Cross Country Ontario - Coaching Page

Two Coaching Positions at Team Hardwood
Team Hardwood seeks two coaches, a Junior and a Senior Development Coach.
Junior Development Coach Job Description
Senior Development Coach Job Description [2012-02-02]

CCC Officials Level 3 Certification Course in Mont Ste-Anne
This course is offered in conjunction with the 2012 Haywood Ski Nationals at Mont Ste-Anne and Quebec City. It will combine a series of expert-led seminars with on-site event observation assignments and participant presentations on pre-course assigned topics.
More Information on CCC Site
Information and Registration [2012-01-30]

NDC-Thunder Bay Head Coach Position
NDC Thunder Bay is seeking a skilled, enthusiastic Head Coach to lead the National Development Centre into the future.
Job Notice [2012-01-03]

New NCCP Minimum Age Policy & MMCQ Policy Update
CCC has decided to lower the minimum age at which a coach can register for an NCCP Intro to Community Coaching (ICC) workshop to 14 years (as of the first day of the workshop). This new policy will come into effect starting January 21, 2012, but may be implemented now at the discretion of each division.
More Details
NCCP Minimum Age and Minimum Mandatory Coaching Qualifications Policy
[2011-12-17]

CCO Coaching Certification Database
Club Head Coaches/Administrators can now access each coach’s certification information through zone4. This allows one to keep track of the number of certified coaches, whether or not paperwork has been completed, what steps are missing to get certified, etc.
More Information [2011-10-12]

CCC Student Athlete Leadership Grant Program
CCC is providing financial support to University ski team members with racing licences for coaching and officials courses. More information at http://www.cccski.com/Membership/Student-Leadership-Grant-Program.aspx [2011-10-06]

Coaching Opportunity - Lappe Nordic
Lappe Nordic Ski Club seeks an enthusiastic Head Coach to bolster their ski racing program. Job Description. [2011-09-17]

Employment Opportunity - PROGRAM COORDINATOR
The North Bay Nordic Ski Club is seeking a qualified individual to fill the position of Ski Program Coordinator. Information [2011-08-10]

Revised CCO Criminal Record Screening Policy
CCO has updated its Criminal Record Screening Policy. Every Provincial Sport Organization requires their leaders who work with members of vulnerable sectors (youth, elderly and people with a disability) to go through a criminal background screening process. The policy provides procedures to support its implementation at the division (CCO) and club level. Clubs are encouraged to implement the policy immediately and are required to have it fully implemented by September 1, 2011. The policy is linked from the left menu in the Admin Section.
Revised CCO Criminal Record Screening Policy

Supplements Containing Methylhexaneamine or DMAA
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) advises athletes and support personnel that supplements containing the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine are widely available in the Canadian market and have been the source of many doping violations worldwide over the last year. More Information from CCES

Coaching Update: Make Ethical Decisions
There are two versions of the Make Ethical Decisions Online Evaluation available on the www.coach.ca website. To obtain Community Coaching Certification, you need to do the Community Sport Evaluation. If you are working on your Learning to Train or Training to Train certification, you will need to do the Comp - Int MED. If you’ve done an MED evaluation after April 2009, you will be required to do BOTH. Before April 2009, only the Comp - Int MED was available and CAC is automatically crediting you with the both versions. Check your certification status and check whether you have to do the Community Sport or not. If you have any questions, please contact Katja Mathys at

Updated Canadian Anti-Doping Rules Now in Effect
An updated version of the Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP) is now in effect. These rules belong to sport organizations and athletes and govern how anti-doping is conducted in Canada. More Information from CCES

2010 CS4L Workshop Presentations
Presentations from the 2010 CS4L Workshop, April 2010 in Ottawa, are posted at Canadian Sport for Life Website

Science of Athlete Motivation
This is part 1 of 2 from the Canmore Nordic Ski Club website

The Little Things That Count
Brooke Gosling, currently training out of the Alberta World Cup Academy wrote an article first which appeared in Skifaster.com. It has a lot of good advise for athletes. Article

Coaching Association of Canada Sport Nutrition Information
To access the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) sport nutrition resource site for nutrition tip sheets in the areas of vitamins and minerals, long distance travel, fluids, gaining weight, losing weight, and dietary supplements, please visit http://www.coach.ca/eng/nutrition/index.cfm. To read this article and access the sport nutrition resource site for other nutrition tip sheets in the areas of vitamins and minerals, long distance travel, fluids, gaining weight, losing weight, and dietary supplements, please visit at http://www.coach.ca/eng/nutrition/index.cfm.

LTAD Coaching Workshop Explanation CCC released this short explanation of the integration of the coaching certification system. Explanation Document

NSCA Performance Training Journal, April 2006
Articles on Stretching and Plyometrics

Lactate Removal Rates in Sprint and Endurance Cross-Country Skiers. Report by Berit Dool

A guidebook on development of good physical literacy skills in children has been produced by Sport Canada and is available in pdf format at; http://www.ltad.ca/Images/DPL/DPL_ENG_Apr18.pdf

Montreal Children's Hospital Concussion KiT now available on-line. More Information

An Ethical Checklist for Coaches

The CCO Board of Directors would like to remind all Clubs that they should ensure that all coaches involved with High Performance club athletes and youth program participants sign the CCO Coaches Code of Ethics. Clubs should ensure that the signed document be keep on file and signed at a minimum of every second year.
CCO Coaches Code of Ethics
Please note that coaches who have recently completed the Introduction to Community Coaching and Community Coaching sign the CCC Coaches Code of Conduct as a requirement of the course.
The two documents are similar but there are some important differences. The CCO Code of Ethics includes guidelines for traveling with athletes and Complaint Resolution and Procedures to name a few.

Article on food cravings from SkiFaster.net