Plenary Sessions / Breakout Workshops
9:00 am - 12 noon Pre-conference Sessions
a) NCCP Fundamental Movement Skills - Coach PD Workshop - Garry Armstrong
FMS Coach PD is a new NCCP workshop designed specifically for coaches with some NCCP background that work with young children. The goal of the NCCP FMS workshop is to expose youth leaders, community coaches and sport leaders to a process that will teach and improve fundamental movement skills for children. The Coach PD Workshop consists of 5 units focusing on a specific aspect of teaching movement skills or on a specific movement skill. Workshop recipients will receive NCCP credit.
b) NCCP Making Ethical Decisions Workshop - Dennis Beerling
The NCCP MED module outlines a process that will enable coaches to make thoughtful and responsible decisions in situations presenting ethical or moral dilemmas. This module is a requirement of all coaches to get certified status in the new NCCP. After completing this workshop you will understand a thorough process for making sensitive decisions, have solid arguments to justify your decisions, and feel confident that your decision was the right thing to do under the circumstances. Coaches who take this module will get NCCP credit.
c) SMSC Sport First Aid Workshop - Karen Craven & Melanie Headrick
Caring properly for your athletes is an important role that a coach plays. This workshop, lead by certified Sports Physiotherapists, will teach coaches how to recognize and deal with sport injuries. Topics such as: common injuries, injury recognition, medical kits, life threatening injuries, liability, fitness & injury prevention will be covered.
1:00 - 1:50 pm - Opening Plenary
Hayley Wickenheiser, 5-time Olympian, Women's Hockey & Softball
We are excited that Shaunavon, Saskatchewan native and five-time Olympian, Hayley Wickenheiser will deliver the conference opening address. Hayley will inspire delegates as she shares her stories of growing up in small town Saskatchewan through to representing Canada for the past 17 years on the international stage. Hayley has become one of Canada’s most decorated athletes winning three gold and one sliver Olympic medal and 9 IIHF World Women Championship medals. Wickenheiser also attended the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia as a member of Canada’s Women Softball Team.
2:00 - 3:30 pm - Breakout Workshops
a) Myths & Realities about Performance Enhancing Products - Heather Hynes
Supplements, doping, and various other performance enhancement products are often used in sport. Often products are consumed or used without the athlete knowing what is actually in the ingredients at the time of manufacturing. The session will look at a variety of different means of performance enhancing products that may be legal, illegal, or banned in sport.
b) Effective Seasonal Planning - Don Clark
This session will focus on the development of a seasonal plan designed to help athletes achieve their performance goals. It will be primarily directed toward coaches who are working with athletes in the CS4L/LTAD “Training to Train” (ages 12-16) stage. The objectives of this stage include: building an aerobic base, developing speed and strength towards the end of the stage, and further develop and consolidate sport specific skills.
c) The Role of the Coach in LTAD - Carolyn Trono
You can’t underestimate the importance of the coach understanding LTAD. This workshop will examine the LTAD key factors, their relationship to the stages and the coach’s role in ensuring consistency with their program elements. Coaches are leaders. Athletes look to coaches for guidance and expertise. The coach needs to understand their role in developing athletes for the long-term. We will also discuss some of the inconsistencies within the sport system that need to be addressed in order to encourage coaches to adjust their programs.
d) Creating Sport Opportunities & Developing New Programs - Joe Daniels
Using the Long Term Athlete Development Model and The Planning Community Sport Workbook this session will focus on providing tips and tools to assist coaches and administrators in creating and developing sport. The session will explore programs from the Active Start to the Training to Train Stage while providing ideas for the implementation of developmentally appropriate sport in Aboriginal and grassroots communities.
e) Incorporating Traditional Values into Your Sports Program - Mel Mercredi
Values are an important part of Aboriginal culture and a traditional teaching that when incorporated into your sports program helps teach athletes to act in ways that honour themselves and those around them. Additionally, learning traditional values can help athletes to make positive choices on and off the field of play. This session will focus on providing ideas to assist coaches in incorporating traditional values into their programs.
