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Jim Denham
Year: 1st Year
Title: Head Coach
Phone: 905-351-2555

Denham enters his first season as the interim head coach and his third season with the Brock Badgers women’s hockey program.

For three seasons Denham was the head coach of the Ridley College Tigers girl’s hockey team. During that time the team’s overall record was 84–25–10. This included two CISAA championships, a silver medal and bronze medal in the North American Prep Hockey Association, and a bronze medal at OFSSA.

Denham was previously with the Brock Badgers as an assistant coach with the men’s hockey team. He assisted both Brock Hall of Fame inductee Mike Pelino (5 years) and current men’s hockey coach Murray Nystrom (1 year). His experience also includes 3 years as an assistant coach at the NCAA Division I level with the women’s hockey team at Niagara University and 2 seasons as head coach for the St.Catharines JR ‘B’ Falcons.

His formal training includes certification at the CAHA Advanced II Level. He also has his NCCP Level 3. Denham has attended numerous hockey clinics and has been an instructor and evaluator at several hockey schools and elite level evaluation camps.

Originally from Mississauga, he and his wife Michelle reside in St.Catharines with their family. He is the president of DENCO Engineering Ltd. a company he started himself in 1985 a few years after graduating from the University of Waterloo with a B.A.Sc. in Civil Engineering.



Sandy Staniforth
Title: Assistant Coach

Staniforth enters her 12th full season as a coach with the Brock Badgers women’s hockey program.

She attended McMaster where she was a member of the varsity hockey team for three years as an OWUAA all-star team goalie. She has also coached at many different levels of hockey and continues to play the game on her own time.

Originally from Oakville, Sandy has been a resident of the Niagara Region for 14 years. She has been working for the Niagara Regional Police in St. Catharines for 14 years.

Briar Komenda
Title: Conditioning Coach

Komenda enters her second season as the strength and conditioning coach with the Brock Badgers.

For the past five seasons (2003-08), Komenda was a member of the Brock Badgers women’s hockey team playing an integral part in the development of the program.

In five seasons at Brock, she ended her career ranked first all-time in career games played (118). She also finished her university career ranked second all-time in career points (75), career goals (27) and career assists (48). She was also tied for third all-time in career power play goals (8).