Our Team
Paddle360 is powered by coaches who bring deep experience, real competitive backgrounds, and a shared commitment to athlete development across the paddling world.
What makes us different!
Our team combines high performance insight, technical coaching, movement education, and discipline specific expertise to help paddlers and crews train with more purpose, more confidence, and stronger long term progress.
"The coaching structure is built around leadership, performance, and athlete support across multiple disciplines and levels."
"The coaching structure is built around leadership, performance, and athlete support across multiple disciplines and levels."
Coach Scully
Founder & Lead Multidiscipline Coach, Paddle360 DB Elite Teams, Programming & Development
Coach Scully is the founder of Paddle360 and one of Canada’s most experienced paddling coaches and athletes, with over 40 years in sprint kayaking, dragon boat, and outrigger canoe. Beginning as a sprint kayaker and progressing to international competition, he has represented Canada and earned multiple medals at World Championship and international events. His decades of high performance experience shape a coaching style grounded in technical mastery, consistency, and structured long term progression.
He founded Paddle360 to strengthen the areas he saw the paddling community lacking and to help unify the sport. His vision is centred on breaking down barriers between dragon boat and outrigger, between clubs, and between different levels of experience. He has coached hundreds of athletes, from junior development paddlers to senior and masters competitors preparing for national and international competition, while also supporting paddling infrastructure through Paddle360’s sponsorship and equipment support of the Dragon Boat BC Chinatown Hub.
Head Coaches
Coach Ken
Partner & Multidiscipline Coach, Paddle360OC Elite Teams, Programming & Development
Coach Ken is a Partner at Paddle360 and a high performance paddler and multidiscipline coach specializing in outrigger canoe. With over a decade of elite racing and coaching experience, he brings a technical, performance driven approach to developing athletes and crews, with a strong focus on efficiency, power, and connection to the craft. He has represented Canada at the highest levels in both dragon boat and outrigger canoe.
As a member of the Canadian National Dragon Boat Team, he was part of the 2019 Senior A crew that achieved a full gold medal sweep across all race distances and categories at the World Championships. He has also been part of Canada’s National Outrigger Canoe Team since 2016, competing internationally in both Open and Masters divisions, including the IVF World Championships in Tahiti and events such as the Catalina Channel Crossing. As a coach, he has led athletes and crews to major podium finishes and is guided by one core principle: move the craft first.
Coach Will
Multidiscipline Coach, Paddle360OC Specialist
Will is a competitive outrigger canoe athlete and coach who brings nearly a decade of high level racing experience across multiple paddling disciplines. He combines the perspective of an international competitor with a modern understanding of athlete development and performance, helping athletes train with precision, resilience, and confidence.
As a semi professional outrigger paddler and sponsored athlete, Will has competed internationally at World Sprint and Distance Championships, national championships, and major events including Te Aito in Tahiti and the Gorge Downwind Championships. His coaching philosophy is rooted in hard work and mastery of the fundamentals, with a focus on body awareness, efficiency, and the physical and mental resilience needed for competition. He currently coaches athletes across youth, masters, and competitive adult programs.
Specialists
Coach Tori
Pilates & Movement, Paddle360Core, Stability & Injury Prevention Specialist
Coach Tori is a Performance & Movement Specialist with Paddle360, where she helps athletes develop core strength, stability, body maintenance, and injury prevention strategies that support long term performance.
Her work focuses on movement efficiency, foundational stability, and helping paddlers maintain healthy, resilient bodies capable of handling high training loads and competitive demands.
Tori is a fully certified Classical Pilates instructor through the 600 hour Comprehensive Classical Pilates Certification at Authentic Pilates Canada.
She is also a certified personal trainer, yoga instructor, and breath work coach, bringing a broad understanding of movement, strength, and recovery.
With over five years of teaching experience and a background in strength training and wellness, she helps athletes improve mobility, correct imbalances, prevent injury, and build a durable foundation for sustained paddling performance.
Coach Kat
Dragon Boat & Dryland Performance Coach, Paddle360DB & Dryland Specialist
Coach Kat is a multidiscipline coach at Paddle360 specializing in dragon boat performance and dryland strength training.
As a Certified ACE Personal Trainer and high performance dragon boat athlete, she brings together on water experience and strength and conditioning knowledge to help athletes build power, rotational strength, stability, and muscular endurance that transfer directly to paddling performance.
Her programming is designed to make athletes stronger, quicker, and more durable on the water while supporting long term injury prevention. As an athlete, Coach Kat has represented Canada at the World Dragon Boat Championships in Thailand in 2023 and Germany in 2025.
Her coaching philosophy centres on intentional training, disciplined execution, and building athletes who are strong, resilient, and ready to perform when it matters most.
Paddle360’s coaching team is built to support athletes across disciplines, goals, and stages of development. From elite team programming to movement quality, dryland strength, and outrigger specialization, every coach contributes to a stronger and more connected paddling environment.