Sport PEI

Two hours to go until Olympic rugby coach Jack Hanratty's webinar on his journey to becoming a Paris 2024 silver medalist!

Register at https://thelocker.coach.ca/EVENT/REGISTRATION/11806

As part of this year's National Coaches Week, we would like to say by spotlighting some of our VIP coaches and why they choose to spend their time coaching.

Our next coach to profile is hockey coach Travis Hunt!

If you are a VIP coach and would like to share why you coach, follow this link: https://forms.gle/YVtz9nbZ9HbRW9hN8 - and if you would like to become a VIP coach, learn more at https://sportpei.pe.ca/vip/

As part of this year's National Coaches Week, we would like to say by spotlighting some of our VIP coaches and why they choose to spend their time coaching.

Our first coach to profile is wrestling and flag football coach Wallace Roach!

If you are a VIP coach and would like to share why you coach, follow this link: https://forms.gle/YVtz9nbZ9HbRW9hN8 - and if you would like to become a VIP coach, learn more at https://sportpei.pe.ca/vip/

Happy National Coaches Week!

The Coaching Association of Canada is offering some of its best eLearning modules throughout the week, starting with NCCP's Coaching Initiation in Sport course, which will be available for free today until midnight.

Coaches can access this course via thelocker.coach.ca

This module will prepare you to:
- Understand your role as a coach in creating a safe, inclusive, accessible & welcoming sport environment
- Understand the importance of and ways to listen to, and learn from, each person’s unique goals and needs
- Explain how quality sport participation and an inclusive environment is beneficial, and a right, for all participants
- Apply relevant principles to adapt your coaching environment for people of different abilities
- Apply basic coaching principles to enhance participants’ skill development
- Identify other relevant learning opportunities to support your development as a coach

National Coaches Week starts on Monday with free eLearning, VIP coach profiles, and a special Podium Performance webinar with Olympic rugby coach Jack Hanratty in the evening

Register and learn more: https://sportpei.pe.ca/events/sept-16-podium-performance-series-with-jack-hanratty/

Did you know? Ladner’s Source for Sports is a sponsor of Sport PEI!

They are a proud supporter of the Sport PEI Awards. Ladner's Source for Sports has access to top level products at competitive prices.

Check out their products and services here: https://www.sourceforsports.ca/pages/ladners-source-for-sports-charlottetown

Tomorrow!!

📣Welcome to the Family Fun Sport Fair! 😄 Join us for activities promoting Physical Literacy. Register at: https://forms.gle/wbmRBJuHSzuuenKL8

Celebrate your coach during National Coaches Week coming up September 16-22th!

Whether it’s in-person or virtually, a message of thanks goes a long way. Take a moment to say to a coach who has been there for you!

Still a few spaces in next Wednesday evening's Make Ethical Decisions course!

Register: https://sportpei.pe.ca/nccp-module/sept-18-nccp-make-ethical-decisions/

Canada Games coaches - get your registrations in for these free sessions!

🚨 Attention Canada Games Coaches! 🚨

We’re excited to offer the next session in our 2025 Canada Games Enhancement Series for Coaches! This FREE session is designed to help coaches prepare for the Games, focusing on planning priorities as we count down to the big event. 🗓️

Join us for one of two available time slots:
📅 September 17th - 7-8 PM
📅 September 18th - 12-1 PM

🔗 Registration links are in our bio!

This session is part of the 10th annual National Coaches Week and is open to all Canada Games coaches in Atlantic Canada. Don’t miss this chance to boost your coaching game! 🏅

✨ Zoom links will be sent 24 hours prior to the session, so register early to ensure you get access in time. Late registrations may miss out.

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.

Tag a coach you want to attend with! 💬


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🚨 Attention aux entraîneurs des Jeux du Canada ! 🚨

Nous sommes ravis d’offrir la prochaine session de notre série de perfectionnement des Jeux du Canada 2025 pour les entraîneurs ! Cette séance GRATUITE est conçue pour aider les entraîneurs à se préparer pour les Jeux, en se concentrant sur les priorités de planification pendant le compte à rebours avant le grand événement. 🗓️

Rejoignez-nous pour l'un des deux créneaux horaires disponibles :
📅 17 septembre - 19h-20h
📅 18 septembre - 12h-13h

🔗 Les liens d'inscription sont dans notre bio !

