[font=Book Antiqua]Talk about re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic....., look at the latest Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) folly: revamping a coaches' program.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]There really is not much wrong with the CCA coaching programming except that it has no money, just had to fire two coaches, while another quit last year as many have done in the past and it cannot hire anybody worthwhile because of its lack of leadership, vision and planning.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]The pencil-pushing, clueless, inexperienced management at the CCA in Ottawa wants to create a coaches' program for coaches they cannot afford to hire.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]Of course the CCA is working with the Coaches Association because current CCA Director General, Lorraine Lafreniere, was just working at the Coaching Association. It is the only thing she knows.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]Here is a newsflash to Lorraine, the last thing you need to worry about right now is your coaching programs, because you have few coaches and little money to do anything about it.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]Promote and market your sport (actually, our sport because you know nothing about it and it is not yours) before you start tweaking programs. What a waste of time.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]The CCA isn't in the business of introducing young riders to competition. LEAVE THAT TO CLUBS AND THE PROVINCES. [/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]If you think introducing kid to the sport is the key to success ask yourseleves why Soccer Canada has 500,000 kid playing but cannot kick the ball out of its own end zone internationally. [/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]It isn't about introducing kids to the sport. [/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]It is about introducing business the sport.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]The rest takes care of its.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]Follow the money.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]THE CCA IS SUPPOSED TO PROMOTE AND SELL THE SPORT ON A NATIONAL LEVEL AND DEVELOP INTERNATIONAL RIDERS THROUGH NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS AND PROGRAMS.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]An advisory panel! Geez, talk about the refuge of the incompetent.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]By the time Bill Kinash and Lorraine Lafreniere finish with cycling in Canada there will be nothing left to advise on, it will be dead.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]Lorraine Lafreniere is worried about the patients admission slips while the patient dies of a exsanguination.[/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]What a disaster. [/font]
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[font=Book Antiqua]She really has no clue.[/font]
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05.07.07 - Call for Members: Cycling’s NCCP Advisory Group – Introduction to Competition
Canada’s National Sport Federations are working with the Coaching Association of Canada on
developing the next generation of the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP). For
cycling, that will mean a comprehensive new coach development program significantly improved
on the existing model.
Click here for more information (PDF 98 KB)
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