Do carbs help or hinder your workout? How can you keep your athletes hydrated? Can a sport dietitian really benefit your team?
Nutrition questions can be tough -- SPORT nutrition questions even tougher. That’s where the CAC’s recently revamped Sport Nutrition for Athletes and Coaches (SNAC) program comes in!

TIPS: over 40 tips on a variety of topics – now reorganized into easy-to-navigate categories;

This month’s featured tip:Nutrition for Cold Weather Sports

Do you coach hockey? Alpine skiing? Biathlon? As cold weather competitors, your athletes have unique nutritional needs! This tip provides you with a quick, easy-to-read snapshot of some of the things you need to consider when coaching your athletes on proper nutrition for both competition and practice.
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• ASK A DIETITIAN: have a sport nutrition question? Here’s your opportunity to have it answered. We have some of the top sport dietitians in Canada on-hand to answer your tough questions. Submit your question today to: sportnutrition@coach.ca;
  
  This month’s featured question:
  My athletes have practice very early in the morning – what are some good options for things they could eat pre-practice so they have enough energy, but so that they don’t get cramps?
  
  Looking for the answer? Click here!
  
• EXPERTS: looking for a dietitian for your team or athlete? We have a comprehensive list of registered dietitians who specialize in sport nutrition from all across Canada.

Sports nutrition doesn’t have to be complicated.
Eat well. Train hard. SNAC

Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif

This past month, Canada’s best and brightest minds in sport gathered in Toronto for another successful Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif conference. Amongst thought-provoking workshop presenters like Paul Mead, Lisa Neilson and Dr. Inigo Mujika, delegates were energized by Michael ‘Pinball’ Clemons, inspired by Dr. Samantha Nutt and motivated by Marcel Aubut our keynote speakers.
Missed the event? Workshop presentations and pictures have been posted to help recap the amazing weekend. Visit www.sportleadershipsportif.ca today!

Thank you to all who attended. We look forward to seeing you next year in Montreal!

My Coach: Tales from the Athletes

44 national team coaches were recently honoured with Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence awards at the Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif conference. To help us paint a picture of these accomplished coaches, we turned to their athletes after all, who knows the coaches better than their athletes? We hope you enjoy what they had to say!
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Alpine Ski Launches New Coach Education Website

The Canadian Ski Coaches Federation, Alpine Canada’s coach education arm, launched its new website www.canskicoach.org this fall which provides coaches, clubs and Provincial Sport Organizations (PSOs) with an improved source of information about certification events and professional development activities.
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An Inside Look into Coaching – Coach Q&A’s

Coach Q&A: James Messenger
The winner of a Sport BC Community Sport Hero Award in 2009, James Messenger has been an active promoter of physical activity in Port Alberni, B.C. for over a decade as both a teacher, a coach and an NCCP Learning Facilitator and Evaluator.
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Coach Q&A: Peter Lawless
A recent winner of his second Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Award, and the newly elected President of the Board of Directors for Coaches of Canada, Peter Lawless is a graduate of the National Coaching Institute and a Chartered Professional Coach holding NCCP Level 4 certification.
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The Question of Coach Recognition

The Canadian Olympic Committee announced their new coach reward program for Olympic podium performances last month. The CAC’s manager of marketing and communications, Julie Parkins-Forget, weighs in on this topic in our latest blog.
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