The Coaching Pathway
 

The coaching pathway is designed to guide your training and skill development as a coach, providing you with the tools required to support athletes at successively higher levels of performance.

This pathway also mirrors the stages of the Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) plan. Stages 1-2 athletes are led by Instructors at snow-schools, so our coaching pathway begins with Stage 3.

New coaches begin their journey on the coaching pathway with the Competition Introduction Course. To learn more about this step, click here.

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Coaching Pathway: overview

Coaching Pathway: Stages in Detail

Community Stream eLearning

The community stream has been developed to reduce barriers to coaches entering the pathway or existing coaches who want to coach specifically within a recreational context. The Community Stream has only 1 status; "Trained". There is no evaluation component to the Community Stream, however the coach is limited to working within a non-competitive scope of practice. 

With the Community Stream, a coach can work at Grom Series, inter-club competitions, Elleboard / Kindred Collective camps, or weekend training opportunities with their participants. The target audience are teams who may not travel to competitions, or to parents who may want to become involved with their local team's training in a non-competitive format. The Community Stream is NOT a pre-requisite to the Competition Introduction, it instead intends to act as a separate pathway to the Competitive Stream which begins with the Comp Intro Coach. Coaches who complete the Community Stream must still undergo all requirements of the Competition Introduction if the decision to advance coaching certification is made.

Competition Introduction Training

This is the entrance to the Competitive Stream for coaches. Once you have completed the Comp Intro Course and the adjoining NCCP MultiSport modules your status will be upgraded Trained and you'll to be able to apply for a Canada Snowboard Coaching license. When that license is issued, you will be able work with athletes at the following level:

     RIDERS program and Riders events

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Competition Introduction Certification

Earning this certification shows that you have mastered all the elements of this introductory course and that you’re ready to coach athletes who compete at the following levels:

    Provincial Games
    Provincial series events
    RIDERS program events

To obtain your certification, you’ll need to submit a portfolio and attend an evaluation. To learn more, click here.

Once you’re Certified, you’ll be ready to move to the advanced portion of this coaching pathway.

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Competition Introduction Advanced Training

This part of the coaching pathway begins the focus on specialization, with curriculums aimed at discipline-specific coaching techniques, such as speed or style.  Once you have achieved Trained status at this level, and hold a valid coaching license, you will be able to coach athletes who compete at the following levels:

    Junior Nationals
    Provincial Games
    Provincial series events
    RIDERS Program events

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Competition Introduction Advanced Certification

Earning this certification shows that you have mastered all the elements of this introductory course and that you’re ready to coach athletes who compete at the following levels:

    Air Nation & Speed Nation Nationals
    Air Nation & Speed Nation circuit
    FIS NorAM Cup circuit
    Junior Nationals
    Provincial Games
    Provincial series events
    RIDERS program events

To obtain your certification, you’ll need to submit a portfolio and attend an evaluation. To learn more, click here.

Once you’re Certified, you’ll be ready to move to the Competition Development portion of this coaching pathway.

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Competition Development Pathway and beyond

For career and professional coaches with ambitions to work with international athletes, the Canada Snowboard Coaching Program offers highly specialized and comprehensive training.

For additional details about this area of the pathway, please contact the CSCP manager directly.

 

Upcoming Coaching Courses

To find coaching courses being delivered near you, click here.
 

Reviewing your status / completed pathway steps

To review which completed courses and modules currently appear on your transcript, visit The Locker at coach.ca. 

If you have trouble locating these pathway or transcript pages, view the walkthrough by clicking here.