Douglas K.W. Crashley

President

1. Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (NSCA)
2. Bachelor of Science: Exercise Science, University of Lethbridge
3. Diploma in Kinesiology: Fitness & Health Promotion, Red Deer College
4. NCCP Level 2 Coach

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Crash has established himself in the hockey community with a strong work ethic and attention to detail. Crash spent his schooling focusing on the performance enhancement of hockey through the physiological and psychological aspect of the players.

Crash has been featured in various lectures and practical sessions for Hockey Canada, Hockey Alberta, Nike Hockey, World Pro Goaltending, in addition has been published in magazines such as Hockey Now, Royals Report, Hockey Calgary Magazine and recently in STACK magazine.

Travelling across North America during the hockey season, to be involved in year round development for Crash Conditioning athletes, has allowed for a better understanding of the different needs at each level. To understand more at the NHL level for draftees and their experiences Crash has attended NHL drafts and the 2007 NHL combine.

He is not only a fixture in the hockey community but a leader in the development of athleticism in hockey players and teams. His undergraduate studies included research in “Exercise Physiology in Ice Hockey” as well as “Role Clarity within Teams in Competitive Ice Hockey”.

As well as developing players, Crash has been instrumental in developing outstanding strength coaches and works closely with therapists and medical professionals in developing his own trade.

“Success comes from preparation!”  

Adam Lockhart

Head Strength & Conditioning Coach

1. Bachelor of Science: Kinesiology, University of Alberta

Adam began coaching athletes while in school in 2001, working with members of junior and university football teams in Alberta. After three years of doing so Adam moved into working with members of both Canada’s bobsled and skeletons teams. During the next three years he worked and developed athletes speed and strength on the national team. His assistance helped set start records and win world championship and Olympic medals. It was during this time that Adam met Doug Crashley and began assisting him train hockey players at Crash Conditioning.

Adam’s personal background is in the sport of track and field where he competed both nationally in long jump, triple jump (as a junior,) and in sprinting 200m, and 400m. His coaching strengths are in speed & agility training and Olympic weightlifting. To his credit he has also worked with other national teams in bobsled/skeleton as well as international athletes in both track and field and Olympic weightlifting.

Shawn Stead

Director of Athletic Development - Kelowna

1. Bachelor of Science: Kinesiology, University of Lethbridge
2. Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist
3. USA Weightlifting - Sports Performance Coach
4. NCCP Level 2 Coach

Shawn’s education focused on the performance enhancement of athletes and volunteered many hours with different University level athletic programs in both an athletic therapy and strength and conditioning role. His time spent with the U.S. Ski Team’s Sport Science division allowed him to gain the practical knowledge and experience in the design and evaluation of yearly scientific testing and training programs for Olympic level athletes.

The evaluation and coordination of coaching strategies/team development and planning from both a physiological and psychological perspective has produced opportunities to develop, consult, coach and manage with programs and organizations such as the Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL), Hockey Alberta, University of Lethbridge Athletics/ High Performance and other sporting organizations in Western Canada.

Adam Redmond

Biomechanical Consultant / Performance Coach

1. Bachelor of Science
2. Biomechanics
3. Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist
4. NCCP Olympic lifting Level 1

“Reds” has spent his last four summers working with us at Crash Conditioning.

He graduated from University of Calgary with a BSc. in Biomechanics where he also played five seasons with Dino’s Men’s Hockey team and was an Academic All-Canadian each year. Reds will continue to train players in the gym, and is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, but his focus will be on developing a 3D motion capture system that will be used to do stride assessments on players to find functional imbalances in their skating patterns. This will help develop more individualized training programs that reduce player’s risk of becoming injured.

Alyssa Dessario

Performance Coach / Personal Trainer Director

1. Bachelor of Kinesiology
2. CSEP-PT
3. NCCP Olympic lifting Level 1

Alyssa is a graduate of the University of Calgary’s Exercise Health and Physiology program from the Kinesiology faculty. She has extensive experience working with ballet dancers and looks to bring her dedication to human movement, balance and flexibility to hockey players. She has worked in the personal training field as well as worked in both post rehab and cardiac rehab environments previously. She is in her first year of hopefully many as part of the Crash team.

Chris Fuss

On Ice Performance Coach

1. Bachelor of Science: Business Management, Norwich University

Chris graduated from Norwich University in 2004. During his four seasons with the Cadets hockey team, he made three consecutive Frozen Four appearances, won a NCAA National Championship, and served as team captain. Upon graduation, he spent two years in Red Deer as a full time hockey development instructor.

In 2007, Chris moved to the Calgary area and helped open Skillz Skating & Shooting Center. Since that time, the Skillz brand has expanded into a second location (Skillz High Octane), in a facility with Crash Conditioning. Since 2004, Chris has specialized in hockey skill development and skating treadmill instruction.

Chris also spent three seasons serving as an assistant coach with the Okotoks Oilers of the AJHL. During his time there, he was the assistant to the AJHL coach of the year in 2008, and helped guide the Oilers to the South Division Championship in 2009. Although he was offered the Head Coach / GM position for the 2010/11 season, Chris chose to focus his efforts on Skillz Skating & Shooting Center, the Skillz mentorship program, and the creation of Skillz High Octane.

Chris lives in Okotoks with his wife Carolyn and son Parker.