Cette séance fait partie de la 10e Semaine nationale des entraîneurs et est ouverte à tous les entraîneurs des Jeux du Canada du Canada atlantique. Ne manquez pas cette opportunité de booster votre jeu de coaching ! 🏅

✨ Les liens Zoom seront envoyés 24 heures avant la session, alors inscrivez-vous tôt pour vous assurer d'avoir accès à temps. Les inscriptions tardives pourraient manquer.

Veuillez contacter [email protected] si vous avez des questions.

Tag un coach avec qui tu souhaites participer ! 💬

We will be having our next She's Good event coming up on Monday, September 23rd at the Sport PEI Building in Charlottetown for girls in grades 8-12! The cost is $30 to attend and will include a snack and lunch.

Join us for a day of activities, speakers, new friends (and old), fun, and empowerment! For more information, you can email [email protected] - or to sign up, you can follow this link - https://forms.gle/pYjvGvR1JmLCJfsA7

September 22-28 is 2024 Concussion Awareness Week held across Canada to encourage everyone to get involved in preventing, recognizing, and managing concussions.

For more information on concussions, visit our AHP resource page: https://sportpei.pe.ca/ahp-resources/concussions/

Good Thursday morning everyone,
Today's SYSPEI Gold Rush pot is estimated to close in on $18,000. Sign up and play today (https://causable.io/syspei) for your chance to win half the pot while "Supporting Your Sport on PEI".
To help raise more funds, we are really trying to grow our social media followers, so if you haven't already, please follow the SYSPEI Gold Rush us on Facebook and Instagram and Share our Thursday morning posts with your contacts.
Thanks for your support and good luck!

For this year’s National Coaches Week, Sport PEI would like to highlight some of our VIP coaches and what drives them to coach.

If you’re a VIP coach, click here - https://forms.gle/MeiRPjaU91M5s3YW6 - to answer the question “why do you coach?” for your chance to win a Coaches Week prize. If you would like to become a VIP coach, please visit https://sportpei.pe.ca/vip/

The August SCORE! athlete of the month is Letty Abbott!

Letty won 3 gold medals and 1 silver in swimming at the 55+ Canada Games in Quebec. Thank you to SCORE! Sport Charlottetown for supporting athletes!

Check out our past winners here: https://sportpei.pe.ca/score-of-the-month/

Did you know? Stewart McKelvey is a sponsor of Sport PEI!

They are a proud supporter of the Sport PEI Awards. Stewart McKelvey is an innovative law firm committed to providing high quality legal services, earning clients' trust and striving to exceed their needs.

If you are looking for support from the largest firm in Atlantic Canada, visit: https://www.stewartmckelvey.com/

🚨 Attention Canada Games Coaches! 🚨

We’re excited to offer the next session in our 2025 Canada Games Enhancement Series for Coaches! This FREE session is designed to help coaches prepare for the Games, focusing on planning priorities as we count down to the big event. 🗓️

Join us for one of two available time slots:
📅 September 17th - 7-8 PM
📅 September 18th - 12-1 PM

🔗 Registration links are in our bio!

This session is part of the 10th annual National Coaches Week and is open to all Canada Games coaches in Atlantic Canada. Don’t miss this chance to boost your coaching game! 🏅

✨ Zoom links will be sent 24 hours prior to the session, so register early to ensure you get access in time. Late registrations may miss out.

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.

