JO BROWN

Trimes digs Joanna Brown

PAR OLIVIER MOUYAU | PUBLIÉ LE 16 JANVIER 2011 À 17 H 02 MIN | SOUS SE SONT FAIT TRIMER

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And voila ! After Kyla Coates, Andrew Yorke and Tenille Hoogland, we will turn our attention on yet another member of the National Development Team nominated by Triathlon Canada. Please welcome Joanna Brown [blOg].

Joanna at ITU Coteau

This Carp (tiny little town near Ottawa) native Junior athlete has been working very hard for a few years under the talented yet underrated coach Greg Kealey. She is part of a Ottawa source of young elites called the Bytown Storm Triathlon club.

Joanna is about to jump into the Olympic distance world and racing U23 in 2012, meanwhile she has already accumulated multiple impressive results like

- 2010 National Junior Champion (Kelowna)
- 2010 Bronze medal @ ITU World Champion Junior (Budapest)

Full article.

THE CANADIAN WAY

Love the attitude, vision and leadership from Swim Canada's CEO Pierre Lafontaine... and the results.

Canada: Becoming tough to beat

January, 11, 2011

EDITORIAL - This past weekend, our Youth & Junior squad competed in Great Britain at a Tri-meet against Britain’s top talent team and selected swimmers from North-England. The team showed great character, fighting until the end and finishing with a victory on the second day. This is the character we are starting to see within the Canadian swimming community.

Our coaches and support staff were there to set an environment for our swimmers to excel, and have to be commended for their efforts.

We have seen similar performances this past summer at the Pan Pacific Championships where our swimmers won 1 medal on the 1st day, 2 medals on the 2nd day, 3 on the 3rd and 4 medals on the 4th and final day.

The same story was repeated at the Commonwealth Games where our best day was on the final day of the meet. Our National “B” team also fought to the victory against the Australian team to win the “B” meet by 11 points.

This is how we need to be known around the world! The team that never gives up, that is tough to beat anytime, anywhere, under any condition. This has to be the Canadian way!

It is important to remember that our best juniors are performing well at that level, not only because they have trained hard but because they are technically superior.

Our sport is a technical sport where great fitness is added on to, not the other way around. Swimmers must become fixated with the details of their techniques, and their coaches must become artists by developing a great technical eye. Coaches must be looking at, finding new way to improve day in day out and create a learning environment so that swimmers become the best at all 4 strokes, at underwater fly kick, body position, starts and turns, etc.

As a measure of celebration to the hard work and progression, each club in the country should acknowledge the daily challenges (training records) and improvements that can be measured. Add this to the club records, personal records, personal training records, pool records. Any way to celebrate progression outside of a swim meet will keep Canadian swimmers motivated to keep moving in the right direction!

As we look towards all the up coming international events this summer, the need to prepare your athletes to take on the world is as important as them getting ready to qualify for the team itself. They need to be resilient, excited to race for Canada and to make their marks, training to race by learning to win the “close ones”.

Swimmers need to make their presence felt on every pool deck they walk on. Show the World that we have prepared relentlessly better than anyone, that we have used all of our tools to be the best technically, and that we have used all of our racing opportunities to tweak our ultimate performances.

Go Canada go!

A great read…

Leadership – by Rudolph W Guiliani, Miramax Books 2002.

Here are the title of each of the chapters:

1 September 11, 2001
2 First thing First
3 Prepare Relentlessly
4 Everyone’s Accountable, All of the Time
5 Surround Yourself with Great People
6 Reflect, Then Decide
7 “Underpromise” and “Overdeliver”
8 Develop and Communicate Strong Beliefs
9 Be You Own Man
10 Loyalty: The Vital Virtue
11 Weddings Discretionary, Funerals Mandatory
12 Stand Up to Bullies
13 Study. Read. Learn Independently
14 Organize Around a Purpose
15 Bribe Only Those Who Will Stay Bribed
16 Recovery

I have just finished reading this good book and thought that was very appropriate for the work you do. Enjoy!

“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” – William Pollard

Pierre Lafontaine
CEO 

TENILLE HOOGLAND

Trimes Digs Tenille Hoogland

PAR ALEXANDRE MICHEL | PUBLIÉ LE 10 JANVIER 2011 À 6:00 | SOUS SE SONT FAIT TRIMER

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Tenille Hoogland

In early 2010, Ottawa-based up and coming triathlete Tenille Hoogland sold all her furniture, quit her permanent job with the federal government, moved to Austin, Texas, got her elite card, overcame a longterm injury and dutifully proceeded to kick butt all season!

