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coaches clipboard Quarterly Publication of the: 4 An Update on the Coaching Association of Canada’s Database New Directors Welcomed to CABC Contributing Writers: Don’t Leave Home Without It Kyna Fletcher, Shauna Grinke, Joe Spectra Energy Again Provides “Energy” to BC Coaches Week Hitchcock, Dana Lis, Steve Ramsbottom, CABC Board of Directors 5 Stellar Lineup for British Columbia Coaches Week 2009 President Judy Latoski VP Finance Jim Fitzpatrick Investors Group – Volunteer Sport Administrator Award VP Marketing Mike Renney Directors: Gail Donohue SEPTEMBER 20 - 27, 2009 Tim Frick Peter Lawless toolbox Kathy Newman Norm Olenick Ajay Patel 6 Road Trip - Refueling for Success Joe Rea Executive Director Gordon May

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2 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 The Best Place on Earth Notes from the Executive Director

My how the quickly the financial times have forecast projections for BC hitting zero We have seen the results of what changed! One minute we are all looking growth in 2009, from a previous projection stable funding can do to enhance the forward to a secure retirement and the of 0.6 percent growth, and Central One performance of our athletes, and for the next we are hoping that we will have the Credit Union projecting a provincial development of coaching as a profession. strength to work another 20 years so we budget deficit of almost $500 million for The athletes who have benefited from the can retire at 80! Not only have our personal the current year. infusion of funding for full time coaches bank accounts taken a dramatic hit, but so are now making their way onto podiums One avenue of stable funding that can have the provincial coffers. As we witness across the country. If we are able to build still provide the consistency our sector is more and more of an economic slow-down upon, or even maintain, the professional looking for is gaming. This is one source of here in BC, we are beginning to see that coaching positions that have been created funding that isn’t impacted by government the sport system that we have developed over the past several years, we will have deficits or other political initiatives. Other and benefitted from, since being awarded succeeded in providing a realistic career provinces have successfully used this the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, is pathway for those individuals who want to form of funding sport for many years, now in jeopardy of falling back to funding make coaching a full time vocation. and this consistency has given sport the levels of ten years ago. Although the opportunity to maintain those programs Let’s not continue to lose so many good sport sector managed to keep most of its that directly benefit athletes and coaches. coaches to other provinces, or other funding intact for this current fiscal year, Sask Sport Inc. is a great example of how countries, because we aren’t able to fund the future is uncertain. lotteries have benefited the sport system them. Let’s put together a consistent Like every sector in the economy that is in Saskatchewan, and how this consistent funding formula that will allow BC to supported through government funding, funding has been able to maintain a healthy become ‘the best place on earth’ for we all believe that our purpose in society sport infrastructure. Let’s hope that we can professional coaches. deserves a consistent level of funding. I, leverage these challenging financial times too, believe that, but we also know that to revisit the long-term funding of sport in health care and education are going to the province, and to secure assurances of trump all other services when the funding funding from sources such as gaming, in crunch hits. And it has now hit, and hit order to continue to provide the support hard. We are now seeing the economic and training to our coaches.. Gord May

Just about a month to go to British Columbia Coaches Notes from the Editor taken of yourself with the magazine and submit it to Week 2009, and our plans to deliver an event that JAN MANSFIELD us. See inside for the contest details, and the first will keep attract more and new participants are well photo (I admit – this one was staged!). underway. We are excited that we can launch this Our editorial advisory committee continues to be year’s Coaches Week at the Richmond Olympic Oval, helpful in making suggestions for the direction of a most suitable environment to invite coaches to just Spread the Word! this magazine, as well as offering me continuing months before the Olympic and Paralympic Games. education in the nuances of sport. For example, in Check out our new website for the stellar lineup of our last meeting, one of the committee members events happening across the province during this special week for coaches. Plan used a word I wasn’t familiar with - “sportifying” - as in making a generic concept to attend, and spread the word! fit a specific sport. For example: ringette has sportified the new CI courses; every As the countdown continues to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, coaches as sport is in the process of “sportifying” the LTAD model., etc.. Just some trivia I’m well as their athletes are being featured in various media, and continue to receive passing on! some very well deserved kudos. This year the late Howard Firby, one of Canada’s And finally, I hardly know what to say about Wendy Ladner-Beaudry’s tragic death most successful and innovative swimming coaches, became the 9th. coach to be earlier this spring. It is incomprehensible that she should be taken away from her inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame. Also inducted were the 2002 family, her friends and the sport community. KidsSport CEO Sandra Stevenson Olympic women’s and men’s gold medal hockey teams. Read about their coaches said it best when she called her the “Mother Theresa of Sport”. I could always in this issue. expect to see her at any function that involved sport, women and the less fortunate. In our continued efforts to supply you with easy access to useful information, The only way I can try to come to terms with it is by believing there must be some beginning with this issue we will be listing some of the most useful resources “grand plan” that we don’t know about. At the very (websites, etc.) that we have found. Also this issue, we are introducing an idea least, it is a sharp reminder that life is short, and I borrowed from my local community newspaper. Take Perspective with you, we would do well to live it the way Wendy did - with wherever you travel, whether it be for a tournament, pleasure, etc.. Have a photo passion and compassion.

Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 3 COACHES CLIPBOARD

An Update on the Spectra Energy again Coaching Association provides “Energy” to of Canada’s Database BC Coaches Week The NCCP Database, a key element of implementation takes more time than Spectra Energy has the NCCP system, allows the Partners anticipated at almost every stage. come forward to support and other organizations to track coaches’ coach education and progress. With the deployment of the new Since October 2008, the CAC Database development in British Database in October 2008, all Partners and Team has been entering coaches’ personal Columbia for the coaches have been challenged by the lack data, and since the beginning of March second year. The company, one of North of full functionality. Coaching Association 2009, entering training credentials. From America’s leading providers of natural of Canada (CAC) staff has worked the initial stages of development, the gas infrastructure, will be the Presenting continuously in an attempt to mitigate objective for the new NCCP Database was, Sponsor at British Columbia Coaches Week these challenges, and by the time you are and remains, to provide a more robust tool 2009 conferences in Richmond, Kamloops, reading this, it is hoped that it will have and better use of technology in order to Prince George and Fort St. John. Coaching full functionality. As seems characteristic better service Partners and coaches forums will also be held in Nanaimo, of any major database change, the Kelowna and Kamloops during the week of September 19 – 27. “Our sponsorship of BC Coaches Week New Directors Welcomed to CABC is a great fit for us”, said Lise-Ann Peter Lawless and Ajay Patel were voted in as Directors at Large during the recent CABC Annual General Meeting, Jackson, Spectra Energy’s Director of adding to a Board that already consists of some of the most qualified people in sport. Public Affairs, Community & Aboriginal Relations. “Coaches play an invaluable Peter Lawless was one of the first wheelchair athletics coaches to be certified NCCP role in instilling the ideals of teamwork Level 4 and is an NCCP Learning Facilitator. He has been a Paralympic Coach for and high performance in young athletes. Wheelchair Athletics and was previously the BC Provincial Wheelchair Athletics coach. They develop athletic talent and help to He was the driving force behind the inclusion and integration of wheelchair athletes fuel the motivation and goals of amateur into local and regional level events. Peter lives in Victoria with his wife, Karen March, a athletes, thereby enhancing the vibrancy of Paralympic athlete. He is a lawyer specializing in civil litigation and sports and recreation communities where we work and live.” law. Peter was named CABC’s International Coach of the Year in 2006. Ajay Patel is the Chair of the Human Kinetics Department at Langara College in The recent launch of TEAM (Talent. Vancouver. He is an NCCP Level 3 Coach and an NCCP Learning Facilitator. He is also Energy. Aim. Motivation) Spectra further a past and current Chef de Mission for Team BC, a member of the Vancouver Sport demonstrates the company’s commitment Strategy Committee and a doping control officer with the Canadian Centre for Ethics In to sport, community and high performance. Sport (CCES). Ajay lives with his wife and two young children in Burnaby. The program supports eight athletes Returning CABC directors are Judy Latoski (President), Jim Fitzpatrick, Mike Renney, Gail competing for their national teams in Donohue, Tim Frick, Kathy Newman, Norm Olenick and Joe Rea. winter sports with a total of $214,000 over three years. Two of those are BC athletes

Don’t Leave Home Without It! Going to a tournament? Travelling for pleasure? Make sure you take a copy of BC Coaches Perspective Magazine with you and have a photo taken for our newest contest. All submissions will be entered into a draw, and one winner every three months will receive a CABC prize package. We will print the winner’s photo and a selection of others in Perspective. 1. You must be a member of CABC. 2. Have someone take a photo of yourself holding a copy of BC Coaches Perspective (magazine must be visible), with the background showing where you are. 3. E-mail a high quality digital photo to [email protected]. 4. Tell us where the photo was taken and why you were there. 5. Very briefly tell us about yourself (hometown, what you coach, etc.). 6. Give us your name, phone #, address, e-mail address (this information won’t be published). Adam Frost of Vancouver took BC Coaches Perspective with him to the Richmond Olympic Oval for the 2009 Coloplast Wheelchair Rugby National Championships (a test event for the 2010 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships). Adam is BC Wheelchair Rugby’s Provincial Coach and Assistant Coach for the Canadian National Team.

