Western Mustangs Sports

• Name: Brad Winder
• Season #: 20
• Vancouver, B.C.Hometown: 
• Email: bbwinder@aol.com

Brad Winder first joined Western’s fencing team as a co-head coach in the 2000-01 season with his wife Carol Christie. Coach Christie and Brad met at a fencing clinic in 94' and married in 98'. Since then, he and Christie have guided three teams to OUA gold (2005-06 men’s Foil, 2004-05 men’s Epee, and 2006-07 women’s Epee), as well as prompting individual OUA wins, helping Paul Simms win the George Tully Trophy in 2001-02, Dave Collins win the Charles Walter Trophy in 2005-06, Andrea Csiba win the Dr. Alex English Trophy in 2006-07 and Vivian Poon win the Dave O’Donnell Trophy in 2012-13. The duo also led the women's fencing team to the OUA Championship in 2017, marking the team's first provincial title since the 1992-93 season. 

Winder, a native of Vancouver, B.C., has been involved in coaching for over 30 years. He has been involved with multiple sports, foraying most often into coaching roles within fencing and football. This includes a 15-year stint with the University of Waterloo football team, where he has worked primarily as the special teams coach. He has also acted as assistant football coach at Laurier High School in London, Ontario and as the head coach of the London Beefeaters football club, where he received the Gord Currie award as Coach of the Year in 2009.

Brad is a member of the Coaching Association of Canada and Ontario, a member of the USFCA, Untied States Fencing Coaches Association and a member of the Classical Fencing Academy, also in the states. He has a Prevot certification in sabre through the USFCA, as well as level 3 coaching in theory and football in the NCCP program in Canada.

Throughout his career, he has also been involved in sports as a teacher. He instructs beginner level fencing courses at both Western and Fanshawe College, and is the Head Instructor for the Mustang Sword Club. During the past summer, Winder ran eight different camps, which over 135 young athletes attended. In the past, he has also taught tennis and squash.

Updated: August 2022