Certified 
  • Provincial Certified 
  • NCCP Level 3 Theory and Technical
  • Coaching since 1999
  • Gold Figure
  • Gold Freestyle 
  • Gold Dance 
  • Silver Interpretive 
  • Junior Competitive Test 

 

Skaters' highest test achieved: Gold Skills, Gold Dance, Gold Interpretive, Novice Competitive Test, and several Diamond Dances

Skaters' highest competition: Jr Nationals (Juvenile level), Starskate Nationals (Bronze, Silver and Gold levels)

Cheryle Gaston

  • NCCP Canskate Certified
  • NCCP Regional Certified
  • NCCP Provincial Certified
  • NCCP National Coach Status (Partial Level 4)
  • Canpower Certified
  • Qauruple Gold Level Tests
  • Regional Coach NCCP Developer
  • NCCP Coach Evaluator
  • Skate Canada Coach 1978-Present
  • 2023 Skate Canada National Award Winner –Grassroots and  Star Pathway Coach of the Year
  • 2019/20 NS Canada Games Special O Coach
  • 2016 NS Comp Coach of The Year
  • 2015 NS Canada Games Team Manager
  • 2013 NS Club and Recreating Coaching Award Of Excellence
  • Nova Scotia Rep – National Canskate Resource Team
  • 2012 NS Volunteer Coach Of The Year
  • 2007 & 2011 Competitive Coach of The Year and Ikon Award Recipient
  • 2008 B.O.B. National Canskate Coach Awar
  • 2008 14-WING Commanders Commendation For Service
  • 2007 Ceremonies Choreographer National
  • Championships Halifax
  • 1999 Canada Winter Games Coach
  • 1997 Ceremonies Choreographer National Synchro Championships
  • 1996 Ceremonies Choreographer Skate Canada International 
  • 1994 National 3M Coaching Award
  • Member of Skate Canada Committees - Club, region, Section, National – 1980-2024
  • Bilingual (French & English)

    Coached Skaters of all Levels from Learn-to-Skate up to National Competitions and Gold levels tests in all disciplines. 

 

CanSkate Coaching Team

  • Kayla Deveau - CanSkate Coordinator 
  • Toni Livingston 
  • Katy Martins
  • Sydney Hillier 
  • Kailyn Ryan 
  • Alexis Grandy 
  • Cheryle Gaston (Sub)

 

 

Skate Canada coaches are celebrated as the best in the world, guiding homegrown talent to national and international success. Working in communities across the country, our more than 6,200 skating coaches are committed to holistic development, ongoing education, and fostering safe, inclusive, and competitive environments where all athletes can thrive.  

Trained and certified through the Coaching Association of Canada’s National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP), all coaches must maintain the following requirements to be in good standing: