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| Thursday,
November 2 |
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| 08:30 – 17:00 |
Coaching
Research Symposium
The Symposium offers delegates an opportunity to hear
about current research on coaching and coach education,
to network with Canadian researchers interested in coaching,
and to strengthen the linkages among researchers and practitioners.
For the complete workshop program, click
here (.pdf, 30 KB).
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| 17:00 – 18:00 |
Coaches
of Canada AGM |
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| 19:00 - 21:30 |
NCCP Partners
Day |
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| Friday,
November 3 |
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| 09:00 – 10:20 |
BC Workshops |
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BC1A:
PETs: How to Develop, Work With, and Maximize
a Performance Enhancement Team SOLD
OUT
Facilitator: Andy Van Neutegem
Speakers: Tim Frick, Judy Latoski, Kurt
Innes, Marilyn Hellier
Learn how to develop, manage, and maximize the team of
specialists that make up your PET. Regardless of whether
you are coaching at the club or national level, and regardless
of your available time or budget, there are ways to build
a great team to support your athletes. In this session,
coaches of all levels will benefit from the experience
of others in how they have maximized the benefits and
dealt with the challenges of managing a PET.
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BC1B:
Sport and the Media – More Than Just Results
SOLD OUT
Facilitator: Lia Threlfall
Speakers: Don Fennell, Farhan Lalji,
Judy Joseph Black
Gain insights from communications specialists and learn
the keys to developing and delivering information so that
sport becomes more than simply results in the sport section
of your local paper. This workshop will provide participants
with tips to effectively get the word out while building
relationships that benefit you, your organization, and
sport in general. |
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| 10:40 – 12:00 |
BC Workshops |
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BC2A:
Functional Assessment of Athletes SOLD
OUT
Facilitator: Lynda Cannell
Speakers: Anthony Findlay and Wendy Epp
Assessing an athlete’s posture, joint ranges of
motion, core strength, and specific muscle balance variables
provides key information that helps coaches better design
their training programs. SportMedBC’s functional
assessment protocols were developed to identify variables
that either increased the likelihood of injury (especially
chronic injuries) and/or in some way limited performance.
A core element of provincial athlete development programs,
many of the young athletes assessed to date have demonstrated
undesirable postural changes due to sport-specific training
as well as weaknesses and imbalances that have limited
their performance and skill development. This presentation
will provide an overview of the assessment protocols and
demonstrate how coaches can make best use of the information. |
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BC2B:
The Long-term Athlete Development Framework: Application
to Program Design and Development SOLD
OUT
Facilitator: Marilyn Payne
Speakers: Richard Way and Cindy Thomson
Okay – I have read the Canadian Sport for Life booklet.
I even attended one of the BC LTAD workshops in April.
Now what? How do I take this information and actually
apply it? What do I need to know and do to review and
possibly revise programs that we already have? What are
the keys to designing new programs for the future? There
are answers to these questions. This LTAD workshop will
focus on the application of the framework to the design
and development of programs in all 7 stages. |
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| 09:00 – 12:00 |
Sport
Matters Workshop
Speakers: Donald Lenihan, George Roter,
Shauna Sylvester, Victor Lachance, Ian Bird
1. Sport Salon: Speakers will share their
unique perspective as applied technology gurus, system
changers, and communication specialists.
2. Policy Priorities: Progress on the
federal fiscal policy front (1%, infrastructure, volunteerism
strategy, etc.)
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Conference
Activities |
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| Friday,
November 3 |
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| 13:30 – 14:30 |
Opening
Plenary
Speakers: The Honourable Michael D. Chong,
Beckie Scott and Chris Rudge |
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| 14:30 – 16:30 |
Sport
Exchange Forum
The Forum is an opportunity for exhibitors/participants
from provincial/territorial and national sport organizations
and multi-sport agencies to share programs/services
and best practices in system development, innovation,
research, accessibility, and outreach.
Delegates can network and visit more than 30 displays
on organizational best practices. In addition, delegates
will be able to participate in small group round table
discussions on the following topics:
• The Role of the Chief Coach
• Volunteerism in Sport
• Safe and Welcoming Environments
• Preparing for 2010
• Canadian Sport Review Panel
• Sustaining Sponsorship Beyond 2010
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| 18:30 – 19:30 |
Reception |
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| 19:30 – 22:30 |
Sport
Leadership Awards Dinner
The Sport Leadership Awards Dinner provides a forum to
recognize Canadian coaches and sport administrators for
their outstanding contribution to sport and athlete development.
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| Saturday,
November 4 |
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| 07:30 – 09:30 |
Women
in Coaching Breakfast and Plenary: Celebrating the Differences
in How Men and Women Coach
Speaker: Elaine Allison
In every sport there is a coach, the leader who can make
it or break it for the athlete. Does gender matter? Is
one better than the other? Find out what brains, hormones,
and cultural expectations have to do with it and come
learn how to "Celebrate the Differences" in
how men and women lead and coach. Join us for this laugh
out loud session, yet often overlooked debate. |
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| 10:00 – 12:00 |
Workshops |
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A1:
Canadian Sport Excellence
Facilitator: Marion Lay
Speakers: Roger Jackson, Mike Chambers, Henry
Wohler, Tom Scrimger
Canadian sport leaders will provide their vision for sustaining
the system through to 2020 and discuss how they are going
to contribute and collaborate to take advantage of the
momentum from the 2010 Olympics and Paralympics. |
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A2:
LTAD: Integration in Sport Development –
From Community to High Performance Sport
Speakers: Richard Way, Mary Bluechardt,
Colin Higgs
Utilizing LTAD as a change agent to create a better sport
system will be discussed including: clarification of roles
and responsibilities of stakeholders; engaging health
and education; linking PE, clubs and community recreation;
impacts on schools sport; creating a more physically literate
population; and supporting funding and accountability
decisions. Participants will consider practical applications
of how sport-specific LTAD models can be used to create
an integrated sport system. |
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A3:
Coach as a Synthesizer
Speaker: Frank Dick
Coaches have 20/20 double vision – they focus on
delivering high performance in addressing today’s
challenges, while preparing for even higher performance
in tomorrow’s different, and much tougher, arenas.
This means they must be as willing to be coached as they
are to be a competent coach.
Coaching skills, styles, and systems are explained
in detail in the development of personal coaches, team
coaches, chief coaches, and those who coach the coaches.
A coaching model is proposed to synthesize the specialist
input of resource development, which changes according
to shifts in performance and development needs. It’s
founded on the principal of interdependence between
internal and external resources. |
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A4:
CAAWS: Effective Networking
(women only)
Speaker: Nora Sheffe
Participants will explore the value of personal and professional
networks and identify strategies to build and maintain
networks. Networking scenarios will also be rehearsed
during this professional development session which blends
theory and practical applications. |
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A5:
Athlete Health: Injury
and Illness Prevention
Speakers: Mike Wilkinson and Carl Petersen
This workshop will address the importance of integrating
recovery into athlete preparation, the prevalence of overtraining
and the identification of warning symptoms of injury and
illness. In addition, the speakers will offer advice to
coaches to prevent injury and illness and provide the
definition, diagnosis, and treatment of concussion, rehabilitation
of the concussed athlete, and a return to sport protocol. |
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A6:
The British Columbia Integrated Performance System
Facilitator: Bill Hallett
Speakers: Scott Braley and Wendy Pattenden
Sport in BC is fortunate to have received support from
the Provincial Government toward the development and implementation
of an Integrated Performance System (IPS) for 30 targeted
sports. In addition, a BC Game Plan “Building Champions”
Winter program is in its 3rd year. This workshop will
provide an overview of the IPS and Game Plan as they have
rolled out, including the sport selection, coach support
and professional development, technical support for planning,
and the integration between the national, provincial,
and regional levels of sport development. We will look
at what has worked, what has to be improved, and the next
steps to take. |
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A7:
The Canadian versus American University Experience:
Pros and Cons for Canadian Athletes and Coaches
Facilitator: Norm Olenick
Speakers: Allison McNeill, Bob Philip, Judy McCrea
Each year, talented Canadian athletes decide to go to
the US or overseas to advance their athletic and educational
careers. In some cases, free tuition plus free room and
board are great draws. Do athletes receive both the education
and the sport experience that they are expecting, or do
they get short-changed in both areas? Are they receiving
coaching and development opportunities that they can’t
get in Canada? A panel of post-secondary leaders, athletes,
and coaches will share their knowledge about why athletes
go elsewhere to train, why it may work for some but not
others, and what Canadian universities are doing to keep
athletes at home. |
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A8:
International Exchange: Team Sports – Major
Games Preparation and System Development
Facilitator: Ken Shields
Speakers: Jean-Claude Skrela, Andre Arantes,
Newton Santos Vianna Junior (to be confirmed)
Experts from France and Brazil will lead delegates through
their major games experiences related to team selection,
preparation, and onsite support as well as the development
system for team sports. |
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| 12:00 – 13:30 |
Networking Luncheon |
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| 13:30 – 15:30 |
Workshops |
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B1:
CEO Forum: Best Practices
Speakers: Anne Merklinger and Bryan Tisdall
Two recognized executives will share their insight on
key topic areas such as human resources management, bringing
about change in a non-profit environment, youth recruitment
initiatives, and collaboration amongst key partners.
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B2:
Training Evaluators
Speaker: David Hill
This practical workshop will examine how evidenced-based
evaluation can be used to judge coach competency. It will
examine the structure of evaluation in the NCCP, provide
opportunities to observe coaching practice, and share
best practices that are currently used to evaluate coaches
and train Evaluators. |
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B3:
Coach Best Practices
Speakers: Frank Dick, Pierre Lafontaine,
Peter Eriksson, Allison McNeill
Learn how top coaches prepare high performance athletes
for world, Olympic, and Paralympic competition. |
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B4:
Coaching Research: International Perspectives
Facilitator: Wendy Bedingfield
Speakers: Claude Savard, Goran Kentta,
Jim Denison
This workshop, facilitated by the Chair of CAC's Coaching
Research Committee Wendy Bedingfield, will discuss current
research from the perspective of sport psychology, sport
pedagogy, and sport sociology.