Cory Cameron

Certified Athletic Therapist & Head Rehabilitation Consultant

1. Bachelor of Kinesiology University of Calgary
2. Advanced Certificate in Athletic Therapy, Mount Royal College
3. Certified Athletic Therapist, CATA 2009

Cory’s experience with athletes and athletic individuals over the past nine years as an Athletic Trainer and Athletic Therapist has lead him to expanding from strictly team oriented work to a clinical work as and Athletic Therapist. Cory’s experience includes one year in BCHL and six years in the WHL capped, by a 2007 Memorial Cup championship with the Vancouver Giants. Cory has been involved with Team Pacific at the Under 17’s, as well as different Hockey Alberta, Hockey BC and Hockey Canada events.

Cory’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to; assessment, immediate care, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries, exercise rehabilitation, supportive taping, as well as prevention of injuries through postural evaluation, and muscle imbalance evaluation.

Cory’s experience working with Crash Conditioning over the past seven years, has allowed him to work with a large number of elite athletes and enjoys using skills and techniques that apply to athletes with all of his clients, working toward a return to daily activities through active rehabilitation.

Delaine K. Pattison

Strength & Conditioning Coach

1. Bachelor of Science: Exercise Science and Fitness, Western Illinois University

“D-pain” joined Crash Conditioning in January of 2008, as a student intern. She helped with administrative duties, as well as working with younger athletes.

After completing her degree at Western Illinois University she joined Crash Conditioning taking on a bigger role as a full-time strength and conditioning coach and has now worked two years with Crash Conditioning. She also spends the winters training many elite level soccer teams.

Delaine’s athletic background is in the sport of soccer where she represented Calgary on many high level teams, she also played at the collegiate level in the NCAA Division 1 soccer league as a member of the WIU ladies soccer team.

Guy Greavette

Olympic Lifting Coach / Consultant

Bio coming soon.

Jason Bast

Performance Coach

1. NCCP Olympic lifting Level 1

Jason has just finished his first year in the Human Kinetics program at St. Francis Xavier University. This is his first summer as a Strength Coach at Crash Conditioning, after years of training in the program as an athlete. During his WHL career, he played all five years for the Moose Jaw Warriors, where he highlighted the WHL’s scorer’s lists in regular and post seasons, as well as being named to an ADT Canada/Russia challenge, being named Warriors MVP and WHL Sportsmanlike Player Of the Year.

Here is a link to a Hockey Futures article from his junior career.

Jason Pylypuik

On Ice Performance Coach / Business Operations Consultant

Since 2004, “Puker” has been a proud member of the “Crash Team” as an on ice instructor.

In 2009, he received his High Performance 1 certification and is presently working towards his Theory 3 designation.

Since 2001, Jason has worked his way up the coaching ranks. Begining with the Bantam AAA Okotoks Oilers, and then up through the Midget AAA ranks with the Calgary Buffaloes, now spending the past four years on the bench with the Canmore Eagles of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

Jason has also been involved with the Alberta Cup as a head coach, the U16 program, and Team Pacific as an evaluator and coach at both the regional and provincial camps since 2007.

His playing background includes: AAA Midget with the Calgary Buffaloes, junior with the Calgary Royals, and then four years at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. After lettering for all four years, Puker went on to play two years in the ECHL, CHL and UHL.

He shares Crash’s hard work, no excuses attitude, but realizes that after the “Crash Zone” the ice session is the easiest part of the day and keeping things fun and fresh are his top priority.

Jerrid Sauer

Performance Coach

Jerrid Attends University of Calgary and is going into his fourth year in the Kinesiology program. This is his second year as a strength and conditioning coach at Crash Conditioning.

Jerrid’s athletic background is in hockey. He just finished his third year as a member of the University of Calgary Dinos hockey team. As well as played five years in the WHL, splitting his time between the Medicine Hat Tigers and the Swift Current Broncos. When Jerrid was a young athlete he trained within the Crash Conditioning program.

Mike Viani

Performance Coach

1. NCCP Olympic lifting Level 1

“Viani” currently attends the University of Calgary, studying Biological Sciences. This is Mike’s second summer with Crash Conditioning team.

Growing up he played hockey and football. He was a member of Hockey Alberta’s Program of Excellence and was a member of Team Alberta Football in 2004, where he won a silver medal. He has spent a number of years training amateur athletes in both football and hockey.

Perry Shockey

Director of On Ice Development

Bio coming soon

Dr. Ryan Hoover

Chiropractic & Active Release Technique Provider

1. Bachelor of Science
2. Doctor of Chiropractic
3. Certified Strength Conditioning Specialist
4. Active Release Techniques® Provider

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Influenced by his active lifestyle, Dr. Hoover’s treatment approach combines traditional treatment with the latest soft-tissue techniques and exercise rehabilitation, giving patients the skills to reduce their risk of future injury.

As a Certified Strength Conditioning Specialist® (CSCS®), Dr. Hoover uses his personal training experience in his practice, helping patients incorporate rehabilitation exercises into their daily routine in an enjoyable and easy manner. As a registered Active Release Techniques® Provider, he also uses this latest type of therapy to treat many spinal and non-spinal conditions.

Dr. Hoover’s patient base includes players from the NHL and other elite athletes. Having him in the Crash Conditioning Performace Centre gives us the best ability for communication when dealing with needs of our athletes.

Tyler Zaleski

Performance Coach

1. NCCP Olympic lifting Level 1

“Zman”is entering his second off-season as a member of the Crash Conditioning team. He has completed his third year of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, specializing in strength and conditioning. Zman is well respected for his ability to motivate and relate to our young athletes. He was a member of the Red Deer AAA midget team that took the Crash trained Buffaloes to the final game on their way to the Telus Cup in 2006. He played against current alum Mike Connolly, Jake DeSerres and Jordan Eberle.