Dave Christiani
After completing his university education with B.A. and B.Ed. degrees, Dave taught in the secondary school system and coached high school athletes for 32+ years. He is an NCCP certified Level 4 middle distance coach. Retired from teaching, Dave coaches full time at the Toronto Olympic Club. He has been coaching with TOC for 17 years designing, advising and implementing programs for TOC junior and senior athletes. Dave has been a national team coach on 9 occasions, including Canada's head coach at the 2008 and 2009 World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland and Amman Jordan. Most recently he was the distance coach for Team Canada at the 2011 Pan American Junior Track & Field Championships. He was also head coach (athletics) for Team Ontario, at the 2009 Canada Summer Games in Charlottetown, PEI.