4 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 COACHES CLIPBOARD

- World Champion speed skater Denny Morrison and his brother Jay, a multiple Canadian Championship medallist and a five-year veteran of Canada’s long-track speed skating team. Their father, Dennis, has worked for Spectra Energy in Fort St. John for over 30 years. During the TEAM Spectra launch in Calgary recently, Denny talked about the importance of the financial support he will A Stellar Lineup for receive. Something he can now do is afford the insurance and gas for a vehicle at his BRITISH COLUMBIA home base in Richmond, where he trains at the Olympic Oval. “It gives me that home COACHES WEEK 2009 field advantage,” he said. “Not only are they helping us financially but also there Coaches Week just keeps getting better and better! In this, the third year is a whole team of people behind us and that CABC has brought this special week to coaches across the province, the I’m sure they will help us in any way that opportunity to listen to - and learn from – the incredible lineup of speakers we need.” Denny is one of Canada’s top and presenters is one that no one should miss. medal hopes in speed skating for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Coaches Week will be launched at the magnificent Richmond Olympic Oval on Sunday, September 20. Fittingly, the day will be started with the opening keynote presented by Dr. Doug Clement Doug Bloom, President of Spectra Energy’s (Olympian, SportMedBC founder, etc.). At noon Olympic Gold Medallist Beckie Scott will Western Canada operations said TEAM be the keynote speaker, courtesy of Spectra Energy. At a minimal cost for the whole Spectra was created to capture the spirit day (including a full day of presentations – and lunch!) this is great value. of the company. “This is a program where The events across the rest of the province during the Week also present a great we can all feel that we can make a real opportunity for sports participants and coaches of all levels to access the expertise difference to a group of athletes who have of some of the most knowledgeable and engaging presenters in sports. Through the to put their lives on hold while competing at support of Coaches Week sponsors, including Spectra Energy and Investors Group, we are the highest levels in their sports,” he said. able to offer these events at no charge. Check out the TEAM Spectra’s athlete ambassador, Coaches Week link on the CABC website for a full rundown Beckie Scott, a two-time Olympic medalist of the speakers and topics. Also, be sure to submit your said, “The quest for excellence in sport nominations for one of the recognition awards being given is a life lived with passion, determination, out during the Week. inspiration, commitment and incredibly Coaches Week events have a limited capacity, long hours and hard work.” “In the sporting so pre-registration is required. world, having a company like Spectra Energy, actually seeking out athletes to support and alleviating the financial burden that comes with pursuing SEPTEMBER 20 - 27, 2009 their big dreams, is almost unheard of.” Investors Group –

Athletes at the recent launch of TEAM Spectra took Volunteer Sport Administrator Award the time to talk about the importance of coaches to athletes, and in particular, some of the coaches that This award recognizes the contribution to community sport programs made have influenced their lives. by a dedicated volunteer who has given countless hours of time so that coaches Denny Morrison paid tribute to his coach Marcel and athletes can enjoy the benefits of well-organized sport. The nominee must Lacroix who he has been training with for six years. demonstrate outstanding commitment and service in an administrative capacity for “Training me, inspiring me, basically persuading me to become as good of a skater as I am today - I owe a club, organization, or event, resulting in a strong impact on the community for a lot to him. Marcel has given me the determination coaches and athletes. and the motivation to become part of TEAM Spectra.” Jay Morrison added, “He’s a great motivator. He runs a This award will be made to one recipient at each Community Coaching Forum and great program. He has great technical advice.” Coaches Conference during British Columbia Coaches Week. For more information Beckie Scott, TEAM Spectra athlete ambassador and and to submit a nomination go to the CABC website at http://www.coaches.bc.ca/ keynote speaker at the launch of British Columbia coaches-week/recognition/nominations. Application Deadline: September 7, 2009 Coaches Week in Richmond on September 20 said, “Coaches are one of the biggest parts of the puzzle and one of the biggest pieces in the overall life of an athlete. To have a great coach from beginning to end is really important.”

Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 5 TOOLBOX

Road Trip: Fueling Up for Success

By Dana Lis, B.Sc. RD

The traveling athlete faces many scheduling challenges to their best. Follow these ten simple steps to prepare athletes their training programs. Inexperienced travelers or athletes for winning travel nutrition planning whether traveling by who have minimal knowledge of their dietary requirements car, air or rail. may end up impeding their performance through poor Take these tips to your teams and hit the road planned and nutrition planning and decision-making. It is a given that not prepared for nutrition success. A registered dietitian who every team or athlete has access to a registered dietitian specializes in sport can give your athletes the nutritional specialized in sport nutrition to help prepare them for travel. competitive edge by providing individualized travel nutrition As a coach you can be a nutrition advocate and set your plans which are specific to the sport, climate, athletes, athletes up for success on the road. Whether a world away schedule and food availability. To connect with a sport or only a few hours from home, proper nutrition planning dietitian, or to find more information on fueling for sport, can ensure that athletes have the potential to perform at visit www.sportmedbc.com.

1 PLAN FOR TRAVEL TIME avoiding long naps and light activity can stick with the nutrition plan before, after and Plan to pack enough high carbohydrate, help to adapt to time changes. Some light during physical activity. moderate protein snacks and fluids for morning exercise is just the thing! DO YOUR HOMEWORK the duration of your travel time. To stay 5 FROM HOT TO COLD OR LOW TO HIGH hydrated, drink at least one cup of water for 3 Find out what amenities are available in - PLAN TO ACCLIMATIZE every hour of travel, especially on airplanes and around the hotel you will be staying at where the air is continuously recycled. Pack Athletes should be prepared for increased and at the event venue. Some key things to a personal snack pack with easy to carry, sweat rates and fluid needs when traveling research: security-approved snacks like: to different climates. They should increase • Continental breakfast fluid intake and replace sodium losses with a • Trail mix • Room fridges sports drink and dietary salt intake. Ensure • Granola bars • Nearby grocery stores and athletes do not lose more than 2% of their • Beef jerky restaurants body weight during exercise by encouraging • Instant oatmeal packets • Local cuisine fluid intake and ensuring fluids are readily • Dried fruit available. Sports drinks and lightly salting 6 SAVE THE POUTINE (THE QUEBEC • Sandwiches foods can help to replace sodium losses DELICACY) FOR AFTER THE EVENT • Powdered sport drink in hot environments. Travel nutrition Regional cuisine should not be passed up. • Empty water bottles – to be filled on packs should contain powdered sport However, save the high fat and unfamiliar board the airplane drink and extra salt packets or electrolyte foods or drinks for victory celebrations. 2 STAND UP TO JET LAG supplements. In addition, leave adequate Encourage athletes to stick with their regular Time changes can wreck havoc on sleeping, time for individuals to adjust to performing nutrition regimes and foods. Make time for eating and bathroom routines. To minimize under these new conditions. athletes to experience the famed local foods after competition. disruption set watches to the destination time. 4 DON’T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT THEM Try to get athletes to sleep and organize their Whether it is peanut butter or a special 7 HUNT DOWN THE CARBS nutrition regimes in accordance with the new energy bar, pack plenty of comfort foods, Go for low-fat, high-carb on the road. Starchy time. If possible organize travel to maximize tailored to the individual preferences of vegetables, whole grains, fruits should be the opportunity for normal sleeping routines. each of the athletes. These are important key ingredients on daily menus. Encourage A high carb snack before they sleep can also psychologically and will also help athletes athletes to stock up on carbs by choosing help minimize insomnia. Natural daylight,

