Kirsti Mason
Kirsti is a Cole Harbour native who has been playing ringette for over 20 years. In those 20 years, she has experienced it all. Growing up through the Cole Harbour Ringette Association and Harbour City Lakers, she has won multiple provincial titles and played on Ringette Nova Scotia Provincial AA teams. Through her career, she competed at the 2011 Canada Winter Games as the youngest member of the Nova Scotia ringette team and competed again in 2015 as the captain of the ringette team and lantern carrier for Team Nova Scotia. Kirsti’s biggest athletic achievement was winning the 2012 World Ringette Championships as a member of Team Canada East.
During her undergrad, Kirsti was part of the Acadia Ringette Team for her two years at Acadia University. She continued her education at Dalhousie University pursuing a Bachelor of Engineering while playing for the Atlantic Attack in the National Ringette League. During Kirsti's third and final season with the Atlantic Attack, the team made Maritime history by winning the National Ringette League at the 2018 Canadian Ringette Championships (CRCs). A few weeks following CRCs, Kirsti graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering. Kirsti spent her first few years post-grad working as the Community Coaching Lead at Canadian Sport Institute Atlantic where she supported community coaches across Nova Scotia. Kirsti now works as a Project Manager for a custom home builder and invests in real estate with her husband, Scott and enjoys spending time outdoors with their dog, Fleury.
As a coach, Kirsti has coached multiple age groups: from Harbour City Lakers U9 to Nova Scotia U19 AA. Kirsti was the Women in Coaching apprentice coach for the Nova Scotia ringette team that attended the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta. Throughout this process, she gained certification in addition to valuable knowledge and experience that lead her to be named the Head Coach of Team Nova Scotia for the 2023 Canada Winter Games. From this experience, Kirsti developed and learned a lot as a coach that she hopes will aid in developing ringette athletes in Nova Scotia. Kirsti currently coaches a Harbour City Lakers U19 team and is the Director of Coaching with the Harbour City Lakers.
Kirsti created the Rise Ringette camp in hope to pass the knowledge she has gained over the years to the next generation of Nova Scotia Ringette athletes. Kirsti has more than ten years of experience giving on-ice instruction and leading ringette camps. She hopes to provide all athletes a positive and fun learning environment. Kirsti wants to see athlete’s passion, confidence and skill level RISE!
Abbey Ashton
Name/Nickname: Abbey
Hometown: Hammonds Plains
Position: Forward/Centre
Other Sports: Grew up playing baseball during the summer, and played high school sports
Fun Fact: Abbey placed 3rd in the province in the discus throw for school track!
Abbey is from Hammonds Plains, and has been playing ringette for 11 years. She grew up playing for Halifax St. Margarets, and later Halifax Hurricanes. Abbey is graduating in 2022 from Charles P. Allen High School, and will be attending Dalhousie University in the fall for a Bachelor of Science. She loves playing various school sports when not playing ringette, such as cross country, soccer, hockey, track, and softball. Abbey started out mostly playing defence/centre, but later gravitated towards forward/centre, and loves the offensive part of the game. Throughout her career she has played for Halifax Hurricanes AA and Tier 1 teams, on top of having played for Ringette Nova Scotia on various AA teams throughout the years. Abbey has attended multiple Atlantic Ringette Championships, the 2018 Eastern Canadian Ringette Championships, and the Canadian Ringette Championships in 2019 and 2022. This past year Abbey was the captain of the Halifax Hurricanes u19 Tier 1 team, and was a member of the u19 AA provincial team.
This past season Abbey was also a coach for the Halifax Hurricanes u14 Tier 1 team, and her favourite part of coaching is watching her players’ confidence grow as they learn new things. Abbey is actively trying out for the 2023 Canada Winter Games team, and is going into her 3rd year of u19. She also hopes to continue her growth as a coach, as she loves helping younger players improve, have fun, and strives to ensure players always feel they are in a supportive and inclusive environment at the rink.
Arielle Aucoin
Name/Nickname: Arielle
Hometown: Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia
Position(s): Forward
Other Sports: field and box lacrosse
Fun Fact: I biked 165km across PEI with all my gear strapped to my bike.