3:45 - 5:00 pm - Breakout Workshops
a) Creative Coaching - Spicing up your Practices - Sarah Junkin
This session will share tips, techniques, and also engage coaches to brainstorm their own ideas that best relate to their athletes/training environments to make practices more varied, unknown, enjoyable, and occasionally even designed based on the athletes’ choice. Introducing warm-up activities/games from other sports is another idea to add variety to your practice or training program.
b) Analyzing Skills Using Technology - Bruce Craven
This session will be a practical session where coaches learned how to use technology such as video and Dartfish. The session will use a variety of practical moch-ups where coaches will get a chance to see how the power of video and Dartfish can be of benefit in analyzing and teaching skills. Other technologies will also be discussed that allow coaches to monitor athlete performance.
c) Coaching Female Athletes - Lisa Thomaidis & Jason Grieve
This interactive session with presenters Lisa Thomaidis (Basketball) and Jason Grieve (Volleyball) will focus on sharing practical ideas/action steps to help you be a better coach of female athletes. They will explore differences between coaching male and female athletes, including what are the lessons learned – what works, what doesn’t? What is the role of the coach in strong team/ or individual performances while helping athletes reach their full potential on and off the field of play.
d) Strategies for Coaching Aboriginal Athletes - Courage Bear & JJ Johnstone
This session will feature coaches of Aboriginal athletes sharing their successes and challenges while providing insight into creating a positive relationship between the coach and athlete.
e) Parents…are they part of the team? - Ralph Schoenfeld
Parents play a more significant role than ever in their child's athletic life, and rarely a day, week, month, season pass without "issues" between coach and parent. Parents are more involved in all aspects of their child's life and practice "preparing the path for the child" as opposed to "preparing the child for the path". Having parents know and accept what role they could to play in helping their child be a successful athlete, is one of the most difficult challenges facing today's coach.
9:15 - 10:15 am - Plenary Session
Clay DeBray, Head Coach & Danny McKay, Assistant Coach
Team Sask – National Aboriginal Hockey Championship - 2010 Gold Medalists
Clay and Danny lead Team Saskatchewan to a Gold medal performance at the recent 2010 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC) in Ottawa. In this session you will hear success stories from both coaches and athletes who participated.
10:30 am - 12:00 noon - Breakout Workshops
a) Sleep & Nutrition - The Impacts on Performance - Danielle Campbell
Athletes at all levels require a sound nutrition plan for peak performance. Tips and ideas for a training diet as well as timing for pre - and post-game and recovery nutrition will be highlighted. In addition hydration tips and the importance of sleep for athletes to maintain their top level of abilities will be covered.
b) Effective Athlete-Coach Relations Using Motivation & Empowerment - Tom Graham
In a general sense, this presentation will focus on maximizing positive emotions and minimizing negative emotions among the athletes we coach. More specifically, we wish to address considerations that contribute to a remarkable training experience when included together. These components will include minor games, physical training, technical training or skill development, tactical training, general reinforcement principles and participative leadership, and the role of goals, conditions and drill structure for practice. These components will be examined in terms of their implications for self-reliance, pride, gratitude, anger, shame, guilt and other emotions that can be part of the athletic experience.
c) Functional Movement Screen or Physical Assessments for Conditioning - Bruce Craven
This session will focus on Bruce Craven’s work with Own The Podium in developing the national pilot project for athlete screening and monitoring. The session will present a case study where an athlete comes in and goes through the screening process and the results are utilized to show how the results can be integrated into the training program on and off the field of play.
d) How Sport Can Help in Dealing with Negative Issues - Mike Tanton
The pressure on young people to give in to negative influences such as drugs, alcohol, gangs and smoking is significant. This session will provide ideas about creating a sporting environment where athletes learn the skills and gain the confidence to overcome such influences.
e) Tips & Tools for the Beginner Coach - Dennis Beerling
This interactive session will illustrate the important role of the coach and provide coaches with some of the basic information necessary to set the foundation for a successful coaching experience.
