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December 2010 Issue 39 Sport a Editor Managing Editor Chad Lucas Carolyn Townsend Jamie Ferguson Cover Layout & Desktop Ch i e f Game-Changer Ex e c u t i v e Of f i c e r Danny Godfrey Paula Yochoff

Senior Staff he excitement continues to build as to sport in our province. However, there culture of sport in Nova Scotia, and Chief Executive Officer TNova Scotia gets closer to hosting are additional, less obvious elements to help create more community champions Jamie Ferguson the . As the Games legacy that will also have who are passionate about making sport you read this issue, you’ll see plenty significant positive impacts on sport, and grow. Director of Finance of interesting stories and information we’d like to share them with you. From our perspective, growing sport in & Administration about the Games and many of the The hosting of the 2011 Games will communities is what it’s all about. Sport Debbie Buckoski wonderful opportunities they’ll bring be a stepping-off point for winter helps make people and communities Director of Public Relations to our province. As the organization sport performance in Nova Scotia. healthier. It has positive impacts on Carolyn Townsend responsible for managing the legacy Historically, our best results have come youth justice, social development, and when the Winter Games are over, Sport in summer sports, and indeed recent provides economic benefits as well. The Director of Marketing Nova Scotia joins many Nova Scotians Games results bear that out. One of the legacy of the 2011 Games will help us Jeff LeDrew looking forward to the contribution the biggest barriers to improved winter sport spread these benefits to even more Nova Director of Sport Development Games will make to our sport system in performance has always been access to Scotians. Mark Smith the years to come. adequate facilities, both for training and We don’t think Nova Scotia is just The Games will bring new and competition. The facility development hosting a Games, we’re hosting a game Sport Quarterly, improved facilities to our province. these Games will leave behind will be the changer. Significant investments in snow sport first step in knocking that barrier down, a publication of Sport Nova Scotia. facilities, numerous upgrades and of and will allow our winter sport athletes Letters to the editor must include course the construction of the Canada to begin levelling the playing field with Sport Nova Scotia name, address and phone Games Centre, a facility with an the rest of Canada. Although these types number. unprecedented programming capacity, of changes don’t happen overnight, they will manage the Sport Nova Scotia will have a beneficial impact on sport in do happen, and we believe this can be legacy of the 2011 5516 Spring Garden Road our province. In addition to the facilities the starting point. Canada Games. This is 4th Floor themselves, improved access will see There is another element of the Games better training opportunities for Nova legacy that is not often mentioned and Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1G6 summarized with three Scotians in their home province. And may be the most significant area of all: main responsibilities: Tel: (902) 425-5450 it’s not just the facilities that will be the human legacy. Nova Scotians from Fax: (902) 425-5606 new and improved. Provincial Sport all walks of life, sport participants, ① Manage the E-mail: [email protected] Organizations and their community non sport participants—and of course www.sportnovascotia.ca members will be given opportunities “soon to be” sport participants—will Support4Sport Canada to secure sporting equipment that was be actively involved in putting the Games Legacy Fund; used during the Games, expanding and Games on, and welcoming Canada to improving their program offerings. our province. We should all be very ② Oversee the Another element of the legacy will proud that Nova Scotians have shown distribution of sport be the Support4Sport Canada Games an unprecedented response to the Legacy Fund. Money will be allocated call for the 5,000 volunteers who will equipment from the to community sport organizations help make the Games a reality. The Games themselves across the province to help them acquire experience and training they receive equipment in order to expand existing leading up to and during the Games to Provincial Sport program opportunities or provide will create a valuable resource for the Organizations and new ones. This funding will be aimed sport community. Not only will we have their members; and Senior Funding Partner of towards grassroots programming, and an expanded pool of skilled volunteers is a great example of how the legacy of who will help us attract and host more Sport Nova Scotia ③ Oversee the the Games will reach out to the entire national and international events, we province and touch every level of the will also have more volunteers to help implementation of the sport system. with sport programming at every level, venue use agreements Each of the initiatives mentioned in communities across Nova Scotia. We following the Games. above will provide important benefits believe this will positively impact the 2 3 Sponsored by

Athlete’s Column The Wait is Over experience playing different players from all over the country and I think Shane Hines that could help me at the Canada Games. culture of sport in Nova Scotia, and It’s been a long four-year wait for It’s pretty special to get the chance help create more community championsShane Hines. The 15-year-old table to go to Canada Games, especially who are passionate about making sport tennis player from Carrolls Corner for me considering that last time I grow. narrowly missed out on making the team just missed out on getting a chance From our perspective, growing sport in to go. The fact that it comes around communities is what it’s all about. Sportfor the in every four years makes it even more helps make people and communitiesWhitehorse, . He has avenged that healthier. It has positive impacts ondisappointment, however, by making the special. My brother Steven was on youth justice, social development, andsquad this time around. the team that participated in Yukon, provides economic benefits as well. The Coached by Nova Scotia table tennis and seeing him go really made me legacy of the 2011 Games will help usfixture Joe Fisher, Hines is following want to go this year. spread these benefits to even more Novain the Canada Games footsteps of I think that playing at home could Scotians. his brother Steven, who represented definitely be a good thing. Going We don’t think Nova Scotia is just Nova Scotia at the Winter Games in to a different place can be nerve- hosting a Games, we’re hosting a game wracking sometimes. With all the changer. in 2007. In April at Citadel High in Halifax, fans and everything it should really Hines won the Atlantic under-18 get us going. Table tennis player Shane Hines prepares to hit a backhand shot, one of the strongest strokes in male championship. A student at The best thing about the having the his arsenal. (Photo courtesy Joe Fisher) Musquodoboit Rural High School, he is Canada Games here in Nova Scotia looking forward to the rare opportunity My brother was in junior high and In the summer I went to Calgary is probably the fact that my friends of representing his province at a Canada Joe Fisher was his principal and he and played at the nationals. That and family will have a chance to Games on home soil. got him to play and then he started was a fun trip, even though I didn’t come out and see me play. It will be teaching me to play. I guess I’m actually do that well, it was still a really nice.” “ probably started playing Table competitive. My brother got me nice opportunity to travel out there I Tennis when I was in Grade 4, really into playing table tennis and I and compete at that level. Going Compiled by Daniel Bonner somewhere around 10 years old. just enjoy beating people. to nationals gave me some great

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Canada Games 2011 – The “Team Behind the Team”

making the 2011 Canada Winter event is completed. These “super a lot of fun, a lot of work, and a lot Games happen. volunteers” are called Sport Leaders of headaches, but in the end there is With less than two months to go and without them the Games simply only one goal, and that is to run the Mark Smith before the “big show” hits town, could not happen. best Canada Games possible. The Di r e c t o r Team Nova Scotia is busily preparing Sport Leaders wear a number Canada Games is about recognizing o f Sp o r t to put on a spectacular show on all of hats and are responsible for the the accomplishments of the athletes De v e l o p m e n t fronts. Many venues have received overall management of the sport and coaches from across Canada upgrades to ensure that the best experience for each competition. For and I’m sure come February there possible competition conditions the past twenty-four-plus months, will be lots to cheer about. But, it 23 competitions, 1,550 and in some cases, such as the new this team of highly motivated is also important to remember that major and minor officials, Canada Games Center, a legacy will sport enthusiasts have served as behind every successful event there 3,600 athletes, coaches remain long after the Games for all “general managers” for twenty- is a group of dedicated volunteers Nova Scotians to enjoy. three sports, attending countless who give of their time and talents and managers, over 5,000 Our athletes are ramping up for an meetings, hosting national sport for the greater good. So, when the volunteers, and 100,000 exciting sport experience on home representatives, touring venues, lights come on and the stars come day visits to Canada Games soil and our coaches have done a ordering sport equipment, recruiting out, remember there is another team venues during the two weeks tremendous job in preparing them volunteers and providing the kind of behind the scenes working hard in February. for the challenge ahead. leadership and expertise required to to make the games a huge success. For a specific group of volunteers deliver a successful major sporting elcome to Nova Scotia! That’s the journey began over two years event. Wwhat will be involved with ago and will not end until the final The journey to this point has been

