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Instructor Spotlight: Spencer Mackoff and Marshall Mackoff

A love for tennis was sparked early on for brothers Spencer and Marshall Mackoff. First introduced to the sport in public parks as young children by their mother, they began playing more seriously at UBC tennis camps. Eventually becoming coaches themselves, they founded Summer Smash Tennis together in 2012 – and haven’t looked back. Operating year-round today, Summer Smash Tennis teaches some 2,000 students annually through community centres, schools and First Nations. Spencer, drawing from his varsity

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Summer 2025 Guide Has Arrived

Our Summer 2025 Guide is now available online and at the centre! NOTE: No summer mailout due to potential Canada Post strike. Summer registration dates:• Online and in-person registration Opens Saturday, June 7, at 9 a.m.• Phone registration Opens Monday, June 9, at 9 a.m. (604-257-8100).

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Instructor Spotlight: Maggie Blue O’Hara

After witnessing older women having fun, keeping fit and exuding youthful vitality at a Zumba class at the Kerrisdale Community Centre, Maggie Blue O’Hara had an idea. She would launch a new program to help women 40 years and older reconnect with their feminine energy while enjoying a variety of exercises in a supportive environment. Enter VanCougar Dance Cabaret. “As a 50-year-old woman who has been a dancer my whole life, and is still fit and feeling beautiful

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Instructor Spotlight: Faye Hung

Faye Hung brings a wealth of experience and accolades to the danceroom floor. Specializing in standard and Latin ballroom dances, she and her former dance partner were not only finalists in top-level dance sport competitions around the world (think World Championships, World Cups, Asia Cups and Grand Slams), they were also the Hong Kong national standard champions for 10 years straight. “Then in 2014 we won the bronze medal at the WDSF World Championship in Italy,” says Hung,

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Instructor Spotlight: Bing Zhao

It’s not every gymnastics coach who can say they helped a Canadian athlete make it to the Olympics. For Kerrisdale Community Centre instructor Bing Zhao, one of her career highlights was seeing student Kate Richardson successfully compete in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The then-20-year-old athlete made history by becoming the first Canadian woman to qualify for an Olympic final in women’s gymnastics. “I was so happy to have had a chance to coach Kate Richardson, who had been at the top of the Canadian

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Instructor Spotlight: Ed Fong

It all goes back to the likes of The Terminator and Superman. Indeed, when asked what first prompted him to pursue a career in personal fitness training, Ed Fong replies: “Too many muscle-flexing action movies and superhero comic books.” While he still appreciates the aesthetic benefits of being fit, Fong encourages his clients to look at the health benefits as the overarching guiding factor. “I want fitness hopefuls to have a balanced, healthy view on the cosmetic

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Personal Training

Need more motivation? Get a personal trainer. Sign up for a 1 hour workout session with one of our certified trainers. Workout one-on-one (private) or join with a friend (semi-private) for added support. Perfect for starting out in a fitness centre, adding variety to your program, rehabilitating from an injury or improving sport specific athletic performance. Get started today! Complete our Personal Training Request Form below and submit it to our Front Office. A Programmer

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Exercise Room $3.50 Drop-in

Get Fit in our Exercise Room   Our Exercise Room is a clean, bright, well-equipped facility that can meet your training needs, whether you choose to work out on your own, use our orientation or personal training services, or join one of our many classes. Feel free to drop by for only $3.50 and take a look for yourself – we are confident you will be pleased with what you see! Membership in the Community

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Exercise Room $4 Drop-in

Get Fit in our Exercise Room   Our Exercise Room is a clean, bright, well-equipped facility that can meet your training needs, whether you choose to work out on your own, use our orientation or personal training services, or join one of our many classes. Feel free to drop by for only $4.00 and take a look for yourself – we are confident you will be pleased with what you see! Membership in the Community

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