Spit Second software pre-season special available now for limited time only

by Keven Dubinsky | Nov 13, 2012 | Member News

Just a quick reminder to renew your software license early!

Once again they are offering a pre-season special:

• All 6-month license orders will receive 7 months for the same price (7 months from now is June!).
• All 1-year license orders will receive 14 months.

This offer is available through December 1st. For information on how to renew your license, please click here. This offer applies to both renewals as well as new keys sold with a license. This applies to orders placed via the software, online, or over the phone.

What's new:

• National/FIS Software – A few changes have been made already, and some more are on the way as we get further into the start of the season. So, keep an eye out for those updates.
• Club Unleashed Software – We've had a number requests and we're proud to add the Time of Day Fix feature that so many love in the Nat/FIS Software

VIA Split Second Software website: SplitSecond.com

2012 Fall General Meeting / AGM presentations and videos available online

by Keven Dubinsky | Oct 16, 2012 | Member News

If you missed our meeting or would like to share them with others here are the links from last Saturday's event!

Presentation Downloads:
http://bcalpine.com/skyfiles/?cF=folder.2af87af0036985d8.2AF87AF0036985D8!1373

Videos of the meeting:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fall-meeting-2012

View the BC Alpine Coach Meeting overview for the 2012 Fall Meeting / AGM

by Keven Dubinsky | Oct 5, 2012 | Member News

Dear BC Alpine Coaches,

On behalf of BC Alpine, I would like to invite you to attend the annual BC Alpine Coach Meeting and AGM to be held in Vancouver on October 12-13, 2012. I encourage your attendance as we will have important updates and information to review and discuss at the meetings, as well as I am finalizing a list of presenters that will provide a meaningful professional development opportunity.

The Coach Meeting will focus on the following:

1. Provincial and National training and race opportunities for 2012-13 season
2. ACA and BC Alpine Rule updates
3. Review updated QRS (rules, quotas, selections)
4. Calendar 2012-13 review
5. Entry Level discussion and plans
6. HPP Program review and 2013-14 plans
7. ACA Rising Star program for Fall 2012
8. Summer “Super Camp” plans for 2013
9. Provincial Coaches Council – confirmation of nominees
10. FIS Osisko Speed Camp: Apex (inclusion of U16? And timing w/ Nor-Ams)

Presenters are as follows:

1. Justine Parent: BC Alpine Club Development plans for 2012-13
2. Gordie Bowles: BC Alpine HP and other initiatives for 2012-13
3. Nigel Cooper: Alpine Canada Athlete Development and Coaching for 2012-13
4. ** Dave Ellis: Director of Ski Cross for Alpine Canada. SX discussion and integration
5. Gregor Druzina: W BCST Summer/Fall progression (Chile camp focus)
6. Brandon Dyksterhouse: W BCST Summer/Fall progression (Chile camp focus)
7. Nick Cooper: HPP Summer Program report

Regards,

Gordie Bowles

Additional U16 athletes named eligible for 2012/13 CWSAA All Areas Passes

by Keven Dubinsky | Oct 3, 2012 | Member News

The following list of U16 athletes have now become eligible to apply for a Canada West Ski Areas All Area Pass for the 2012/13 season.  Athletes must be registered for the current year with the club and then can apply via the following link: http://aap.bcalpine.com  

Any questions, concerns or problems regarding this process can be directed to KevenD@bcalpine.com

Attention Coaches: IPS Performance Presentation Oct. 1, 2012 in Vancouver

by Keven Dubinsky | Sep 24, 2012 | Member News

Good afternoon PSO coaches, Regional Coaches, and PSO/NSO executive and/or HP directors;

CSC Pacific is pleased to present the details for our upcoming IPS System wide workshop that includes presentations and a panel discussion on body weight and female athlete triad on Oct 1, 2012.

Currently, Dr. Trent Stellingwerff and Hilary Stellingwerff are our confirmed presenters and panelists. We are hopeful that additional presenters will be present with details still to be confirmed.

It should be noted that 2012 SPIN Summit is in Vancouver, Oct 1-3. There is a related presentation titled “Performance Nutrition; Key nutrition concerns while working with female athletes” offered on Oct 2, 2012. The entire 2012 SPIN Summit schedule can be found here http://spinsummit.ownthepodium.org/Schedule.aspx .

2012-13 IPS System Wide Workshop # 3 Presented by CSC Pacific

Title:      Presentations and Panel Discussion on Body Weight and Female Athlete Triad
Date:       Oct 1, 2012
Time:      4:00 – 5:30 PM
Location: Creekside Community Recreation Centre, 1 Athletes Way, Vancouver
Registration:  (Strongly recommended but not required)  psaar@cscpacific.ca
Info: Dana Henson, Email: dhenson@cscpacific.ca  Phone: 778-327-4095

TITLE: Body Weight and Female* Athlete Triad

* Affects Males as well

Body weight and body composition impact performance in every single sport, with vast differences between more weight dependent sports (e.g. running) and less weight dependent sports (e.g. swimming).  However, many “A” type athletes take decreasing body weight to the extreme, resulting in poor health, and eventually poor performance.    In sport this is primarily termed “Female Athlete Triad”, although this is not immune to males as well.  Many times this can either initially can go unnoticed by coaches and support staff, or is ignored due to the delicate nature of body weight.  This short presentation will take a physiology/elite coach perspective at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to ideal body composition approaches periodization, using an elite female middle-distance athlete as a case-study. 

Confirmed Presenters and Panelists:

Dr Trent Stellingwerff earned an Honors BSc in human nutrition and exercise physiology at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA), while being a middle-distance athlete on the NCAA Div. I varsity track and field team.  He then earned a PhD from the University of Guelph (Guelph, Canada) in the area of Exercise and Skeletal Muscle Physiology, while being an assistance coach to the Guelph varsity track and field team.  After a post-doctorate research fellowship at Maastricht University, Netherlands, focusing on human muscle recovery with nutritional interventions, Trent took a job as the senior leading scientist in Performance Nutrition for PowerBar at the Nestle Research Center (Lausanne Switzerland).  Trent currently is a Senior Physiologist at the Canadian Sport Centre – Pacific (Victoria, Canada), where he focuses on servicing his physiology and nutrition expertise to Canada’s national rowing and track and field teams, as well as leading sport innovation and research. 

Hilary Stellingwerff, 2012 Olympian, semi-finalist in the 1500m 2012 Olympics, 7^th in the 1500m World Indoor Championships

Please save the date for upcoming workshop date/locations: 

Our next workshop is scheduled for Thursday, January 10, 2012. Our working topic is “Developing Benchmarking/KPI for Key HP Pathway Transitions and Introduction to Sport Readiness”.