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SPONSORS BOOST SPORTSFUNDER COACHes OFF NOMINATE COACHES WEEK STORIES TO BEIJING YOUR COACH the information source for every coach Summer 2008 $3.95 CAN www.coaches.bc.ca Posture for Performance + Sport NCCP Course Conditioning Schedule Basics Clipboard Coaching Notes Upcoming Events Coaching Coach Profiles Young Girls from the editor’s desk What a great time to be involved in sports in this summer 2008 province! Besides the excitement of sending off our coaches and athletes to Beijing for the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the momentum continuing to build to 2010, there are so many other major events happening in inside this province – the 2008 Vancouver BG Triathlon World Championships just completed, the 2008 Canada Cup International Wheelchair Rugby Championships in Burnaby in June, the North American Indigenous Games in Cowichan in on the cover August, next year’s World Police and Fire Games – just to name a few. Hopefully the spinoff benefits Posture for Performance will be felt right down to our community and Coaches can help athletes achieve success grassroots coaches and athletes. 1 0 through better body alignment. I believe it is a particularly great time for women in sport. I have personally been inspired by several women recently, all the way from Danica 10 Patrick who became the first woman to win a major auto race, to the beautiful young women from Burns Lake that I met at a recent seminar. coaches clipboard They told me about the Spirits of Burns Lake Girls Hockey program, where certified coaches Coaching Notes, News encourage the girls of the community to come out 4 and Views to learn skating skills, but most of all, to have fun. And speaking of women . the entire Para- Equestrian team that will compete for Canada in Check it out Beijing this summer is made up of women – and 4 they are all from BC! Also originally from BC is 4 Samantha Lam who has been named to Hong Kong’s first-ever Olympic equestrian team. Her first show jumping coach was Yolanda Blommers, who continues to be that all-important first coach a closer look to many young riders at her training stables in Richmond. (Yolanda is, of course, a long time Beijing Bound 8 CABC member!). BC will be well represented by its coaches 7 And still speaking of women in sport . the at the Olympic and Paralympic Games Coaching Mentor/Apprenticeship program for female coaches is getting good reviews from its Coaching Young Girls first participants. Read about two of them in Is it different? this issue. 8 Kudos to Chandra Madhosingh, featured in The Vancouver Sun as one of the 100 Most Influential Sport Conditioning Basics Indo-Canadians in BC. Most of us know him as Mr. 1 3 Part One of a three-part series: Table Tennis BC (as the Sun called him), but he Training Theory for Passionate Coaches also has an incredible resume as an astrophysicist working on projects with the Canadian Space Agency, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA’s Coaches Benefit From Sportsfunder Ames Research Center. Above all, though, I know 1 5 More stories from SportsFunder recipients him as a really, really nice person with a passion for the sport of table tennis and a focus on the 13 continued training of high quality coaches. I hope you enjoy this issue of BC Coaches Perspective. Look for the next issue a bit earlier than usual. It will be a British Columbia Coaches Week Special Edition and will be in the mail at the your perspective beginning of September. In the meantime, be sure to check the CABC website for the latest news and updates about Coaches Week. Coach profiles 1 6 Upcoming Events 1 8 NCCP Course Schedule 16 Jan Mansfield 1 9 2 Perspective Spring 2008 executive director’s message Many of Canada’s great coaches are a product of our BC sport system With just weeks to go before the opening of the 2008 Beijing you would like to see presented in this format, please let us know. Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, we want to wish all of Canada’s athletes CABC has been very fortunate over and coaches the best of success. BC is very well represented amongst this contingent, the past few years to be the recipient of SportsFunder Lottery funds to support and we know that they will do our province, and our country, proud. coach education in BC. We would like There are a Olympic athlete’s success, great work! to thank Jim Lightbody, VP BC Lottery number of coaches We are excited about running Corporation, for the ongoing support attending these another BC Coaches Week coming up that the Corporation has provided to Games who are in the middle of September. We will be the development of this important ‘home grown’ tracking down some of our Olympic community resource. The recruitment here in BC and athletes and coaches and we hope to and training of volunteer coaches is who provide an have the opportunity to bring some of becoming more of a challenge each year, excellent example BC’s fine talent to a community near you. and the financial support we receive of what great Keep an eye on our website for ongoing to train these volunteers has been heights a coach can achieve with hard details. The BC Coaching Conference invaluable. Thank you, Jim. work and who possess a great passion September 20th in Richmond, BC, All the best over the summer, and for their sport. Not only has Canada will launch the week. It will include a let’s cheer on all of our athlete’s heading produced great athletes, but it has workshop stream on mental training to Beijing. also produced great coaches, many of which is being coordinated with the whom are the product of our BC sport Canadian Sport Psychology Association. system. We should be very proud Details about presenters and topics will of all of them. It is often the training be posted on the CABC website as they provided by an athlete’s first coach are finalized. that determines whether that athlete Our webcasting feature is being will be engaged in their sport and expanded as we develop more resources Gord May whether they will continue to pursue for our website. This is a ‘members athletic excellence. The coach’s passion only’ benefit and we do hope that you and enthusiasm for their sport helps are finding it valuable. The next series to create an environment that will see upcoming focuses on the physical their athletes grow and develop. To all preparation side of coaching. If you have of those coaches who are part of our ideas or suggestions about what tools A Quarterly Publication of the: The Coaches Association Publication Agreement # 40972566 of BC is supported by Return undeliverable Canadian 2010 Legacies Now Editor Jan Mansfield addresses to: Publisher CABC CABC Zone Representatives Design Sharkbite Art + Design Zone 1 Rep. Vacant Coaches Association of BC Zone 2 Rep. Wendy Wheeler #200, 3820 Cessna Drive Front Cover: Coach Sean Fleming at the BC CABC Board of Directors Zone 3 Rep. Chris Johnson Richmond, BC V7B 0A2 Soccer Coaching Conference. President Judy Latoski Photo by Terry Zone 4 Rep. Tim Frick Tel: 604-333-3600 VP Finance Jim Fitzpatrick Sue/Media North. 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Order through [email protected] Perspective Spring 2008 3 coaches clipboard British Columbia Coaches Week Preview September 20 - 27, 2008 British Columbia Coaches Week in Nanaimo, Castlegar, Kamloops and interest to coaches at all levels, in all has been expanded in its second year Kelowna. Support from major sponsors, sports. In addition numerous sport- to provide even more opportunities along with funding from CABC’s funding specific coach training will be taking for coaches to access training and to partners, has made it possible to offer place during Coaches Week in several participate in coaching-related events close many of the events at minimal or no cost other communities across the province. to their own communities. It includes full- to coach participants. Go to the British Columbia Coaches day Coaches Conferences in Richmond, The major events listed below Week link on the CABC website for up- Prince George and Fort St. John, with will feature keynote speakers, coach to-date, detailed information. evening Community Coaching Forums recognition awards and workshops of Tentative Itinerary Saturday, Sept. 20; 9am – 5pm Wednesday, Sept. 24; 5pm – 9pm Sunday, Sept. 28; 9am – 5pm British Columbia Coaches Week Coaches Community Coaching Forum British Columbia Coaches Week Conference Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops Coaches Conference Executive Airport Plaza Hotel & Attendance at no cost North Peace Cultural Centre, Conference Centre, Richmond *$15 refundable registration fee Fort St. John Members: $75; Non-members: $90 Attendance at no cost Thursday, Sept.