Vancouver Sport Network

Enhanced Excellence

• Goal
• Objectives
• Working Committee
• Your Input
• Meeting Schedule
• Work Plan
• Links

The Metro Vancouver region boasts more carded18 athletes than almost anywhere in Canada. However, more than half of the top athletes who live in Vancouver train outside the city. Vancouver is similar to other major cities in Canada in that a relatively small number of its citizens achieve international or professional sport success. This may reflect the limited availability of national standard training facilities. Public consultation also revealed that high performance athletes, coaches and organizations need to be better connected with other key sport stakeholders such as the Vancouver Park Board and Vancouver School Board.
 
The Canadian Sport for Life model establishes a framework that encompasses participation of the entire population in sport and is divided into three broad areas: Physical Literacy, Active for Life and Excellence (see model on page 13). In the context of this framework, all children become physically literate, which lays the foundation for future sport excellence or being active for life. Athletes pursuing excellence ultimately transition into Active for Life. In keeping with this model, Excellence programming needs to be integrated into the Active for Life and Physical Literacy Components. The City recognizes the importance of an
integrated approach and priorities for civic support will be established on this basis. 

Another critical pathway to enhanced excellence is in the area of strategic planning. Developing Excellence Strategic Planning in a regional context with involvement of all Metro Vancouver municipalities is a key success factor.

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GOAL: ENHANCED EXCELLENCE

The Vancouver sport community is integrated and sustains a pool of athletes, coaches, officials, clubs and training centres, systematically achieving results at provincial, national and international competition through fair and ethical means.

OBJECTIVES

1. Build partnerships with senior levels of government and with high performance sport organizations (e.g., Canadian Sport Centre Pacific and Sport BC) and clubs to create mutually beneficial synergies between the Excellence Pathway and Physical Literacy/Active for Life participation.
2. Work with other jurisdictions in Metro Vancouver to create an Excellence Action Plan for the region, establishing respective priorities among member municipalities for sports excellence development.
3. Determine where the City, Vancouver Park Board and the Vancouver School Board can add value to these partnerships in areas such as administration, coaching, officiating, organizational development, communications and promotions.
4. Establish a baseline and continue to monitor excellence outcomes as well as competitive performance for carded athletes living and/or training in Vancouver.

VSN ENHANCED EXCELLENCE WORKING COMMITTEE

Cheryl Taunton (Chair)
Cindy Crapper, Vancouver Park Board
Darren Peterson, Vancouver Park Board
Jennifer Scott
Sarah Evanetz
Andre-Anne LeRoy
Marion Lay
Chloeann Golinsky
Geoff Catliff
Misty Thomas

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WE WELCOME YOUR INPUT

We invite you to participate and provide input, feedback and suggestions on the issues you would like to see addressed by this working committee. Send us an email at sportnetwork@vancouver.ca

Committee WORK PLAN

Working committee action plan (draft)
Strategies and implementation ideas

DOCUMENTS AND RELATED LINKS

We would like to be a hub for information sharing. Please send us any related links or PDFs that can be legally posted on the web.

Canadian Sport Centre Pacific
Canadian Sport For Life – Athletes and Coaches & LTAD Stages
Coaching Association of Canada
Sport BC
BC Athlete Voice

 

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