Our Team of Educators The Prospect Magazine has recruited experts in their field to share their knowledge and experience with the young athletes of today. Dan LaJoie Dan has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Peru State College in Nebraska and was a member of the college's basketball team. After graduation, he embarked on a professional baseball career. When he ended his baseball career, Dan became a baseball coach, strength and conditioning coach, and began specializing in sport-specific athletic training while in Nebraska and Kansas. Dan has honed his skills and knowledge incorporating systems developed by renowned experts such as Tudor Bompa (world renowned sport scientist), Charlie Francis (speed and power specialist), Boyd Epley (creator of the University of Nebraska-Husker Power Program/National Strength and Conditioning Association, NSCA) and former Olympic champion coach Istvan Javorek. Dan has recently worked with captain Jerome Iginla of the NHL's Calgary Flames hockey club helping him prepare for the 2007-2008 season. As a community volunteer, Dan guided the St. Albert midget triple-A cardinals to a silver medal at the 2004 Canadian Midget Nationals. Ian Maplethorpe Ian has been involved extensively in Canadian track and field for the past 25 years as an athlete and a coach. As a professional hammer thrower, he has proudly represented Canada in competitions such as the Western Canada Games, Commonwealth Games and Pan Am Games. Ian is a five-time indoor and outdoor Canadian champion and has set five Canadian and one world record along the way. Ian know shares his knowledge and experience in athletic competition as a coach with some of Canada's recent track and field champions. Kip Petch B.P.E, SMT(C), RMT-MTAA Kip Petch has been involved in sports in a variety of capacities as an athlete, Athletic Trainer, Sport Massage Therapist, coach and parent. Kip played basketball, soccer and track and field at the University/College level and he has spent many years as a coach for college, high school and club basketball teams. Kip began his training in Athletic Therapy at John Abbott College in Montreal and got his first taste of international experience as a Therapist at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He completed his Physical Education degree at the University of Alberta in 1979 and then spent 10 years as the Athletic/Massage Therapist for several Professional Soccer Teams in Edmonton. In 1986 Kip completed his formal Massage Therapy training at Grant MacEwan College and received his Sport Massage training from SMTI in California. That fall he started his own Massage Therapy Clinic which is still successfully operating today as the Active Life Centre in St. Albert, Alberta. Kip helped to organize and supervise the Sport Massage coverage at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and following that event he became the Massage Therapist for the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL. He spent a season with the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL and has continued to be heavily involved in Sport Massage in many ways. Kip has instructed Sport Massage and Sports Taping for over 20 years and is one of only 24 Certified Sport Massage Therapists in Canada. He was the Director of Sport Massage at the 2001 World Athletic Championships and was one of the Sport Massage Therapists to accompany the Canadian Team to the Pan Am Games in the Dominican Republic in 2003, the Commonwealth Games in Australia and the Winter Olympics in Italy in 2006, the Olympics in China in 2008 and the Francophone Games in Lebanon in 2009. More recently he was an SMT at the International Polyclinic at the Olympics in Vancouver.