OUR FAVOURITE MOTIVATION NCCP COURSE COACHING APPS! & COACHING SCHEDULES The Information Source for Every Coach www.coachesbc.ca Fall 2011 $3.95 CAN British Columbia’s Coaches Week September 17-24 Being the Best Leader for your Athletes FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND The Benefits of BC Athlete Is Coach Education an Answer TWITTER! Voice for Your Athletes to Healthy Living in BC? CHILDTHE MIND ATHLETES OF A CHILD:ON THE excerptFAST TRACK from CAC’s Book “Straight Perspective Talk” Fall 2011 inside Notes from the Executive Director I would like One of the new tools that Coaches BC in their community. We definitely see a to thank, and has embarked on is our new ‘Evaluation need for more trained coaches through congratulate, the Tool’ for coach certification. We have the sport system, and in many smaller City of Kamloops begun working with a number of PSO’s or more remote communities, this need For more Coaches BC news for hosting a very in the evaluation process of their coaches is even greater. With an emphasis by and resources visit successful Western in the new NCCP paradigm. This new government on developing more trained www.coachesbc.ca Canada Summer tool will allow coaches to upload their coaches throughout the sport system, we Games in August. coaching portfolio, as well as a video of see these free educational opportunities The ‘Tournament their coaching practice, all into one web as a very enticing way to get more young Capital of Canada’ didn’t disappoint any portal. The PSO’s Evaluator will then be people interested in coaching. Editor Chantelle Reinkens Publisher Coaches BC of the athletes, coaches and parents able to download this information and Fall 2011 For those of you who are looking to build Design Sharkbite Art + Design who travelled to this host city. Team make an evaluation without ever having your coach education portfolio, I might BC had a strong finish and we can be to make an on-site visit. The savings in suggest that you look to the National proud of the great work that our coaches time and money will be significant. This Coaching Institute. Their diploma Quarterly Publication of the: did in preparing their athletes for this fall will see more sports opting for this program offers some great educational coaches clipboard competitive opportunity. evaluation option and we are encouraged opportunities and the quality of their by the interest being shown in this unique 4 Coaching Apps These Games are a terrific benchmark presenters are the best in BC, if not in tool. For more information on this new Don’t Leave Home Without It Contributing Writers for our BC athletes. It gives them a sense Canada. If you want to find out how to get resource, please visit our Coaches BC Laura Watson, Dave Newson, of where they stand against athletes involved in this program, please contact 5 Petro-Canada Sport Leadership Conference Wayne Goldsmith, Leah Warwick website: coachesbc.ca from across the prairies and what they David Hill at the NCI. They are currently Games and Activities Coaches BC Board of Directors will need to do in order to make Team Once again we are running BC Coaches accepting applications for this program President Gord Hopper Vice President Peter Lawless BC for the 2013 Canada Summer Games Week and tying in to Sport Day in Canada and there a few openings left. David can Director of Finance Bill Hallett toolbox Directors: Kathy Newman in Sherbrooke, Quebec. It also gives on September 17th. Our Coaches Week be contacted at: [email protected] Ajay Patel their coaches a chance to review their will kick off on Saturday and run through 6 The Team Captain Mike Renney Have a great coaching season! Norm Olenick preparation leading up to this event to the end of the following weekend. We Derek Mager and what they need to adjust in order to are taking a new approach this year and Executive Director Gordon May ensure their athletes will be prepared to we will be offering ‘free’ NCCP Part A features Publication Agreement # 40972566 Return undeliverable Canadian make Team BC in 2013. We will be ready! courses in those areas of the province that 8 Child Athletes on the Fast Track addresses to: have never had an NCCP course offered Gord May Coaches Week Coaches Association of BC 10 #200, 3820 Cessna Drive Richmond, BC V7B 0A2 13 The Benefits of BC Athlete Voice for your Athletes Tel: 604-333-3600 Toll free: 1-800-335-3120 14 Motivation and Coaching e-mail: [email protected] home page: www.coachesbc.ca Notes from Member Relations - Communications Director 15 Being the Best Leader for Your Athletes BC Coaches Perspective is delivered to members and supporters four times a Is Coach Education an Answer to Healthy Living in BC? year. All rights reserved. Reproduction 16 or use, in whole or in part, by any means Coaches Week Fall is a busy time of year with everyone parent participation so it’s not a bad thing without the express written consent of has been my main getting back into the swing of things… for me to get some activity as well. There the publisher is prohibited. All materials submitted will remain the property of focus over the last school starts, fall recreation programming are a few articles in this issue that made coaching development the Coaches Association of BC. Views expressed herein, including Time Out few months and I begins, and many sport seasons start. I me think of my sons current and future 18 Notes from the Technical Director letters to the editor are not necessarily hope that you are have recently signed up my 2 year involvement in sport, ‘Children Athletes those of this magazine, the Coaches Association of BC or its sponsors. Non- able to participate old son for gymnastics and swimming on the fast track’ and ‘Can coaches save member subscriptions: $20 annually. in some way during lessons for the fall. As a parent involved Physical education”. What is your opinion Order through [email protected] September 17-24, in the sporting world, I definitely question of these articles and what age do you 2011. We have the value of putting a 2 year old into a think is too young for organized sport? changed the format from previous years structured environment. As a first time The Coaches Association “All growth is a leap in the dark, a of BC is supported by in hopes of including more people across parent, I understand the excitement you spontaneous unpremeditated act without 2010 Legacies Now the province. Funding is being used have when your child is at the age where the benefit of experience.” to provide free NCCP courses across they can join these structured events but ~ Henry Miller the province through the Pacific Sport I also question ‘when is it too young’? My Twitter: www.twitter.com/CoachesBC regional centres. There are many contests son is very active and needless to say Facebook: and ways to get involved during the week, I need someone else ‘thinking’ up the www.facebook.com/CoachesBC check out the details in this issue or on activities he should be doing, even if it is On the Cover: Gord Collings at the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games. our website at www.coachesbc.ca. only for 30 minutes, once a week. Now Photo Credit: Team BC that I think about it, both programs are Chantelle Reinkens 2 Perspective Fall 2011 Perspective Fall 2011 3 COACHES CLIPBOARD COACHES CLIPBOARD 2011 Petro-Canada Coaching Apps! Sport Leadership Every issue we will feature a few of our favourite coaching, sport Sportif Whether you are a coach, and health related apps. Have an app that you love? Let us know at administrator, sport scientist, researcher, coach educator, or [email protected]. 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