Triathlon Ontario Core Values
- Integrity: We treat our stakeholders with fairness and respect.
- Supportive and Learning Culture: We create an environment for athletes, coaches, officials, and partners to grow and achieve excellence.
- Relationships: We foster enjoyable relationships and safe, positive experiences.
- Sport4Life: We are committed to upholding the principles of Canadian Sport for Life.
Mission Statement
Provide leadership and governance to develop and grow multisport in Ontario as well as deliver a safe and fair environment for participation.
Vision Statement
We are a progressive organization achieving excellence while providing leadership and value to our members and partners.
Staff
Executive Director Phil Dale [email protected]
Program Manager Mike Mahoney [email protected]
Administrator Lynn Miller [email protected]
Digital Media Specialist Taylor Reid [email protected]
Provincial Development Coach Greg Kealey [email protected]
2025-26 Board of Directors
Sabrina Fitzgerald
Sabrina Fitzgerald, CPA, CA, FEA has been passionate about triathlon since 2012, competing in Olympic and sprint distance age group races. A proud mother of two adult children who have been racing since the age of three with one still competing at the National level, Sabrina brings both personal and family experience in the sport to her role. As an executive team member for a large professional services firm, Sabrina’s strategic and goal-oriented mindset helps Triathlon Ontario strengthen its vision and achieve its goals. She joined the Triathlon Ontario Board in 2024, eager to support the growth and development of triathlon across the province.
Kevin Wong
Kevin has been a 6 Time Age Group National Team Member for Triathlons and Duathlons, and a participant in Adventure Racing, Lifesaving Sport, Pickleball and Ultimate. He maintains NCCP Coaching qualifications in Triathlon and Ultimate, is a Lifesaving Sport Coach Trainer, a longtime high school Cross-Country Running, Swimming. and Ultimate coach, and recently started as the school coach of the culinary club. Kevin is also a National Triathlon Official, Level 5 Master Swim Canada Official, Canadian Lifesaving Sport Official, and has officiated at Continental Cups, World Cups, World Triathlon Series Races, World Triathlon Championships, and Canada Summer Games. Kevin has been convener of Provincial High School (OFSAA) Swimming Championships, OFSAA Ultimate Championships, and OFSAA Boys Golf Championships. Kevin is currently a school Principal.
John Cameron
John has been involved in the sport of triathlon in a variety of capacities (athlete, coach, race director, club administrator) since 1989, modeling a passion for an active and healthy lifestyle. He is an NCCP Certified Triathlon Competition Coach working with development athletes aged 13 to 23+ in their daily training environment, at training camps, and during competition. John also devotes time to the sport as a coach developer, mentoring coaches, and working as an NCCP Learning Facilitator and Coach Evaluator, and Master Coach Developer. An Ontario Certified Teacher, with over 35 years of experience, he is currently supporting new elementary school teachers in his school district as a mentor-coach.
Phil Brown
Phil is a lifelong endurance athlete and coach in running, cycling, skiing, and triathlon. A cross-country skier from a young age, he raced at national level events through his teens and early adulthood and competed in biathlon at the 1995 Canada Winter Games. He later represented Canada at the ITU 2017 Cross Triathlon World Championships. Phil raced triathlon for nearly three decades before focusing on coaching and sport leadership, holding NCCP certifications in triathlon, swimming, and cross-country skiing, and serving as a Level II swim official. He is the founder and head coach of The Endurance Company, a triathlon and multisport club in Thunder Bay, a former board member and coach with the Thunderbolts Swim Club, and race director for XTERRA Sleeping Giant. Outside sport, he works as a professional forester.
Tara Postnikoff
Tara has been actively competing in triathlon since 2007. She has competed in four Age Group World Championships and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships, as well as a two-time Boston Marathon finisher. Tara started her triathlon coaching certification process in 2010 and successfully completed the NCCP Triathlon Competition Introduction stream in 2016. She is also an NCCP Trained Community Cycling coach. Tara has been a member of the Toronto Triathlon Club since 2007 and sat on their board of directors for four years in various roles before becoming the clubs first Executive Director until 2018. Tara is a full time Nutritionist, Coach and Trainer working with endurance athletes to help them accomplish their goals.
Ting Yeh
Ting Yeh, CPA, CIA, serves as Treasurer with a clear promise: disciplined financial stewardship that fuels athlete experience and long-term organization health. A career accountant and auditor, Ting has led enterprise-level transformations—standardizing processes, improving controls, and elevating reporting so leaders can decide faster with confidence. A parent of two, Ting believes in ‘fitness for life” and in triathlon as a community engine. Sport connects generations in Ting’s world allowing for family training activities such as early-morning pool sessions, family biking, and weekend cheering squads. At these venues, it is where friendships deepen and kids learn resilience – The Tri-Spirit. People-first view shapes how Ting manages the books: simple to read, accountable to members, and aligned to mission.
