Coaches

Mike Curran (Senior Men)

Mike is currently the Team Canada U18 Men’s coach and the Team Ontario U19 Men’s coach. Curran is one of the founding members of the Mississauga Blues Rugby club and the head coach of the Senior Men’s team. Curran coaches the Senior Boys Rugby team at Streetsville Secondary School and he will be the Assistant Coach for the Brock University Women’s Rugby team!

 

Jordan Habete (Senior Women)

In 2010-2013, Jordan played for Brock's men’s team and in 2014 played for Queens men’s team. He played for the Brampton Beavers before coming to Blues, where he’s played for the last three years. Jordan’s expertise spreads across three different high schools in the GTA, including: Brampton Centennial Secondary School, Lorne Park Secondary School and Mentor College. In 2019, his Lorne Park senior team won gold and the junior team won silver at ROPSSAA. During his high school career, Habete won ROPSSAA as well. While being involved in many high school teams, in the last three years he has managed to be the junior director and coach the junior boys’ teams at Blues.

 

Evan Flemming (U18 Boys)

Before the 2019 season playing as a second row with the Senior Men, the last rugby Evan had played was in High School at Bayside Secondary School in Belleville. For the past ten years, he has been coaching at Appleby College. He has coached the U14 Boys, the U16 Boys, and the U18 Boys over those years. The teams have multiple championships in the CISAA (Independent School league) at each level over that time. As well, over the past 5 years, he has taken the teams on tours to Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, and Argentina.

 

Cam Louie (U16 Boys)

From 2008-2010 and 2011, Cam won gold at ROPSSAA as well as silver in 2011 with Streetsville Secondary . His team placed first at OFSAA in 2012. Cam was nominated captain and MVP his senior year at Streetsville Secondary School. He played on the Brock men’s Rugby team in 2013 and from 2015-2017. Cam won bronze at OUA with the Brock team in 2014. Cam has been a part of the Mississauga Blues Rugby club since 2008 and has been using his expert rugby knowledge to coach the U18 and U16 boys.

 

Jim Dinner (U18 and U16 Girls)

Jim Dinner started Coaching Rugby at Streetsville Secondary March 2011. Represented ROPSSAA at OFSAA 2012, 2013, 2018 and 2019. Convenor for OFSAA Rugby AA Girls, Mississauga in 2015. Started Coaching Mississauga Blues U16 and U18 Girls Teams 2015. Completed Level 1 Coaching Course with World Rugby in 2015. Completed Level 2 Coaching Course with World Rugby. (To be finalized after Covid19). Traveled to The United Kingdom coaching the Mississauga Blues U18 Girls touring side in 2016. Traveled to The United Kingdom coaching the Mississauga Blues U18 Girls touring side in 2018.

 

Malak Aiad (U18 and U16 Girls)

Malak Aiad started coaching the U14 and U18 teams in 2020. She is a part of the McMaster women’s rugby team who placed 3rd in the OUA in their 2019 season. Her love for the game started in grade 9 with the Streetsville Secondary School Tigers. She has won ROPSSAA  in 2018 and 2019 and participated these years in OFSAA while representing Streetsville Secondary. She also had the opportunity to play provincially for the U18 girls team representing Ontario West. Malak has been a part of the Blues family since 2016, where she got the opportunity to travel to the United Kingdom and play against international teams.

 

Teodora Velickovska (U18 and U16 Girls)

Teodora started her coaching career in 2019 with the U18 girls while they trained for their 2020 United Kingdom tour and has helped with their training in the summer of 2020. Her passion for rugby started back in grade 9 when she decided to branch out from the numerous other sports she played. In the 2018-2019, she played for Rogues Rugby and won bronze at the New York 7’s tournament. She won ROPSSAA in 2018 and 2019 and participated in OFSAA for those years, representing Streetsville Secondary. In the 2020-2021 year, she was given the opportunity to represent the Mississauga Blues through Rugby Ontario as their Community Rugby intern.


 

Livia Gubco (U14 and U12)

Livia has been part of our coaching staff for the past 5-6 years. From starting out with the U8s and U10s, she eventually moved up to the U14s where she has been the head coach for the past 3 years. She had the opportunity to play provincially when she was 16 and gain more experience and learn more about rugby. Playing provincial also allowed her to learn about other coaching styles. On top of this she began referring and also obtained her coaching certification through Rugby Ontario. Last summer she worked for Rugby Ontario as a Community Rugby intern which allowed her to share the beautiful sport of rugby in elementary and middle schools in Mississauga. Further, she has been playing on the Brock Varsity women’s rugby team for the past 3 seasons. Unfortunately due to COVID her season was cancelled but she’s looking forward to the summer season and training again soon with her Brock team and the senior women’s team here at Mississauga Blues bringing home some more wins and adding some more Man of the Matches to her name.

 

Jason Cormier (U12)

Jason has coached the U12 rugby and was the previous coach for the flag rugby team. He is currently the coach of the U14 sevens teams and is the manager of the kids programs for teams under-12. He is the Coach of the girls rugby team and girls rugby sevens team at St. Francis Xavier SS. His girls team has won ROPSSAA multiple times and is a convener for girls rugby sevens and on the OFSAA Rugby Sports Advisory Committee.