6 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 starchy vegetables and beans at the salad and food safety standards ahead of time can bar as well as filling half of their meal plate help your team decide what precautions to with whole grain breads, cereals, pasta or take. Some tips: rice. Adding a serving of dairy can also pack TOOLBOX • Make sure cold foods are cold and an extra carb and protein punch. hot foods hot. Items that have been To connect with a sport dietitian, or to 8 BE A RESTAURANT CRITIC left standing for too long can cause find more information on fueling for Finding a non “burger joint” restaurant in problems the next day. sport, visit www.sportmedbc.com. small town Saskatchewan is not easy. A few • Wash hands frequently with soap phone calls and some advanced research for at least 30 seconds, especially can solve this problem. Make a list of before eating, and have hand sanitizer Dana Lis, B.Sc. RD is a Registered healthier restaurants and grocery shopping available. Dietitian with SportMedBC’s Nutrition outlets. Instruct athletes to make menu • Avoid unpasteurized milk, unpeeled Program in Vancouver. With a lifetime selections that are jam-packed with whole fruits and vegetables, shellfish, and involvement in sports ranging from grains, fruits, vegetable and lean proteins. raw fish. figure skating to backcountry skiing, and A sport dietitian is your best resource for • Stick to bottled water and pass on ice as a current category 2 road cyclist, Dana teaching these skills, but as a coach, you cubes, raw foods washed in tap water has merged her passions for both sport can get the ball rolling. (e.g., salads, fruits, and vegetables). and nutrition to specialize in the field of Don’t forget the bottled water when sport nutrition, teaching others practical 9 CREATURES OF HABIT brushing teeth. ways to feed their bodies for both athletic For many athletes it is critical, both • Taking a probiotic supplement may help and life performance. Pursuing an elite physiologically and psychologically, to stick in preventing the pathogenic ones. education in the field of sport nutrition Dana expects to complete the renowned to pre/post event nutrition habits. Instruct Take these tips to your teams and athletes to pack foods they cannot live IOC Sports Nutrition Diploma in 2011. hit the road planned and prepared without, and to stick to their usually nutrition timing habits as closely as possible. for nutrition success. A registered “... you can be a nutrition dietitian who specializes in sport 10 DON’T BE A TRAVELERS DIARRHEA can give your athletes the nutritional advocate and set your STATISTIC competitive edge by providing As many as 60% of athletes who individualized travel nutrition plans athletes up for success on travel internationally get some form of which are specific to the sport, climate, gastrointestinal illness - not what you need the road.” prior to competing. Researching water quality athletes, schedule and food availability.

Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 7 SUMMER/FALL ISSUE feature

On Your Mark With... Cycling is one activity that almost every person, from about the age of three, can do and has done. It is one of the physical Cycling activities that almost every person starts with.

But in the case of Cycling BC, the obviously takes in officiating, volunteer share best practices with each other. provincial body that oversees the sport development, club development and all Youth coordinators/coaches have been in the province, it is more complicated the other silos that we focus in on”, says set up in various geographic locations. than that, as there is actually a “family” Ryan. “I think at the top level we’re still of cycling sports. The one thing they all “In cycling it’s more than just the producing Olympians. I think what we have in common is that participants ride integration from a coaching perspective. need to do is start to focus on the lower a bicycle with an upright frame and two It’s an integration in the way that we bring levels and build better pathways,” says wheels. Beyond that, the sports - road more people into the sport of cycling Wooles. He said if a cycling participant racing, mountain biking, BMX racing, through recreational and grassroots can’t make it as an athlete they encourage track racing and cyclo- cycling,” says Ryan. them to come into the sport in another cross – can all be very He says that one of the area, such as coaching. different. And that is what most critical parts of the presents the big challenge, Jane D. Blaine, Executive Director of coaching model is at the especially when it comes the British Columbia Blind Sports and entry level. It’s a matter to coaching. Recreation Association (BCBSRA), of turning the interest in says Canadian blind sports is currently Cycling is one of the few the activity into a sporting working on a multi-sport blindness sports that covers several interest.” Olympic cycling coach Dan Proulx is coaching module which will hopefully disciplines with athletes bookended by mountain biker Catherine Richard Wooles, is be rolled out next year, and will probably who don’t cross over Pendrel and road racer Alex Wrubelski. Cycling BC’s provincial be aimed at the high performance level. into the other discipline, coach and high performance director. However there are no coaches trained says Cycling BC CEO Keith Ryan. That He says coaching development is a high specifically for cycling. If someone is means that they have to provide four core priority with the association. “There interested in coaching they are put in separate coaching instruction programs. are many coaches out there looking touch with an able bodied club. Tandem “In the long term its a great opportunity to carry on with good coaching,” says cycling, which involves a sighted pilot but in the short term its a massive Wooles. Coaches are who pedals at the same rate challenge,” says Ryan. taken on provincial trips, as the visually impaired Ryan says Cycling BC is currently national trips and major cyclist, is a rapidly growing launching a comprehensive coach championships to help sport says Blaine. development model they hope will them develop as much as Cycling BC has adopted provide the outline for development of possible. a phrase: “Coaches are the sport for the next 15 or 20 years. It Last year coaches enablers”. They enable is also in the final throes of switching benefited from funds from participation in the sport, over to the CBet model, and expects to the SportsFunder lottery and we need more enablers, complete the provincial integration into which were used to bring says Ryan. “If Canada is the Canadian Sport For Life (CS4L) 27 coaches from across BC Provincial and National cycling truly going to have success later this year. Cycling BC’s strategic the province together to coach Richard Wooles (R) with track at the podium level then it plans actually integrates the CS4L. If cyclist Zach Bell who won the silver talk about youth programs starts with success at the you integrate it into the strategic plan it medal at the World Track championships (at the under 15 level) and in Poland in March. playground level.”

8 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 Leaving A Leadership Legacy

By Joe Hitchcock

When we think about any great athlete that a coach is actually helping the most Ask Questions - Gretzky, Armstrong, Laumann, Tiger, when they are being brutally honest. Often situations present themselves where Nash, Ali (to name a few) - we often think of How then do coaches harness the athletes make choices and react. This their achievements on the ice, or in the ring. power of athlete leadership in an already is a perfect opportunity to dive into the On Your Mark With... More often though the lasting memory hectic schedule? The good news is that thinking behind their actions and allows comes from the qualities they exhibit away sport already provides the best classroom both the coach and the athlete to gain a from the game and the personal impact for learning about leadership – at every better perspective on issues away from the they have on us. training session and every time an athlete technical aspects of sport. When coaching our athletes we don’t competes. In fact, many coaches are usually instruct them to “shoot a jump shot already doing a fantastic job in developing Enjoy It like Steve Nash” or “swing the golf club athlete leadership without even focusing on Watching athletes learn and grow is one of like Tiger Woods”. However we do try to this area. Coaches are often working with the best things about coaching. Building reinforce those athletes’ qualities - to “be athletes to ensure they not only excel in leadership into your coaching allows for an tenacious like Lance Armstrong, passionate the field of sports, but also in the pursuit extra sense of pride as you help develop not like Ali and determined to overcome of life. There are great examples of BC only a great athlete, but a great person. obstacles like Laumann”. If we could coaches who provide opportunities for their By investing in athlete leadership, bottle these often elusive qualities – the athletes to give back to the community, coaches have the opportunity to make an ones that really make a difference - what coach younger athletes, be involved with even greater impact. Athletes like Steve would we call them? I have a suggestion - charities or take ownership of team training Nash don’t just magically appear. Along Leadership. or preparation. However, for new coaches the way they have had coaches who are The athletes that have the biggest impact or coaches wanting some ideas about this, role models and coaches who have given in sport, who really make a difference, here are some starting points: them the opportunity to succeed and fail are those that lead. Yet, how often do we Understand Your Athletes in leadership, while supporting them along the way. Coaches teach much more than discuss leadership with our athletes, or take Leadership takes many different forms sport skills, they teach life skills. Nash is the time to plan and practice leadership depending on the athlete. Every athlete is a great example of an athlete that leads in development? I believe we can teach or different. Some quietly make an impact by sport and the community and is a better coach leadership, and a large number walking the walk while others are loud and athlete and person because of it. His Steve of athletes that BC Athlete Voice (www. passionately talk the talk. bcathletevoice.ca) works with have proven Nash Foundation makes him an “MVP” to the importance of it. It Starts With You his teammates and to the countless kids his foundation helps each year. Ask an athlete who their role model is, Athletes are smart and they can spot a fake or who they have learned the most from, a mile away. If you are not authentic and Although leadership is an age old and nearly all of them will talk about their don’t value leadership, then neither will concept, leadership development through coaches, their parents, their teachers, and they. Have high expectations and ensure sport can be an exciting component that their teammates. Their thoughts about athletes are accountable to the leadership provides any athlete or team the edge to striking a soccer ball, hitting a perfect values and practices that you establish. winning in both sport and life. backhand or mastering their start off the Success Doesn’t Happen By Joe Hitchcock is the Executive Director blocks is not usually their first thought. Accident of BC Athlete Voice, an athlete driven The key points athletes take away from Just like a well drawn up play, leadership organization dedicated to supporting BC sport are more than an alignment of limbs high performance athletes with education, development needs to be thought about or application of force at the exact right leadership and advocacy. Joe has extensive and planned. Including your athletes in time. BC athletes instead talk about what it experience in working with athletes ranging this process can also provide many benefits means to have parents they can share good from young amateur athletes to Olympians that include building a sense of team, and bad performances with, learning that and World Champions from diverse sports creating buy-in and ensuring athletes have and backgrounds in Canada, New Zealand, 5am starts are part of a sacrifice needed to ownership over the process and outcomes. Australia and the South Pacific. Joe will become better, knowing that teammates will This doesn’t have to be fancy and often the be presenting Learning To Lead sessions be there to pick you up and understanding during British Columbia Coaches Week. simplest ideas work best.

Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 9 Coaching the Coach Balancing the four-spoked teeter-totter

By Shauna Grinke

In his popular You Tube-distributed press conference rant of 2002, The New York Jet’s (then) head coach Herm Edwards effused, “The greatest thing about sports is that you play to win the game! When you start telling me ‘it doesn’t matter’, it matters!” Is that it? Is that all there is? Is being a coach just about winning the next game, the next match, the next round? Maybe – or maybe not. How a coach views his or her role unique strengths that can be of value in more you aim at it, the more you are as a coach ultimately impacts the way a coach’s behavioral toolkit. going to miss it.” Instead, he suggested he or she behaves in that role. If the that leaders ground themselves in their This model is valuable in looking at coach has a fundamental belief that values. He advised, “Listen to what your the role of the coach as a leader, a role “it’s only about winning the game”, conscience commands you to do, and that needs to balance on a 4-sided teeter- their athlete will have a very different then carry it out to the best of your totter. If the balance of the quadrants is experience than the one who has a knowledge.” out of alignment, the teeter-totter will be coach with a different belief about stuck on the ground on one side. Not The second spoke of the coaching their role. The best coaches, whether fun for any player! Only when the teeter- teeter-totter is Visionary leadership. in a full-time paid capacity or as a part- totter is in balance is the game fun! Each coach creates, or co-creates with time volunteer, look at their role from a his/her athletes, the vision of what the broader perspective. Centred Leadership: possibilities or potential are for the team. What is the vision? To have fun? To “The role of Coach – The first spoke of the coaching teeter- build skills? To win the championship? totter is Centred leadership. It requires To set a record? Ken Carter, the high transcends winning or the coach to have self-knowledge, school basketball coach whose vision losing a game” which requires curiosity and being of transforming an inner-city school able to be truthful with oneself. Who team of under achieving players into are you? What do you stand for? What Considering the impact that this role responsible, self-directed young men do you value? The centred coach lives has on others, every coach needs to was made into a movie, starring Samuel authentically, nurtures self-worth and ask themselves this question: “Since L. Jackson in the role of Coach Carter. is guided by his or her own values and I’ve chosen this path, how do I be in this As with most visionaries, Coach Carter integrity. A centred coach is comfortable role in such a way that I am authentic had to blaze a trail. He had crystal in his or her own “skin”. ... that it works for me and those who clarity of his vision, even when his job I am influencing and impacting?” One was in jeopardy, and he engaged his model for consideration is a balanced “Who are you? team in that vision approach to coaching borrowed from What do you stand for? Relationship leadership is the third a four-quadrant leadership model spoke on our teeter-totter. A coach - focusing on the four approaches : What do you value?” skilled in Relationship leadership is Centred, Visionary, Relationship able to build a team that becomes much and Results. This model honours the Viktor Frankl, the author, teacher more than the sum of its parts. Coach fact that every coach has a unique and and Holocaust survivor, was the Don Meyer was the 2008 recipient of authentic “way of being”, in other words, quintessential example of someone the ESPY Award. His philosophy and a preference based in one of these who embodies Centred leadership. He approach are evident in his quote, quadrants. Each of the quadrants has advised, “Don’t aim at success. The “Communication lets you know that

10 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 Coaching the Coach.. - Cont’d from page 10 your players understand what it is you Provincial Funding for BOOK REVIEW are trying to accomplish. It creates team Overtraining cohesiveness and promotes unselfish Amateur Sport play. It says you are in this together The Province of British Columbia Athletes - Personal and it takes everyone doing their part announced its commitment to invest $5 to be successful.” Another example of million in sport programs for 2009 – 2010 Journeys in Sport Relationship Leadership comes from in April. The funding will directly support Sean O. Richardson, Mark B. Andersen, Tony Morris part-time volleyball coach Tania Green, a wide variety of amateur sport programs (Human Kinetics 2008) who sees her coaching mission as for both youth and adults in communities ISBN: 0736067876; $47.95 (CAN) “keeping ‘mischief’ kids on the right across the province. Overtraining Athletes: Personal Journeys in path”. Her coaching extends to helping Healthy Living and Sport Minister Mary Sport seeks to communicate the complex subject them fundraise, enabling even those Polak made the announcement in a press of overtraining to help athletes, coaches, parents, kids with the least means to travel to release. and sport science professionals understand the regional and national tournaments. dangers of overtraining and take steps toward “This investment will help to foster an even prevention. Using history and research, current The final of the four teeter- totter richer culture of sport in our province experts’ perspectives, and athletes’ personal spokes is Results leadership. The during this most exciting and inspirational experiences, Overtraining Athletes identifies strength of this approach lies in year leading up to the 2010 Olympic and forces that push athletes to overtrain by sharing Paralympic Winter Games,” said Polak. the struggles of those athletes and the sport establishing critical results areas, “Through the dedicated work of the B.C. professionals who seek to help them. determining measurable objectives and Sport Alliance, which represents amateur being outcome focused. In his quest for to high-performance sport organizations Review by Kyna Fletcher — As a research Olympic Gold, Mike Babcock, the Head in the province, these grants will continue tool and general information for students Coach of the Canadian Men’s Olympic a strong tradition of sport in B.C.” this book has merit. I believe it has very technical information that may not appeal Hockey team says, “I think we have a A $4.3-million grant will flow directly to to all coaches although it really has really good group and I’m not talking the 2010 Legacies Now Society to continue some insightful information that coaches about players, I’m talking about people. current levels of sport participation may not have considered, or recognized, That’s so important. The leadership programs and programs that support as over-training. It is valuable information group has to grab this team and say, high-performance athlete training. “With about an issue that coaches may not this is what we’re doing and this is how this funding, programs around B.C. consider as being a factor in their we’re doing it...” will be able to not only further develop training plans. inspirational, world-class athletes, but When a coach uses only one or two of also provide continued access to sport for Much of the information is based on the quadrants in his or her skill set, his people of all ages,” said 2010 Legacies Now studies that correlate common scenarios of over-training and performance. It gives or her potential is limited. Your journey CEO Bruce Dewar in the press release. a new perspective and gave me some to being the best coach you can be very good ideas to consider in planning “Ongoing support from the Province starts with knowing yourself. Do you for my athletes. lead from a place that is clearly defined makes it possible for us to facilitate a and authentic? What quadrant do you sport-rich environment in B.C. and to The book is written in language that is continue to encourage people young and easy to understand and has a good layout, prefer? Are you using the gifts of all four old to participate in amateur sport.” though I would have liked more photos. quadrants to ensure you are balanced? There is extensive “citing” from a variety In your journey of development, think of additional studies and literature and about how you can make the choices additional references. There are some that allow you to balance your four- good analogies used in the delivery of the spoked teeter-totter! information. This book does not need to be read from Shauna Grinke is a Senior Consultant and cover to cover. It can be read a chapter Core Team Member of Insights Vancouver. As an accredited practitioner of Insights at a time. Each chapter has a “conclusion” Discovery, she teaches and coaches in which is very useful and provides an the areas of personal, organizational, adequate synopsis of the issues. Overall leadership, sales and team effectiveness. I would recommend this book for For more information on Insights Learning information and education on this issue. and Development systems, e-mail Kyna Fletcher is the Program Director for Vancouver [email protected] or visit www. Phoenix Gymnastics. insightsvancouver.com

Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 11 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 Team BC Readies for Prince Edward Island

Every four years the Province of British Columbia assembles The Coaches Association of BC (CABC) works with Team a team of athletes, coaches, managers and mission staff to BC to provide Canada Games coaches with appropriate represent the province at Canada’s premiere multi-sport resources and educational opportunities leading up to and at events. Team BC is now preparing for the Canada Games in the Games. It helps develop and monitor an education plan to Prince Edward Island August 15 – 29, 2009. ensure coaches have the required training and certification levels to attend the Games. Led by Chef de Mission Ajay Patel, the team is hoping to better its medal count of 119 achieved at the 2005 Canada Summer The Canada Games is the last major multi-sport event in Games in Regina. Canada before the world comes to BC’s back yard for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. “I am honoured, once again, to lead this dedicated team to the 2009 Canada Summer Games,” says Patel. “I want to make Follow the results from the Games in PEI on the Team BC sure our coaches are supported with the tools they require in website at http://teambc.org/games/ an effort to create an optimal environment so our Team BC athletes can achieve personal bests and podium performances in PEI. Coaching at the Canada Games – Two Perspectives BC Coaches Perspective spoke with two coaches to talk about their expectations and preparation for this summer’s Canada Games in PEI. Chuck McDiarmid, Provincial Coach and Manager of Regional Development for Rowing British Columbia, is a veteran of the Games while Jody Jackson, Head Provincial Coach for the British Columbia Golf Association (BCGA), is looking forward to attending her first Games.

Chuck McDiarmid Having coached at two previous Canada Summer Games and two Western Canada Games, Chuck McDiarmid has a good idea of some of the challenges he and the 30 athletes he will be overseeing (15 men and 15 women) will face when they take to the waters of Prince Edward Island. Chuck McDiarmid

14 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 “You have to expect the unexpected you can resolve them even before you “It is about playing your a little more than you would at a get there.” tournament with just rowing,” says best and going for a goal,” Chuck, noting that at a multi-sport event Jody Jackson Jody summarizes. “But there are lots of sports the organizers Jody Jackson will be leading Team have to deal with. “They are trying to do BC’s three men and three women I think maybe in the end the best they can and it doesn’t always golfers in PEI, the first Canada Games it’s about exposing these work as planned.” His solution is to be where the sport is included. “We told prepared for that going into the Games. the kids when they were invited that kids to these opportunities Logistics, like transportation and meal they have a chance to make history,” where they can really times which are set up for the masses, she says. “I am absolutely excited. don’t always fit into a rower’s early I am most looking forward to being a enjoy themselves morning schedule. But he tries to limit part of the team and all the experiences the athletes’ stress by telling them that and all the memories we’re going to from whatever activities they have been they should come to him to solve any share,” Jody says, adding that it will be doing outside the competition,” she problems. Their focus should only be a learning curve for her. says. A training session conducted at on competing and performing. “When Jody encountered her first multi- the host Brudenell River Golf Course problems come up the worst thing I sport games when she coached at the near Charlottetown last year, during can do is get upset and be mad about BC Summer Games in Kelowna last the same week that competition will it in front of the athletes,” says Chuck. year after joining BCGA as head coach. take place this year, helped her and the “When the athletes see that it doesn’t It’s a unique environment for golf, she athletes prepare for a lot of the external bother you, it won’t bother them. Then says, since golfers don’t usually find distracters. you go to your mission staff to take the themselves in a multi- sport situation. “It is about playing your best and appropriate measures.” A specific training program has been going for a goal,” Jody summarizes. developed with practitioners such as “But I think maybe in the end it’s “He tells them to not sports psychologists, strength and about exposing these kids to these see the challenges conditioning coaches and nutrition opportunities where they can really experts being brought in to help enjoy themselves and still compete at a as obstacles, but as prepare the athletes for the pressures high level. It’s about team atmosphere, opportunities.” they will face. “We have really created a bonding, having a fun time, travelling in very holistic program,” she says. “This the van going back and forth and going is my passion.” out for a snack, maybe checking out the Chuck says he reminds the athletes Jody says that the resources that beach, just the whole team bonding and that if there is a problem, such as venue Team BC has provided to the BC fun environment.” she said. difficulties or weather delays, it isa athletes, who are considered the medal problem for every other team also. He In the next issue of BC Coaches favourites along with Ontario and tells them to not see the challenges as Perspective Chuck and Jody will reflect Quebec, have been fantastic. “I have to obstacles, but as opportunities. “Find on their experience at the Games. take my hat off to the Team BC program a way to get past them better than the because we get a lot of support, a lot of other team and you will benefit from coaching resources, a lot of information it,” he tells them. “I’ve learned this where other provinces aren’t really through being at the Games before and getting that,” she says. have gotten a little better at it.” One of the challenges Jody knows to What he has also experienced at expect at the Games is that the athletes previous Games is the excitement of aren’t going to actually be under her exposing the rowers to other sports control, with them being housed in by watching other competition on their dormitories and exposed to a lot of off days. He says it is a great chance distractions. One of those is learning for them to be exposed to a bigger how to create their own space while program. sharing a room with someone they don’t Chuck says his best advice to coaches know. “My challenge will be to create an who haven’t been to a multi-sport environment for high performance and Games before is to identify potential to keep these kids rested and recovered Jody Jackson problems in advance. “Look at how

Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 15 Congratulations to All Team BC Coaches and Athletes

Congratulations to all Team BC coaches and athletes heading to P.E.I. for the 2009 Canada Summer Games. We understand the time commitment it takes for coaches to guide Team BC to the top of the podium and appreciate that you will take precious time away from your families. Be rest assured that while the journey may be arduous, the reward will be gratifying!

Team BC Coaches Selected for the 2009 Canada Summer Games: (Coaches confirmed as of April 27, 2009)

ATHLETICS BASEBALL BASKETBALL CANOE / KAYAK CYCLING Ron Bunting Cavanagh Whitely Paul Eberhardt Kryzstof Lepianka Richard Wooles Elana Voloshin Gautam Srivastava Paul Langford Dan Proulx Greg Peters Josh Ridgway Sandy Chambers Steve Lund Allen Johnston Ross Tomlinson Barb Vida Randy James James Hustvedt

DIVING GOLF ROWING RUGBY SAILING Lisa Boog Jody Jackson Chuck McDiarmid Tom Larisch Kevin Black Grant Brehaut Danielle Beare Adam Roberts Allison Dobb Jill Deardon

SOCCER SOFTBALL SWIMMING TENNIS TRIATHLON Bart Choufour Sandi Osborne Vincent Mikuska Uros Budimac Patrick Kelly Dave Irvine Kim Rossiter Neil Harvey Greg Parkes Justine McCausland Mark Bottrill Jesse Symons Marc Tremblay Susan Storry

VOLLEYBALL VOLLEYBALL, BEACH WRESTLING Chris MacIver Kyra Iannone Mark McRae Chris Dahl Mike Gilray Shelley Morten Rocky Olfert Lyndsay Belisle Jill Fougner Sucha Mann

16 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 Women Coaching Apprentices Head to Canada Games