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Canada Games 2011 Snowboarder Page – The “Team Behind the Team” Hoping for Hometown a lot of fun, a lot of work, and a lot of headaches, but in the end there is Success only one goal, and that is to run the best Canada Games possible. The by Daniel Bonner Canada Games coming, Martock put in Canada Games is about recognizing a full-sized pipe, and our improvement MA KE the accomplishments of the athletes sually as a team was major last year.” and coaches from across Canada Uwhen Living in the shadow of Ski Martock, and I’m sure come February there snowboarder it should come as no surprise that Page TOMORROW’S Jeremy Page began skiing at a very young age. By will be lots to cheer about. But, it heads to a the time he was eight years old he is also important to remember that major event, made the decision to trade his skis for a behind every successful event there he has a snowboard. His journey to the Canada is a group of dedicated volunteers day or two Games started to pick up speed four who give of their time and talents to learn the WORKOUT years ago as he watched his cousin, Ben for the greater good. So, when the subtleties of Robinson, place eighth for Nova Scotia lights come on and the stars come the halfpipe in halfpipe at the 2007 competition in out, remember there is another team he will be Whitehorse, Yukon. behind the scenes working hard competing The Canada Games come on the heels to make the games a huge success. in. This time Jeremy Page of a strong season for Page. The highlight it’s a little of the year actually came while Nova B ETTER different. The 19-year-old Falmouth Scotia was in ’s off-season, resident lives just minutes from Windsor- as Page was selected to represent Canada

area resort Ski Martock, a fact that at the junior world championships in . should favour him when it hosts the New Zealand in August. MGMT Canada Games halfpipe competition in He’s the first Nova Scotian to have that . February. honour, and he held his own against the CCT th A student in the electrical program world’s best, finishing 14 in the Big Air TODAY A at NSCC Kingstec in Kentville, Page competition. Unlike that event though, is a man who should know every inch which took place halfway around the WITHIN 30 MINUTES OF AN INTENSE WORKOUT,

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Canada Winter Games: The Impact Now…

New focus on winter sports “Our boardercross riders have but the Games already paying dividends been able to practise their starts since preparation has September,” says Burgess, a Nova helped produce hen Kita McRory Scotia-based Canada new coaches and Wcompeted in the 2007 Snowboard coach. “That’s officials—and Canada Winter Games a huge advantage. In some old ones who in Whitehorse, Yukon, boardercross, if you can have come out of she had barely a year of get that front position out the woodwork. experience under her belt of the gate, all you have “All of a sudden as an alpine snowboarder. to do is hold it. There’s I’ve got people “They basically brought a ridiculously high who were involved me in because of my percentage that if you get in years background in ski racing, that hole-shot (first out ago coming back and I spent a year learning of the gate), you’re the A biathlon competitor lines up his shot at the 2007 Canada Winter Games in quite enthused,” to snowboard (before the winner.” Whitehorse, Yukon. Nova Scotia will field a biathlon squad for the first time Wylie says. “It’s Games),” she says. After representing Nova The other game- in 16 years at the 2011 Halifax Games. (Photo courtesy Canada Games Host generating a lot Times have changed in Scotia at the 2007 Canada changing improvement Committee) of interest, and four years. With the Winter Winter Games, snowboarder for snowboarders is a that’s one of my Kita McRory is excited for Games coming to Nova new 18-foot halfpipe at Games. When Nova Scotia’s biathlon objectives, to get as many people as the chance to compete Scotia for just the second Martock—something local squad enters competition in February, I can interested in the sport. We’re again on home turf. (Photo time in provincial history contributed) athletes have never had at it will be a landmark moment in a sport trying to build up the athletes’ pool, after Sydney hosted in home. where the province hasn’t fielded an the coaches’ pool, and the officials’ 1987, there’s a renewed focus on winter “We were training on a mini-pipe entry at the Games since 1995. pool, which are the three pillars any sports that is expected to pay off this and going away and competing on Biathlon has remained popular in sport needs. February and beyond. a monstrous one,” Burgess says. Cadet circles, but when Murray Wylie “There’s a good chance that in a year McRory is a living example: at age “Now, in the last year alone, (Nova took over as volunteer president in or two we’ll be hosting the Canadian 21, the Cole Harbour snowboarder Scotia) has gone from being in the 2006, the provincial sport organization Championships, or the Cadet nationals. will return to the Games with better bottom half at nationals to seeing huge had just 16 registered members. There are all sorts of opportunities out support, a string of international improvements. That number is up to 137 now, and there as we mature.” competitions under her belt and a “By the end of the year, (Falmouth growing. Wylie credits the Canada goal of a top-five finish. And she’ll be snowboarder) Jeremy Page was Games for bringing both training racing with teammates who are far blowing everyone away, and he made facility improvements and a goal to See The Impact Now… on page 16 from the newbie she was four years the junior national team. A lot of that shoot for. ago. “There’s been a lot of growth in was quick improvement just from “My objective was the sport,” she says. “There’s been a having a halfpipe.” to get the sport back huge jump in interest, and everyone is Those results are inspiring other on the rails in Nova definitely more experienced.” promising athletes who might have Scotia and build Snowboarding is one sport where the been on the fence about committing a PSO that could spotlight of the Canada Games—and to the sport, Burgess says. sustain beyond the infrastructure support it brings—is “I know one athlete who always the (2011) Winter already producing tangible results. thought, ‘If I get into halfpipe, I’ll have Games,” Wylie Some of the new investments at Ski to go out west.’ But now she’s thinking, says. “The learning Martock include a boardercross start ‘I’m going to stay at home and I want curve has been very gate and a special type of carpet that to be on the National team.’ It’s given steep, but we’ve acts like simulated snow when it’s wet, some inspiration to the kids who don’t made tremendous allowing athletes to train year-round. want to go away.” headway.” Those might seem like small things, Not only has but they make a world of difference, Snowboarding isn’t the only sport the sport attracted is drawing renewed interest in Nova Scotia, thanks in part to says Natasha Burgess. reaping the benefits of the Canada new athletes, the Canada Games. (Photo courtesy Canada Games Host Committee) 6 7 Sponsored by

