Ice Breaker Youth Skills Camp 2025

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 Craig is a 9 time BC Champion including;  men’s, mixed, seniors and masters.

He is a certified Competitive Coach with 40 years of competitive curling experience and a long time Cloverdale curler. This will be his 55th consecutive year curling at the Cloverdale Curling club and is looking forward to using the new rocks.

Craig is a Ross Harstone award recipient (the Sportsmanship award) voted on by his peers at the Brier) He is prepared to teach sportsmanship as well as sharing many years of knowledge with the up and coming curlers of BC.

 Karen Lepine is a 9 time Provincial Champion including; mixed, senior and master Championships.

She has coached ten junior teams over the past 20 years. And coached a junior boy’s team at the 2023 Canadian Junior Championships.

Karen  was selected by her peers to receive the BC Provincial Award winning coach at the 2023 Junior Curling Championship for best exemplifying the attributes of a quality coach.

She is a Canadian Masters Champion being the first BC Women’s team to bring home the National Title.

Karen is a hard working dedicated passionate curler / coach and is looking ahead to sharing her love and passion with the future generations of the games

Ken is a Competition Curling Coach.

Ken has been a certified competition  

curling coaching for over twenty years.

He has coached teams in the BC Winter 

Games winning a bronze and a

gold medal. He has also coached U-18 Provincials teams that have 

won two silver and a gold medal, and a

U-20 Provincials team won a gold medal. He has coached teams to and in the national championships three times. He has been coaching at Port Moody Junior Program for over twenty years.

Sarah is Competition Coach Certified and an active Competitive Curler.

Sarah has been competing in BC for 10 years and has won 5 BC Championships across many disciplines including Juveniles, Juniors, Mixed Doubles and Women’s. At both the Scotties that Sarah competed in, her team qualified for the Championship round. Fun fact, in 2023 her team was the first to qualify BC at the Scotties in 10 years!

Sarah has been working with the junior program at each club she has been a part of since she was 16 and has just gotten in to the world of competitive coaching. She is a mentor coach with the CurlBC High Performance Program, coached a team at the 2025 U20 Provincials, has coached at 2 Rockslide camps, and has been involved with U15 RockFest West and the Hit-Draw-Tap competition at last year’s Brier.

Sarah is passionate about sharing and fostering the love of curling with everyone and looks forward to working with our future BC Champions! 

We are excited that Al Moore plans to coach 2 sessions at Ice Breaker 2025!

Al is a certified level 3 coach.

His gold medal coaching highlights include: 

1987 Women's Canadian Olympic Trials (Moore)

2012 Mixed Doubles Worlds (Rios/Lehmann)

2012 Women's Worlds (Ott)

2013 Mens European (Michel)

2014 Women’s Worlds (Feltscher)

2014 Mixed Doubles Worlds (Gribi/Gribi)

2014 World Juniors (Y Schwaller)

2014 Europeans Women’s (Feltscher)

2015 Women’s Worlds (Pätz)

2016 Women’s Worlds (Feltscher)

2018 Women's Swiss (Feltscher)

Doris is well known at Cloverdale, we're lucky enough to have her as the head coach of our junior program and she will also be joining us for Ice Breaker!

Doris is a certified level 3 coach.

She has an extensive local and international resume. Coaching highlights include:

2002 Pan Continentals, Shinubu Aota, Japan, Gold

2003 Asia Pacific Championships, Shinobu Aota, Gold

2003 Women’s Worlds, Shinobu Aota, 6th

2004 Asia Pacific Championships, Bingyu Wang, China, Silver

2005 World Junior Women’s, Bingyu Wang, 9th

2005 Women’s Worlds, Bingyu Wang, 7th

2008-2009 HP Coach, Mi-Yeon Kim, Korea, 10th at 2009 Worlds 

2009 - HP consultant coach, Westhagen, Seattle 

2010 BC Junior Men’s Curling Championships, Klymchuk, Gold

2010 Canadian Junior Men’s Championships, Klymchuk, 8th

2011 Consultant coach, Team Sven Michel, Switzerland

2012 Switzerland Women’s Championship, Jaeggi, Switzerland, Silver

2013 National team coach - World Winter Universiade, Team Xueyi Wang - 9th

2015 Trainieren at Olympiastutzpunkt Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

2016 to 2018 Talent Development Manager, Danish Curling Association. 

2018 - 2020 HP Consultant Coach - Team Gim, Korea

2018 Chinese National team selection camp, Beijing, China, Foreign Coach

2018 Head Coach, Curling Management Ltd., Beijing, China

We can’t wait to see Paul inspire the next generation of curlers at Ice Breaker 2025!

Paul Tardi is a level 3 certified coach. 

He coached team Tardi for many years, including the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Canadian Junior Mens Championships with gold medal results at each.

We'll reveal more coaches soon, check back to see who is next!