Two BC women coaches will be says she is looking forward to working 2005, she is now an assistant coach with joining Team BC at the 2009 Canada side by side with coaches in other sports. the Surrey Storm 95A team which she Summer Games in Prince Edward “I have gained an appreciation for how has helped to develop. It is now in first Island in August, the culmination of their different coaches approach their sport,” year Pee Wee. experience in the Women in Coaching she says of her WIC experience. “It has Having never had the opportunity to Canada Games Apprenticeship been very empowering.” The support attend a multi-sport games as a player, Program (WIC). Jill Deardon (rowing) system amongst the 19 apprentices Justine says she is very excited about and Justine McCausland (softball) will from across the country has been an the opportunity to attend as part of the be fully accredited official members of important component of the program, WIC program. “It’s been a fantastic the Team BC coaching staff. she says. “To work with some of the experience,” she says, adding that two women I have had a chance to work with The aim of the WIC program, which developmental weekends she attended has been amazing. We are building up a includes 19 coaches from across the were most helpful. support system and learning a lot from country, is to provide women apprentice each other.” Justine says she is most looking coaches with domestic multi-sport forward to the atmosphere Games exposure. They of the Games. “It will be a work with a mentor coach lot of fun, very intense,” throughout the Games she says. She feels the preparation period. experience will help her Professional development develop her coaching and learning opportunities abilities to working with assist them in attaining a elite athletes. “Developing minimum Level 3 NCCP athletes is one of the things certification. The WIC I am really passionate about, Program is led as a and making sure they have Provincial/Territorial a good foundation for when Coaching Coordinators they get older.” (PTCC) initiative for the Jill Deardon Justine McCausland Canada Games. “I love seeing athletes Jill says she expects to gain a greater develop, grow and succeed. Jill Deardon started rowing in 2000 appreciation for sport at a higher level Softball was a large part of my life and and went on to win medals at the at the Canada Games, which will open really helped me through my younger Canadian Secondary School Rowing doors and opportunities for her future years and it gave me such a good skill Association Championships (CSSAC). coaching career. Her mentor for the set for the future.” In 2004 she was forced to stop rowing WIC program is provincial rowing due to a back injury and moved into Justine’s WIC mentor is Sandy coach Chuck McDiarmid. coaching at St. Michaels University Osborne, who she first met many years School in Victoria. She is now helping Justine McCausland’s softball ago and who helped her as a player. to expand the program there into a year- career started in 1990 with T-Ball. The “She has been wonderful. She has round program. highlight of her softball years was really treated me as an assistant coach playing in the Nationals from 2000 rather than an apprentice coach and Going to the Canada Games will be through 2004. An assistant coach since kept me involved”, Justine says. the first multi-sport event for Jill, who

Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 17 An Introduction to Plyometric Training

By Steve Ramsbottom BHK, CSCS

In nearly every sport, speed and Safety Concerns quickness can make or break a team’s As with any training an adequate warm up is required before completing a success. As they say, “speed kills”. plyometric training session. The National Strength & Conditioning Association(5) There is no other skill that can have recommends dynamic drills such as toe jogging as part of the warm up to prepare such a drastic effect on any game. for the shock impact of plyometric drills. Plyometrics should be completed at the Whether it’s breaking free down the start when the athlete is fresh. side line for a touch down, getting to the ball that split second faster, or being As with all other components of training, don’t advance your athletes before able to find some free space, speed can they’re ready. It has been suggested that athletes should be able to complete a one make a good player great. repetition maximum squat a weight 1.5 times that of their bodyweight and bench press a weight 1-1.5 times bodyweight(5,6,7,8). Therefore, a considerable strength base Genetics play an important role in becomes imperative when starting a challenging plyometric program. speed and agility. However, they are also trainable. Plyometric training Balance has also been identified as an important factor in the safe performance has been shown to be one of the of plyometric exercises. It has been recommended that athletes can stand on one most effective methods for improving explosive power(1). SAMPLE PLYOMETRIC SESSION FOR BEGINNER ATHLETE Plyometrics can best be described as “explosive-reactive” power training DRILL DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION (2). When utilizing plyometric training, Speed Ladder Drills with quick contacts 5 drills x 3 sets each quality takes precedence over quantity. All exercises must be performed at 100% Front to Back Hops Over a line, there and back is 2 sets x 20 reps effort. This type of training involves one, jump as fast as possible a powerful contraction in response Side to Side Hops Over a line, there and back is 2 sets x 20 reps to a rapid pre-stretch of the involved one, jump as fast as possible musculature. Plyometrics utilize what’s called a stretch reflex. A common example of this is when a doctor taps your patellar tendon (bottom of your SAMPLE PLYOMETRIC SESSION FOR INTERMEDIATE ATHLETE knee), he’s utilizing this stretch reflex, DRILL DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION which harnesses your central nervous Tuck Jumps Stay on ball of feet, jump and 5 sets x 10 reps system to invoke a contraction. When drive knees up quickly done quickly, the knee jerks. If the tendon was pressed slowly, the same Bench Clapping Push-ups Down and up off the bench 3 sets x 12 reps response would not be produced. Often as fast as possible, don’t arch lower back people believe any kind of jumping is a plyometric, classifying it as power Ankle Hops Stiff leg, fast ankle action, on 5 sets x 12 reps balls of feet training. However, the stretch reflex must be utilized in order to be a true Ball Slams Slam a 2-4kg medicine ball as 3 sets x 12 reps plyometric. quickly as possible

18 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 leg for 30 seconds in order to complete less intense exercises. For more advanced REFERENCES exercises they should be able to stand on one leg for 30 seconds in a semi-squat 1 Fleck SJ and Kraemer WJ (2004) position(5). Desingning Resistance Training Programs, 3rd Edition. Champaingn, IL; These parameters are a good start, but it is also important to watch how your Human Kinetics athletes move. Low intensity plyometric exercises, such as speed ladder drills, can be 2 Santana J: Plyometric Training, What performed by almost any athlete, but in order to do high intensity plyometrics, such it is and what it’s not. - Part I,II; Perform Better 2007 as depth jumps, athletes should also be able to jump and land on one leg without any medial shifting of the knee. If the body cannot hold proper alignment with minimal 3 Bompa TO. 1999 Periodization Training for Sports. Champaign,IL: impact, it certainly won’t be able to under heavy load. Human Kinetics Finally, always keep in mind the landing surface. It should have adequate shock 4 Baechle TR and Earle RW. (2000) absorbing qualities to help prevent undue stress on the joints. Good choices include Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning: 2nd Edition. Champaign, grass, turf, or a suspended floor. IL: Human Kinetics A good plyometric training program should be athlete specific, not age specific. 5 National Strength and Conditioning Association. Position statement: Things to consider when laying out a program are foot contacts, intensity of the Explosive/plyometric exercise. NSCA.J. plyometric, frequency and rest time. Foot contacts as a rough guideline for lower 1993 15(3):16 body plyometrics may be broken into beginner 80-100, intermediate 100-120, and 6 Chambers C, Noakes TD, Labert EV, advanced 120-140(7). Intensity of the jumps in simplest form can be defined by how Lambert MI. Time course of recovery much load is being put into the ground. For example, most speed ladder drills of vertical jump height and heart rate versus running speed after a 90-km foot would be defined as low intensity, while 24” depth jumps would be defined as high race. J Sports Sci. 1998 16:645-51 intensity. Only advanced athletes that have successfully achieved adequate strength 7 Chu D. 1998. Jumping into should progress to such advanced movements. A risk to reward ratio must always plyometrics, 2nd ed. Champaign,IL: be considered, and if an athlete is advanced too quickly the chance of injury will Human Kinetics Holcomb WR, Kleiner DM and Chu DA. outweigh the potential performance gains. Plyometrics: Considerations for safe and effective training. Strength Conditioning. 1998 20(3):36-39 SAMPLE PLYOMETRIC SESSION FOR ADVANCED ATHLETE 8 Wathen D. Literature review: DRILL DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION Plyometric exercise. NSCA.J. 1993 15(3):17-199) Lipp EJ. Athletic physeal Side to Side Cone Jumps Jump laterally over cone, 4 sets x 12 reps injury in children and adolescents. quick ground contacts, Orthop. Nurs. 1998 17(2):17-22 decrease cone height if ground contact too slow Steve Ramsbottom is a Certified Strength Clapping Push-ups Down and up off the ground 4 sets x 10 reps and Conditioning Specialist, co-owns as fast as possible, don’t arch Mobile Physique, as well as owns the lower back Performance Institute at Ice Sports 8-Rinks in Burnaby, B.C. He graduated Repeat Long Jumps Jump for height and distance, 4 sets x 10 reps from the University of British Columbia quick ground contacts with a degree in Human Kinetics. He is certified by the (NSCA) National Strength and Conditioning Association, and Zig Zag Hops Jump 45 degrees from one 4 sets x 12 reps (CSEP) the Canadian Society of Exercise leg to the other, quick ground Physiology. Steve spends his time working contact with athletes, teams, personal training, active rehabilitation, and presenting internationally. For more information on how to improve your game through When considering work to rest ratios, one must realize plyometrics should not be sport-specific conditioning contact the used for conditioning. An athlete should always take adequate rest, until feeling fully Performance Institute at 604-291-9941 recovered, before continuing with the next set or exercise. Finally, frequency should or [email protected]. Visit www.performanceforsport.com be considered when developing a program. Various factors will take consideration, such as age, training volume, time of season and conditioning level. As a rough guideline plyometric training may be incorporated into 2-3 sessions per week.