…And in the Future

Facilities, equipment and the CSC, it will be a training hub for that has been purchased for the Games. wide impact.” training leave long-term legacy high-performance athletes across the That’s a major capital investment that After the Games, Sport Nova Scotia region. many organizations can’t afford to will manage the legacy fund called the hen the athletes bid farewell at the “If you look at the Canada (Summer) make on their own, Ferguson points Support4Sport Canada Games Legacy Wclose of February 2011, it won’t Games in 1969, many of the facilities out. “That’s going to have a province- Fund, which will allot up to $100,000 be the end of the impact each year in grants for community that the Canada Winter sport organizations. Games have on Halifax More support for local sport means and Nova Scotia. more youth have access, Ferguson In many ways, it’s only says. the beginning. “The reality is it’s going to allow a With new and lot more youth to participate in sport, upgraded facilities in and we know that’s a great thing. When place, just over $2 million youth take part in sport, they’re more in cash and equipment likely to be healthy and do well in invested in local sport school. It really does contribute to social and a legion of volunteers capacity in communities.” and coaches armed with People Factor – When the Games new skills, the Winter end, it’s not just the athletes who will Games are a catalyst to change the sport culture The new Canada Games Centre, shown here in an artist's rendering, will be a hub for high-performance athletes as well in this province, says as a home for community sport groups. (Photo courtesy Canada Games Host Committee) See … And in the Future on page 16 Sport Nova Scotia CEO Jamie Ferguson. that were built then we still use today,” “This is, in my mind, a stepping- he says. “So we’ll still be benefitting off point for winter sports in Nova from the impact of this 40 years out. Scotia,” he says. “We’re starting to put With that infrastructure in place, you a foundation in place where our winter can host competitions. You can provide sports can start to make the same types an environment where people can stay of strides that we’ve seen our summer in Nova Scotia and excel, as opposed to sports make in past Games. It doesn’t always having to travel.” See The Impact Now… on page 16happen overnight, but I think it’s the But it’s not only elite athletes who beginning.” will benefit from the new facility, The Canada Winter Games will which includes three full-sized gyms, leave a legacy in three distinct areas: a 200-metre indoor track and an eight- facilities, investment in local sport, and lane pool. It will mean more access to the “people factor.” sport for recreational and community Facilities – With the Games come $15 groups as well. million in upgrades to sport sites, from “(Sport programs) are always a widening of the ice surface at the St. challenged to find facilities, and in Margaret’s Bay Arena to improvements many cases they’re capping registration to ski hills at Martock and Wentworth. because they’re having a hard time And that’s not counting the centrepiece finding facilities,” Ferguson says. “Not of the legacy: the new $40-million only will this improve the quality of the Canada Games Centre located in experience, it’s also going to allow more Clayton Park West. kids into the door in those programs.” Ken Bagnell, head of the Canadian Sport Investment – When the Sport Centre Atlantic, is understandably Canada Games are over, provincial and excited about the new facility. Not only community sport groups will be first in will it serve as a headquarters for line to receive $1 million in equipment 8 Sponsored by

