Pallett and Shepley Honoured with Highest Designation

Gary Pallett and Barrie Shepley are two valuable Triathlon Coaches. In deserving recognition of their hard work and dedication to the sport, they are the first Triathlon Coaches to be honoured with the designation, as Charter Members of the Coaches of Canada. Charter membership represents the highest membership level attainable within CofC and is the highest appointed recognition to any Triathlon coach. Charter members are granted the ChPC/EPA designation that attests to the highest standards of education, competency and ethical behaviour. Triathlon Canada would like to congratulate Barrie and Garry on this great achievement and thank them both for all their hard work and dedication to the sport of Triathlon.

Below is a short Biography on both coaches.


Barrie Shepley, ChPC
Current Coaching Position:
High Performance coach for c3
Past Coaching Achievement:
Former National and Olympic Coach

Barrie Shepley’s life has been changed forever because of the sport of triathlon.  As a teenager, he got started in some of North America’s first ever triathlons.  Realizing he had limited athletic ability, he quickly got into coaching and has spent over 25 years coaching athletes of every age and level.  Barrie became Canada’s first ever coach to go to the National Coaching Institute and was Canada’s national coach from 1991-2001.  Barrie was Canada’s first Olympic coach in Sydney, where Simon Whitfield changed the sport in the country forever with his gold-medal victory.  Over the twenty-five years, Barrie has coached over 100 national and international medalists at every race distance.  Barrie was inducted into Triathlon Canada’s Hall of Fame, was one of the founders of the National Kids of Steel Program, and continues to coach and race announce on a weekly basis.  “I have seen the world, watched the world’s greatest triathletes race at every distance, and had the privilege of watching Canadians dominate at Worlds, Pan Americans, Commonwealth Games, Hawaii Ironman and the Olympic Games” said Barrie Shepley.  Much of what I have seen and become, are in part, because of the great people that are involved in triathlon.  Barrie Shepley proudly continues to coach the C3 Canadian Cross Training Club and is excited by the growth of the sport across Canada in every province and major city.  




Gary Pallett, ChPC
Current Coaching Position:
Director and Head Coach, Manitoba National Triathlon Centre
CAC Program Involvement:
National Coaching Institute Graduate

Gary Pallett has been coaching since 1985 and has been the Head Coach/Director for the Manitoba National Triathlon Centre since 2000. He offers to any aspiring triathlete the opportunity to reach his or her potential. He understands what is needed to compete at the national and international level, having competed himself in the past. Each athlete training with Gary is treated as an individual and receives, with pinpoint accuracy, the most effective training methods possible.

Gary is continually updating his knowledge as a coach, keeping up to date with training methods. He emails his athletes daily updates on their competitions/training results and even updates their competitors. Gary puts a countless amount of time and energy into this athletes training and always goes one-step further than is required.

Training with Gary has athletes pushing themselves to higher limits … limits they never thought possible. Gary Pallett was presented with the Peter Williamson Memorial Award-High Performance for his contributions/achievements in the field of coaching in Manitoba in 2005.