COACH DEVELOPMENT
Each year, we train new coaches in Alberta. Whether you want to coach kids or adults, beginners or advanced athletes, there's a program for that. Water Ski & Wakeboard Alberta provides Coaches Courses for its members via the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) and Water Ski and Wakeboard Canada.
NCCP offers multiple levels of coaching, each with its own requirements and training - from the first-time coach to the head coach of a national team. As part of the program, all coaches are trained in ethical decision-making and sport safety.
We are offering a Foundations Course May 4-5 in Calgary
We hope to see some new coaches register and take one of these Foundations Courses!
REGISTER for the May 4-5 BELOW
This is a National Coaching Certification Program approved coaching course, and will give NEW coaches everything they need to know to start coaching on the water. The focus is FUN!
As a Foundations coach, you may be working with kids or adults, beginners or novices, athletes or people who simply want to enjoy being on the water.
The emphasis is placed on safety, FUN, ethics and values beyond competition. This clinic will help camps, schools, and volunteer coaches foster love of the sport, promote participation, and teach basic skills to beginners of all ages through a variety of activities and disciplines.
The Community Sport – Initiation context focuses on participants who are being introduced to a sport. In many sports this is very young children participating in the sport for the first time. In a few sports, initiation into the sport can occur with youth or adults. Participants get involved to meet new friends, have FUN, and to learn a new activity. The role of the coach is to ensure a fun and safe environment and to teach the development of some of the “FUNdamentals” stage skills and abilities for participants.
The Course is in Calgary Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5
Location: Offices of Bellatrix Exploration
Address: Suite 1920, 800 5 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 3T6
Times:
Saturday May 4: 8am to 5:30
Sunday May 5: 8am to 2:30
WSWA will provide lunch and refreshments for the weekend.
The cost of registration of $150 will include all required printed materials.
The recommended hotel for out of town guests is the Residence Inn by Marriott
located 610 - 10 Avenue SW T2R 1M3
The Pathway for Coaches
The three coaching levels:
Foundations: This is the basic, community level coach. As a Foundations coach, you may be working with kids or adults, beginners or novices, athletes or people who simply want to enjoy being on the water. The emphasis is placed on safety, fun, ethics, boat driving and values beyond competition. This clinic will help camps, schools, and volunteer coaches foster love of the sport, promote participation, and teach basic skills to beginners of all ages through a variety of activities and disciplines.
Build the Skills: The purpose of this technical skills clinic is to create an understanding of how to teach the basic techniques and skills of towed water sports for coaches working with participants of all ages that have little or no formal towed water sports experience.
Learn to Compete: You want to coach higher level athletes? This is the coach level you are looking for. Learn to Compete coaches are competitive coaches who prepare their athletes for competition. In addition to coaching sport specific skills, you will be designing and monitoring yearly training plans, and providing basic mental training skills, competition tactics, and skill analysis. The goals at this level of coaching are fun, fitness, fundamentals, and performance at regional or provincial competitions as well as consolidation of basic skills of the sport.
Our Partners
To deliver coach training, and help our coaches achieve continuous improvement, we work closely with our partners: Water Ski and Wakeboard Canada; the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC); the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP); and Alberta Sport Connection (ASC)
OUR COACHES
Our coaches in Alberta are NCCP trained, to Water Ski and Wakeboard Canada standards.
Learn to water ski or wakeboard by contacting one of our coaches!
Brian Bryksa
Brian Bryksa runs a popular day program near Hanna. He is a NCCP trained Foundations coach.
Breanne Dodd
Breanne Dodd is a champion slalom skier, and a popular coach with our athletes. She runs clinics at Dodd's Pond, near Innisfail.
Bruce Dodd
Bruce Dodd has been competing and coaching for years. Working at his private facility near Innisfail, he has coached many young athletes who regularly reach the podium
Cody Ganske
Cody is an NCCP trained Build the Skills wakeboard coach. He has been coaching in Alberta and BC for a bunch of years, and currently calls Spruce Grove Home. Cody runs WSR Wakeboard School, and coaches members of the Alberta Wakeboard Team.
Matt Gosse
An international slalom competitor, water ski coach, and coach developer, Matt Gosse is an NCCP trained Learn to Compete coach. He coaches the Alberta water ski team at clinics around the Province.
Jeremy Howsam
Jeremy has been coaching wakeboarding since 2013, and was the Provincial team coach in 2014 and 2015. He is an NCCP trained coach, working primarily at Sylvan Lake.
Jaret Llewellyn
Jaret Llewellyn is one of the most recognised water ski athletes in Canada, and an excellent coach. He runs coaching clinics at facilities around Alberta.
Brent Lloyd
Running the popular Sk8nski program out of Lethbridge, Brent Lloyd is a NCCP Foundations trained coach, and coach developer.
Graeme MacDougall
A NCCP trained Foundations coach, Graeme coaches young athletes around Chestermere and Calgary.
Ken Nelson
Ken Nelson has been a water ski coach for many years, and has made a distinct mark in the sport at his private facility, Shalom Park. He runs the New Kids on the Water program each spring, and is available for private coaching. He works with skiers of all levels, and can be reached at 780-616-1206.
Brady Price
Brady Price has stood on the National podium many times. These days, he coaches wakeboarders around Calgary, including members of the Provincial team.
Geneva Roach
A Canadian champion water skier, Geneva Roach is also a NCCP Foundations trained coach. She works with the Alberta water ski team, and with members at the Predator Bay Club.
Nakita Schaab
Nakita is a NCCP trained wakeboard coach, and National Junior Women's champion. Nakita offers "coach on your boat' and offers clinics in Central Alberta.