Our Coaches

Born and raised in Delta, British Columbia, Olivia has been involved in BCSSA for the past fourteen years, where she competed and coached in multiple aquatic disciplines. She started swimming competitively for the North Delta Sunfish in 2010, later expanding into artistic swimming with the BC Aquasonics. She currently competes for the University of Victoria Vikes at a National level and is a two-time recipient of the Canada West Student-Athlete Community Service Award, highlighting her involvement with the community. Olivia has over eight years of coaching experience with the Sunfish and is the acting Provincial Coach Representative for the 2024-2025 BCSSA Season.

Olivia is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, where she studies Environmental Studies, Psychology, and Public Administration. She is excited to help swimmers reach their goals and have fun!

Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Drew has been a competitive swimmer for over 12 years, having competed for both the Edmonton Keyano Swim Club and The University of Victoria Vikes at a national level. Through his swimming career, Drew has had the opportunity to compete for both Team Alberta and Team Canada nationally and Internationally.

Currently, Drew is an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria in his fourth year of studying history and film studies. After two summer seasons and a winter season, this will be Drew’s second winter season with the Orcas and he is very excited to continue helping Orcas swimmers achieve their goals and develop a love for the sport.

McKechnie has been swimming with the Orcas for 6 years, during which time she medalled at Regionals and swam at the Provincial championships. She started swimming at an older age, but really loved the inclusive environment of the Orcas swim team and knew this was a team she wanted to belong to. 

While this is her first year on the coaching staff, she previously volunteered both as the Oak bay high swim coach and in the Orcas volunteer coaching program. She found she really enjoyed working with younger kids and so is very excited to be coaching the Mini pods.

McKechnie has started her first year at the University of Victoria and will be studying history. 

McKechnie loves seeing swimmers accomplish their personal goals as well as seeing the friendships they foster through swimming. She is really looking forward to the upcoming winter season and working with the Orcas youngest swimmers.

Johanna swam with the Orcas for 12 years, during which she served as a Volunteer Coach, Junior Coach and is now in her fourth year of coaching with the Orcas. She has been a BCSSA member for 14 years and swam for one year with the University of Victoria Vikes. Throughout Johanna’s swimming career she swam at the regional and provincial levels.

Currently Johanna is in the second year of her Kinesiology degree, and is training for triathlons and long distance races. Johanna is excited to be on the pool deck every day  to work with swimmers of all ages to improve their swim technique, support and motivate swimmers to reach their goals, and have fun in the sport of swimming!

Hudson joined the Orcas in 2019 and over the years his love for swimming and the club has only grown. Since joining the club, he has gone from a casual swimmer to a regional medallist and provincial qualifier. He has also been a committed volunteer coach with the mini-pods program for the past two seasons and is excited to officially join the coaching staff.

His favourite part of working with the mini-pods is teaching the club’s youngest swimmers the sport he loves. He is really looking forward to helping the mini-pods develop their skills, gain confidence in the water, while having fun.