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Home > ABOUT US > Archive News and Events > “Taking Canada’s Rightful Place in Sport” (',January 1, 2007)
“Taking Canada’s Rightful Place in Sport” (',January 1, 2007)
Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:47
The Pacific Sport Institute at Camosun College

“Taking Canada’s Rightful Place in Sport”


An exciting project that combines leading-edge sport technology and educational programming that will help Canada take its rightful place in sport, is gaining momentum in Victoria, BC. The Pacific Sport Institute at Camosun College (',PSI), with its key areas of partnership -  sport and education - is the first of its kind in Canada and unique in the world.

The most recent news includes:
•    confirmation of $18.5 million from the Province of BC
•    investment of $2 million from Hbc
•    the first staff person hired, the Director of Sport Education, Dr. Peter Rehor
•    the awarding of the architectural facility design contract to Cannon Design
•    the opening of the PacificSport Institute Sport Innovation Centre (',SPIN)

Also noteworthy is the expansion of the Layritz Park Development, adjacent to the PSI, by the District of Saanich. This includes the construction of much-needed new baseball diamonds and soccer fields along with the necessary roads, trails and infrastructure systems.

The Institute will bring together sport technology, research and innovation, unique educational programming in sport leadership and coaching science, sport medicine and technology expertise, health and wellness programs and sport facilities into a single centre for excellence.

Building on Camosun College and PacificSport Victoria’s already strong reputation and expertise in the areas of sport and health and wellness, the Institute will serve PacificSport performance athletes and coaches, Camosun College students and staff, and also the wider community.

The Pacific Sport Institute is building on a proven model that consistently helps to power sport performance. PacificSport Victoria was launched in 1996 to coordinate and deliver programs and services for athletes and coaches.  Today it operates Canadian sport centres in Vancouver and Victoria, and eight regional centres across British Columbia in collaboration with national sport federations, provincial sport organizations, community recreation departments, schools, colleges and universities.

The four components to the PSI model:

1. High performance athlete training, coaching and support
PacificSport Victoria supports over 300 athletes and 41 coaches with a model that involves sport science and medicine, sport technology, coaching and support services such as professional and personal development, fitness and strength training, nutrition and injury prevention.

The results are dramatic – athletes registered with PacificSport Victoria produced over 100 international podium results in 2005, including names like Simon Whitfield, 2000 Triathlon Olympic Gold Medallist; Alison Sydor, three-time Mountain Bike World Champion; Andrea Holmes, Paralympic Long Jumper; the Men’s Rowing Fours, 2004 Olympic Silver Medallists; Al Bergman, Wheelchair Marathoner, and Rick Say, two-time Olympic Swimmer and double medalist at the 2005 World Aquatic Championships.

2. Community programs
From the playground to the podium, the same strategies, resources and talents that develop world-class athletes are extended to the community level.

PacificSport trains and supports coaches, partners with local events and has developed an extensive program of events, seminars and competitions in communities throughout British Columbia.  PacificSport stars like Simon Whitfield, Diane Cummins and Gary Reed often make guest appearances in partnership with local sport organizations to help motivate kids to get involved in sport and recreation. Staff and students from Camosun and members of both national and regional sport centres volunteer their time to events like the Times Colonist Book Drive and Raise a Reader campaigns, Hbc Run for Canada event and CFAX’s Miracle on Broad Street, a Christmas fundraising campaign.

Community programs are a key part of the PSI model because they not only generate more participation in sports – a key driver of Canada’s health and wellness policy – but also help identify and encourage the rising stars of tomorrow.

