About the Authors

Bettina Callary

Bettina Callary is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa in the school of Human Kinetics. Her PhD research, under the supervision of Drs. Penny Werthner and Pierre Trudel, focuses on the lives of Canadian women coaches and how they have learned to coach. Bettina is also a part-time professor and mother. She has been an alpine ski coach for 14 years, working at all levels, including entry and development levels through to the Canadian University Sport ski team, Argentina’s World Cup Team, and guest coaching stints with the Canadian Alpine Ski Team. She works for the Canadian Ski Coaches Federation, facilitating entry- and development-level coaching courses as well as taking part in a task force to redesign the coaching courses. She has won several coaching awards, including development-level female Coach of the Year in Ontario in 2006. She has completed her National Coaching Institute diploma.

Penny Werthner

Penny Werthner, PhD, is director and associate dean, University of Ottawa, School of Human Kinetics, researching how individuals, particularly elite coaches and athletes, learn most effectively; performance psychology and the use of bioneurofeedback with Olympic athletes and coaches to optimize performance; stress and burnout in coaching; and women and coaching. She is also a consultant in sport psychology who works with many national team athletes and coaches, and has been part of seven winter and summer Canadian Olympic teams from 1988 to 2010. Penny is an NCCP Level 4/5 presenter for Task #7, #8, and #17. A former Olympic track and field athlete, she represented Canada internationally from 1970 to 1981.