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Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame Inductees Talk About Coaching

The achievements of Canadian coaches figured prominently in the 2009 Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Vancouver. Induction recognizes those who have served the cause of the Olympic Movement with distinction.

Daniele Sauvageau and the men’s team the leadership. But the responsibility head coach, Pat Quinn, and to ask them was mine. for their thoughts about coaching. Sauvageau, who works as a police Sauvageau, who led the team to its officer in Montreal as well as helping first-ever women’s hockey Gold Medal, to prepare other coaches headed for talked about the pressures she faced the Olympics, says, “In order to put an as the coach when the team lost eight athlete on the podium it takes a lot of (L-R): 2002 Women’s Olympic Hockey Team head straight games to the United States people and coaches are a big part of coach Daniele Sauvageau, Captain Cassie Campbell, leading up to the Salt Lake City Games. those results.” 2002 Men’s Olympic Hockey Team head coach Pat Quinn “What’s going on with your team? Asked what she would tell young Team Canada never before lost that coaches, she said, “What I have learned The five 2009 inductees included many games against the USA. Are from my own experience is that when the late Howard Firby, who over three you the right coach? Did you pick the you follow your heart, it opens doors. decades coached may of Canada’s top right players? Did you have the right You can’t even plan what doors will be swimmers. Inducted into the British program? All those questions were opened. If you follow your passion it Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in asked on a daily basis,” said Sauvageau. will guide you to where you should be.” “When I look back, we became resilient, 1977, Firby was the head coach of the Sauvageau said it is sad that there is a because at the end of the day we said we swimming teams that represented low number of coaches who are women. know where we’re going, we know our Canada at the 1958 British Empire “As a coach, when you see that a young plan. We capitalized on the plan.” Games, and the 1964 Olympic Games. kid there, I think it’s our role to say that In a press release Pierre Lafontaine, “I remember saying at one point that we will set up your path in order to be CEO and National Coach for Swimming alone we can go faster, but together we successful. I think that we have great Canada said. “Howard’s coaching can go further, and we’re there to win women coaches in this country and methods are still relevant today. He the Olympics, not to win all the games we need to be able to support them in was a great teacher with attention to along the way. order to go to the top and follow their passion.” details on technique and his methods As the head coach, at the end of the have become the basis of coaching day, you’re the person responsible for On the men’s side, Pat Quinn swimming.” the performance of your team. We successfully led the team put together Also inducted were the 2002 Canadian could say that the athletes aren’t doing by Wayne Gretzky to the Gold, ending Men’s and Canadian Women’s Olympic what they need to do, but at the end of Canada’s 50-year Olympic Gold drought. Gold Medal Hockey Teams. BC Coaches the day you have the responsibility to It wasn’t just about that final win over Perspective had the opportunity to make it happen. It’s not that you take all the United States though, Quinn said. speak to the women’s team head coach, the responsibility on your shoulders – “It was 50 years of the development of you share this responsibility, you share hockey. It was 50 years of guys working

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hard to be ready for that moment, and then they made the moment happen.” Community Recognizes A loss to Sweden in Canada’s first outing at the Olympics was a disappointment for everyone, he said. “When you’re a coach you don’t want its Coaches to feel like it’s over until its over,” he said. Asked what he did, as a coach, to handle the situation, Quinn said, “We The City of North Vancouver, District of North Vancouver and City of West needed to convince our players that we Vancouver recently held their 10th annual North Shore Sport Awards were doing good things and if we could continue to do that and not panic, we’d ceremony, which recognizes residents who contribute to the sporting life be fine.” of Vancouver’s North Shore. Quinn was also asked what advice Fernando Torres, who led the reached the pinnacle of BC soccer. he might pass on to young coaches. Handsworth Royals to the provincial Nominee Tyler Doherty has coached “Coaching is not an easy job. You have AAA soccer title for the second time the Midget B hockey team at Hollyburn to have lots of things going on. I really in 3 years, won the honours in the Country Club for two years. The team believe that preparation is an important Coach category. His citation said that has steadily improved, moving up a tier thing. It’s understanding what you have he helped his team by anticipating last year and moving up two tiers this to get across. You have to understand problems and having solutions at the year. Leading his team by example, his your audience as well – who are you ready. With five starters missing from players see his dedication to them and coaching. You have to know what you their line up for the finals, Fernando’s they follow suit. can give them that will be acceptable, patience and knowledge kept his team Erika Vieweg was honoured in believable, achievable, things that they focused on winning the BC Title. the Youth Leadership category for can make happen. You can’t give them Also nominated in the Coach category demonstrating leadership both on and things that are too hard and they fail and was Andrea Agnoloni, who led the Lions off the basketball court. She has led can’t recover from that failure. You find Gate U-13 Capilano boys soccer team to Argyle’s Senior AAA basketball team to ways to create an atmosphere where the Provincial Championship in 2008. the provincials and coached Junior High they can succeed, where they use their He showed his team the importance of basketball. She coaches the Grade 2 own wonderful skills.” communication, balance, sportsmanship Jumpstart program. Quinn observed that coaching and fun as this dedicated group of boys hockey is hard right now. “The National Hockey League seems to want to eat its young. It fires people too fast. You need stability. You need an organization that understands what a strong organization is all about. The good strong ones win constantly. The ones who panic and get rid of their coaches haven’t done their research in their hiring to begin with and they finish the same way every year, down in the bottom.”

“Coaching is an admirable profession and really look at not whether you are going to get fired or not, but how you are going to help the young people you are dealing with and how you can help Erika Vieweg Fernando Torres (l) is congratulated by coach nominee them be better.” Andrea Agnoloni.

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Coach Resources Upcoming Events

Below are some websites and articles to check out. Coaches Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif 2009 will find they contain some useful information on a variety A Leading Sport Nation - Ready, Set, Gold! of topics. Vancouver, BC - November 12-15, 2009 http://www.sportlaw.ca/ Centre For Sport And Law - a consulting company On the brink of the Olympic Winter Games to be held in Vancouver, Canada’s coaches, offering services and practical resources on governance, risk management and sport administrators, coach educators, and sport scientists and researchers will legal issues. Free subscription to their electronic newsletter. convene for several days of learning, networking, and celebrating achievements at the http://www.coach.ca/eng/nutrition/index.cfm The Sport Nutrition section Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif 2009. The coordinated efforts of the country’s on the Coaching Association of Canada’s website offers athletes, coaches, and coaches, administrators, and sport scientists are Ready, Set, Gold! We will show the world parents access to nutrition tips, tools, and advice as well as access to sport that we are READY to welcome them, compete with them and celebrate with them! The nutrition professionals in order to ensure good health and optimal athletic stage has been SET for our athletes to perform. Together, our nation and the Canadian performance. sport system will be showcased to the world as we settle for nothing less than GOLD! www.sirc.ca The Sport Research Intelligence sportive (SIRC) is Canada’s sport Always striving to offer delegates the best experience, Petro-Canada Sport Leadership information research centre. It collects, archives, and shares qualified sport sportif 2009 is proud to have a stellar list of speakers for this year’s conference, which information with sport enthusiasts in Canada and around the world. Sign up includes the International Council for Coach Education (ICCE) Global Coach Conference. for their newsletter. Visit www.coach.ca/sportleadershipsportif/2009/e/index.cfm for a look at the list of confirmed speakers and the most recent schedule now! http://www.momsteam.com/ Moms Team brings together a team of experts and professionals to provide a comprehensive resource for youth sports Online Registration for the Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif 2009 is now open. parents and coaches. Visit www.coach.ca/sportleadershipsportif/2009/e/index.cfm regularly for the most up- to-date information, including new speakers and schedule updates.

