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National skeleton coach Teresa Schlachter enjoyed unprecedented success as three of her athletes — gold medallist Duff Gibson, silver medallist Jeff Pain, and bronze medallist Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards — stepped onto the Olympic podium at Turino.
Teresa, who has a master’s degree in high performance coaching, was a brakeman with the national bobsleigh team, appearing at two world championships and numerous World Cups, and at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games as an alternate. Prior to that, she was an All-Canadian at the University of Saskatchewan, specializing in heptathlon, 800m, and 400m hurdles.
Moving on to a coaching career in order to make a difference in bobsleigh’s development, particularly the women’s program, she became high performance director of Bobsleigh Canada’s skeleton program. After Canada won seven medals at three world skeleton championships, she was made general manager and head coach for the 2006 Games.
Teresa is a graduate of the National Coaching Institute-Calgary and has won four Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Awards.
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