3. Sport science and technology innovation

The Pacific Sport Institute Sport Innovation Centre (',SPIN), a partner ship between PacificSport Victoria and Camosun College, was created to provide leadership in technology development and innovation for performance sport. Dr. Gord Sleivert, PacificSport’s internationally recognized VP Sport Performance, heads SPIN, currently located at the Vancouver Island Technology Park

Athletes, coaches and full-time human performance specialists work closely with Vancouver Island hi-tech companies, academics, technologists, engineers, computer experts and trades people to provide innovative solutions for sport.  This facility will play a leading contributing role in athlete performance at future summer and winter Games, including the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

The PSI supports a wide range of sport technology and sport medicine programs – research, testing and the development of new methodologies. These programs are a key part of the model, for two good reasons.

1.    In the overall issue of health and wellness, sport can play an important role.  Research in these areas is making a major contribution to the national awareness of fitness, exercise, diet and nutrition, wellness and the prevention of illness.

2.    Leadership in sport technology means having the best training methods, which in turn means improving Canada’s ability to field world-class athletes.  It can also contribute to the growth of a new industry that will position Canada as a leader in this emerging field.

4. Advanced education in coaching and sport leadership
The PSI will lead the way in recognizing that coaching and sport leadership require a professional level of skill and educational support.  The PSI will pioneer programs that will not only improve sport leadership and coaching but transform these into resource-rich professions with a higher level of educational support, leadership support and opportunities for continuing career growth.

These are the components of the PSI model, capable of being ‘plugged in’ to new opportunities, new sports, new geographical venues – serving as a model that can be carried across Canada.

Camosun College – An ideal partner
Founded in 1971, Camosun College serves over 19,000 learners and is an acknowledged leader in the development of high quality, innovative academic and career programs in such fields as health, business, engineering technologies, the arts and sciences, and the trades.  Camosun is also well known and respected for access programming that helps under-prepared students successfully enter and pursue their chosen fields of study, and for First Nations programming and services.

Camosun College offers education through to the Applied Degree level and is developing new programming in the areas of Sport Leadership and Coaching Science.  These will be central to the PSI.

The new facility will be located at Camosun’s Interurban campus, ideally located close to a number of existing world-class training facilities.  The College also has existing strong links throughout BC and the Canadian post-secondary education system.  Thus the new Pacific Sport Institute at Camosun College will be able to offer athletes an opportunity to combine world-class training with ongoing education – a combination that is difficult for most Canadian athletes to realize –  and provide new educational pathways to exciting new sport-related careers.

PSI – Phase One
The new facility will see high performance athletes will train alongside kids from the community, college athletes and sport enthusiasts of all ages . . . and all will benefit from access to PSI experts, practitioners, programming and facilities.

In its first phase, the Pacific Sport Institute will include:
•    a double gymnasium
•    human performance, sport science and technology and sport medicine facilities
•    fitness/wellness facilities
•    lit, all-weather playing field
•    classrooms, meeting rooms and ancillary spaces

Partnering potential
The power of the PSI is partnerships.  To realize the full potential of the Institute, significant private-sector and government partnerships are required, some of which are already developing thanks to the efforts of the PSI Capital Campaign. Co-chaired by Hbc CEO George Heller and Owen Matthews President and CEO of NewHeights Software , the Campaign cabinet is working to source philanthropic funding for this project. British Columbians who are the inaugural members of a growing Campaign Cabinet include: Peter Baillie, Susan Brice, Judd Buchanan, Russ Courtnall, Lynda Farmer, Terry Farmer, Mike Jawl, John Nash, Jim Reed, Mel Reeves, Judith Scott and Ian Stewart.

Get behind this exciting new project because Canada can’t win if we all don’t play.

For more information, contact Roger Skillings, President and CEO, PacificSport (',250) 744-3583 or Liz Ashton, President Camosun College (',250) 370 3409.
www.pacificsport.com
www.camosun.bc.ca
www.pacificsportinstitute.ca
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The Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence is a unique and holistic sport development model that will fuel Canada’s sport performance, build a healthier nation and develop role models to inspire physical literacy. An international forerunner bringing sport education and athlete development under one ‘roof’, it will incorporate sport science, sport technology and innovation, and sport and wellness research. Read more

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