Manager of Coach Education Notes

Summer is here and I love it! I hope everyone lives and I’m sure the year will fly by. Take care to all of you and good is getting out and enjoying the weather. luck in your coaching careers. We have been busy planning for this year’s “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and Coaches Week and I hope all of you take the making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Chantelle Reinkens time to participate in one of the Coaches Week Deliciombiguity.” (Gilda Radner) events in your community. Coaches Week is not only about having specific events in your community, it’s a ‘movement’ we hope you will join in. Here is a challenge: plan As a new school year rolls around I find myself for the now to do something to show your appreciation for your coach, first time ever not ‘going back,’ but rather find myself and help encourage their further training and certification. We the interim Coach Education Manager at CABC while all need to continue learning and applying our skills in life and Chantelle is away on maternity leave looking after her beautiful son. Torsten Kurt Reinkens was born a healthy it’s no different for coaches. 9lbs 8ozs August 5th! We have also been working hard to get the new Competition- I’m looking forward to a busy and successful year with Development modules running in BC. This is a reminder to the CABC working in the coach education role. One of Will Stewart the things on my radar is the fast-approaching Coaches everyone that Theory 3 is no longer available in the country, Week. Seeing as we are on the inside of a year out from and the replacement for multi-sport coach education is these the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, I’m pleased we six modules. Be sure to check with your own provincial sport will be kicking off the week by hosting an all day conference at the Richmond Oval. If you haven’t signed up yet for the Coaches Week forum nearest you, I organization which training/modules you require for your encourage you to do so today. sports certification. As you know, the NCCP has become I am happy to say we are now offering all six Competition Development more sport specific so you must confirm with your sport which modules throughout the province and these modules are also available in a coaching courses you need to take for the level of athletes you Home Study version through our website. With many sports integrating only a few of the six modules, the CABC is now able to make the process for a coach are working with. to become Competition-Development trained easier and more convenient. I I also want to let all of you know about my own personal good urge everyone who is considering the Competition-Development context to news. My husband and I are expecting our first baby at the talk with their Provincial Sport Organization to see which modules a coach will need to complete in a multi-sport setting so that you can get a start on end of July and I will be taking a year maternity leave from the completing those multisport modules. I’ll leave you with my favourite quote, Coaches Association of BC. I want to take this time to thank which I think is especially pertinent to anyone heading back to school for a all of you for your support and I know throughout the year I fresh new year: will miss the camaraderie that I have enjoyed working in sport. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” (Henry Ford) Will Stewart I am looking forward to this new and exciting chapter in our

22 Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 NCCP Course Schedules CLOSER LOOK

Competition - Introduction Part A Homestudy Modules Included - Make Ethical Decisions, The Home Study program is designed for those coaches unable to attend a course in their area. Upon registering, the course material will be mailed to the coach. The coach will then complete the Planning a Practice and Nutrition workbook and submit it to an NCCP Learning Facilitator to be marked. **If you are required by your sport to take only specific multi-sport modules and not the full Part A or B package, please contact the CABC to request module specific courses in your area. Part A, Part B Coaches Association of BC Online registration only at www.coaches.bc.ca Dates Location Host Agency Phone # Sep 18-19, 2009 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 Part A, Part B Douglas College 604-527-5492 Sep 19-20, 2009 Vancouver Langara College 604-323-5269 Sep 25-26, 2009 Courtenay City of Courtenay Recreation 250-338-1000 Theory Level 3 Western Leisure Consultants – Eric Broom 604-731-7066 Oct 2-3, 2009 Prince George Pacific Sport Northern BC 250-960-5346 **Available until March 31, 2009 based on material availability** Oct 3-4, 2009 Surrey Louie Tong YMCA 604-575-9622 Oct 17-18, 2009 Abbotsford PacificSport Fraser Valley Register Online Make Ethical Coaches Association of BC Online registration only at Oct 23-24, 2009 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 Decisions Module* www.coaches.bc.ca Oct 24-25 2009 Vancouver Langara College 604-323-5269 (*NOTE: This is NOT the online evaluation. Nov 7-8, 2009 Nanaimo PacSport Vancouver Island 250-740-6572 This is only the materials to prepare for the evaluation.) Nov 27-28, 2009 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 Dec 5-6, 2009 Vancouver Langara College 604-323-5269 Feb 5-6, 2010 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 Apr16-17, 2010 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 Introduction to Competition Equivalency Jun 11-12, 2010 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 Equivalency for Introduction to Competition Parts A and B (under the new NCCP program) is not available. Once a sport has fully integrated to the new NCCP program, coaches will be able to go right to the certification process of being Competition - Introduction Part B evaluated, without taking the Introduction to Competition Part “A” and “B” Modules Included - Design a Basic Sport Program, courses if they feel they are qualified to do so. Please note that this will only be available once a particular sport has fully integrated to the new program Teaching and Learning and Basic Mental Skills and that most sports are quite a ways away from reaching this point. **If you are required by your sport to take only specific multi-sport modules and not the full Part A or B package, please contact the CABC to request module specific courses in your area. To find out what stage of progress your sport is at, please visit the Coaching Association of Canada Sport by Sport Tracking Summary webpage or contact Dates Location Host Agency Phone # your provincial sport organization. Aug 8-9, 2009 Vancouver Langara College 604-323-5322 Sep 18-19, 2009 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 Sep 26-27,2009 Vancouver Langara College 604-323-5269 Make Ethical Decisions Oct 16-17, 2009 Prince George Pacific Sport Northern BC 250-960-5346 Oct 23-24, 2009 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 You may have completed your NCCP Oct 23-24, 2009 Courtenay City of Courtenay Recreation 250-338-1000 Introduction to Competition - Part A course Oct 24-25, 2009 Surrey Louie Tong YMCA 604-575-9622 (either in a classroom or through home Oct 31-Nov 1, 2009 Vancouver Langara College Register Online study), but there is one more crucial step in Nov 27-28, 2009 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 the process of receiving coach certification. All coaches who have completed Nov 28-29, 2009 Nanaimo PacSport Vancouver Island 250-740-6572 Dec 12-13, 2009 Vancouver Langara College 604-323-5269 Part A, or the singular Make Ethical Decisions module, must complete the Feb 5-6, 2010 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 online Make Ethical Decisions evaluation for certification. The evaluation can Apr 16-17, 2010 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 be accessed through the CABC website, and is available to you once you have Apr 24-25, 2010 Nanaimo PacSport Vancouver Island 250-740-6572 received a Coaching Certification (CC) number from the Coaching Association Jun 11-12, 2010 New Westminster Douglas College 604-527-5492 of Canada. Soon, all coaches who were certified under the old Theory 1 course will also Make Ethical Decisions Module Only need to complete the Make Ethical Decisions evaluation to maintain their certification. It is strongly suggested that those coaches order the Make Ethical (Competition-Introduction context) Decisions module from the CABC to help them complete it successfully. This is NOT the online evaluation. This is only the course to prepare for the evaluation if you have taken the “old” Theory 1 course or if you haven’t taken it as part of the Introduction to Competition Part A course. Dates Location Host Agency Phone # Coach Amanda Oct 17, 2009 Abbotsford PacificSport Fraser Valley Register Online Confused about what kind of training you need to Jan 9, 2010 Nanaimo PacSport Vancouver 250-740-6572 become a coach in your sport of interest? Check out Coach Amanda! Competition-Development The Coaching Association of Canada has developed an on-line tool to help The NCCP Theory 3 has now been officially phased out and is no longer available. Coaches are now coaches identify which coaching context is right for them and which workshops required to complete Competition-Development modules as outlined below. they need to become identified as “Trained” or “Certified” in a particular sport. Pacific Sport, Victoria Answer a few simple questions and the tool will generate the coaching context that best suits your needs as a coach and the needs of your participants. Dates Module Host Agency Contact Aug 23, 2009 Leading Drug Free Sport International Coaching School Register Online Find Coach Amanda at www.coaches.bc.ca. Under the NCCP Information menu, Aug 23, 2009 Managing Conflict International Coaching School Register Online click on “What is NCCP”. Aug 24, 2009 Coaching & Leading International Coaching School Register Online Effectively Aug 25, 2009 Psychology of International Coaching School Register Online Performance Aug 26-27, 2009 Developing Athletic International Coaching School Register Online Abilities Aug 29, 2009 Prevention & Recovery International Coaching School Register Online

For more information and a complete listing of NCCP courses around the province go to the CABC website at: www.coaches.bc.caPerspective Summer/Fall 2009 23 Good Luck! COACHES AND ATHLETES AT THE CANADA GAMES IN PEI

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