Rene St Aubin Coach

Rene St Aubin began his coaching career in swimming in 1972 when he started teaching at Cedarbrae C.I. Five year later the Cedarbrae swimmers were O.F.S.S.A. swimming champions and remained Scarborough champions for the next 25 years.

Rene has also coached the Pickering Swim Club at the developmental level. More recently Rene has been successfully coaching the Pickering Master Splashers for the last number of years bringing his wealth of swimming knowledge to the new as well as seasoned masters swimmer.

Karin Quane Coach

Karin has over 10 years experience teaching and coaching competitive swimming. She is a NCCP level 2 coach in training and has a BBA in management. She started her swimming career in the West Island’s Summer pool league ALPS as a competitive in 1988 and trained most of her career with Beaconsfield Bluefins. She was a provincial level swimmer and made the Quebec Games team twice representing Lac St-Louis region. In College she trained on the John Abbott team.

From 1997 to 2000, she coached Swimming at the Beacon Hill pool and at John Abbott pool. She managed the aquatic program for Sunny Acres Day Camp from 2001 to 2002.

She taught the Olympic Way program for both adults and children from 2005 to 2007 and the Pointe-Claire Aquatic Center. From 2006 to 2008, she was the coach for the 10 & under and Elite age group team under the supervision of Eric Quane for DDO’s satellite team, Les Citadins. On her spare time she teaches adult lessons, technique and strategies for swimmers who want to improve and achieve their swimming goals. She managed the Vaudreuil pool from 2007 to 2008 as a Leisure technician.

Since 2008, she is an assistant coach for Pickering’s swim club and a coach for the Pickering Master Splashers.

David McMullan Execituve

David McMullan has been a member of PMS since 1989. Currently occupying position of  tresurer for the club.   A long time proponent of an active lifestyle. From Rafting the Nahani in the NWT to hiking the Grand Canyon,  he enjoys many outdoor pursuits, often in the company of my wife of twenty-five years and two sons.
A graduate of York University with an honours BSC in Physical Education David was a member of the York University varsity swim team. At that time and since, he has had the opportunity to coach both age group and masters swimmers. David has also been active in multi sport events over the last twenty years starting in 1985 with a bike/paddle/run event called the Bone Crusher Triathlon. since then he has participated in the more conventional triathlon format since 1989, having competed in various distances up to and including the Florida Ironman  in 2003 and 4 additional times since. With regard to running he has raced most distances up to and including the marathon distance.

Lora Rigutto Vigliatore Execituve

Lora, our President, has been a member of the Pickering Master Splashers since 2004.  After retiring from the National Race Walking Team in 1998, she took up the sport of triathlons and thus ‘learned to swim’.  Lora has worked very hard over the past 13 years correcting bad habits she learned while thrashing about all those years growing up on the St. Lawrence River.  Working with our PMS coaches has enabled Lora to lower her swim times in triathlons and become a lot more efficient in the water.