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The Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre is the lasting legacy of the
2001 World Championships in Athletics. The Centre delivers world class
programs designed to foster excellence in coaches, develop high
performance athletes, and encourage participation and physical fitness
in Canadian youth. We are housed in the Faculty of Physical Education
and Recreation at the University of Alberta.
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Jay Johnson Interview
Wed Aug 25 2010
Jay Johnson is a Denver-based coach and writer. He competed in college at the University of Colorado before becoming an assistant coach there under Mark Wetmore. Johnson contributes regularly to the Running Times, through both print and video, and he also maintains one of the most active and instructional websites for information and advice on training distance runners, CoachJayJohnson.com. Johnson currently works with leading American distance runners Brent Vaughn and Renee Metivier-Baillie. In this interview he discusses his approach to planning 10,000 metre training including the importance of recovery, correct mechanics and supplemental exercises to support the high volume and hard work that is so essential to become a successful 10,000 metre runner.
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2010 Canadian National Sprints Conference
Wed Aug 25 2010
An outstanding panel of experts, including renowned coaches Tom Tellez and Loren Seagrave, will discuss contemporary sprint training theory November 12-14 in Toronto, Canada. This conference aims to analyze and debate a variety of sprint training systems and technical models in order to help coaches better understand the development of speed and how to improve their athletes' performances.
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Sport Science Video Update
Mon Jul 12 2010
Our first video this week is an introductory biomechanics lecture focusing on javelin technique. This presentation outlines how data is collected and provides some basic parameters and advice for javelin throwing. The second video is a technical analysis of the 4x100m event from Michael Khmel and is a great introduction to the sprint relays for developmental coaches.
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Athletics Canada promotes Donna Harris to Director of Coach Development
Wed Jun 30 2010
OTTAWA – Athletics Canada is pleased to announce today that effective July 1, 2010 Donna Harris has been promoted to the position of Director, Coach Development. Donna has been with Athletics Canada beginning in 2004 with the Run Jump Throw (RJT) grassroots program. She was responsible for overseeing the redevelopment of including the coordination of the program writers, integrating it with the NCCP, creating the Teacher Manual and oversaw the RJT technical progressions DVD. In 2006 she moved into the position of Manager of Coach Development.
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Athletics Canada forms formal partnership with CACC
Wed Jun 30 2010
Athletics Canada and the CACC have come to terms on a memorandum of understanding in the delivery and the management of coach education and development across Canada that encompasses a broad vision of coaches as critical and valuable players in the development of athletic success.
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Competition Development Course Scheduled for Fall 2010
Thu Jun 24 2010
Registration is now open for Athletics Canada's Competition Development course scheduled to take place in Winnipeg, Manitoba during the fall of 2010.
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Coaching Centre Wins Three Research Grants
Tue Jun 22 2010
Three employees of the CACC recently secured research grants totalling over $70,000 to study how coaches solve problems and plan their athletes’ training. Director Dr. Jim Denison was awarded $60,000 from the Social Science and Humanties Research Council of Canada for his study into how high-performance middle and long-distance coaches in Canada solve their athletes' performance-related problems.
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Brian Risk Interview
Tue Jun 22 2010
Brian Risk is an experienced NCCP Level 5 Coach in athletics who has worked on fourteen national track and field teams and represented Canada all over the world. In that time he has accrued a multitude of experiences that have highlighted the importance of appropriate mental preparation for athletes. Stating the importance of the skills and consistently applying them, are however different things. In this interview about his book, ‘Periodized Sport Psychology Building the Bulletproof Athlete,’ Risk outlines why he thinks the skills of mental preparation are so important, why athletics needs a practically-oriented book on sport psychology, and why athletes’ mental skills should be periodized and how that concept can help build a bulletproof athlete.
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Edmonton International Track Classic
Thu Jun 10 2010
A strong field of Canadian and International competitors is taking shape for the first Edmonton International Track Classic. 120 athletes, 18 Olympians from 10 countries (including Canada, U.S., Jamaica, Chad, Mexico and Tunisia) will go head to head as they take the first steps in qualifying for the 2012 Olympics in London.
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Sport Science Video Update
Tue Jun 08 2010
This week we have made Don Babbitt’s “Concepts in Training for Throwing Events” video available for download. In this presentation, Coach Babbitt tackles the difficult issue of knowing what strength levels are appropriate for various performance ranges in each of the throwing events. This is a contentious point in these disciplines and Don gives some great advice on how to structure strength training with some specific examples and references to his own athletes.
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