Medal Hopes High for Winter Games

here’s plenty of buzz surrounding medals at the 2007 Winter Games upper ranks of their respective fields. beginning of really being able to step Tthe Canada Winter Games being in Whitehorse, and eight in 2003 About 14 per cent of Nova Scotia’s forward with our winter results.” held in Halifax and surrounding in Bathurst/Campbellton, N.B., athletes reached the top eight in Sport leaders almost consider areas—but how will that translate finishing eighth in the national medal 2007 with a goal of 20 per cent this 2011 as a starting point: while Nova for Nova Scotia’s athletes once count in both years. February. Scotia is expected to turn in a strong competition opens on February 12? The province has traditionally done “We want to up that percentage, performance by provincial standards, With so much focus on the “home well in winter sports such as , that’s the goal,” Bagnell says. the 2015 Games in Prince George, B.C. team” during the Games, the good and , with For those who think those might actually be a better benchmark news is that Nova Scotia is expected an increasingly strong reputation in numbers seem low compared to of just what the 2011 Games have to turn in one of its strongest snowboarding as well. results at the 2009 Summer Games meant for Nova Scotia. performances ever. Those sports are expected to in Charlottetown, sport leaders point “Where will this take us? I see it Ken Bagnell, president of the shine again in 2011, with athletes out it’s important to remember that more as a launching pad of where we Canadian Sport Centre Atlantic, like judoka Whitney Lohnes and the province typically fares better can go in the future,” Bagnell says. says if everything goes well Team snowboarder Jeremy Page—who at the Summer Games, where Nova “We have levels of support that have Nova Scotia could be in line for 10-12 have both represented Canada Scotia perpetually turns in strong never been available, so let’s make medals during the Games. internationally—among the strongest performances in sports such as canoe- sure we utilize them wisely. This is “I truly feel we’ll have our best-ever medal hopes. kayak and sailing. the start of the process—the Canada Winter Games, based on how athletes In measuring the province’s “The reality is, facility-wise, we’re Games are our coming-out party.” have been performing leading up to performance, Bagnell also looks past not at a point where we are with And as the region’s high- the Games,” says Bagnell. the podium to top-eight finishes, the summer (sports),” says Jamie performance director, he stresses Nova Scotia captured seven tracking athletes who finish in the Ferguson, CEO of Sport Nova Scotia. the idea of setting these goals and “But we didn’t get to that point with expectations. While the cultural the Summer Games all of a sudden, experience and sheer “fun factor” of either. If you look at the sports we the Games are also important, athletes excel in, we have the training facilities need something to aim for, he says. we require for those athletes to “At the end of the day, it is a sport compete and do so well. So I don’t competition. Sometimes we lose track think we’ll see summertime-like of that, but that is still the central part results, but I’m hopeful we will of it, so we have to give that support see our best-ever results (in the to the athletes and coaches so they can winter). More importantly, this is the meet their performance goals.” Tobacco-Free Sports

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Week 1 Sa t u r d a y Su n d a y Mo n d a y Tu e s d a y We d n e s d a y Th u r s d a y Fr i d a y Sa t u r d a y Fe b r u a r y 12 Fe b r u a r y 13 Fe b r u a r y 14 Fe b r u a r y 15 Fe b r u a r y 16 Fe b r u a r y 17 Fe b r u a r y 18 Fe b r u a r y 19 Artistic Gymnastics • • • • • Canada Games Centre Biathlon • • • • Ski Martock – Female • • • • • • Mayflower Hockey – Male • • • • • • • Metro Centre & Dartmouth Sportsplex • • • • • • • Cole Harbour Target Shooting • • • • Sackville High School • • • • Ski Wentworth Long Track Speed Skating • • • •

Canada Games Oval TURNOV E R DAY Short Track Speed Skating • • • • St. Margaret’s Centre Squash • • • • • Saint Mary’s University Wheelchair Basketball • • • • • Citadel High School

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Canada Winter Games: Ones To Watch by Daniel Bonner

When the Canada Games kick off on February 11, Team Nova Scotia will take centre stage. Here’s a look at a few of our athletes to watch:

