Head Coach 2011 World Champ.

Ryan Walters
Home town: New Westminster, BC.

Hockey Background:
Spent two seasons (2008-10) as an assistant coach with the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks … Has coached at various levels of minor hockey … Played 15 NHL seasons (1978-93) with three teams – Washington, Montreal and Vancouver … Recorded 646 points (264G, 382A) in 1,003 career games … Won the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1986 … Played in the 1983 NHL All-Star Game … Drafted second overall by Washington in the 1978 NHL Entry Draft

Women's Hockey:
Head coach of Canada’s National Women’s Team at the 2010 4 Nations Cup in St. John’s, N.L., winning a gold medal … As a player, represented Canada on four occasions … Played at three IIHF World Championships (1979, 1981, 1982), recording 10 points (5G, 5A) in 20 games and winning a bronze medal in 1982 … Captained Canada to a bronze medal at the 1978 IIHF World Junior Championship in Montreal, Que.

Assistant Coaches:

Dan Church is in his seventh season as head coach of the women’s team at York University in Toronto, Ont., and has extensive experience coaching for Hockey Canada’s national women’s programs. Most recently, Church guided Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team to its first-ever gold medal at the 2010 IIHF World Women’s Under-18 Championship, held in Chicago, Ill., in April 2010.

Lisa Jordan is in her fourteenth year as head coach of the women’s team at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, N.S., capturing four AUS championship titles (1998, 2002, 2003, and 2010) and being named the 2003 CIS women’s hockey coach of the year. In 2011/12 season she becomes head coach at Ryerson University in Toronto She too has extensive experience coaching within Hockey Canada’s national women’s programs, including her role as assistant coach under Church with the U18 team that won gold at the 2010 IIHF World Women’s Under-18 Championship.