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Dr. Stephen Norris Highlights Successful Okanagan Sport Leadership Conference
Oct 19, 2016
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By: Brad Duquette
The Okanagan Sport Leadership Conference is a one-day Sport Conference, hosted by PacificSport Okanagan, designed for coaches, sport administrators and practitioners to provide sport education opportunities and hands-on training experiences.
The conference also hosts a sport tradeshow that includes local organizations and businesses that brought together a team of sport experts to offer interactive seminars on a variety of relevant topics.
Spanning 14 years now, the annual conference has successfully featured experts such as Dr. Dean Kriellars (Canadian Sport for Life), Ryan Walters (former NHL player), Allison McNeill (former coach women’s national basketball team) and has delivered on a variety of topics relating to sport performance and sport development. This year, the conference was held Saturday, October 15 at the Parkinson Activity Centre in Kelowna and featured outstanding presentations and active workshops by:
- Dr. Stephen Norris (Developing CS4L Communities),
- Dr. Shaunna Taylor (A Sport Parent’s Guide, Sport Psych 101),
- Chris Collins (Strength Session/Gym Orientation 101),
- Vanessa Milot (Utilizing Joga for Rehabilitation), Presenter's Notes
- Lise Dallien MacMillan (Myofacial Techniques and Tools), Presenter's Notes
- Kurt Innes (Performance Sport Map for Parents),
- Okanagan Elite Athlete Panel feat: Tristan Smyth, Brittney Page, Trevor Stirling
PacificSport Okanagan Executive Director, Shaunna Taylor, was impressed with the quality presenters and participants at this year’s conference: “I had the opportunity to reconnect with the amazing coaches, administrators and exhibitors who attend this conference year after year, as well as networking and having meaningful discussions with college and university students who are just entering the sector. It was exciting to facilitate sport leadership in a cross-sectoral panel (sport system, school district, health authority, City of Kelowna), in order to address some of the ways we can work together to strengthen our sport and physical activity community in the Okanagan. As always, staff did an amazing job creating a quality event, and thank you to the capable and enthusiastic volunteers who came through to make it a success once again.”
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Oct 19, 2016
So many of us have done the Saturday relay race: karate to soccer game to basketball practice. From softball to swim team. Baseball practice to a hockey tournament.
When my kids were young, the world of sports and activities was their oyster. They played multiple sports, tried on things to see what fit while we drove from one side of town to the other, coordinating calendars, resolving scheduling conflicts and keeping all the local drive-thru fast-food joints in business with to-and-fro dining in the mini-van.
A few seasons of soccer, overlapping with the start of CYO basketball, which overlapped with the start of Little League season. Mix in the odd volleyball camp, rec department tennis class and some middle school track and you've got a drawer full of old team pictures, a lot of participation trophies and a whole lot of days on the snack schedule.
Then maybe that club coach asked for a larger commitment, or the select team came calling. Maybe the schedule just wasn't working anymore and it was too tough to squeeze in multiple practices and games each week around homework and band or group projects.
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Oct 25, 2016
The City of Kelowna and PacificSport Okanagan are pleased to present the 2017 Community Sport Hero Awards Reception on Wednesday, February 8, 2017. At this reception, we will recognize and honour local volunteers, athletes and service providers for their outstanding contributions to sport within our community.
Now is your chance to nominate that special local sport hero!
What is a Community Sport Hero Award?
Volunteers play a crucial role in the success of any sport organization. Whether it’s as coach, team manager, trainer or board member, sport volunteers bring dedication, commitment, vision and passion to an organization – all extremely important ingredients to ongoing success. This award recognizes exceptional volunteers within the Kelowna sport community.
What is an Athletic Excellence Award?
This award recognizes Okanagan athletes who have had outstanding achievements in their sport this past year, and have been nominated by our Local and Provincial Sport Organizations.
For more information contact Nathan Reiter, Sport Performance Program Coordinator (PacificSport Okanagan) at (250) 469–8855 or nreiter@pacificsport.com
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Canadian Sport School Offering Free Trial Day
Nov 1, 2016
The Canadian Sport School is a high performance multi-sport program for student-athletes designed to enhance their overall learning environment.
Click here to see promo video
Canadian Sport School participants will be exposed to a high performance lifestyle throughout the 10 month academic school year and will benefit from a flexible academic timetable that supports their competitive training schedule while allowing them to attend their public school of choice.
Interested in learning more about how the Canadian Sport School can help you achieve your academic & athletic goals?
Contact Kim Whelpton (250) 863-8642 today to register for your FREE Trial Day!
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SPORT DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
PacificSport Supports Early Childhood Educators in their Understanding of Physical Literacy
PacificSport strongly believes that developing physical literacy is necessary for all ages and it is important for Early Childhood Educators to understand how they play a vital role in each child’s overall development of fundamental movement skills.
Are you looking for ways/ideas to enhance movement skills with children in your programs?
PacificSport Okanagan delivers many workshops valley-wide that show practical examples and an overall understanding of ways to incorporate fundamental movement skills into any daily activity plan. It is important to develop physical literacy at the younger demographic, so that children can move with confidence and competence in a variety of different settings, either for everyday physical activity, sport or the performing arts.
We deliver workshops that support ECE professional development by providing FUN and practical ideas to enhance children’s movements through purposeful play, games & activities.
We recently conducted a survey at previous workshops and ECE's used the following adjectives to describe their learning experience with us: fun, creative, informative, encouraging, interactive & meaningful!
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PacificSport Okanagan would like to thank and recognize Global Fitness Centre as a friend and outstanding partner within our local community. Global prides themselves on providing superior service by professionals that are highly trained and up to date with the latest breakthroughs in health and fitness.
We caught up with Darcia and the team at Global Fitness Centre to get their thoughts on the mutually benficial relationship with PacificSport Okanagan. Click on the READ MORE tab below for full recap! |
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