Leadership Training Courses start this week and are your last chance for virtual LTP sessions before the year! Do not delay, register now.
Elevate your Athletic Department and unlock your leadership potential this spring with our CIAAA LTP Courses. The upcoming courses will cover Foundational Philosophy, Enhanced Legal Issues, Creating an Athletic Handbook and Student Leadership Development, full course dates and descriptions below.
We are offering a Spring Series Course discount and all registrations will be reduced to $99 plus fees. Use the code #SpringLTP at check out for each course.
Thursday May 23 – LTP 506C: Legal Issues II – Enhanced Legal Issues This course covers legal aspects such as discrimination, harassment, bullying, hazing, and violence in sports, providing participants with definitions and applications within both sports and scholastic environments. It also addresses emerging online issues like cyberbullying, online privacy, defamation, and coach-athlete relationships on social media platforms, offering insights on effective management. Additionally, participants will learn about employment law practices related to teacher and volunteer coach relationships.
Monday May 27 – LTP 501C: Philosophy, Organizational Structure & Professional Development This course is aimed at assisting athletic directors set the tone for their program. Origins of athletic administration are addressed in addition to codes of ethics. The concept of “educational athletics” is discussed and refined. The role of the athletic administrator and the importance of having a school philosophy are addressed and workshop participants have the opportunity to interact with others to refine their own philosophies. **LTP 501C is the one of three fundamental courses required for the CRAA Certification
Thursday May 30 – LTP 602C: Creating Your Athletic Handbook This course is designed to guide attendees through the process of creating a complete and effective athletic handbook. Effective athletic handbooks provide vision/direction for your program, disseminate critical information to your constituents and can save Athletic Administrators countless hours. This is a working course where attendees will be provided with a number of templates as a starting point and surrounded by experienced Athletic Administrators leading the course. Attendees will be expected to come prepared with a list of school and district-specific documents to guide them during the handbook creation process.
Wednesday June 5 – LTP 726C: Student Leadership Development Student Leadership Development is an essential component to any successful education-based athletic program. In this course, we’ll look at numerous ways to actively develop leaders who will serve your school as well as the greater community. Topics that will be covered include: captains council, student leadership workshops, service learning, and further opportunities to develop Student Leadership.
Let the CIAAA plan your Professional Development day for the 2024-2025 School Year? Contact us to discuss what will work best for your group and let us find something to suit your needs!
BOYS OF BADMINTON – The Youth U13 Men’s Doubles teams gathered for a photo with event coordinator and Yukon Youth Badminton lead coach Caroline Thibault during the Yukon Youth Badminton Championships at Porter Creek Secondary School in Whitehorse last weekend, May 4-5. Left to right: Michael Dent and Elijah Jenner (1st place), Roger Luxemburger and Samuel Boucher (2nd place), Paolo Zedda and Julian McClelland (3rd place).
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2024 Yukon Youth Badminton Championships a smash
The 2024 edition of the Yukon Youth Badminton Championships was played at Porter Creek Secondary School last weekend, May 4-5.
The 2024 edition of the Yukon Youth Badminton Championships was played at Porter Creek Secondary School last weekend, May 4-5. Over 150 matches in a double elimination format were played among the 50 players present in three categories – Youth U13, Youth U15 and Youth U17.
In the Youth Women’s U13, Tashvi Bathia dominated the three events with a victory in the singles final against Dorothy Dallaire, another win in doubles with her partner Sophia Fouari against Alexza Lawrence and Claire Callan, and finally winning the mixed doubles with her partner Oscar Luxemburger against Dorothy Dallaire and Justin Langlois.
Still in Youth U13, in men’s singles, Logan Heke took first place against Paolo Zeden with a long match of 6-11, 11-9 and 11-2. The men’s doubles in the same age group was won by Malcom Dent and Elijah Jenner in a three-game rally against Samuel Boucher and Roger Luxembourg.
