Our Team

At Water’s Edge we’ve assembled an amazing team of instructors to lead our courses and clinics. Take a look at their achievements in their profiles below.

Core Team

Andrea Dillon

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Andrea has been involved with paddling, coaching and instructing for 38 years. With the desire to create innovative, effective and results oriented programs and teaching models for paddlers and coaches of all levels, Andrea and Jackie Webber began Water’s Edge Sport Performance Inc. Drawing from years of paddling and coaching various canoes and kayaks Andrea [...]

Rick van Vloten

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Partner Rick is one of the principal owners of Water’s Edge and brings years of experience in contract negotiations, marketing, logistics and public relations to round out the Water’s Edge team. His considerable experiences in managing multi-million dollar projects world wide brings a wealth of knowledge to Water’s Edge. His experience in dealing with the [...]

Instructors

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Kamini Jain

Kamini brings to the Water’s Edge Coaching Team more than two decades of success as both an athlete and coach. As an athlete she has enjoyed international success in sprint kayaking, earning 11 World Cup medals and competing in two Olympic finals (2000 and 2004). Since retiring from the National Kayak Team after the Athens [...]

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Andrea Dillon

Andrea has been involved with paddling, coaching and instructing for 38 years. With the desire to create innovative, effective and results oriented programs and teaching models for paddlers and coaches of all levels, Andrea and Jackie Webber began Water’s Edge Sport Performance Inc. Drawing from years of paddling and coaching various canoes and kayaks Andrea [...]

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Jason Rusu

Jason has been coaching sprint kayak and canoe, outrigger and dragon boat for over 10 years. He began his coaching career in 1995 as the regional sprint racing coach in Greater Vancouver. He has also served as the head coach of the Calgary Canoe Club in 1997 and since 1999 has continued to work with [...]

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Connie Flesuras

Connie brings 16 years of dragon boat coaching experience to the Water’s Edge staff. She is a founding member of the Wasabi Paddling Club in Portland, Oregon – one of the largest paddling clubs in the United States. She is the head coach of the club’s winning gold medal women’s masters and grandmasters crews. Connie [...]

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Judy Shandler

Judy started paddling marathon boats in the early 1980s, however her paddling career really took off in 1986 when she joined the False Creek Racing Canoe Club and started paddling Dragon boats and Outriggers competitively both on the National and International front. Coaching became a natural transition, and allows her to share her paddling passion [...]

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Cam Taylor

Cam brings to the Water’s Edge Team 12 years of experience in the Venture Capital market as well as a lifetime of paddling experience. He has competed internationally throughout the world in both Dragon Boat and Outrigger Canoe. He currently resides in London, United Kingdom, where he has spent the last five years building and [...]

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