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NLIS 5
June 6, 2001
(Tourism, Culture and Recreation)


The following is being distributed at the request of Sport Newfoundland and Labrador:

Sport Newfoundland and Labrador is initiating a series of sport development seminars, with the first to take place Wednesday, June 13. Over the next two months four seminars will be held, focusing on Canada Games coaches and managers. Following the Canada Games the seminars will be designed with more long-term plans for coaches and sport administrators. 

The series, labeled "Coaching Counts � A Closer Look", is designed to complement, not replace the National Coaching Certification Program. The seminars are meant to fill very specific gaps which coaches may want to go hand in hand with their NCCP training. 

The first seminar to be offered will be presented by Loraine Vardy of Nova Physiotherapy. Loraine is a doping control officer with the Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport. She will present current information on performance enhancing drugs, common drugs being used by young people, some common misconceptions, and the long term effects of some of those drugs. She will also review for the Canada Games coaches the process to be followed at Canada Games for testing athletes. 

Angela King, Sport Newfoundland and Labrador President, expanded on the seminars idea. "We have taken a definite turn with our focus to attempt to service our members. With 52 provincial sport organizations as our members we believe that this series of seminars will help the coaches who are members of those 52 organizations.

"In the immediate future we are focusing on those coaches who will be representing Newfoundland and Labrador in August, in London, Ontario at the Canada Games. Following the games we will expand the program and eventually take it across the province. It is our goal to offer a full range of topics that will help the coaches of our province, in particular those training elite athletes. We hope that coaches would have completed some part of Level Two in the NCCP program. These seminars are not for beginner coaches, but instead will help those who have some coaching training and a background with elite teams." 

The first seminar will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Room 2028 of Memorial University's Physical Education Building. For more information please contact Sport Newfoundland and Labrador at (709) 576-4932 or 4962. 

2001 06 06                                                  2:15 p.m.


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