NLIS 3
June 15, 2001
(Tourism, Culture and Recreation)

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

Sport Newfoundland and Labrador has initiated a series of sport development seminars, with the second to take place on Thursday, June 28. Over the next few months, four other 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 next seminar to be offered will be presented by Larry Burton of Commonwealth Physiotherapy. Larry is a licensed physiotherapist and has worked with numerous athletes in a variety of sports in the last few years. His philosophy is to aggressively work the injured athlete through the recovery period and on to what they want to do �� train and compete. He will present his views and beliefs to the coaches attending the next seminar as well as review some up to date taping and recovery techniques. 

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." 

This seminar will begin at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 28 in Room 2028 of Memorial University's Physical Education Building. For more information please contact Sport Newfoundland and Labrador at 576-4932/4962, or e-mail tmartin@sportnf.com

The next seminar will be the week of July 15-18.

Contact:
Todd Martin
Program Coordinator
Sport Newfoundland & Labrador
Phone (709) 576-4932
Fax (709) 576-7493
sport.nfld@nf.sympatico.ca

2001 06 15                                                       2:05 p.m.