Shannon Whieldon is a BCRPA Registered Fitness Leader and Supervisor of Fitness Leaders (SFL) who has dedicated the past 40 years to the field of community fitness and health promotion. She holds Specialities in Older Adult Fitness, Personal Training, Weight Training and Group Fitness and is deeply committed to making fitness education accessible and inclusive.
Shannon’s fitness career began as an Industrial First Aid Attendant and a Fitness Instructor in the early 1980s. Soon after, she added skydiving as a unique form of exercise and became a volunteer Skydiving Safety Officer to support first-time jump students. She went on to become a rigger and jump master, jumping into Vanier Park in Vancouver as part of Expo86, opening the Abbotsford Airshow with a red and white parachute and Canadian flag, and later securing a bronze medal for Canada in the 1988 World ParaSki Championships in Damüls, Austria.
Shannon is a life-long learner who has supported people of all ages through fitness education and physical activity. During her 27-year career as a nurse in acute care, Shannon set up a back-care program in her unit to support physicians and nurses at the end of their 12-hour shifts. She would then check in on elderly home-bound clients on her way home each night to support them to do the same. She later supported her own son using nutrition and exercise to help him thrive through 8 years of chemotherapy and 2.5 years of restorative leg surgery.
Shannon is known by students, clients, and colleagues past and present to be extremely positive, supportive and creative.
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BCRPA would like to acknowledge and congratulate all of the 2022 nominees:
- Andrew Alcalde
- Laurie Ann Cardinal
- Breanna Graham
- Kelly Hawbolt
- Esther Ho
- Jeannie Mansell
- Martha Marks
- Ponnie Matin Pelchat
- Jill Nadon
- Jenaya Reddin
- Syd Shirley Sam
- Shannon Sawicki
- Rachel Seay
- Rebecca Watt
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