2019 Coaching Congress The Ontario Annual Coaching Congress weekend took place on August 24 & 25 at Milton Springers. This season also included a judge’s stream which allowed coaches to attend judging sessions as well.

A special thank you to Milton Springer for hosting and to our guest WAG clinicians; Mike Durante, Betsy McNally and Stacey Umeh, as well as our own Ontario clinicians Paula Johnson, Kathy Kline, Mahmoud Zaerian and many more.

This season our Congress also included many Judging sessions. Thank you to all those attended the weekend. Development Camps Thank you to Milton and Muskoka for hosting the first two development camps of the season as well as all the clubs that participated and to our wonderful clinicians. The success of the camps are because of the team work between all these individuals (clinicians, committee members, coaches and athletes) and clubs. Contents The third camp will be held Monday, February 24th at London GA and the Select Coaching Congress 1 camp is tentatively set for the weekend of June 18-20, location is TBC. Please register Development Camps 1 your athletes and coaches ASAP. Tour: California 1 Tour: California Grand Invitational Olympics 2020: 1 Congratulations to our Team Ontario who started the year off with a bang by competing in Anaheim California, January 3-5, 2020 at the Technical Rules & California Grand Invitational. Regulations 2 AGM & Awards Banquet 2 Upcoming Events 2 Elite Canada 3 Open Doors for Coaches 3 Judging Pathway 3 Ontario Championships Changes 4 Dates to Note 4 Contacting GO 4

Team Canada: Tokyo 2020 Congratulations Team Canadian Team on a 7th place finish and `s 4th place All-Around finish!

Many other successes were had by Ontario`s own (Gemini) who placed 7th on Beam and (Dynamo) 8th on in the Event Finals. Brooklyn Moors also competed in the All-around competition placing 14th! Congratulations! Page 2 of 4 JanuaryOctober 2020 2015 Technical Rules & Regulations

The new Technical Rules & Regulations Section I (i.i, i.ii) have been update, posted on the GO website and sent to clubs.

Documents in Effect for ODP/OCP Competitions Women’s Artistic Rules and Regulations: • Section I (i.i) Ontario Developmental Program (ODP) – September 2018 • Section I (i.ii) Ontario Competitive Program (OCP) – August 2019

• USAG JO Code of Points 2018-2022 (Value of Elements only) • USAG JO Compulsory Program Manual 2013-2021 • USAG Xcel (Bronze, Silver, Gold) Manual (Value of Elements only) • Section G: Judges Professional & Operational Guidelines The Technical Clarification for all levels have been circulated and posted on the Gymnastics Ontario website under the WAG section and then Technical Rules and Regulations, Technical Bulletins.

Reminders: Clubs should use the OCP Technical Rules and Regulations as their primary rules and the USAG JO Manual as resources/reference.

Technical Bulletins/Errata and/or Clarifications for OCP update will be circulated and posted on the GO website three more times throughout the season: 1) Early November (two weeks prior to Tour Selection) 2) Late December/Early January 3) End of March (two weeks prior to Level 7+ Ontario Championships) 4) Mid May (two weeks prior to Level 4/5 Ontario Championships) Upcoming Events Reminder:  February 5-9: Elite Canada (Calgary) Any questions that cannot be answered in the Technical Rules and Regulation or Technical Bulletin/Errata/Clarifications should be sent to the WPM at [email protected] to be  February 17: Family Day forwarded to the OCP Working Group.

 March 14-22: March Break *TDSB For your reference: the most up-to-date copy of the Technical Rules and Regulations is posted on the GO website.  April 3-5: Level 7+ Ontario

Championships (Kitchener-Waterloo)

 April 13: Easter Weekend Gymnastics Ontario www.gymnasticsontario.ca  April 18-19: Level 6 Ontario Championships (Windsor)  May 8-10: Eastern Canadian Championships (Sherbook, QC)

 May 19-24: Canadian Championships (Gatineau, QC)  May 29-31: Level 4&5 Ontario

Championships (Ottawa) USA Gymnastics

 June 6-7: Level 3 Ontario www.usagym.org Championships (London)

Go to STORES USA GYMNASTICS TECHNICAL MATERIALS STORE And/or DIGITAL RESOURCES

Page 3 of 4 January 2020 Coaching Development – Open Doors If you are passionate about gymnastics and have a zest for learning, you cannot miss this amazing opportunity! Coaches must be a GO member and register through Uplifter.

Once a month beginning May 2020, some of the top coaches in the province have graciously offered to open up their doors as a chance to learn from the best! These coaches welcome you to come into their gyms, ask questions, watch a training session and just get a general feel for what they do on a daily basis to be successful with their athletes. These open houses are for coaches only and will offer a range of information and guidance in some specific areas of expertise and allow less experienced coaches see how advanced provincial level and high-performance athletes and coaches train.

This is also a great opportunity for networking! Maybe you need help teaching your first tsuk on , or maybe you need SOMEWHERE to teach your first tsuk because your gym doesn’t have a vault into a pit landing! Meeting these expert coaches as well as others who are looking for some assistance/wanting to learn, will help grow your professional social circle and give you many more contacts to help increase your knowledge-base and expand the possibilities of obtaining new information.

Information has been sent to clubs. Coaches must be a GO member and register through Uplifter.

For a complete listing of events please visit the GO website and click Events, Event Calendar at Judging Pathways www.gymnasticsont There will be some changes to the judging pathways to streamline ODP Assessors and OCP Judges starting in 2020-2021 season. ario.ca

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Ontario Championship CHANGES • Community requested to change back to two 4-day Ontario Championships to shorten season and open up the season for invitationals and skill acquisition • WTC want to maintain the philosophy of excellence and participation • Reviewed current format with projected data and options for two 4-day competitions, three 3-day competition and two 3-day competition • Change means reduction in overall number of athletes who can qualify to Ontario Championships and ful ler competition days on back to back weekends. • Final decision was to have 3 three day Ontario Championships:

Who to Contact at Gymnastics Ontario

Clubs can contact the GO staff using the staff directory on the GO website.

Or use this quick reference for who to contact based on the reason/information needed or inquiring about.

Parent inquiries should be directed through the club first before contacting GO. If a club is not able to provide information the club can contact GO on behalf of the parent.

Thank you.