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SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT COACHING AND VALUES CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SPORT’S FUTURE COACHES OF THE YEAR The Information Source for Every Coach www.coaches.bc.ca Winter 2010 $3.95 CAN OLYMPIC & PARALYPMICpreview IMPACT OF PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY DEVICES ON TEAM BUILDING PAINT THE TOWN RED, CANADA! GOLF SPECIFIC STRENGTH & CONDITIONING • Nccp Course Schedule • coaching Development • clipboard coaching Notes + Tips • Nccp competition Development Update On Your Mark With... Gymnastics Perspective Winter 2010 inside For more CABC news and resources visit www.coaches.bc.ca Editor Jan Mansfield winter 2010 Publisher CABC Design Sharkbite Art + Design Quarterly Publication of the: coaches clipboard 4 Team BC Shines at Canada Summer Games Two Perspectives – After the Canada Games Contributing Writers: Don’t Leave Home Without It Rachel Corbett, Jamie Hickson Investors Group Recipients CABC Board of Directors President Judy Latoski 5 BC Coaches Week 2009 in Review VP Finance Jim Fitzpatrick VP Marketing Mike Renney Investors Group – Volunteer Sport Administrator Award Directors: Gail Donohue Tim Frick Peter Lawless Kathy Newman toolbox Norm Olenick Ajay Patel Joe Rea 6 Coaching and Values Executive Director Gordon May Publication Agreement # 40972566 Return undeliverable Canadian features addresses to: Coaches Association of BC 7 Eating for Cold Weather Exercise – How to Eat for Cold Weather Exercise #200, 3820 Cessna Drive Book Review – True Competition; A Guide to Pursuing Excellence in Sport and Society Richmond, BC V7B 0A2 Tel: 604-333-3600 Toll free: 1-800-335-3120 8 On Your Mark with... 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Non- member subscriptions: $20 annually. 21 British Columbia Coaches Week 2009 in Review Order through [email protected] The Coaches Association coaching development of BC is supported by 2010 Legacies Now 22 NCCP Competition Development Update Manager of Coach Education Notes On the Cover: Team BC’s Women’s Basketball Team at the Canada Summer Games in PEI. Photo by Michelle Collins 2 Perspective Winter 2010 Taking the Opportunity Notes from the Executive Director In a few short weeks our Canadian their respective needs and personalities. that will keep them in our sport system Olympic and Paralympic athletes will be Regardless of which athlete we engaged for a long period of time. We spend a great hitting the international stage for what we in conversation with, their praise for their deal of time and resources developing are all confident will be one of Canada’s coach’s talents and work ethic did not go these great coaches and then we lose best performances in a Winter Games. We unnoticed. them because they are not supported to in Vancouver have been fortunate to have the same level as any other professional. Canada’s athletes are expected to do well seen many of our national team athletes in Vancouver and we believe that they will. With these Olympic and Paralympic training and competing for spots on their We all know the athletes who are favoured Winter Games we have an opportunity to respective sport’s national teams that will to win, who the possible diamonds in the change this mindset and begin to foster a be competing during the Olympics and rough might be, what they look like, and new attitude towards coaching. The more Paralympics in February, and it is a very what their past successes have been on that we can do to highlight this important talented, and deep, pool of athletes who other international stages. But how many element of the sport system, the sooner are focusing on the 2010 Games. of us know who their coaches are? My we can get the public to see coaching as The athletes that we have met over the guess is that it is pretty slim. We have the true profession that it is. It is only then past several months have been gracious some of the world’s finest athletes, yet that we will begin to support coaches to with their time and they have been more we never seem to recognize the strong the level that every other profession is than willing to meet with those who have coaching team that has developed these compensated. shown an interest in them, and their sport. medal winning athletes. One last note, our team here in the There were several things that stood out We need to take the opportunity to office is getting smaller as the impacts for me when I met these athletes and recognize these coaches and provide on funding to sport are slowly taking its that included just how modest they are them with the support that they so richly toll. We are sorry to see Jan Mansfield, about their successes, how proud they deserve, and not just at the national level. our Manager of Communications for are to be competing for Canada, and We have been grooming a large batch of the past three years, moving on to other how much they appreciate all that their coaches here in BC who have the potential opportunities. Jan has been the ‘spark coaches (throughout their careers) have to be a national team coach someday, but plug’ in our office and she brought to our done for them to get them to this level of what is the sport system doing to ensure mix her enthusiasm and high energy level excellence. that we can keep these coaches engaged each and every day. Thanks Jan, for all Each athlete recognized their coach’s as professional coaches? Our challenge is your efforts. ability to draw out the very best in their to develop a career pathway for coaches athletic performances, and their ability to that provide them with a respectable motivate each individual athlete based on salary, benefits, and working conditions, Gord May The excitement in the air is palpable. As I write this, Notes from the Editor last couple of months have already brought changes the Olympic Flame has just arrived in Canada. The JAN MANSFIELD to the provincial sport landscape, with many sport “Olympic Season” really has begun! Having had organizations being impacted by financial cutbacks, the experience of working with an Olympic Games and the lack of Gaming revenues directed into the (Athens 2004), I don’t think that it will compare with sports sector. And the CABC is no exception. having it here in our own back yard. Hopefully the Excitement in the Air! Therefore I am writing my final Perspective Editor’s excitement of it all will keep us sane amidst the traffic note on this, my last day of working with CABC. chaos! When I came to CABC over three years ago I was I hope you enjoy this issue of Perspective. Besides previewing the Olympic and charged with, amongst other things, to communicate the importance of having Paralympic Games with a coaches’ focus, you can read the follow up interviews trained coaches, and to raise the profile of those volunteer coaches who often go with two of the coaches who guided their athletes to great success at the Canada unrecognized. I hope that is my legacy here. I have observed (with no small Summer Games in Prince Edward Island. Also, we have a review and photos amount of satisfaction!) that some of the initiatives we have created at CABC have of this year’s Coaches Week, which set the Olympics tone with its launch at the been picked up, tweaked, and re-issued by other sport entities. In the end, it is the Richmond Olympic Oval, and two notable Canadian Olympians as the keynote coaches, participants, parents, and kids who benefit from this. speakers. Both Dr. Doug Clement and Beckie Scott (with whom I share the I am very excited about moving on and taking on new challenges. But I am sorely hometown of Vermilion, Alberta) gave attendees their perspective on the important going to miss the daily interaction with my terrific co-workers, and with the coaches role that coaches play in developing athletes to any level, including the Olympics. throughout the province that I have come to know. And what about when all the snow has settled and the Games have left town? Keep up the good work. We really need you! Well, we are already seeing what I believe is the harbinger of things to come. The Perspective Winter 2010 3 COACHES CLIPBOARD Team BC Shines at Two Perspectives – Canada Summer Games After the Canada Games “As a collective group of coaches In follow-up interviews with two BC behind,” said Jody, lauding the Royal and mangers at the Games, their Canada Games coaches before leaving for Canadian Golfing Association (RCGA) for professionalism was impeccable. Their the Games, BC Coaches Perspective asked recognizing there is more to coaching golf professionalism and approach was Chuck McDiarmid, Provincial Coach than just teaching swings. “Coaching has reflected in their athletes’ performance and Manager of Regional Development really taken on a new level of activity in both on and off the field of play.