Arielle started playing ringette after taking skating lessons with June Thomas at the age of 4 and fell in love with the sport. She has played for Cole Harbour, Harbour City Lakers and Team Nova Scotia. Throughout her career, she has participated in several Atlantics, numerous Easterns (where she was named to the all star team in 2018) and one Canadian Ringette Championships. Arielle has faced adversity as an athlete due to numerous injuries from both ringette and lacrosse such as pulled groin muscles, a broken thumb, several stomach issues and back pains from a car accident in her last season with the U19AA Nova Scotia Team. After recovery from the accident, Arielle returned to the game hoping to compete at the Canadian Ringette championships in 2020 that was later cancelled due to Covid-19. She is now an active member of the Ringette Team at STFX.
In the fall, Arielle will be going into her third year at STFX as a Human Kinetics student with a minor in health Science. She works part time at the campus gym, coaches’ and plays on the field lacrosse team and is the athletic therapist for the women’s varsity hockey team. She is hoping to work in athletic rehabilitation in the future.
Arielle is so excited to see some familiar and new faces on the ice this summer. She looks forward to sharing her knowledge and passion for the sport with athletes while keeping all kids safe.
Ava MacDonald
Name/Nickname: Ava
Hometown: Cole Harbour
Position: Goalie
Other sports: N/A
Fun fact: I work at Cole Harbour cones!
Ava started playing ringette when she was 6 and since then she has been in love with it. She joined the Cole Harbour Ringette Association which is now known as Harbour City Lakers. Ava has played competitively with Harbour City Lakers and with Nova Scotia ringette since u14. She has taken home the provincial title for Harbour City for four years. This year Ava had the opportunity to compete in her first ever Canadian Ringette Championships in Calgary with Team Nova Scotia AA. Ava is attending the Team Canada u17 training team called La Relève in the summer of 2022.
Ava has coached at many different levels ranging from bunnies (u7) to u14. This year is Ava’s second year coaching at rise ringette camp and she couldn’t be any happier to be coming back! Ava is very excited to give back to the ringette community and share her love as it is one of the most important things in her life.
Catherine Landry
Name/Nickname: Catherine/Cat
Hometown: Cole Harbour, NS
Position(s): Defence
Other Sports: N/A
Fun Fact: She loves going for long walks and enjoying new adventures in nature!
Catherine has been playing ringette for the past 14 years! She started when her parents put her in the CAN skate program then registered her with the Bunny (U9) team when she was 5. Since then, she grew up playing for Cole Harbour Ringette Association which became Harbour City Lakers. She started playing competitively in U14 when she made AA both years and then made A first-year U16 (no AA at the time). In 2018, Catherine won the fastest skater in the U16 division at the Eastern Ringette Championships. In her second year of U16, she was able to try out for the 2019 Canada Winter Games Team. After a long process, she was named the youngest member of the U20 AAA team at the age of 15 and was able to compete at the Games in Red Deer, Alberta. That summer, she had the opportunity to be one of two athletes from Nova Scotia to attend team Canada’s U17 training camp called La Relève, which was held in Sherwood Park, Alberta. After that, she played three seasons with the U19 AA Nova Scotia team, but unfortunately, due to Covid, two of the Canadian Ringette Championships (CRC) were canceled. This past April, Catherine was finally able to attend her first CRC in Calgary, Alberta. This past season, alongside playing for the provincial team, she also was a part of the HCL U19/18+ team. Catherine is currently trying out for the 2023 Canada Games team in hopes of competing in Prince Edward Island in February.
Catherine has been coaching for the past seven years and, in that time, was able to be a junior coach for two seasons of the U14 Tier 1 HCL team as well as be a head coach for U12 Enrichment for the past three years. She has also coached multiple Come Try Ringette and Ringstart programs throughout the years!
Outside of ringette, Catherine is a student at Dalhousie University, where she is going into her second year of her Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology. Her hope for the future is to be able to work with athletes either as a personal trainer or a physiotherapist... or both :)
Catherine can’t wait to coach at Rise this summer for her 5th camp! She is excited to continue to provide the younger generation of athletes with knowledge of the game and share her passion for ringette.
Claire Fisher
Name/Nickname: Claire
Hometown: Spryfield
Position: Forward
Other sports: Soccer and field hockey
Fun fact: Claire started skating when she was 2 years old!
Claire was born and raised in Spryfield and has been playing ringette for 13 years. Claire has played for Chebucto Ringette Association, Halifax Hurricanes and Team Nova Scotia. Throughout her career she has participated in several Atlantics, Easterns and one Canadian Ringette Championships. Last season Claire played on the U19 AA Nova Scotia team. Claire's favourite ringette trip was travelling to Calgary for the Canadian Ringette Championships in April 2022 for her first national tournament after two years of cancellations due to Covid-19. Claire is actively trying out for the 2023 Canada Winter Games.
