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...
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.
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.”
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. More...
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.
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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...