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B5:
Strategic Growth Opportunities for Non-government
Revenue and Provincial Sport Lotteries
Facilitator: Sharon White
Speakers: Sandra Stevenson, Marc Seguin,
Michelle Bodnarchuk, Marilyn Kerfoot
This two-part workshop will address the necessity of expanding
non-governmental sources of revenue for provincial and
national sport organizations as each strives to create
a more sustainable future, as well as looking at the recent
launches of Provincial Sport Lotteries in Ontario and
BC.
The workshop will touch on corporate sponsorship, corporate
support, public and private foundations, grants, planning
giving, fee for service, business ventures, gifting,
and events as alternatives to government funding dependency.
The workshop will also consider successes from other
non-profit sectors.
Two provincial sport lotteries have been launched in
recent months. Learn how the BC SportsFunder Lottery
and the Ontario Quest for Gold Lottery Game came into
being, what successful partnerships were developed,
where the funds are to be allocated, and what the benefits
and challenges are of programs such as these.
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B6:
Mental Recovery and Regeneration for Coaches
Facilitator: Anne Muscat
Speaker: Laura Farres
How well an athlete performs is very much determined by
how well they have prepared both mentally and physically.
The same can be said for the coaches of our elite athletes.
If the coach is not mentally well-prepared, then their
abilities to perform at their peak will also be diminished.
What steps can you, as a coach, take to ensure that you
will be at the top of your game when you need to be? Laura
Farres will present some proven methods for you to develop
an appropriate recovery and regeneration plan that will
keep you mentally fit throughout the season. |
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B7:
Practical Applications
of Performance Technology
Speaker: Kristin Collins
Kristin Collins, High Performance Advisor, Performance
Technology for Own the Podium 2010 will provide leading
edge advice on optimizing performance analysis in elite
sport. |
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B8:
Understanding and Enhancing
the Performance Environment
Speakers: Gordon Sleivert and Susan Boegman
It is well established that both training and performance
can be impaired through a lackadaisical approach to sport
nutrition and hydration. Despite the strong body of evidence
indicating that the physiology of exercise and food and
fluid intake are integrally linked and need to be managed
together in a successful performance regime, many athletes
at the elite level require encouragement and education
to optimize this aspect of their preparation. It is clear
that sport science has moved out of the laboratory into
the sporting arena and new field methods of assessing
physiological strain, hydration status, and fuel requirements
are now available. These new methods along with performance
enhancement expertise from coaches and other sport performance
experts have been used extensively in the past few years
to individualize recommendations for athletes and assist
them in optimizing performance. This presentation will
outline what we have learned about optimizing the performance
environment and address the challenges in these areas
that Canadian Sport faces as we approach the Beijing and
Vancouver Olympics. |
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| 16:00 – 17:00 |
Plenary:
Beyond codes: Taking ethics in coaching to the next level
Speaker: John Dalla Costa
As in other spheres of society, ethical issues are front
and centre in the world of sport.
For coaches at every level the challenge today is to excel
with as much ethical clarity and commitment as with technical
expertise and passion. This means more than adopting codes
or shifting practices. It also requires the imagination
and creativity to see the performance enhancing possibilities
from staying true to the values of sport and society.
John Dalla Costa of the Centre for Ethical Orientation
will speak to both the challenges and possibilities of
this new ethical paradigm, providing lessons on trust-building
as well as practical steps for constructively engaging
ethical dilemmas. |
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| 19:00 – 21:00 |
Wine and Cheese Reception |
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| Sunday,
November 5 |
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| 09:30 – 11:30 |
Closing
Plenary: Integrating National and Provincial/Territorial
Sport Development Systems
Facilitator: Jean-Marie De Koninck
Speakers: Tom Scrimger, Marion Lay, Pierre
Lafontaine
The Canadian sport system has progressed significantly
with the adoption of the Canadian Sport Plan, the awarding
of the 2010 Games to Vancouver, and the increased commitment
of Federal/Provincial/Territorial governments. The perspectives
from a national sport organization, a provincial/territorial
delivery agency, and the federal government will challenge
delegates to consider how they can contribute to enhancing
the collaboration amongst partners in the sport system. |
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Closing
Keynote Speaker: John Furlong
John Furlong, chief executive officer for VANOC, will
challenge and inspire members of the Canadian sport system
to continue to strive for excellence as we look towards
Beijing in
2008 and Vancouver/Whistler in 2010. The sustainability
principles established by VANOC provide an excellent model
for the overall Canadian sport system. |
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