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Congratulations to those provincial sports eight days, and twice BC Athlete Voice, propelled by the doing a great job of encouraging and that many airplane rides, amazing Iain Brambell and Joe Hitchcock, supporting their coaches in accessing what made for an exhausting, helped introduce an important element to is available to them. BC Amateur Athletics but exhilarating British the week. They rallied their athletes to talk has been doing a great job in this respect, Columbia Coaches Week 2008! I have a about the impact their coaches have made signing up several school coaches with renewed appreciation for the vastness of on them, and to help encourage other CABC. this province. The highlight, of course, was athletes to consider a future in coaching. meeting the people in the communities we I like to think that all of our readers are visited. It was especially nice to visit two We are going to be reviewing this year holding on to each issue of BC Coaches new communities - Castlegar and Fort and start thinking about how to make Perspective. We try to include feature articles St. John, where the coaches were truly next year’s Coaches Week even better. We that can be re-read and referred to many appreciative of being able to listen to such will be discussing strategies for building times over. To help make it easier for you to high quality presentations right in their even more awareness about the events. find those articles months later, see the year own communities. There is nothing more frustrating than end feature article index on page 18. people asking why they didn’t know about We have only just scratched the surface of the Coaches Week events they could I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, a bringing these opportunities to coaches, and have attended. That, despite our best rejuvenating holiday season, and a great two new partnerships this year bodes well efforts through numerous channels of start to 2009, our pre-2010 Olympic Year! for the future of Coaches Week. Spectra communication! My answer? If you were a Energy really stepped up, not only with member of CABC, you would know about its financial contribution to the week, but everything going on! also with its personnel who are obviously Executive Director’s Notes Gord May My, how things have residents in all of our communities. What We are now in the final stages of getting all changed in a few short we do truly does make a difference and of our new Learning Facilitators (LF) for months! It wasn’t that we hope that you have the opportunity to the Competition Development modules long ago that we were remind your MLA of the significant impact trained and ready to go in the early part riding the crest of an that sport, and coaching in particular, has of the New Year. Training will take place economic boom, and now we suddenly find in your city or town. in January and we will have enough LF’s ourselves in a new economic reality. As we in place that we can run all of these new enter into the winter season we have seen Tim Frick, our long standing CABC Board courses by mid February. Once we have all some dramatic changes in the economic member and Coach of the Women’s these LF’s trained, the Level 3 Theory will environment that may be a challenge for the National Wheelchair Basketball team, no longer be an option. Please keep this sport community in the next several years. will be stepping away from this coaching in mind when you are looking to upgrade With the provincial government revenues position after many years at the helm of your coach training. about to take a hit, the sport community this incredibly successful team. His string in BC may also start to feel the pinch. We of World Championship and Paralympic The Association has been looking at how it have been down this road in years past, and medals came to an end this year in Beijing, can more effectively deliver programs and the outcomes have not always been in our but his team’s winning record is one that services to its membership, and also how favour. One blessing that we do have is that will not soon be repeated. Tim’s record is it can generate a greater interest in the the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter one that any coach, in any sport, at any organization by the business community. Games are in our backyard in about a year, level, would be proud to have on his/her To accomplish both of these goals the and this should provide a bit of a reprieve resume, and we are fortunate to have him Association will be embarking on new for a short period of time. as an active board member. initiatives to increase capacity through our website and we will be looking to other To meet this upcoming financial challenge Tim is this year’s winner of the Jack corporate partners whose goals connect it will be incumbent upon the sport and Donohue award presented by Coaches of with ours. Our website strategy is one that coaching community to ensure that Canada. It recognizes a coach’s dedication should provide the organization, and our elected officials understand that the role to the profession and the outstanding members, with significant benefits. I hope we play in society actually helps to reduce performances of his or her athletes during that you have a great winter season. government expenses in the areas of health, the past competitive season. We all look education, and crime. Sport is one part forward to utilizing Tim’s knowledge, of the government’s budget that is rather expertise, and the extra time that he will small in size, but it is also one area that now have on his hands as he enters into has a tremendously positive impact on the retirement. Perspective Winter 2009 3 COACHESCLIPBOARD BC Coaches Honoured with National Awards Tim Frick, ChPC, of Pender Island, BC, the head coach of Canada’s outstanding women’s wheelchair basketball team and a member of the Board of Directors of Coaches Association of BC, was presented with the Jack Donohue “Coach of the Year” Award at the recent Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif 2008 in Calgary. Liam Parsons, Olympic bronze medallists in lightweight four; Steve McBride (Victoria), coach of sailors John McRoberts and Stacie Louttit, Paralympic bronze medallists in the SKUD class; Terry Paul (Victoria), coach of rower Dave Calder, Olympic silver medallist in the pairs; Derrick Schoof (Vancouver), coach of Donovan Tildesley, Paralympic bronze medallist in 400 metres freestyle; Mike Spracklen (Sydney), coach of the Olympic champion eight of coxswain Brian Price, Kyle Hamilton, Adam Kreek, Dominic Seiterle, Malcolm Howard, Jake Wetzel, Andrew Byrnes, Ben Rutledge, n his 19 years at the helm, Frick guided Excellence Award Winners. They include: and Kevin Light; hisI team to three Paralympic Games Houshang Amiri (Mill Bay) who Andrea Taylor (Langley), coach of titles and four world championship gold Lauren Barwick, Paralmypic Para-Dressage medals.