Terrie Moore
Executive Director - TMoore@sportabilitybc.ca
Terrie has been the Excecutive Director for a number of years. She is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in the Builder category and is a recipient of the Queens Jubilee Medal. Currently she is involved in Para-cycling classification and development of the new Power Soccer Classification System.
Jennifer Achterholt
Sport Development Coordinator - SportDev@sportabilitybc.ca
Jennifer joined SportAbility as the Sport Development Coordinator. Jennifer is a graduate of Lanagra College Recreation Diploma Program and comes to us with the goal of expanding and improving SportAbility’s programs and exposure all accross BC. Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in the sport of soccer and hockey.
Ross MacDonald
Program Coordinator - RossM@sportabilitybc.ca
Ross has been at SportAbility for the last eight years. He came to us as a Douglas College Coaching and General Studies graduate. Ross has already achieved a great deal. He is a two time Canadian Wheelchair Basketball National Team member, and has been on the Canadian National Soccer Team for four years running. On top of all these successes, Ross is still striving for his ultimate goal, to be an athlete at the 2012 Paralympic Games. Best of luck Ross!
Debbie Carnaby
Accounting - DCarnaby@sportabilitybc.ca
Debbie has been with SportAbility for the last seven years. She was a Kwantlen Bookkeeping graduate. She was and also still is an employee at BC Wheelchair Sports. In her spare time Debbie enjoys camping and she is a member of the board for her daughter’s Synchronized Ice Skating team for which she also enjoys volunteering. Her aspiration is to get to a point in her life where she can be completely at peace with, and enjoy, the world around her.
Gary Guenther
Fundraising Coordinator - GGuenther@sportabilitybc.ca
Gary has been an employee of SportAbility for 7 years. He came to SportAbility from Pacific Riding Disabled Association. He enjoys fishing, hunting, and watching the Ultimate Fighting Championships. His lifelong goal is to enjoy life to its fullest every day.
Board Of Directors
Chris Duehrsen
President
Craig Langston
Vice President/Risk Management Chair
Craig began with SportAbility in 2007 as an athlete and won Gold in Boccia at the 2007 BC Disability Games in Powell River. In 2008, he was elected to the Board of Directors and is currently serving as Vice President. He continues to be involved in Boccia and in 2009, became the BC Assistant Provincial Coach working closely with Herb Torrance. Craig is also the President of the Board of Directors for the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC and participates on various committees, boards and councils in the community. He has provided input on accessibility issues with various levels of government and within the labour/union movement. At the end of the day, Craig is motivated to see others with disabilities and himself to fully live, work and play within our own communities and for us all to achieve our highest potential.
Carol Turnbull
Treasurer
Carol has been a part of SportAbility since 2005, and has been a member of our Board since October 2008. She became involved with us when her child began participating in our Power Soccer program. Carol is a Certified General Accountant and is also on the Board for Greater Vancouver Electric Wheelchair Sports Society. She joined our Board in hopes of facilitating better communications between the two organizations. She enjoys photography, scrapbooking, and gardening in her spare time. She loves her garden so much that one day she hopes to retire early and spend all her time there.
Secretary
Vacant- Please contact SportAbility t 604.599.5240 for information
Debbie Kabush
Director at Large
Debbie’s entire family has been involved with SportAbility for the last nineteen years. Her daughter, Alison, participated in the ‘Games for the Physically Disabled’ in Kelowna and went on to become a Boccia athlete. Because of this, Debbie and her husband became Boccia referees, and Debbie joined the Board of Directors. With a degree in Home Economics, and a Teaching Certificate from the University of British Columbia, Debbie has been a great asset to our projects when ‘thriftiness’ is needed. In her spare time Debbie loves to volunteer with other organizations as well as partake in creative adventures like designing, sewing, making clay characters, reading and shopping. Debbie’s goal is to continue and further her collection of travel guides from trips she’s been on, noting that travelling is a satisfying highlight to retirement.
Todd Phillips
Director at Large
Todd has been a part of SportAbility since he joined the Soccer program in 2005. He has been a member of our Board for one year. He joined to give the Board an athlete’s perspective and to give something back to a program that gave him so much. Todd uses his spare time travelling to training sessions so he can qualify to be a Paralympic athlete. His travels are taking him on a tour of the Seven Wonders of the World. He still has a few to go, but he hopes to finish these and see the rest of the world.
Ben Whitaker
Director at Large
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