We are coaches” is a three-year campaign designed to increase the number of trained women coaches in Canada in order to provide female mentors and role models for young participants. The campaign primarily targets mothers with children involved in community level sport. More...
     
PROGRAM NEWS

WE ARE COACHES Program Celebrates Women Community Coaches
March 6, 2008 – "International Women's Day is a perfect time to recognize the women across the country who have taken the community coach training programs," said Sheilagh Croxon, a consultant to the CAC's Women in Coaching program including We are coaches.
"As impressive as the numbers are, the influence of each of these women on impressionable young girls and boys is even more significant." More...

 

Third Year of We Are Coaches Kicks Off Nationally with a Huge Success in Newfoundland and Labrador
May 28, 2007

Coaching: A foundation for women’s success in Canadian sport.
March 8, 2006
  CAC launches “We are coaches” campaign
February 7, 2006

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COACH PROFILE
Laurie Mueller: Community Soccer Coach
Laurie Mueller’s personality is like champagne. She effervesces! It helps explain how she accomplished so much with soccer for girls and young women. Laurie had played soccer all her life but stopped around the time she married and moved to Bradford, Ontario. Her husband encouraged her to coach as a way of keeping in touch with a sport she loved. More...
COMMUNITY PROFILE
Orleans, Ontario: Orleans Amateur Fastball Association (OAFA)
Pam Naylor and her husband Ken are a dynamic duo when it comes to the Orleans Amateur Fastball Association (OAFA) in Orleans, Ontario, just east of Ottawa. They love both the game and the people who play it. They implemented the “We are coaches” program before the 2006 season. After the season ended Pam discussed the experiences. More...

 

 

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