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Professional Coaching
Pirouette RG Club employs only NCCP certified rhythmic gymnastics coaches.
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Eva Sokol — Head Coach Eva has over 30 years of coaching experience, from recreational to high performance programs. She is a former rhythmic gymnast, and has trained gymnasts on provincial and national teams, the Canada Winter Games, the Western Canada Summer Games, and the Canadian teams for the World Gymnasestradas. |
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Irina Shivrina - Ballet, Dance teacher. Irina originally from Russia where she graduated from Arts University with a Bachelors degree in Choreography. She has spent some years professionally performing in dance groups. In Moscow she shared her time between leading the kids fitness programs at Planet Fitness while at the same time she continued increasing her experience as a choreographer. Irina also worked in Italy as a ballet teacher before moving to Canada. Irina has her NCCP level 1 theory and technical certification. Irina says, "Dance is not what you do, it is what you are!" |
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Regina Taptich - Coach. Regina has been a member of Pirouette for a long time now, starting from the recreational program, to the competitive program and is now a Level 1 coach. She loves all the gymnasts in the club as well as the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. |
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Amy Charbonneau - Coach Amy joined the Recreational program at Pirouette in 2002. The following year she entered the club's competitive program and has participated in numerous interclub competitions. Since then she has become a level 1 certified coach and is very proud to be working with everyone at Pirouette.
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Cassidy MacIntyre—Junior Coach Cassidy began competing in Rhythmic Gymnastics in 2001 with Pirouette. She has competed in many competitions and participated with Sonya, Amy and Regina in National and International events. She loves the sport and enjoys sharing that love with the girls that she coaches. |
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Karena Volesky - Junior Coach Karena has been a gymnast at Pirouette for more than ten years, and she plans on being a gymnast for years to come. She has competed both on teams and individually. She greatly looks forward to coaching in the coming training season. Her favourite apparatus is the ribbon. |
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Vikki Fowke - Junior Coach Vikki started rhythmic gymnastics in 2000 with Pirouette. She loves training, competing, and coaching. Rhythmic gymnastics has offered her fantastic opportunities such as being part of Team Canada in Austria in 2007, and representing Pirouette in Winnipeg in 2010. Vikki has loved rhythmic gymnastics from day one and hopes that all the new and returning gymnasts will love it as well. |
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