Hello.  My name is Troy MacArthur and I am the coach for the East Hants Stingrays.  I have almost 40 years of swimming and lifeguarding experience.  My swimming started with the Cape Breton Dorados.  I was a competitive swimmer for eight years.  I swam for the Cape Breton Dorados and Halifax Trojans.

My swimming career led me down the path of lifeguarding – which I started when I was sixteen.  I was employed by the Nova Scotia Lifeguard Service for the next twenty-three years!  

The leadership skills that were foundational to my swimming career were starting to exert themselves when I stepped onto the beaches of Nova Scotia.  It wasn’t long before I found the chlorine calling me back.  It was very fitting when I joined the Dorados as an assistant coach in 1996.  I was able to take my love of swimming along with the refined leadership skills of lifeguarding and put them together in influencing the lives of younger swimmers.  I worked as an assistant coach for a couple of years, proving myself and my abilities, before the club took a chance and made me the head coach. 

I thought that I needed big club experience.  I made the decision to leave the Dorados and move to Halifax where I was an assistant coach with the Halifax Trojans.  I coached with the Trojans for two years before joining the Sackville Waves Aquatic Team as an assistant coach. 

I am currently also a teacher. I have been a teacher for over twenty years and have been quite successful with that career. 

I started with the Stingrays in June of 2022. When the opportunity to rejoin the Stingrays came available through winter maintenance, I jumped in with both feet – literally!

My name is Rosalyn Tate.  I love staying active and I do that through competitive swimming as well.  I became involved in swimming when I was 9 and a friend told me I should try out for a competitive swim team. Since then, I've been swimming competitive winter seasons with the Dartmouth Crusaders for 7 years.

I got into coaching this year, when a coach and a friend who also coaches, suggested that I would be a good fit for coaching.

I can't wait to join the Stingrays, and I know this summer is going to be awesome!