BRITISH COLUMBIA Coaches Week 2009 Coaches Week POSTER TEAM BC at CANADA SUMMER GAMES INSIDE! TOOLBOX – REFUELING for SUCCESS INTRODUCTION to PLYOMETRIC TRAINING
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HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES LEAVING A TALK ABOUT COACHING ITS COACHES LEADERSHIP LEGACY The Information Source for Every Coach www.coaches.bc.ca Summer/Fall 2009 $3.95 CAN British Columbia BRITISH COLUMBIA Coaches Week 2009 Coaches Week POSTER TEAM BC AT CANADA SUMMER GAMES INSIDE! TOOLBOX – REFUELING FOR SUCCESS INTRODUCTION TO PLYOMETRIC TRAINING NCCP Course Schedule, Clipboard Coaching Notes + Tips Upcoming Events, Coaching Development Perspective Summer/Fall 2009 On Your Mark With... Cycling BC COACHES WEEK SPECIAL EDITION inside For more CABC news and resources visit www.coaches.bc.ca Editor Jan Mansfield summer/fall 2009 Publisher CABC Design Sharkbite Art + Design Quarterly Publication of the: coaches clipboard 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 Publication Agreement # 40972566 features Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: On Your Mark with... Cycling 8 Coaches Association of BC #200, 3820 Cessna Drive 9 Leaving a Leadership Legacy Richmond, BC V7B 0A2 Tel: 604-333-3600 10 Coaching the Coach Toll free: 1-800-335-3120 e-mail: [email protected] home page: www.coaches.bc.ca 11 Provincial Funding for Amateur Sport Book Review - “Overtraining Athletes - Personal Journeys in Sport” BC Coaches Perspective is delivered to members and supporters four times a year. All rights reserved. Reproduction 12 Coaches Week Poster or use, in whole or in part, by any means without the express written consent of 14 Team BC Readies for Prince Edward Island the publisher is prohibited. All materials submitted will remain the property of Coaching at the Canada Games - Two Perspectives the Coaches Association of BC. Views expressed herein, including Time Out letters to the editor are not necessarily Congratulations to all Team BC Coaches and Athletes 16 those of this magazine, the Coaches Association of BC or its sponsors. Non- 17 Women Coaching Apprentices Head to Canada Games member subscriptions: $20 annually. Order through [email protected] 18 An Introduction to Plyometric Training 20 Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame Inductees Talk About Coaching The Coaches Association of BC is supported by 21 Community Recognizes its Coaches 2010 Legacies Now coaching development On the Cover: Coach Gautam Srivastava (L) 22 Coach Resources of Victoria talks to player Clayton Isherwood Upcoming Events from Texada Island during competition at the 2008 BC Summer Games in Kelowna. Manager of Coach Education Photo by Kevin Bogetti-Smith 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.