12:00 - 1:00 pm - Luncheon
Lucas Makowsky, Speed Skating - Long Track, Gold Medalist - 2010 Winter Olympic Games
2010 Gold Medal Olympian & Regina native, Lucas Makowsky will speak to delegates over lunch about his experience growing up and training as a speed skater in Saskatchewan and making the National Team and competing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver where his team captured the gold medal in Team Pursuit.
1:15 - 2:45 pm - Breakout Workshops
a) Planning for Peak Performance - Lyle Sanderson
Planning for Peak Performance suggests a plan that prepares the athlete and/or team to achieve the highest level of performance in the most important competition. The presentation will explore the factors involved in planning to achieve peak performance. The information will be of use in planning for a season, such as a High School season, as well as in the development of annual and multi year plans.
b) Fundamental Weight Training for Young Athletes - Phil Chilibeck
The session will involve a discussion of effective and safe resistance training methods for youth (i.e children to teenagers). It will highlight the recent position statement on resistance training in youth by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology.
c) Effective Communication with Today's Athlete - Lisa Benz
The presentation will examine effective communication strategies between coach-athlete, as well as how athlete-athlete communication can be improved. The communication process will be discussed, looking at how messages can be sent and received more effectively, and why breakdowns in communication occur. Practical tips for learning how to communicate effectively and improving communication will be discussed.
d) Aboriginal Women & Leadership - Amy Shipley
This session is about recognizing the unique skills that make Aboriginal women leaders. The session will focus on having participants identify their leadership skills and provide ideas on how to use these skills to create positive change in communities.
e) Ideas to use in Developing your Athlete's Self Concept - Garry Armstrong
The focus of this session will be a discussion on how to incorporate the development of athletes’ self esteem and self concept into your coaching and sport programs.
f) Effective Coach Mentorship - Astrid Baecker & Laurie Wachs
Join coaches Astrid Baeker (Soccer) and Laurie Wachs (Synchronized Swimming) to gain a better understanding of the mentorship process. Mentorship has been an integral part of the development of coaches and will continue to be a critical in engaging new coaches and sharing of expertise in Saskatchewan’s sport delivery system. These relationships between coaches often result in both parties learning something new about their coaching techniques while gaining perspective from another’s point of view. Key topics that will be addressed in this dynamic session include: how to identify and design mentorship/learning opportunities, what makes a successful mentorship, and how to reduce and resolve challenges that may arise.
3:00 - 4:30 pm - Closing Plenary
Coaches Open Mic with Coaches Panel
Moderator - Mark Bracken
High Performance Coach - Steve Carroll
High School Coach - Kirby Frey
Club/Female Coach - Audrey Gavlas
University Coach - Greg Jockims
Aboriginal Coach - Courage Bear
Coaches have asked for an open topic…open mic style session where a wide-range of coaching related questions or topics can be brought forward…. so we’ve delivered. This moderated session will give coaches that opportunity. A panel of five Saskatchewan coaches ranging from the community to high performance level has been assembled to respond to questions & share their expertise. This will be a fun & interactive session that allows delegates to learn from the panel as well as share with other coaches in the room. Don’t miss out!
Post-conference Session
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
NCCP Aboriginal Coaching Manual Workshop
Learning Facilitators: Courage Bear & Clay DeBray
This day long NCCP workshop is a professional development tool for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal coaches who coach Aboriginal athletes, as they become trained through the NCCP. The material in the ACM has been developed to meet the following objectives:
- provide culturally relevant training courses to Aboriginal coaches and community sport leaders;
- elevate the capacity of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal coaches to coach Aboriginal athletes;
- improve the quality of the sport experience for Aboriginal athletes;
- improve the coach’s understanding of, and ability to apply, Aboriginal culture to sport and to coaching techniques and tactics;
- allow Aboriginal communities greater accessibility to the NCCP;
- increase the number of NCCP certified Aboriginal coaches;
- make the wisdom of Aboriginal culture available to both Aboriginal and mainstream sport.
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