Christine Boeck
Christine Boeck, LLB, MS, has competed in triathlon for many years, from Super Sprint to Ironman, and has qualified for the world championships on age group teams. She also has a background in track and field, coaching, and fitness instruction in Canada and the USA. She has a law degree and works in the Violence Against Women/Domestic Violence/Homeless system, in management. She helps with the creation and implementation of policies and procedures, and rules and regulations, as well as managing counselors, de-escalation, and trauma-informed care. Prior to working in social services, she worked in public health doing research, data collection and analysis, evaluation, and project cycle management. She has municipal-level political experience in governance and policy creation. In addition to becoming a technical official for Triathlon Ontario, she also volunteers as an official with Athletics Ontario, OFSAA (track and field), and Swim Ontario.
Sue Leeder
Sue has been involved in Triathlons for over 3 decades, competing in one of the first triathlons held at Kelso Conservation Area in the late 1980’s. Since then, Sue has raced as an Age Grouper in a variety of triathlon distances including Ironman Canada in Penticton. For approximately 18 years, Sue was on the Ontario Women’s Triathlon Series board. With the OWT series she acted as Registrar and was Race Director for the Milton Race for 10 years.
Sue is a dedicated long distance runner, racing in everything from 5 K to Marathons. She has also competed in the FINA World Masters Swim Championship. Sue loves to train way more than race and have made many long lasting friendships through this sport. Sue hopes to be able to help this sport continue to grow and be accessible to all. The Ontario Women’s triathlon Series enabled her to see first hand the impact sport has on entry level athletes.
Executive Committee
President – Phil Brown
Vice President – Sabrina Fitzgerald
Treasurer – Ting Yeh
Secretary – Christine Boeck
2026 Board of Director Elections
Potential candidates will have the opportunity to apply for a period determined by the Nominations Committee in the summer of 2026.
Eligible Triathlon Ontario annual members will be elected to fill four positions for two-year terms via an online voting platform. The results of the elections will be announced at the Annual General Meeting in September 2026.
To become a Director, you must be a member in good standing, be at least eighteen (18) years of age, be nominated and seconded by existing members and not be subject to an undischarged bankruptcy.
Board Meetings
Meetings of the Board of Directors are held virtually bi-monthly, or more often if needed and not open to the general membership.
Triathlon Ontario’s Independant Third Party Safe Sport Reporting
An independent third party is an individual external to Triathlon Ontario who is responsible for providing expert, objective, external facilitation of complaints in accordance with Triathlon Ontario’s safe sport policies.
Triathlon Ontario has retained Sport Dispute Management Inc. led by Jahmiah Ferdinand-Hodkin (she/her) to provide the independent third-party services to Triathlon Ontario’s community. Any individual who has witnessed, experienced, or received information regarding maltreatment of any kind can contact Jahmiah for information about the complaint process ([email protected]) or submit a complaint online .
For more information regarding Sport Dispute Management and the complaint process, please see their website here.
When reporting a complaint through the independent third-party process, you can expect that:
- All reports will be kept entirely confidential, in line with the wishes of the person making the complaint. This includes confidentiality from Triathlon Ontario staff.
- Complaint will be followed up on in a timely manner.
- The Independent Third Party is available to support persons making a complaint through the process and will provide information on each step of the process.
- Complaint will be taken seriously, and rigorously examined.
- Complaint will be managed in a trauma informed manner.
- Complaints will be managed in French or English, according to your preference.
Should any complaint or concern come to the attention of Triathlon Ontario, it will be forwarded to the Independent Third Party.
AGM Minutes
AGM Minutes 2010, AGM Minutes 2011, AGM Minutes 2013, AGM Minutes 2014, AGM Minutes 2015, AGM Minutes 2016 AGM Minutes 2017, AGM Minutes 2018, AGM Minutes 2019, AGM Minutes 2020, AGM Minutes 2021, AGM Minutes 2022, AGM Minutes 2023, AGM Minutes 2024, AGM Minutes 2025
Financials
Financials 2012, Financials 2013, Financials 2015, Financials 2016
Financials 2017, Financials 2018, Financials 2019, Financials 2020, Financials 2021, Financials 2022, Financials 2023, Financials 2024, Financials 2025
Policies
Discipline & Complaints Policy
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Policy
Harassment Policy, Risk Management Policy Concussion Policy, Return to Play Guidelines Anti-Doping Policy, Screening Policy