Tag a coach you want to attend with! 💬


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🚨 Attention aux entraîneurs des Jeux du Canada ! 🚨

Nous sommes ravis d’offrir la prochaine session de notre série de perfectionnement des Jeux du Canada 2025 pour les entraîneurs ! Cette séance GRATUITE est conçue pour aider les entraîneurs à se préparer pour les Jeux, en se concentrant sur les priorités de planification pendant le compte à rebours avant le grand événement. 🗓️

Rejoignez-nous pour l'un des deux créneaux horaires disponibles :
📅 17 septembre - 19h-20h
📅 18 septembre - 12h-13h

🔗 Les liens d'inscription sont dans notre bio !

Cette séance fait partie de la 10e Semaine nationale des entraîneurs et est ouverte à tous les entraîneurs des Jeux du Canada du Canada atlantique. Ne manquez pas cette opportunité de booster votre jeu de coaching ! 🏅

✨ Les liens Zoom seront envoyés 24 heures avant la session, alors inscrivez-vous tôt pour vous assurer d'avoir accès à temps. Les inscriptions tardives pourraient manquer.

Veuillez contacter [email protected] si vous avez des questions.

Tag un coach avec qui tu souhaites participer ! 💬

With National Coaches Week days away and under a year until the 2025 Canada Summer Games, don't forget to check out our NCCP schedule, currently loaded with Competition Development-level courses!

Check out https://sportpei.pe.ca/nccp/ to register for the ones you need.

Our VIP coach program has over 225 members, and you could be next! The VIP program is designed to raise the bar for what it means to be a coach in Prince Edward Island.

For more information click here: https://sportpei.pe.ca/vip/

Great opportunity this weekend for any families new to sport in the Eastern region!

📣Welcome to the Family Fun Sport Fair! 😄 Join us for activities promoting Physical Literacy. Register at: https://forms.gle/wbmRBJuHSzuuenKL8

Congratulations to Megan Moase on winning a bronze medal at the IPF World Championships and setting multiple national powerlifting records over the weekend (in her first international event)!

Upcoming Podium Performance Series: “Scenes Behind the Whistle” with Janice Dawson – Paralympic Goalball Official /Former National Team Coach/ Sport Administrator

Register at thelocker.coach.ca

Janice will tell us all about her sport experience through the eyes of an official. Some of the physical and mental battles behind the whistle and much more. Janice is fresh back from Paris and last summer officiated at IBSA World Games in Birmingham, England. She is currently working as a programs and operations manager in ultimate frisbee for the Ottawa-Carleton Ultimate Association [OCUA] and Ontario Ultimate in Canada. She also serves on the board of directors for the Coaching Association of Canada [CAC].

She has served as sport programs officer with Badminton Canada between 2021 and 2024. She has had a sport manager role at the 2019, 2021 & 2023 Canada Games. In addition to having worked for Speed Skating Canada, holding roles as director of sport development [2015-18] and manager of domestic programs [2013-15]. She also coached the Canadian women's goalball team between 2009 and 2013.

Did you know? ADL has been a major supporter of Sport PEI for 40 years!

A core value for ADL member-owners and staff is supporting the community and they truly believe in the power of sport! ADL provides plaques to each of our member associations so that they can recognize the best from their sport each year.

Thank you ADL!

We will be having our next She's Good event coming up on Monday, September 23rd from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Sport PEI Building (40 Enman Crescent, Charlottetown) for girls in grades 8-12! The cost is $30 to attend and will include a snack and lunch.

Join us for a day of activities, speakers, new friends (and old), fun, and empowerment! For more information, you can email [email protected] - or to sign up, you can follow this link - https://forms.gle/pYjvGvR1JmLCJfsA7

National Coaches Week event: Podium Performance webinar with Olympic rugby coach Jack Hanratty

More: https://sportpei.pe.ca/events/sept-16-podium-performance-series-with-jack-hanratty/

Today's SYSPEI Gold Rush pot is estimated to be over $8,300. Sign up and play now (https://causable.io/syspei) for your chance to win half the pot while supporting your sport on PEI.
Here are the links to the SYSPEI Gold Rush page (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089190198460) and Instagram Page (https://www.instagram.com/syspei_gold_rush/), please take a moment to click on these links, Follow us and Share our weekly posts with your social media contacts.
Thanks for your support and good luck!