What is included in the program?

Your program fee of $140 (plus your Athletics Manitoba membership) includes:

• 12 weeks of programming in the spring (three times a week April through June)

• Four to six weeks of programming in the fall (weather dependent) (three times a week September and October)

• Facility access (Sungro Centre for indoors and the outdoor track) and use of club equipment

• Athletics Manitoba and Athletics Canada membership (mandatory for insurance)

• Athlete results will appear in provincial and national rankings

• Coaching - three times a week

• Competitive Singlet

• Sweats (sizing and ordering for team clothing will occur during the first two weeks of training)

• Two sport science presentations (topics TBA)

• Video analysis support from a biomechanist (for relays and other events as decided by the coaching staff)

• Opportunities to compete at club meets (entry fees are additional)

What is a sport science presentation?

Sport scientists are trained experts who contribute to athlete performance and support coaches in program development.

Jorie Janzen is a Registered Dietitian, has her IOC (International Olympic Committee) Diploma in Sports Nutrition, and is Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics. She will be coming to do a session with our athletes on basic sport nutrition and how to fuel for performance.

Dr. Amy Bender is the Director of Clinical Sleep Science at Cerebra Medical and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. She received her Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in Experimental Psychology from Washington State University, specializing in sleep EEG. She has helped develop the only validated sleep screening tool for athletes and has implemented sleep optimization strategies for numerous Canadian Olympic and professional teams. Her current interests focus on how to help people sleep better by improving sleep disorder treatments with more precise digital sleep metrics. In addition, she was a college basketball athlete, did an Ironman in 2009, has climbed volcanoes, and currently chases her three young kids around. Dr Bender will be coming to do a session with our athletes to teach them how to develop effective sleep habits for sport and life.

Dana Way is a Biomechanist and a veteran member of Canada’s national Athletics team. He has attended four Olympic Games, one Paralympic Games, five World Championships in Athletics, and several other major games and championships. Dana’s position on these national teams was not as a coach or an athlete but as a biomechanist (biomechanics is essentially physics with the human body). His role is to work with coaches to help them identify how to make athletes better, what kinds of things are making them worse, and how they can maximize their performance. Dana will be coming to some of our training sessions to assist with relay team development and aid coaches in further developing their coaching eye.

What is an athletic therapist?

According to the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association, Certified Athletic Therapists are best known for their quick-thinking on-field emergency care of professional and elite athletes. The first to respond when someone gets hurt, they are experts at injury assessment and rehabilitation. It’s that same mix of on-site care and active rehabilitation skills that makes Athletic Therapists so effective in treating the musculoskeletal (muscles, bones, and joints) injuries of all Canadians, whether on the field or in the clinic.

Athletic therapists adhere to the Sports Medicine Model of care. They treat a wide range of patients, from kids with concussions to seniors recovering from hip replacement surgery, using various manual therapies, modalities, exercise prescription and even bracing and taping. The treatment varies but the objective doesn’t: an Athletic Therapist's goal is to help clients return to their usual activities, whether that means playing competitive sports or walking to the mailbox and back.

Are there parent volunteer requirements?

Maybe.

Clubs are asked to provide volunteers at track meets we attend. These jobs include raking the sand pit, helping to measure jumps and throws, marshalling athletes and assisting with results.

We will have a sign up process for parents to sign up for meet volunteer jobs as the meets approach.

Is there fundraising?

No.