Claire has been coaching in the U12 Erichement program for three years and has also coached Ringstart this past year. This year is Claire's second year coaching with Rise Ringette Camp. She is excited to see some familiar and new faces this summer. She looks forward to sharing her knowledge and passion for ringette with all the athletes!
Grace Miller
Name/Nickname: Grace
Hometown: Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia
Position(s): Center, Forward
Fun Fact: I have an extra vertebrae in my spine
Grace started off playing ringette in the U7 program with Harbour City Lakers at age 4 She recently won her third straight provincials with her HCL U16 Tier 1 team and has competed at other competitions like Atlantics and Easterns with the U16 NS A team. Ringette became one of her favorite things to do from a very young age, having 3 older sisters Grace grew up in the rink constantly watching and learning from them. Around age 11 Grace began helping out on the ice with her sister's U7 team and hasn't stopped since. She recently took over for her sister and became head coach of HCL’s U7 team and has loved every second of it. Her favorite part is helping all of the young kids fall in love with ringette just as she did at that age. Along with all of the great experiences Grace definitely had some difficult situations to overcome, she was hospitalized around Christmas of 2020 for almost 2 months with a new-onset chronic pain condition linked to severe endometriosis. After getting out of the hospital sometime in January she wasn't able to attend school normally for the rest of the year and this whole situation definitely had an effect on her personal relationships. This was a very big adjustment for her to have to learn how to keep living the same life she was before except doing it all while in very intense pain, every second of the day. Ringette became not only a fun sport but almost like a drug or an escape for Grace, ringette was the one thing that was able to take her mind off of everything including the pain. Almost 2 years later Grace is definitely not pain-free but because of ringette and all the amazing people that come with it, she's much better off. Grace is SO excited to share her love for the sport with all the kids at camp this summer and she hopes to see so many familiar and new faces!
Isabelle Robichaud
Name/Nickname: Belle
Hometown: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Position: Defence
Other sports: Previously played hockey and soccer
Fun Fact: I have a puppy named Smokey who is an American Akita
Belle is going back to Saint Mary’s University in September for her third year of the Forensic Science program with a major in psychology. She will continue to play on the ringette team at SMU and is excited to be a part of its executive committee. Belle also has a part time job as a bartender at a local steakhouse restaurant and volunteers on psychological research projects at SMU as a confederate. Belle hopes to someday pursue a career in the psychological and forensic field.
Belle started playing ringette at 7 years old for Saint Margrets Bay, then after completing bunnies switched to Halifax Chebucto. She has also played for Halifax Hurricanes, Team Nova Scotia and the most recent season as an AP for Atlantic Attack and for Saint Mary’s University. Playing with these teams Belle has gone too many Atlantics, Easterns and Canadian Ringette Championships. In the 2021/2022 ringette season Belle was an assistant coach of the Halifax Hurricanes T2 U14 team, and the Halifax West Ringette Team in the high school ringette tournament. She is excited to continue coaching ringette through the summer with Rise, and hopes to coach another team in the winter.
Belle is very excited to get back on the ice this summer for her second year of coaching Rise camps. She is happy to teach and continue to learn about the sport. All while having fun and being safe!
Julia Foran
Name/Nickname: Julia
Hometown: Cole Harbour
Position: Forward
Other Sports: Banook Canoe Club and Baseball
Fun Fact: Julia has been on a reading streak for one year, eight months, two weeks and five days straight!
Julia hails from Cole Harbour Nova Scotia and started playing ringette at the age of four. She is beginning her 13th year of playing the sport she loves. She plays for the Harbour City Lakers and is a junior instructor with the U10 program. She has also been involved with the “Come Try Ringette” program for the last two years.
Julia has competed at the Tier 1 level since U14 and has won three league titles and three provincial titles. She has competed at Atlantics and this year she also represented team NS at the U16AA level at the Canadian Ringette Championships in Calgary. She is in the process of trying out for the 2023 Canada Winter Games team.
Julia is currently enrolled at Auburn Drive High School in grade ten and was a member of the Auburn ringette team, achieving second place in their division.
Julia is looking forward to connecting with the young athletes she has coached over the last few years and meeting new athletes from the other associations. Julia has a passion for ringette and can not wait to share it with the athletes this summer!
