Tag: Centre For Performance

Canada Notches Silver In U16 FIBA Americas

Two for two with our 2009 U16 Canadian national teams! Congrats to all the athletes and coaches who bought in and played an integral role in the success of both our men’s and women’s cadet/te national teams. As Senior Women’s National Team Coach, Allison McNeill, reminded us: “It takes an entire village to raise a …

Mining For Gold

I feel like one of them ol’ time prospectors out sifting through the sludge mining for that nugget. Trying to find ‘pay dirt.’ 27 hours of basketball, 24 games, all in a span of 36 hours. “And, not all of it good,” as one coach exclaimed. I just finished Day 2 of Canada Basketball’s U15 …

U16 FIBA Americas: Pictures Speak Louder Than Words

Wrapping up the 2009 U16 FIBA Americas Championship in Mendoza, Argentina, by sharing some pics from our time there. These will do far greater justice to the experience of this national team than anything I could ever put in written word… 2009 U16 Canadian Men’s National Team, Bronze Medal (back l-r) Sefu Bernard, Kriby Schepp, …

Proud… Very Proud

We lost a hard fought, well coached, game last night to the Argentines in overtime at the U16 FIBA Americas. Wow, what a basketball game… what an environment to play in! Our boys got their first taste of the passion and fire that comes along with international basketball yesterday. And, there’s no better way to …

“Hola!” From Mendoza

This is my first post in a while. I know, I know…. It’s for good reason. I’ve truly been living the nomadic life as these past 3-weeks. Home is where ever I take off my socks for the night. (Actually, there was a few nights at University of Central Missouri two weeks ago when the …

Are You Teaching Or Training?

Brian Grasso of the International Youth Conditioning Association (IYCA) wrote an interesting article where he gets into an important question of whether we are training, teaching or coaching our young athletes. Grasso is not a basketball coach. Instead, his area of expertise is around youth athletic development. That is, age and stage appropriate physical development …

Back On The Rock

… (a.k.a. the Cayman Islands) after having been back in Canada these past few weeks. One of the reasons I was there was for Canada Basketball’s Centre for Performance (CP). They’re are up and running across the country and we hosted the men’s and women’s CP head coaches in Hamilton, Ontario, for our annual Head …