Dylan Landry ~ Judo events within his home province. That great,” says Landry, who has been International Open in November. Scott Louisdale’s will all change when Landry leads competing in judo for five years. “We Tanner, Judo Nova Scotia’s head coach, Dylan Landry a strong contingent of Nova Scotian get a chance to do a lot of travelling says Landry has all the tools to achieve has competed judokas into the Canada Games in with the regular tournaments, so to big things in judo. and won medals Halifax. have a tournament this big at home “He’s pure athlete,” Tanner says. at national and Landry, a Grade 12 student at will be a nice touch.” “He’s very good in judo, but his i n t e r n a t i o n a l Richmond Academy, is looking forward Landry was pleased with his build- athletic base is phenomenal. He’s competitions, but to the chance to give friends and family up to the competition, which included probably the most athletic guy we the 18-year-old a close-up look at his craft. a third-place finish in the under-20 have on the team—he’s got agility, hasn’t had many “Just having the opportunity to division and fifth place in the senior explosiveness and quickness.” chances to compete in high-level have (friends and family) there is division at the prestigious

Ellie Black is something that really excites the individual apparatus finals. Despite great because it’s not just going to be ~ Artistic Gymnastics Halifax native. her success, team competition is a new individual, it will be about the team.” At 15, Ellie Black was a double-medallist at concept for Black. Black, who trains at the Halifax Alta Black has already the junior national championships “I’m looking forward to competing Gymnastics Club, says she is focusing tasted success in May in Kamloops, B.C. She took with the girls here,” she says. “It’s on keeping her expectations simple, on the national home the gold in the balance beam going to be pretty much the same placing a premium on fun and helping level, but having and the bronze in the vault – which (as competing as an individual). I her province. the opportunity she describes as her speciality. think there’s going to be less pressure “I’m just going to go out there and to represent her At the Canada Games, athletes because you’re competing with a do my best,” she says, “and then province in a participate in a team competition, an bunch of other girls from Nova Scotia, whatever happens, happens. As long team competition individual all-around competition and people that I know, and it’s going to be as I did my best and had fun.”

are focused on one Donkin; Abby Stubbert, Antigonish; last year with a seventh-place finish, thing: a medal. and Katy Van Vulpen, Amherst. which was good, in my opinion, T e a m N o v a Both Jewells and Stubbert are part because it gave them a little bit of Scotia was there of the national team program, but motivation,” Marston says. “They in Grande Prairie, Nova Scotia will likely have to do weren’t a seventh-place team, but it , in 1995 without a third national player. gave them a good eye-opener and when wheelchair Bridgewater’s Jonathan Lohnes has they’ve been working really hard basketball debuted been sidelined with injury and his since then.” as a sport at the status is questionable heading into the Marston believes that this motivation Canada Games, but competition. could well drive the team, absent from in three competitions The team has had a good build- the Canada Games stage for three that followed the up, but it hasn’t been without its straight competitions, to step onto the Wheelchair Basketball province did not speed bumps. According to Ben podium. After a 16-year hiatus, Nova Scotia field an entry. Marston, Sport Nova Scotia’s Parasport “We’re working towards a medal,” will field a wheelchair basketball team This time around, the team’s starting Coordinator and a volunteer with the Marston says. “Where that will be on at the Canada Games. Rather than five consists of Chris Wade and James team, that’s not a bad thing. the scale of gold, silver or bronze, we’re ease back into competition, the hosts Peake, both of Halifax; Jamey Jewells, “They came out of junior nationals not sure, but that’s our goal.” 13 Sponsored by

