ABOUT US

About us

The National Capital Outaouais Ski Team is a program jointly designed by the Outaouais Ski Zone and National Capital Division with the objective to unite top skiers in the Ottawa/Gatineau region. Since 1999, the NCO Ski Team has been a preeminent ski program on the National and Provincial scene, consistently moving athletes to the ON and QC provincial ski teams.

VISION

To provide an exceptional athletic program in a positive, competitive, enjoyable atmosphere, to help each athlete reach his/her’s maximum potential as a ski racer and young adult.

To develop individuals who are passionate towards skiing and ski racing, who are intrinsically motivated towards success and long term involvement in the sport of skiing.

And to develop athletes who are independent thinkers with the tools needed to succeed at the provincial ski team or college level competition.

We value passion, respect, work ethic and commitment. We value the process towards athletic achievement before the outcome, learning from mistakes along the way.

MANDATE

To provide an exceptional racing and training program in a competitive, enjoyable atmosphere that will help each athlete mature and reach his/her maximum potential as a ski racing and young adult.

Unite the best athletes in the National Capital and Outaouais region together on one team.

Joseph (Joey) Lavigne

FIS Head Coach

Joey joined the NCO ski team in 2011 as FIS Head Coach. Born and raised in Ottawa, Joey is well known to alpine racing community both as an athlete as well as a coach.

One of the highlights of Joey’s career was becoming a Canadian Alpine Ski Team coach at the 1980 and 1984 Winter Olympic Games.

Joey's significant coaching experience includes:

Program Director/Head Coach of the Alberta Provincial Ski Team (1977)
Canadian Alpine Ski Team Coach on Europa Ski Circuit (1978-1982)
Canadian Alpine Ski Team Coach for World Cup (1983-1985)
Program Director/Head Coach of the Southern Ontario Division (1986-1990)
Ontario Ski Team Coach (1991-1992)Managing Director of Alpine Ontario (1992-1993)
Program Director, Canadian Alpine Ski Team (1994-2005)
Athletic Director, Ontario Ski team (2006-2010)

Off the hill, Joey has a passion for cabinet making. Joey is married to Cathryn Jayne McIlveen and has three grown children.

Jean-Phillipe (JP) Roy
U16 Lead Coach

The NCO is happy to welcome JP Roy to NCO coaching staff this year.

JP was a member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team.

He represented Canada for 14 years and had many successes including representing Canada at 5 world championships and 2 Olympic Games.

Some of his career highlights include:

Canadian Champion 6 times
5th place in Alta Badia, Italy World Cup GS (2004)
7th place in Are, Sweden GS World Championships (2007)
8th place in the Combined at the Salt Lake City Olympic Games (2002)

JP retired from racing at the end of the 2011-2012 season and began coaching at Camp Fortune.

He is currently studying Osteopathy at EPOQ école professionnelle des Ostéopathe du Québec. He lives in Gatineau with his wife Stephanie and their two boys Jake and Keegan.

COACHES

Alex Lennox
FIS Coach

Alex is in his second year coaching with NCO and coaches the FIS level athletes.

He grew up racing with the Ottawa Ski Club and spent his last two years as an athlete racing at the FIS level with the NCO Ski Team.

He took up coaching after retiring from ski racing and spent five years coaching at Camp Fortune Ski Club.

He is currently completing the advanced certification of the Canadian Ski Coaches Federation Performance Level.

Alex is a recent graduate from the the University of Ottawa with a degree in Criminology.

Rebecca Nadler

U16 Coach

The NCO also welcomes Rebecca Nadler to the coaching staff this year.

Rebecca is from Ottawa, and grew up racing in the Laurentians at Mont Tremblant.

She raced FIS for 10 seasons which included 1 year on the Quebec team and 4 years racing NCAA as a member of the Harvard ski team.

Rebecca's career highlights include:

NCAA GS champion (2012)
3 time All-American

She is currently in the process of retiring, and is very excited to begin her coaching career with NCO. Rebecca says "I am happiest when I have skis on and would love to keep ripping GS turns until I'm 85 or so."

She loves terrible puns and plans on subjecting her racers to many of them throughout the season - and apologies in advance for that.

Rebecca graduated from Harvard University in 2014 with a major in Neurobiology.