Leslie Oles, a four-time RSEQ conference all-star forward, returned to her alma mater in August, 2024 to serve as a full-time assistant coach with the McGill University women's hockey team.
The 2016 physical and health education graduate from Beaconsfield, Que., replaced Kayla Tutino, who stepped down from behind the bench to resume her playing career and moved overseas to join the Italian national team.
Selected 18th overall by the Montreal Stars in the 2015 Canadian Women's Hockey League entry draft, Oles played two years in the CWHL and spent the 2017-18 season overseas with EV Bomo Thun of the Swiss Women's Hockey League.
Previous hockey coaching experience, since 2018, includes two years at Dawson College, in addition to stints at Westlake (one season; AA, Under-15) and Lac St. Louis (two seasons; AAA, U-13). She has also served as a skills instructor at the Leslie Oles Hockey Development Sessions in the Lac St. Louis region, the First Shift Hockey Camp and the Perfect Skate Hockey Lab in Montreal as well as the Ochsner Academy and Leysin Sport Academy, both based in Switzerland.
A product of John Abbott College and Kuper Academy in Kirkland, Que., she was later employed at Kuper from 2019 to 2024 as a physical education and fitness teacher. Olses also had previous teaching stints at Pierre Elliott Trudeau School in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Westwood Junior High School in St. Lazare, Que., and with the Lester B. Pearson School Board in Dorval, Que.
Oles skated five seasons for the Martlets, from 2010 to 2015, serving as an alternate captain in her final year. She ranks third among the team's all-time leaders in overall games played (199), third in goals (144), fifth in assists (149) and fourth in points (293). In regular season play, she posted a 69-73-142 record in 89 career contests.
This appointment falls under the women's hockey coaching chair created in 2018 after a transformational million-dollar gift from Sheryl and David Kerr.
