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Sanjeev Parmar grew up playing soccer in British Columbia. He played on British Columbia’s provincial teams from Under 15-20. His final two years of high school Sanjeev spent training at the National Training Center.

After high school, he attended Houghton College, NY on a full soccer scholarship. There he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. During his varsity career at Houghton, Sanjeev received honors as an All American, North East Region 1st team, and the Keystone Conference 1st team three out of four years. In his senior year Sanjeev received the outstanding Athletic Achievement Award from Houghton College.

Upon finishing college Sanjeev began to pursue a professional career in soccer. He was drafted by the Toronto Lynx in the A-League College draft and eventually signed with the Charlotte Eagles who he helped win the USL D3 National Championship. After the season, Sanjeev traveled to Africa with the Charlotte Eagles to play friendly matches against top teams in Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda. Sanjeev stayed behind for three months after the tour and helped coach in cooperation with the Ethiopian Football Federation with their youth national team prospects. He was also a pioneer in a Christian soccer ministry which provided soccer clinics for orphanages and street children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He joined the Ottawa Wizards upon his return from Africa and was selected to the CPSL all-star team in 2001. He is the winner of two Canadian Professional Soccer League Championships with the Wizards. In 2003, Sanjeev captained the Canadian Military National team in the Americas Cup versus America and Barbados.

Sanjeev helped run the 2003 training camp for the Ottawa Wizards and trained many of the Wizards players over the off-season. Sanjeev has worked with different university programs in Canada and America as a consultant in speed, strength and conditioning with teams such as the University College of Cape Breton soccer teams, Buffalo State University women’s soccer and lacrosse teams, University of Ottawa women's hockey and rugby teams and is presently a coaching consultant to his Alma Mater Houghton College. Sanjeev has been an assistant coach with the University of Ottawa women’s soccer team since 2002 and has helped lead the team to two silver and one bronze medals at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport National Championships in 2003,  05 and 06.

Sanjeev passed his CSA A License in the summer of 2007 and became one of the youngest coaches in the country to have achieved the highest coaching level for soccer in Canada. Sanjeev has been an Ontario Soccer Association Staff Coach / Course Conductor for the past four years and will continue to run more coaching licenses this year. He is also certified with his NCCP Level II. Sanjeev earned his Masters Degree in Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa in December 2004.

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Wendy Donaldson

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Canadian World University Games National Team

Donaldson Selected as CIS National Championships All Star

University of Ottawa Player Profile

Wendy Donaldson is a starting defender for the University of Ottawa Gee Gees Women's soccer team. She was voted by her teammates and coaches as the Captain after her first year and has remained the skipper ever since. In her rookie year, Wendy won herself a spot as a starting defender and helped the Ottawa Gee Gees in becoming the best team in Ontario by capturing the 2003 OUA Gold medal along with a Silver medal at the CIS National Finals. In the winter of 2003/04 Wendy was selected to the QSSF All-Star Team (Quebec University Indoor League) and once again lead the Gee Gees to a Silver medal. In 2005, Wendy had her best season to date with the university team as she captained the Gee Gees to an overall National #1 ranking and to their second CIS National Championships Silver medal in the past three years. Wendy was selected to the National Championships All Star team, OUA Final Four All Star team, as well as being selected as an OUA second team All Star. In 2006, Wendy continued to lead the way for the Gee Gees on and off the field as she was asked to take control of the midfield due to her creativity and willingness to take players on. Wendy helped the Gee Gees win the OUA Championship and a bronze medal at the 2006 CIS National Championships. She was selected as an OUA first team All Star as a left full back. In her final season as a Gee Gee player, Wendy was selected to play  for Canada at the World University Games in China.

As a youth player Wendy had a successful career with the South Nepean United Club as she led her team to a Under 19 Ontario Provincial Cup Championship in 2001. This lead to another successful campaign the following year with the women's South Nepean United team who finshed second in the province in 2002.

Wendy has completed her degree in Psychology at the University of Ottawa and plans on attending Graduate School to specialize in Sports Psychology. Wendy is aspiring to have a successful coaching career at the highest level.

Craig Taylor

Craig, in his 27th year coaching, gains his expertise from Track and Field. His Need for Speed programs have increased athlete's performances in many sports including; football, soccer, rugby, baseball, hockey, bobsleigh, skeleton, luge, water-ski, basketball, figure skating, speed skating, volleyball, tennis, lacrosse, alpine and cross country skiing. A Certified National Sprint Coach, Taylor has trained national and international level (Olympic) athletes for 20 years. A few of his athletes include the likes of former 100 meter world record holder Donovan Bailey, Glenroy Gilber (part of 4x100 meter relay team world record), Damon Allen (Toronto Argonauts, CFL), Adrien Aucoin (NHL), Morgan Kane (NFL), and various teams including the Bahrain sprint/hurdle national team and Norwegian Olympic Bobsled team.