2010 was a break through year for Tenille, finishing on the highest step of the podium in very competitive drafting short course events by scoring a win at the ITU Pan-American Cup San Francisco and at the San Francisco Triathlon at Alcatraz.  She also scored a second place at the Oceanside, CA Super Sprint Grand Prix, a fourth place at Calgary 70.3 before closing off the season with a 14th place finish at the ITU Pan-American Championships in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  Pretty solid for a first year on the international stage!

THANK YOU SHEILA!

A great article about Sheila O'Kelly, Managing Director of ITU World Cups, who left her post with the ITU at the end of 2010. Sheila, originally from Ireland, but a longtime Edmonton resident, has left an indelible mark on the sport. I can't say enough good things about Sheila, or about the help she's given me over the years, or the countless things she's done behind the scenes to simply make things work for coaches and athletes. She's left a remarkable legacy; starting out as a somewhat reluctant volunteer KOS race director and eventually helping guide the ITU through its formative years to the present. Thanks Sheila, you'll definitely be missed. CT

Special Thanks to Sheila O’Kelly

    

08/01/11 at 12:45 am - Texto en español

Sheila O’Kelly, Managing Director of ITU World Cups, has long played a crucial role in the development of our sport and chose to leave ITU at the end of 2010 to pursue new ventures.  ITU Secretary General Loreen Barnett contributed her memories of Sheila to honour her tireless work within triathlon.

My last thoughts of 2010 go to Sheila…..

2010 has been such a successful year for ITU, thanks to the committed efforts of an amazing staff under the wise guidance of the Executive Board.

Together we achieved:

• a highly successful launch of the Sprint and Team events within the Olympic Family at the Youth Olympic Games;
• another great World Championship Series and expansion of our partnership with Upsolut (we have become a really good team); 
• Paratriathlon’s acceptance on the programme of the Paralympics 2016;
• new milestones with Continental Confederations engagement within Sport Development and a clear future for the World Cup events within that structure; 
• the introduction of the Athlete Biological Passport;
• many more benchmarks for our sport.

Full article.

BC COACHING CONFERENCE

From Kristine Chambers:

Hello everyone,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A quick reminder that registration is now open for the 3^rd annual “Bridging the Gap” Coaching Conference in Victoria, February 12-13.

This conference is run “by coaches for coaches” and specifically targets those working with athletes “BRIDGING” up from KOS to Junior levels.  

The conference is discussion based with opportunities to share ideas, plans, programs, and future directions in the sport.  We also spend time observing NTC and PTC practices.  This is a chance to bring together a group of coaches that work with a growing area in our sport – and one that has few ‘road maps’ associated with development.  We are starting to create some of those maps through experiences like this.

If you are a BC Coach, there may be travel subsidies available (contact Triathlon BC for more details).  If you are an out-of-province coach, please, check with your PGB about support for attending the conference.  Pass this message on to coaches you think may be interested in this experience.  

Best wishes for a very successful 2011 season!

Kristine on behalf of BC Coaches and Triathlon BC

...AND ANDREW YORKE

Trimes digs Andrew Yorke

PAR OLIVIER MOUYAU | PUBLIÉ LE 4 JANVIER 2011 À 9:57 | SOUS SE SONT FAIT TRIMER

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This week, we are happy to introduce to you yet another athlete from the Canadian National development team, Andrew Yorke.

Andrew from Caledon, ON along with many other elites from Ontario (C3 Cross Training) is coached by former national coach Barrie Shepley.
He suffered from a few long terms injuries but was finally able to make a wonderful come-back in 2010.

Winning the ITU in Soulanges and the Ontario Long Course provincial in Ottawa helped to make him earn a slot in the national development team.
Andrew accepted to answer our silly questions …

Full article.

Trimes digs Kyla Coates

PAR OLIVIER MOUYAU | PUBLIÉ LE 1 JANVIER 2011 À 6:35 | SOUS SE SONT FAIT TRIMER

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To celebrate the beginning of our new year, we are happy to introduce a new tradition at Trimes.org

Victory Coteau 2009

In the shadow of the big names in triathlon that people-on-the-street may know about, there are some athletes in Canada who deserve to be heard and need some exposure. We created this topic for them. Therefore, on regular basis, we will introduce an athlete from the next generation in our columns.

To inaugurate our series about the « next gen », please welcome Kyla Coates !

Kyla has collected many many podium in Canada as a junior and just moved from the junior category last year. See her most noticeable results on ITU races here.
Her racing at high level was really promising in 2010 but a broken collarbone injury delayed Kyla a bit … We can’t wait for 2011 !

Full article here.