• Born in 1961 in Hawkesbury, Ontario Canada
• 1973 Begins her practice of Karate in St-Jérome in Shotokan karate with Sensei Ari Anastasiadis
• 1974 She joins Sensei Ngo Duy Giac at the Shorinjiryu Kenyukai Dojo up to and including the brown belt level. Sensei Giac, as a very strong instructor of technical basics, contributed to build in her an extremely strong technical foundation which was rapidly noticed when she moved on in 1978 as a Brown Belt as she attended Ahuntsic College in Montreal.
• During her time as Kenyukai Dojo, she was responsible for the children’s dojo assisting Luc Gilbert in all duties regarding the children’s studies, regular classes, camps, tournaments. These were some of the best years of her career in the Martial Arts.
• 1978 She joins the group Shorinjiryu Kenkokan with Shihan Donivan
• 1980 She participates in the First Koshiki Karate World Championship in Japan, as an “experiment” for a women category with Representatives from Japan, Canada, Switzerland, USA and Australia. She came in 1
st in Shiai (combat) – no kata was featured – and received a bouquet of flower in lieu of a Gold Medal as was the tradition with men. She was a trail blazer from then on for the inclusiveness and participation of women in the World Koshiki Karate style.
• She also participated in several other national and international competitions such as: Baltimore (USA), New York (USA), California (USA), Salt Lake City (USA), Holland, Australia, Japan and several others.
• From 1987 to 1989, Lived in Japan for 2 years, actively practicing under the tutelage of Soshihan Hisataka 9th Dan and providing assistance to him as a liaison to other SKK and WKKF organizations around the world. She trained six to seven times a week at the Hombu – Waseda Dojo and Shinbukai Dojo, teaching and training with children, all kyu and Black Belt only classes. She also competed at several tournaments in and around Tokyo, demonstrated with Hansi Hisataka and Sensei Hiroshi Hisataka at various venues to promote both Shorinjiryu and Koshiki Karate and acted as referee in different events in house and per invitation to outside Dojo tournaments.
• 1989, she traveled around the world to train different teams in preparation for the world championships in Montreal. She coaches the teams of Hong Kong, India, France, Germany and Switzerland, among others.
• She was president of the Canadian association from 1994 to 2008. She was on the Black Belts Grading Committee for countless years, preparing, supervising, grading and reporting results of Black Belts examination to Japan and presenting students with their official Black Belts Certifications and Ranks. She designed the examination document used for all Black Belts examinations.
• She was the founder and head instructor of the Heiwa Kai dojo in Ottawa from 1989 to 2008 forming respected, skilled and well-rounded individuals to Black Belts ranks
• 2000 Responsible for a team of young competitors traveling to Australia for their first World Koshiki Karate Championship, she was part of the pre-tournament preparations of the 2000 Australian Championship with Sensei Scott Brown and Chief Referee throughout the tournament. It is at this World Championship that she was promoted to 6
th Degree Black Belt in Shorinjiryu Kenkokan Karate as well as 7
th Degree in World Koshiki Karate alongside Shihan Mamadou Diallo from Switzerland, representative of the African Koshiki Karate organization at the time.
• She was responsible for the development and writing of the international Koshiki Karate rulebook. She was a long-time member of the international arbitration committee and was one of its administrators.
• She was the Director of the 2007 World Koshiki Karate Championship in Montreal, directly supervising the operations and management of several groups responsible for the many components required for efficient and safe proceedings of a Championship of this caliber. According to many participants and spectators, this tournament was one of the best organized World tournaments Koshiki had ever produced, thanks to everyone involved at all levels.
• She retired from karate in 2008, leaving Hanshi Nadeau and Shihan Gilbert at the head of the organization.
• 2010 She founded WASK (World Association Shorinjiryu Kenkokan) in collaboration with other Shorinjiryu Kenkokan veterans. For personal reasons, she had to abandon the project a few months later.
• She has long been and still is one of the highest ranking in the world organization and an internationally respected teacher. To date, she is the highest-ranking woman in Shorinjiryu Kenkokan and Koshiki Karate in the
world, having the ranks of 6th Dan and 7th Dan respectively.