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Sport Nutrition Tip of the Month
March 11, 2010 - Eating Disorders – Signs, Screening, Confronting - Coaches should be able to recognize early warning signs and symptoms associated with eating disorders (ED). If the coach suspects an athlete may be suffering from an ED, the coach should act quickly to refer the athlete for appropriate medical, psychological, and nutritional intervention. More...

Feb 10, 2010 Sport Nutrition Tip of the Month
Feb 09, 2010 Women in Coaching National Team Coaching Apprenticeship Program
Feb 08, 2010 6 Finalists for Coveted Title of Chunky Most Valuable Coach Announced
Jan 25, 2010 CAC Research Committee Call for Proposals

 

   Way to go, Coach!
    Celebrating Canada's Coaches at the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games


Jean-Sébastien Labrie
Plessisville, Que./Mont-Ste-Anne, Que.
Claim to Fame:
  • Head Coach, Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Team, 2006 to present
  • Nation’s Cup winner, 2009
  • Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Award, 2009
Events:
Athletes:
Results:

Women's Slalom - Visually Impaired

Vivianne Forest

Men's Slalom - Sitting

Josh Dueck

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NCCP Corner

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NCCP Competition – Development Modules Now Available
As of April 1, 2009, the NCCP Theory 3 has now been officially phased out and coaches are now required to complete Competition – Development modules. The modules are available within a package or as stand-alone modules. Coaches wishing to complete all of the training in the Competition – Development context will need to complete six multi-sport modules and a number of sport-specific modules. Contact your Provincial/Territorial Coaching Representatives to learn when and where training will be held in your region.

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Coaches as Newsmakers

GDemers

Women in Sport Advocate Recognized
The Globe and Mail newspaper’s annual list of Canada’s Top 50 in sport is an eagerly anticipated annual news happening. On the list this year was women-in-sport activist Guylaine Demers whose citation read: “University of Laval professor and president of Égale Action, she pushes for more female coaches at the elite level of sport in Canada.”

Read the Guylaine Demers - Coaches as Newsmakers story

Read the Jay Triano - Coaches as Newsmakers story (May 2009)


Women in Coaching

Canada Games Apprentices
Nineteen women coaches from across Canada are participating in the Women in Coaching Canada Games Apprenticeship Program. They will prepare to work alongside their mentor coaches at the 2009 Canada Summer Games in Prince Edward Island in August. More...
Conferences

OUR Sport: Moving Forward
We are all a part of it: the ever changing sport community we live in with its economic pendulum, funding level adjustments, system cycles, and priority shifts. With so much on the line every day, each of us has a role to play in OUR Sport: Moving Forward.

Join the EXPERTS in Ottawa for the premier annual sport event, Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif, where top coaches, sport administrators, coach educators, leaders in the corporate community, and sport scientists come together to CONNECT, LEARN, NETWORK, and CELEBRATE together OUR Sport.
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Keith Russell: 2009 Geoff Gowan Award Recipient
For close to 40 years, Keith Russell has helped to guide the development of every gymnastics coach in the country through his teachings and his mentoring, in all disciplines and at all levels of performance.  More...


 
Whether you are a first-time participant at the community sport level or a national team athlete, proper nutrition is essential to overall good health and optimal athletic performance. More...

 
Browse through some coaching tips and tools that may help you to make a difference in the lives of those that you coach. More...


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