Sport Leadership Conference • Team BC • Anti-Doping Revisions • Women in Coaching the official publication of the CABC • Issue 11 • Winter 2007 $3.95 CAD www.coaches.bc.ca the information source for every coach Knowing the Law The Adolescent Athlete NCCP COURSE SCHEDULE • CLIPBOARD COACHING NOTES • UPCOMING EVENTS • COACH PROFILES editor’s desk executive director’s message It was great to meet many of you at the Sport Leadership Conference in Vancouver Coaches role in athletes develoment needs to be recognized in November. The fact that so many of you took the opportunity to hear some But the question still remains: “what do ability to bring together the right people amazing, top-notch speakers and access we need to do to elevate coaching across to support Beckie, that resulted in this their wealth of knowledge while they this country to the same status as other perfect performance. were in our own backyard, so to speak, professions”? indicates the level of commitment to Between the Coaches Summit and the professional development that coaches Winter 2007 At the Coaches of Canada “Coaches Sport Leadership Conference I was in the have. I came away with a lot of story Summit ’06” in Whistler, this was an Winnipeg airport and had the pleasure ideas, and will be calling on the expertise of our coaches to help develop them into important issue on the conference of finding Clara Hughes standing in articles for BC Coaches Perspective. in this issue: agenda. Although this conversation is line behind me. We talked about her taking place within the ranks of our great performances in Torino and her One of the panel discussions (which I national partner, this also needs to be upcoming season, but what she was inadvertently ended up sitting on) was on the cover addressed at the provincial level as well. most excited about at the time was the about what sport organizations of all sizes can do to get more recognition in the Why? Because it is at the provincial level fact that her coach, Xuili Wang, was to media. This was one of the BC workshops Knowing the Law! The past few months have seen some of that all professions are regulated. It is receive the Jack Donohue “Coach of the held on opening day. Judy Joseph Black, a 10 To coach or to direct—is there a conflict? the most exciting times in the Canadian also at the provincial level where we, Year” Award. Clara was quite clear that familiar name to many of you, along with sport system in many years, and this is as an Association, can have the greatest her success, and that of her fellow athletes sportscaster Farhan Lalji and community especially true for us in BC. We have impact and begin to move forward this was, the result of the excellent coaching newspaper reporter Done Fennell told the a closer look just come off of the Sport Leadership issue. The province of BC is home to some that she had received from Xuili. Clara audience that the media is very open and Women In Coaching Conference (the largest sport conference of the best coaches in this country and had nothing but the highest praise for willing to cover sports stories, especially in Canada), Coaches Summit (the it is here where the CABC can begin to what Xuili has done for the sport of speed those with a human interest angle. But, Apprenticeship Coaches 7 they stressed, the onus is on coaches/ 7 Coaches of Canada’s annual professional utilize these resources to help to support skating in this country and she believed Apprentices are getting multi-sport development workshop), the SPIN the Coaches of Canada achieve this goal. that it was her commitment to being the clubs/athletes, etc. to provide them Games experience 8 with the information about the stories Summit (a sport technology conference) As we begin to move towards this goal, best that she could be as a coach that that should be told. Likewise, I am very Team BC Readies for 2007 and the final hiring of all the coaches we will be looking to our members to resulted in the best performances of her interested in receiving any story ideas or Canada Winter Games involved in the Integrated Performance support this initiative. athletes on the track. news for BC Coaches Perspective and our 8 We profile two coaches System. Where else in Canada can monthly E-News. you see so much going on in the sport At the Sport Leadership Conference, we It is the Beckie Scotts and the Clara In this issue we are introducing two new The Adolescent Athlete system to develop world class coaches had the pleasure of hearing Olympic Hughes who receive all the attention sections. “Time Out” is a forum for 12 Spirit, Skill, and the Balance Point and athletes? Gold medalist Beckie Scott as the after a great medal winning performance, readers to share their thoughts on what 12 keynote speaker. This was truly a moving and rightly so. They have made a life they read in the magazine, and to make One thing that has become quite clear, presentation, and one that had more than long commitment to achieving the thoughtful comment on any relevant topic. your perspective as a result of all these gatherings, is that a few participants wiping their eyes. pinnacle in sport. Let’s hope that in Send your submissions to me, including your name, address, phone number and although our sport system has come a long Beckie talked about her passion and the very near future that the coaches Bob Bearpark Foundation way in the past few years, we still have commitment to sport, the incredible role who have contributed to these great e-mail address (only your name and Bursary Recipients hometown will be printed with your letter). 16 a long way to go. This is especially true that each and every one of her coaches performances will also receive the same Bob Bearpark was the force behind the Let’s get some more dialogue going within for the professionalization of coaching. In that she ever had contributed to her public recognition as those who have the coaching community! creation of the Coaches Association of BC the BC sport system we have seen a large podium success, and how every member reached the podium. Without these great The other new section, “Check It Out”, Upcoming Events increase in the number of paid coaches of her ‘team’, from the waxing crew to coaches, it is unlikely that we will ever features recently published books which 18 over the past year-and-a-half. This has the sport science experts, were all a part have these great athletes. If we are able -BCSA Soccer Conference members can borrow from the CABC -International Coaching School been in large part due to the terrific efforts of her medal winning performance. It to change the way that society values library. This month our guest reviewers of 2010 Legacies Now and the creation of was her coaches, all five of them, who coaches, to the level that we value sport are Joanne Stygall Lotz and Dave Brown, 19 NCCP Courses an integrated sport system that places a coached, encouraged, supported, cheered performance, we will have achieved who was easy to tag for the job because high value on coaching. The province of and prodded her up the toughest final our goal. his office at BC Rugby is next to the CABC Front Cover: Photo by Mike Ridewood Quebec has long recognized the value leg of her race and who were on the office. The fact that he is eminently that the coach plays in the development finish line with tears in their eyes as qualified to comment on anything of a A Quarterly Publication of the: Contributing Writers: The Coaches Association of its athletes, and their contributions she completed the toughest race of her sporting nature was a bonus! Dave Brown, Rachel Corbett, Hilary of BC is supported by Findlay, Steve Indig, Joanne Stygall Lotz, 2010 Legacies Now have been appropriately recognized. life. It was the great coaching, and their Gord May If you haven’t visited the CABC website Jo-Anne Kates Weiler Publication Agreement # 40972566 recently, be sure to pay it a visit to check Editor Jan Mansfield Return undeliverable Canadian Publisher CABC CABC Zone Representatives addresses to: out the new look and the new ease of Zone 1 Rep. Brian Taylor Design Sharkbite Art & Design Coaches Association of BC Sports drinks not for children navigating the information. It will be a Zone 2 Rep. Wendy Wheeler #345 - 1367 West Broadway St. timeout opinioopinionn CABC Board of Directors Zone 3 Rep. Chris Johnson Vancouver, BC V6H 4A9 work in progress for a few weeks yet, so President Judy Latoski Zone 4 Rep. Tim Frick tel: 604-298-3137 Re: Energy Drinks, Fall, 2006 visit the site frequently to discover the VP Marketing Mike Renney Zone 5 Rep. Gail Donohue fax: 604-738-7175 VP Finance Frank Reynolds Zone 6 Rep. 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