Erik Lefebvre
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Lefebvre named NAIA 2nd Team All American

Lefebvre named AMC Player of the Week

Erik is one of the most talented goalkeepers in Canada and has his sights set on becoming a professional goalkeeper after his College career. Erik has been offered a lucrative scholarship to attend Sanjeev Parmar's alma mater, Houghton College in Western NY for the next four years. Erik caught the attention of Houghton College coach, Matt Webb as well as many other Universities in Canada and the U.S. with his phenomenal performance at the Canadian Men's National Finals in Prince Edward Island with the Ottawa Royals in 2004. Over the winter of 2004/05 Erik captured two MVP awards in indoor tournaments at McGill University and Carleton University.

In 2003 he trained with the Ottawa Wizards of the Canadian Professional Soccer League and earned a tryout with ESTAC Football Club youth team in Troyes, France. He has received additional training at the Elite 300 Soccer Academy, Bryst International Institute, and Golden Gloves Academy.

Erik will be pursing a major in Education and a minor in French at Houghton College. He fully intends on leading his team to the National Championships in his rookie year.

Kevin Nelson

Former professional player who has proudly represented Trinidad and Tobabgo from u14 to the Olympic Team and has recently retired from the professional game in the summer of 2008. Kevin has played in international friendlies as a member of the Tobago senior team againstthe likes of premiership powerhouse Newcastle United, the Mexican National and Olympic Team, and English Div 1 Sheffield. Kevin is a product of the renowned St. Clair Football School, recruited at age 9; under the tutelage and nurturing of former Trinidad & Tobago National Senior team's head coach Bertille St. Clair. Highlighted by his performance in 2001 with the Ottawa Wizards where he collected MVP, Rookie of the Year and League Leading Scorer, Kevin was invited to Japan in January 2002 for a tryout with Shimitsu S-Pulse of the J-League. In his two week stay he participated in a friendly match with the reserve team and registered 2 goals. Upon finishing up his final season with the Wizards, Kevin spent some quality time in Australia, Trinidad and Vietnam. Kevin is now fully commiting himself to becoming a social worker and giving back to the game he loves by coaching for Parmar Sports Training Inc. Kevin's successfull playing career has helped him gain an abundance of knowledge from world class coaches around the globe which he is now providing to the youth of Ottawa.

Mike Lanos

Mike has his CSA National B License and joined Parmar Sports Training Inc. as a coach during the winter of 2007/08.

Basil Philips

Presently, Basil has a OSA Pre B License and has been working with Parmar Sports Training Inc. since the winter of 2006/07. He has been involved with coaching at many different levels from youth soccer to premier womens soccer in Ottawa.

Roland Tiamuh

Roland Tiamuh is an extremely accomplished soccer player who has had a very succesfull playing career as a professional and amateur player. Roland has been instrumental in anchoring the attack of the past two Ontario Cup Championship teams with the Kanata Soccer Post and more recently with the Ottawa Royals Men's Premier team. Roland was the central figure in the Royals midfield who captured the Silver Medal at the Canadian Men's National Finals in Prince Edward Island in 2004. In 2003 Roland was a part of the talented Ottawa Wizards squad that captured the CPSL League Championship with relative ease.

As a College student at Algonquin College, Roland helped his team capture the OCAA Provincial Championship and the CCAA National Silver medal. Along the way he was honored with OCAA Provincial All Star, OCAA Provincial Tournament All Star, and CCAA National Tournament All Star

Presently Roland is studying Commerce at the University of Ottawa and plans to pursue a number of different coaching licenses over the next few years to further his career as a professional coach. Presently he is a certified OSA coach and has his NCCP Level 1 Theory Certification.

Allen Brown

CSA Provincial B License

Allen Brown has been heavily involved in the Ottawa soccer scene for the past 22 years as both a player and a coach. As a former EODSA staff coach and current OISC staff member, Allen has trained numerous players from the region that have gone on to play with US College (NCAA division 1) and CIS varsity teams, as well as with the Ontario Provincial and Canadian National Training Programs. Within club soccer, Allen coached the 1985 Ottawa International boys team for eleven years, capturing a Tier 1 Ontario Provincial Title in 2002, becoming only the second boys team from Ottawa to accomplish this feat.

Allen is currently an OSA staff coach / course conductor, holding a provincial B License and an NCCP Level III designation. He is currently in his second year as an assistant coach with the University of Ottawa women's soccer team, and third year as an assistant coach with the Ottawa Internationals Men's Premier Team.

From a professional standpoint, Allen holds an undergraduate degree in Statistical Science and an MBA specializing in Management Information Systems. Currently, he is completing a Doctorate degree in Information Systems at Carleton University .