Kara McClean and Macéo Grottoli both dominated all the events for Youth U15, with each achieving a triple crown. McClean won the women’s singles against Riley Cyre, and the doubles with Riley Cyre against Olivia and Haruka Ferbey. Partnered with Grottoli, they completed their three-event feat by winning against Rily Cyre and Daniel Hu.
As for Grottoli, his singles final was a long two matches of 21-19 and 21-12 against Samuel Tatsumi. His men’s doubles win was against Enrique Noah Carino and Daniel Hu.
In men’s singles youth U17, Terrence Gian Agoot won his match with a long three-game rally against Johna Irving-Staley. Irving-Staley took his revenge in doubles by winning the men’s doubles with his partner Macéo Grottoli, against Terrence Gian and Yuan Ashley Aguhar. Kara McClean also took the win in mixed doubles with Terrence Gian against Riley Cyre and Johna Irving Staley with a score of 21-16 and 21-14.
Caroline Thibault, the event coordinator and Yukon Youth Badminton Team lead coach, was happy with the tournament.
“The event’s turnout was pretty good this year, with everyone guaranteed to play at least six matches when registered in the three events (single, double and mixed), as this was a double elimination tournament.
“I am also happy about the unusually high number of Youth U13 athletes. Our introduction to the badminton program for kids aged 8 to 12 was successful this year, and many of the participants showed up at the tournament. We are hoping to offer the program again next year.”
More details about the results can be found on the Yukon Badminton Association Facebook page.
The Bantam, Intermediate and Senior Wrestlers that participated in the 2024 Wrestling Provincials at Birchwood Saturday, gathered at the end of the day for a group photo to give a thumbs up to former PEISAA wrestling champion Hannah Taylor and let her know they will be cheering her on this summer when she represents PEI and Canada at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris! #peiproud#gohannahgo
Congratulations to the Churchill Community High School Girls Curling team for winning the 2024 Sportsmanship Award presented by SaskMilk. Thanks to Coach Kissick for his commitment to high school athletics!
Congratulations to the Tisdale Middle and Secondary School Open Mixed Curling team on achieving the 2024 Blue Banner presented by SaskMilk!
Congratulations to the Greenall High School Boys Curling team for winning the 2024 SaskMilk Sportsmanship Award! Thanks to coaches Headrick and Blair for their commitment to student-athletes.
The Sullivan Heights Secondary team at the BCSS Awards. (Image: Andrew Holland)
Sullivan Heights Secondary receives Inspirational School Award from BC School Sports
Sullivan Heights Secondary has been named Inspirational School of 2024 by BC School Sports (BCSS) as part of the annual BCSS Awards, held last week in Kelowna.
The Inspirational School Award recognizes schools for their outstanding commitment to a positive school culture, improving the lives of students and creating new athletic opportunities for students to excel. The recognition marks the first time in the award’s 20-year history that a district school in Surrey has won.
“This is one of the best honours we could have ever received,” said Sullivan Heights athletic director Gary Atwal. “We’re so proud to have won this because it recognizes years of hard work for some of the teachers that have been here.”
By developing more opportunities for students to get involved in sports, Sullivan Heights now runs more than 40 teams per year and has more than 400 student athletes.
“The overall engagement of our students has grown,” said Atwal. “We used to just have athletes supporting athletes, but now we’ve created such a strong school community that our gyms are often packed with fans for each game.”
In addition to fostering a supportive school community, Atwal noted a key part of the staff’s approach is to ensure that the effort students exert on the field and court is extended into the classroom and their academic careers.
“They need to take responsibility of their own academic progress in order to make sure they’re in good standing for athletics,” he said.
The result, said Atwal, is that students develop the confidence to apply themselves in all aspects of life. That confidence is further exhibited when students realize they are ambassadors for their school community – they don’t simply compete for themselves.
“There’s been a big shift in how students take pride in representing their school,” he said. “They know they’re representing our school at all times and there’s a standard that goes with that.”
Congratulations to everyone at Sullivan Heights Secondary!