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ot only is Jen MacKenzie playing its target of 5,000 volunteers, a full a former basketball coach at C.P. One of the lasting benefits of the Na dual role at the Canada three months before the competition Allen high school and a long-time Games, Morrissey says, is all those Winter Games, she also has a secret opens in February. volunteer in the hoops community. trained volunteers will go home with identity. For others, like Ian Daye, new skills, ready to chip in at the B y d a y, t h e the Canada Games are a new community level or answer the call m i l d - m a n n e re d experience. Daye had been the next time a major event comes elementary school away from sport for a while, to town. teacher is the lead so he jumped at the chance “We’re building capacity,” of the accreditation to participate in the Canada Morrissey says. “From a community committee at the Games. perspective, it gives us the confidence Games. By night— “This is sort of like a restart for to host more major events.” OK, and sometimes me,” says Daye, the volunteer MacKenzie agrees. “We have so by day too—she team lead for IT services at many people who are trained, keen transforms into the Games. “I saw it as a great and energetic,” she says. “We’re one of the Games’ opportunity. It’s similar work going to shine.” official mascots, to what I do at Sammi. my regular job, She was sitting so to get that in a volunteers’ extra experience m e e t i n g w h e n and to do it on a Staying True To The someone mentioned volunteer basis is a need to fill the really great. It’s Spirit Of Competition. mascot suit, and something I’ve MacKenzie jumped always wanted to at the chance. do.” “ I ’ v e b e e n t o Volunteering Disney World and at the Games is lots of sports events, no small role: as a n d I ’ v e s e e n A c c r e d i t a t i o n Canada Games mascots Anni and Sammi ham it up on Citadel Hill. Donning the mascots do their mascot suits are just a couple of the 5,000 volunteer roles at the Games. (Photo lead, MacKenzie thing,” she says. courtesy Canada Games Committee) and her team will “I’ve always been literally see the in awe of their energy and in envy “When I spoke to my chairperson face of every athlete, At Enterprise, we salute that competitive of their fun, so I didn’t hesitate to early on, I said the problem isn’t coach, volunteer and spirit and encourage everyone to nurture try it out. And I fell in love with it going to be recruiting volunteers, media member as they it within themselves. right away.” it’s going to be when do we have prepare everyone’s When the Canada Games come to cap it,” said Canada Games CEO credentials. to Nova Scotia in February, they Chris Morrissey. “We knew Nova And Daye’s team is will run largely on the energy of Scotians would respond, but to have tasked with making volunteers like MacKenzie. The this many people come forward is a sure computer systems biggest multi-sport event ever held bonus. It’s great to be ahead of your run smoothly at every Official car rental cOmpany in this province requires plenty of milestone—there’s lots of work to be single venue. “It’s like fOr SpOrt nOva ScOtia. local support—and Nova Scotians done, and if we can meet some our having 17 different Enterprise Rent-A-Car is a socially responsible corporation. have met the call and then some. targets earlier, all the better.” computer sites running For more information please visit enterprise.com. The Host Committee announced in Some of those volunteers have at the same time,” he ©2010 Enterprise Rent-A-Car. A04940 02/10 MM November that it had already reached plenty of experience, like MacKenzie, says. 16 Sponsored by

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It’s a similar story in speed skating, skating) club has a waiting list, which “I know the city has really taken this more equipped than ever to succeed in where conversation starters like the is something I’ve never seen before.” to heart,” he says. “There will be Nova 2011—and future Team Nova Scotia long-track oval being erected on the Gray says Canada’s strong Scotians skating on a regular basis in members already have their eye on Halifax Commons have brought performances in recent Olympics, the middle of town, so it will help raise what’s next. “ renewed interest in the sport. including on home soil in Vancouver interest and get people involved.” “Just last week I had a 12-year-old “When I first got involved in the mid- last February, have also helped draw Whether it’s the new facilities, the ask me how to try out for the next ’80s, it was basically three families,” attention to speed skating. extra attention, or just the excitement of Games already,” says Natasha Burgess. says Dave Gray, the sport leader While the new curiosity might not being part of such a big event at home, “Kids are seeing this and volunteering for long-track skating at the 2011 translate into medals right away for sport leaders say the atmosphere at the Games and they’re already Games. “Now the Dartmouth (speed Nova Scotia, Gray says the benefits will is already changing around winter asking when their chance is, so that’s go beyond just the February Games. sports. Team Nova Scotia members feel really cool.” … And in the Future continued from pg 7 have memories of performing under events,” says Chris Morrissey, CEO of Of the 5,000 volunteers for the prepare us for these Games, that’s pressure and rising to the occasion. the Canada Games Host Committee. Games, 3,000 entered their names in going to have a tangible impact,” he Nova Scotia will have 5,000 volunteers “We know we can do hockey well, a database for future events. Bagnell says. “But we need to make sure we who can say they played a key role in but can we do archery? Or wheelchair says it’s important to capitalize on the take the information we learn and pass the biggest multi-sport event Halifax basketball? For some sports, they’ll now new expertise gained from these Games it along.” has ever hosted. be in a position to think about hosting among volunteers, coaches, officials “From a community perspective, this events on a national or international and athletes. For more on the Canada Games legacy, visit gives us the confidence to host major level.” “The training that’s happened to www.canadagames2011.ca.

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