Kylee Mansfield
Name/Nickname: Kylee/Ky
Hometown: North End, Halifax
Position(s): Defence
Other Sports: Previously played soccer, field hockey and Flag football
Fun Fact: She works at Cole Harbour Cones
Kylee started playing ringette at the age of 5 when her parents sent her to a Come Try Ringette program at their local arena which led to signing up and playing for Halifax Chebucto Ringette Association. After years of playing for the Halifax Hurricanes, Kylee began playing for Ringette Nova Scotia and competing at many Eastern Atlantic Championships and Canadian Ringette Championships and was also apart of the 2019 Canada Winter games team which competed in Red Deer, Alberta. This past season Kylee was fortunate enough to play as a defence for the Atlantic Attack.
During the school year, Kylee lives in Wolfville, NS attending Acadia University. Kylee will be returning to complete her third year in Sociology. When Kylee is not at Rise, you can find her working at recreation camps in Halifax!
Kylee is super excited to be returning to Rise this summer and help create a fun and inclusive learning environment!!
Lydia Doyle
Name/Nickname: Lydia/ Lyd
Hometown: Middle Sackville, NS
Position(s): Centre, Defence
Other Sports: Competitive Gymnastics
Fun Fact: I love dogs! I have a dog named Winston and he is a golden doodle.
I started playing ringette at the age of five with the Sackville Ringette Association, now known as Nova Central. I participated in the U12 enrichment program for both my U12 years. I have played AA/Tier 1 for Nova Central since my first year U14! In 2019 I got to travel to Winnipeg, Manitoba for a ringette tournament and the same year I got to represent Nova Scotia at the Eastern Canadian championships (ECRC) in Oshawa, Ontario and in the Atlantic Championships! In 2020 I made the u14AA team for NS, and In April 2022 I represented Team Nova Scotia u16AA at the Canadian Ringette Championships (CRC) in Calgary, Alberta. This summer I was invited to attend the Team Canada u17 La Relève training camp. In addition to playing, I have junior coached the u12 players in the RNS enrichment program.
When I am not playing ringette or at the rink I am training for gymnastics. I train at Taiso Gymnastics Training Centre. I have represented Nova Scotia twice at the Atlantic gymnastics championships. I have also gone to Florida twice and competed in a gymnastics competition at Disney World and on Tropicana Field.
I love helping players develop new skills and love to bring a positive and happy attitude to the rink. I am so excited to share my passion for the sport.
Maddy Warwick
Name/Nickname: Maddy
Hometown: Cole Harbour, NS
Position: Center
Other Sports: Previously played volleyball and swimming
Fun fact: Loves snowboarding
Maddy was born and raised in Cole Harbour and has been playing ringette sense the age of 5. She has played for the Cole Harbour Ringette Association, Harbour City Lakers and Team Nova Scotia. Throughout her career she has won many provincial titles and competed in several Atlantic, Eastern and National Championships. Most recently Maddy played on the U19 AA Nova Scotia team that travelled to Calgary for the Canadian Ringette Championships in April 2022. Maddy is Actively trying out for the 2023 Canada Winter Games team.
Maddy will be attending the University of New Brunswick for her first year in the fall. She will be studying a bachelor of Recreation and Sports studies and a bachelor of Education. Maddy hopes to someday pursue a career as an elementary school gym teacher and she’s excited to play on the university’s ringette team.
After coaching Nova Scotias Ring-Start and U12 Enrichment program for 3 years, this year Maddy was named Head Coach of the programs. Maddy has also been involved with Harbour City Lakers U10 athletes as a Head Coach and Technical Lead for 2 years. She coaches at the Elite Ringette Academy and Rise Ringette Camps in the summer. She is very excited to return to Rise for her 4th summer at see all the familiar and new faces!
Samantha Mason
Name/Nickname: Sam
Hometown: Cole Harbour
Position: Defence
Fun Fact: I have been playing for 10 years and I played in the 2022 Canadian Ringette Championships (CRC)
Taylor Dempsey
Bio to come
Zoe Murphy
Name/ Nickname: Zoe, Big Z
Hometown: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Position: Goalie
Other sports: Hockey, softball, basketball, golf
Fun fact: Started playing goalie at age 11
Zoe has been playing ringette for 8 years, but started playing in nets at age 11, 5 years ago. Throughout the years of playing ringette she grew up through the Halifax Hurricanes association. Her 2nd year playing goalie she won her first provincial title in U14, and went on to represent team NS at the Eastern Canadian Ringette Championships.
Every year since, she has continued to play on the Nova Scotia Provincial AA team. This past season, she went on to compete at her first Canadian Ringette Championships in Calgary, AB. Zoe hopes to continue her coaching career where she can teach the skills to young goalies, provide them with confidence, create a fun environment, and empower all to be great.