Coach Spotlight: Meet Titouan Olanié

🏠 Hometown: Les Deux Alpes, France
⛷️ Years Coaching: 8 years
🎖️ Licenses/Certs: DL Certified
👤 Currently Coaching: Head Coach of the Vancouver Ski Team (U19)
🔎Coaching Experience: U12 to FIS

☃️ First stepped on snow: 18 months
✍🏽 Phrases of guidance: Coaches, don’t take performance (good or bad, but especially bad) personally.
Athletes, hard work always pays off.

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Coach Spotlight: Meet Joey Lynn Graham

🏠 Hometown: Miramichi, New Brunswick
⛷️ Years coaching: 25+ years
🎖️ Licenses/Certs: CSIA Level 3, ACA PL Certified, ACA EL/DL Coach Developer
👤 Currently coaching U14 with Wentworth Ski Race Club in Nova Scotia.
🔎Coaching Experience: All club age levels and attended many national events.

☃️ First stepped on snow: At age 9
✍🏽 Phrase of guidance: Always remember that how you make someone feel stays with them far longer than the skill or drill [you teach them], or the event that you participate in.

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Coach Spotlight: Meet Michele Leger

🏠 Hometown: Fredericton, New Brunswick
⛷️ Years coaching: 20th season coaching. I spent 15 years before that as an instructor.
🎖️ Licenses/Certs: Performance Level Certified, with an Advanced coaching diploma, Level 3 Officials, learning facilitator, evaluator, and mentor.
👤 Currently coaching: I am doing more coach education, as opposed to coaching a particular group of athletes.
🔎Coaching experience: Nancy Greene Ski League through to a FIS race, Whistler Cup, and Canada Games with a Para-athlete. Coached ski school as well.

☃️ First stepped on snow: Age 16 or 17. I never raced. Friends were going skiing and I went, but did not take a lesson that first time.
✍🏽 Phrases of guidance:
Coaches, never give up on an athlete. We have no idea what we can do or how we as coaches are making a positive impact on them.
Athletes, if you want something, a goal or a skill, find the support you need and just go for it. You never know and there are no limits.

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AWiS Rewind: A Recap of Monday Night’s Webinar

Part 2 of “The Coaching Life: Surviving or Thriving?” with Heather Cribbin delved deep into the WHY behind well-being.

✏️ Setting Boundaries: Explore the power of personal boundaries—saying No, seeking help, and fostering connections across physical, social, and emotional realms. Prioritize yourself to better serve others.

✏️ Values & Well-being: Uncover the significance of knowing your values—the principles impacting your behaviour and guiding how you live and work.

✏️ What Fuels You?: Insights from December’s questionnaire reveal the passion coaches and athletes share for the sport, personal connections, and daily wins.

✏️ The Wheel of Life: Navigating the Human Function Curve and breaking free from the Cycle of Burnout. Rediscover balance and purpose in your coaching journey.

✏️ Time Management: Understand that energy is renewable, but time is not. Explore how effective energy management acts as a crucial boundary.

The key takeaway? Well-being for coaches and athletes revolves around successfully implementing boundaries. Let’s prioritize ourselves, foster connections, and thrive together!

Coach Spotlight: Meet Adrienne Keyzer

🏠Hometown: Oro-Medonte, Ontario
⛷️Years Coaching: 26 years
🎖️Licences/Certifications: NCCP 3, ACA DL, Alpine Ontario EL Learning Facilitator, Official 2. Currently in the coach PL pathway. CSIA Level 3 and Level 1 Course Conductor.
👤 Currently Coaching: U16/U19 at Glacier Ski Club (MSLM – Mount St. Louis Moonstone)
🔎Coaching Experience: U8 through U19
☃️ First stepped on snow: Age 3
✍🏽Phrase of guidance: All athletes need a consistent practice of better nutrition and sleep to build strength, hypertrophy, endurance, speed, and focus. “Women are not small men” (Dr. Stacy Sims, 2023), so training, competing, fueling, and recovering are physiologically different for women.

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Get Tools to Set Boundaries in Ski Coaching

Join us for Part 2 of our AWiS webinar series, “The Coaching Life: Surviving or Thriving?” on Jan 22. This session will focus on « Setting Boundaries & Other Strategies to Support Well-being. » 

Speaker, Heather Cribbin will share specific tools to help you set boundaries as an alpine ski racing coach. She’ll also explore trending well-being concepts, the Wheel of Life, coach burnout, the role of boundaries, values, time management, and emotional intelligence. Don’t miss this coaching wisdom! 

Use this link to register and get ACA credits: 

https://snowreg.com/#!/events/alpine-women-in-sport-part-2-webinar-series-the-coaching-life-surviving-or-thriving-jan-22-2023

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Coach Spotlight: Meet Sarina Daigle

🏠Hometown: Gatineau, Quebec

⛷️Years Coaching: 12 years

🎖️Licenses/Certs: Development Level Certified and in the process to complete her Performance Level training

👤 Currently Coaching: U14 Lead at Camp Fortune Ski Club, Head coach of sport-études Mont-Bleu

🔎Coaching Experience: U10, U12, U14 and Sport-études

☃️ First stepped on snow: Age 5

✍🏽Phrase of guidance: Young female coaches, know that you possess the capability to excel in the world of sports. Each step you take breaks down barriers and demonstrates that ‘you can do it,’ proving that determination and passion are your greatest assets, transcending gender boundaries.

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AWiS Ready to Launch 2023/24 Webinar Series

On December 11, AWiS will launch its 2023/24 webinar series, “The Coaching Life: Surviving or Thriving?” Mental Performance Coach, Heather Cribbin will be the guide for the series, helping us engage our coaching community and lay the groundwork for open and mindful exchanges, starting with “Connection, Community, and Coaching: A Conversation with Heather Cribbin.”

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Coach Spotlight: Meet Laura Berry

🏠Hometown: Barrie, Ontario

⛷️Years Coaching: 20+ years

🎖️Licenses/Certs: Entry Level Advanced CR, Development Level TR, CPTN-PT, NCCP LF/CE

👤 Currently Coaching: Head Coach at Snow Valley Ski Resort

🔎Coaching Experience: All ages at club level, Head Coach

☃️ First stepped on snow: Age 5

✍🏽Phrase of guidance: Push your self to be better than you were the day before. Just stop and take it in, the joy, the challenge and the beauty of skiing!

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