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2025 Frostbite Coaches

Andreea Ghizila (SCKC) started canoeing in 2015 with Kenmore-Cascade Canoe and Kayak Racing Team. Her first international race was 2016 OHR. She currently races on the National Team, and just won a bronze medal in C2 200 at the 2025 World Championships. She started coaching summer camps and development at Cascade and then moved to Seattle in 2019 to attend UW. Now, she coaches at SCKC, works for the ACA, and trains on Green Lake.
Alyson Morse (Gig Harbor) started paddling at 12 years old with Gig Harbor. She competed at the Olympic Hopes Regatta, Junior Worlds, and U23 Worlds in kayak. She paddled the first 1.5 years of college in Oklahoma and rowed the last 2.5 years while she earned a bachelor's in Human Performance and helped coach the OKCRS canoe/kayak team. She has coached the sport of canoe and kayak as well as strength and conditioning since 2014 until now. She has ICF Level 3 and a Bachelor's in Human Performance(2018). She is currently Head Coach for GHCKRT and serves in many volunteer positions in various organizations including Chair person of the ACA Sprint Committee.
Mark Parrish (SCKC) started paddling at the Ventura Olympic Canoe Club, where he helped win several age-group and overall Nationals club titles. He went on to race on the Junior and Senior National Teams, including the Junior Pan American Championships, 4 Olympic Festivals, and US Olympic Team Trials. Mark has won over 50 national championship medals in both canoe and kayak, and in every age category from Bantam to Masters. As a coach at the Seattle Canoe and Kayak Club, he has helped coach several Junior athletes go on to be successful Seniors and Olympians. He was the Team Leader for the 2003 Pan American Games and the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Most recently, he has been working with the Senior National team athletes who train on Green Lake, including the 2 athletes of the US Olympic Kayak Team who made the Final A in Paris.
Eli Holmes (SCKC) is a masters coach at SCKC and has helped organize the Frostbite camp since 2017. She has competed in many Nationals and in the Canoe/Kayak Marathon World Championships in 2023 and 2025. In addition to coaching kayaking, she coaches nordic skiing. She is the technical director for the Summit Nordic Ski School. She likes to paddle sprint kayak, marathon canoe, outrigger canoe, expedition canoe, and surf ski.
Steve Scoggins (Bellingham) is head coach for the Bellingham Canoe Kayak Sprint Team.
Dan Henderson (Cascade) is head coach for the Cascade Canoe and Kayak Racing Team. He was a member of the USA Sprint Canoe/Kayak Team 1982-88 and won bronze medals in canoe at the 1983 and 1987 PanAm Championships. Dan raced and trained in Hungary from 1981-85. He was the SCKC head coach 1989-93, the US National Development Coach 1993-96, and Cascade Canoe & Kayak Racing Team head coach 1997 to present. He was the US World Championship Team Leader in 1995 and 2003, Jr World Championship Team Coach in 1993, OHR Team Leader in 2008, and the Jr Worlds Women's Kayak and OHR Men's Kayak Coach in 2019. In addition to coaching, he teaches ICF/ACA Level 1 & 2 Coach Certification courses and co-authored the ICF Level 1 Coaching Manual, 1st Ed.
Jake Zikan (SCKC) started paddling with SCKC at age 10. He competed for the U.S. National Team as a junior in 2017 and 2018 at the Olympic Hopes Regattas, competing in K1, K2 and K4. In college, he became an instructor and trip-leader for whitewater and sea-kayaking. After college, he worked as an outdoor leader for high-school students at the High Mountain Institute and ARCC Summer Programs. He is now back in Seattle and a juniors coach for SCKC.
Petri Alva (River Town Racers) started paddling in 2015 with River Town Racers. Ten years later, he has competed several times internationally for the United States, making A-finals at both the Olympic Hopes Regatta and the Junior World Championships, and winning a bronze medal at the 2025 Senior Pan-American Championships. He has also competed in and medaled in every division up to Senior at the National Championships. Petri is currently an assistant coach for River Town Racers, and an active competitor for the club as well. When he isn't paddling he is hitting the books to finish his Bachelors in Kinesiology with an Exercise Science concentration and conducting age-related research at Sonoma State University.
Sadie Hanks (Gig Harbor) is the Team Manager and Head Development Coach for GHCKRT and has coached with the team since 2018 and has paddled with the team since 2011. Sadie started kayaking with her dad at 2 years old and fell in love with the water and paddling. She joined Gig Harbor in 2011 at 9 and has been a canoist every since.