Sean Hacker Teper
Science, Marine Science, and Biology teacher, Ice Hockey Coach
B.A. (Boston University), M.Sc. (Memorial University), B.Ed. (UBC Okanagan)
Mr. Hacker Teper was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. From a young age, he gravitated towards water and conservation. As a keen young scientist, he could often be found “rescuing” frogs with his younger brother, transporting them from streams to the local lake for the purpose of providing them a “better” life. On family vacations, he always pushed to see the local aquariums. This interest led him to Vancouver Island in the summer after Grade 11, where he completed a marine biology course and earned his scuba diving certification. Back in Toronto, Mr. Hacker Teper’s involvement as a coxswain on his high school rowing team earned him a position on the Boston University men’s rowing team. He graduated with a degree in Marine Biology and memorable fieldwork along the Massachusetts coast, Belize, and Ecuador. He returned home to Toronto for a year to pursue a budding photography passion before heading east to Newfoundland to earn his master’s in marine biology. In St. John’s, he learned biochemistry on the fly as he investigated a food web for little critters living in rhodolith beds. As he completed his master’s degree, he realized he loved teaching and headed westward to BC, where he earned his teaching credentials and has taught since 2020. Outside of school, you can find him baking fresh sourdough, fermenting strange foods, playing pickleball, doing astrophotography, or somewhere underwater exploring British Columbia’s reefs.
Neil Robinson
Instructional Leader of Social Studies/Business; Metamorphosis 9 Teacher; AP Capstone; Ice Hockey Coach
B.A., B.Ed., M.A. (U of C)
Having grown up in the mountains of eastern British Columbia without much television to speak of, Mr. Robinson is drawn to the great outdoors at every opportunity. After completing high school, he attended the University of Calgary to pursue several degrees, including a master’s degree focused on gifted and talented learning. He has a passion for all things athletic and particularly enjoys golf, functional fitness, and ice hockey. Mr. Robinson’s academic interests lie in gifted education, global cultures, international politics, human rights, volunteerism, and travel. In a perfect world, he’d like to do all of them at the same time. It comes as no surprise, then, that he led Brentwood’s inaugural Learning Service Trip to Peru and, more recently, four more trips to Eswatini.
Tom Shadlock
Head of Ice Hockey
With over 25 years of coaching experience, Mr. Shadlock is a NCCP Level 1 Coach and has coached everything from initiation-level hockey to Junior B. Over the years, he has been lucky to work with some amazingly talented athletes and has become lifelong friends with coaches and parents associated with the sport. Some of the athletes he has worked with have moved on to play at Division 1 University, AHL, WHL, and Junior B. Working with these amazing kids is a pleasure and a privilege—their youthful exuberance keeps him feeling young with every minute he spends with them.
Ice Hockey
The fastest sport at Brentwood, this program typically sparks enormous interest across the School for athletes of all ability and skill levels.
The hockey season starts in our fall term at the local Kerry Park Arena with a focus on development. Players focus on fundamentals, such as skating, edgework, puck-handling, passing, shooting, and checking. As the first term winds down, the practice intensity starts to build, with lots of flow, team systems, and competitive battle drills.
There is a place for everyone to get involved in Brentwood Ice Hockey. We have beginners putting on skates for the first time and players who have been on the ice for 14 or 15 years! Players new to the game will play with our Development Team, while more experienced players will compete in league play on our Brentwood Senior Team and venture to tournaments under BC Hockey (Hockey Canada) oversight.
Our core values in this program are relentlessness and commitment. No matter the individual skill set, the coaches encourage players to have a relentless attitude towards everything we do—particularly, puck pursuit. Commitment comes as this program creates a high demand for each player’s time, travelling off-campus to destinations both inside and outside of BC. In this program, players will enjoy road trips and the social bonding that comes from those journeys.
In recent years, the girls’ program has also flourished. The squad has played games against local women’s teams, local high school teams, and even some teams in Vancouver, on the nearby Lower Mainland of BC.
Our season culminates with the annual Ross Cup tournament in the third week of February. It is a true celebration of hockey and ignites the best in all players with high-paced action and the roar of a cheering crowd. In 2023/24, our Senior team won Silver at the Ross Cup event—thrilling the crowd of students, staff, and parents.
Where Students Choose To Be
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2735 Mount Baker Road
Mill Bay, BC, Canada V8H 1K8