Athlete Development
Athletes,
High-Performance Coaching,
and
the Athletic Directions Ski Team
Athletic Directions provides professional, year-round coaching services to athletes who are personally committed to achieving high-performance goals in Nordic XC ski competition. Its athletes are represented by the Athletic Directions Ski Team.
Athletic Directions approaches work through willing partnerships between committed athletes and coaches. They are perfect for final-year Midgets and for Juvenile to Junior age skiers who intend achieve their greatest potential and their finest competitive performances as Senior athletes. Athletes choose to participate when they understand the work and commitment that is required to achieve high performance goals.
Athletes coached by Athletic Directions represent varied backgrounds, experiences, and ages; and they may race for different ski clubs (Information). They are selected through application to Athletic Directions. What they share in common is the desire to achieve their peak potential through continued growth over time by following a planned, structured, and supervised training program. Year - round, planned training is essential. Those athletes who are committed to an athletic lifestyle may race for the Athletic Directions Ski Team.Athletic Directions provides coaching services in the Ottawa region based out of the Chelsea Training Centre (AD - East) and in southern BC (AD - West). It provides athletes with an annual, individual training plan, supervised scheduled year-round training sessions, race event support for selected races (waxing services, coaching advice), fitness benchmark testing, and both ongoing and annual athlete performance reviews. It charges an annual, non-refundable fee to each athlete, with additional fees for event expenses. A performance bond refundable on successful completion of a 1 year probationary period may be required.
Contacts:
The lifestyle of a true athlete combines year-round, structured training with ongoing education.
Coaching Based on These Principals
The combination of athletic training and education is the greatest of challenges for young people.
Striving for excellence in both sport and education is the only right choice.
The first duty of every team member is to support their team-mates.
Tough, fair competition needs to be learned and to be handled.
Racers must compete with respect for each other and for the race itself.
When an athlete commits to being the best, competition becomes an intense experience.
Winning counts, but it does not result from a single-minded focus, it includes education.
In a sport organization understanding comes from the front and the back.
Winning today was easy; it will be more difficult tomorrow.
Genuine sport brings people and cultures of the world together.
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Coaching Athletic Development and High Performance
