After being named head coach of the women's basketball team in July 2008, Andy Sparks led the Gee-Gees to two consecutive CIS championship appearances in his first two seasons with the team. The Ottawa native and uOttawa graduate was named the 2008-09 OUA Coach of the Year after transforming an inherited 3-19 record team into an OUA division finalist only one season later. Sparks, who graduated with an honours degree in Physical Education in 1985, followed by a degree in Education degree one year later, has been an active coach in the Ottawa community since 1978.

He has been a physical education teacher, administrator and coach at Nepean High School., Cornwall Collegiate and Ashbury College, winning 15 city championships and five provincial championships at the high school and club level. He then went on to serve as an assistant coach at Carleton University with the women's team in 2003-04 and the CIS championship men's team in 2004-05.

He also served as Ashbury's athletic director for eight years.

Entering his fourth season in 2011, Sparks looks forward to building on the previous seasons and continuing to represent the school and the city of Ottawa at the national level.
 

Mario Gaetano has been the associate head coach with the Gee-Gees since the start of the 2007-08 season and has helped lead the team to two CIS national championships. Prior to his start with the Gee-Gees, he spent four years as an assistant coach with Carleton University's women's basketball team. An Ottawa native, Gaetano is a Glebe Collegiate Institute graduate (1982). He played football for the Glebe Gryphons for five years and was an MVP in grade 11. He then went on to obtain a BA in Law and Sociology at Carleton University in 1985.

Married to his high school sweetheart Rita, he is a father of three boys (Matthew, Andrew and Nicholas), all of which are involved in sports. Since 1996, he has coached two of his boys on local premiere and regional summer soccer teams for Ottawa South United, Gloucester Hornets and Ottawa Internationals.

Gaetano has also coached both men's and women's senior high school basketball teams. Since 2001, he has won seven NCSSAA city championships and has medalled three times at the OFSAA championships, amassing two silver medals and one bronze.

He won the NCSSAA coaching award for the 2008-09 season and also won the director of education commendation award that same year.

He currently teaches at St. Peter High School as a job coach. He works closely with co-operative education and student services, offering academic support for all high school subjects and helping young adolescents achieve employability skills via various community work placements.

"The most rewarding part of coaching for me at any level, CIS, high school, or community, women or men, is the relationships that result from time spent together while working towards a common goal within a team setting, said Gaetano. The wins and losses are extraneous. Winning is a reward, but an everlasting relationship is invaluable."
 

Kim Swenson has been an assistant coach with the Gee-Gees since the start of the 2007-08 season. Then known as Kim Mathieu, she played three years as starting point guard with the Gee-Gees (1998-2000 and 2001-02). A Lakehead University graduate with a Master's in Kinesiology and a Bachelors of Education, Swenson is currently a full-time physical education and French teacher at Ottawa's St. Joseph's Catholic High School, where she has had three OFSAA appearances as a soccer coach. She coaches both soccer and track and field at St. Joseph's, once the CIS season is done.

She has also had five OFSAA appearances as a high school track and field finalist from 1994-1998 and currently plays competitive division I soccer with FC Brit in Minnesota.

Having been a part of the Gee-Gees women's program herself, she feels that she is able to use her experience to help the student-athletes today. "I feel like with any experience you have, you can learn from it and help others along the way [...] I can be there for the girls if they have any questions or concerns."

She is happy to be involved with the team and says she "enjoys it very much."

"I'm glad that Andy has kept me on. I feel blessed and flattered that he sees something in me that will help to benefit the program."
 

Ian MacKinnon has been an assistant coach with the Gee-Gees since the start of the 2008-09 season. An Ottawa native and full-time teacher at Ashbury College, MacKinnon worked for many years alongside Sparks, coaching the Ashbury College women's basketball team and currently the varsity boys basketball team. He has coached both high school and OBA club and development teams for the past 25 years.

From 1975 to 1984, MacKinnon was a dominant athlete in the Ottawa area, playing lacrosse, hockey and basketball at the high school and club level.

He holds a bachelor of Physical Education and Mathematics from the University of Ottawa, as well as a bachelor of Education from Queen's.

Presently, he is a physical education and mathematics teacher at Ashbury College and the athletic director of the Junior School.