COACHES

Coaching for over 27 years and internationally in dance and synchronized skating since 2006.

He led Les Suprêmes Junior to a world championship title in 2024 and 2016, a bronze medal in 2015 and 2012, and silver in 2014, as well as several national and international podiums. He led Les Suprêmes Senior to 3 consecutive world champsionship titles, as well as several national and international podiums.

He works in ice dance with several world and Olympic champions, world medalists and national champions from several countries (Canada, USA, France, Great Britain, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Spain, Armenia, Denmark, Lithuania etc.).

Choreographer and skating quality expert for several international skaters and world medalists in singles and pairs.

In synchronized skating, he has been working on the general development and choreography of the Zagreb Snowflakes teams in Croatia for the past 3 years as well as several other teams at seminars.

As a skater he has had a career of over 20 years in ice dance with 13 years at international level including 10 years on the Canadian National Team. National and international medalist in all categories.

Laurie began her coaching career in 2016. In recent years, she has focused more on improving skating skills, including giving private lessons and working with the various Suprêmes teams. It was during the 2019-2020 season that she made her debut as a synchronized skating coach with Les Suprêmes Pré-Juvenile (now STAR 3/4). That same year, the team won the bronze medal at the Regional Championships held in Sherbrooke. Today, Laurie is the coach of the Star 3, Star 4, Juvenile and Junior.

Laurie competed 18 seasons with Les Suprêmes, including 12 with the Senior team and 11 as captain. She realized her dream of being world champion in 2022 during the historic victory of the Senior team. In 2016, 2020 and 2022, Les Suprêmes Senior won the Canadian Championships.

Originally from Trois-Rivières, Laurie has been skating since the age of 6. She discovered synchronized skating with Les Magistralles de Trois-Rivières. In 2005, she made the jump to the greater Montreal area to join the Suprêmes family in the Novice category. At the same time, Laurie continued her career in freestyle and performed very well at the provincial level.

Alongside her career as a skater and coach, Laurie brilliantly completed her Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management at the UQÀM School of Management Sciences in 2018. In 2017, she started working at Bell Helicopter in Mirabel as an intern. She still works there today, now as a Supply Chain Professional.

 An NCCP provincial coach, Claudia has been an assistant coach with the Novice team since 2017.

Claudia skated with Les Suprêmes her entire career, 18 years. She started in our Pre-Juvenile team and made her way up to the Senior team. She was also captain for several years. She participated in several international competitions and world championships for the last 8 years before retiring from skating. She won a bronze medal with Les Suprêmes Junior at the 2012 JWCC. She was on the Senior team when they won the Canadian Championships in 2016.

Parallel to her skating career, Claudia successfully completed a Bachelor of Education with a specialization in teaching English as a Second Language. She currently holds a position as an English teacher in a French high school.

A national level NCPP coach, Geneviève joined the Suprêmes coaching team in 2019. She is now the coach of the Novice team. 

Geneviève actively participated in the creation of the team in its first year of existence in 2015-2016 under the initiative of Pascal Denis. She began figure skating at the age of three. She had the chance to be coached by the renowned coach Manon Perron while practicing freestyle as a discipline.

She discovered synchronized skating at the age of 19 when she was a member of the McGill University figure skating team during her studies. It was during the last year of her bachelor’s degree in dietetics that she auditioned for Les Suprêmes Senior, a team she was part of in 2013-2014, 2014-2015, and 2016-2017. Parallel to her skating career with the senior team, Geneviève earned a Master’s degree in nutrition from McGill University.

Minh-Thu is a NCPP National Level Coach and has served as an assistant for many of the teams at Les Suprêmes both on and off the ice. She now coaches the Open team since 2020.

Minh-Thu skated with Les Suprêmes for 13 years, 5 of which were on the Senior team.  During her time on Les Suprêmes she won 4 gold medals at the Canadian Championships and competed 5 times at the ISU World Championships.

In addition to her skating and coaching career, she has also successfully completed a Bachelor’s degree in Sport Science and a DEC in Respiratory Therapy. In parallel to her coaching role, she works full time at the hospital as a respiratory therapist.

Coach since 2012 and NCCP National Level, she teaches all disciplines, free skate, dance, skating skills and synchronized skating. In 2018, she was appointed as a mentor coach for her club in the development program.

Over the course of her coaching career, many of her skaters in the free skate have achieved excellent results at the provincial level. Olivia led Team Les Suprêmes Pre-Juvenile to a bronze medal at the Regional Championships in Sherbrooke and she also succeeded to stand on the podium two more times that season. Today, she is the head coach of Les Suprêmes STAR 3, STAR 4 and Juvenile.

Olivia started figure skating at the age of 5. In 2002, she joined the Les Suprêmes Pré-Juvénile team. She has had an excellent career as a freestyle competitor for over 10 years. Olivia returned to Les Suprêmes to be part of the Senior team from 2013 until 2016. In the 2015-2016 season, the Senior Team won the title of Canadian Champion, as well as a 5^thplace at the World Synchronized Skating Championship in Budapest, Hungary.

Parallel to her coaching career, Olivia completed a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in 2020 at UQÀM’s École des Sciences de la Gestion. She also recently completed studies at The Harvard Business School.