Special Olympics BC’s innovative Performance Project is producing great results among the athletes and coaches who have participated in the aquatics, athletics, and speed skating camps to date, as well as the members of the Team BC 2014 Training Squad and competitors at the 2014 Snow Sports Festival Regional Qualifiers who have worked with Performance Project tools and techniques.
The latest speed skating camp with world-class expert Jacques Thibault was another hit, and with the 2015 SOBC Winter Games on the horizon, the Performance Project will now have a larger focus on SOBC winter sports. Support for the currently targeted summer sports will continue, but with the new winter-sport competition cycle ramping up, more Performance Project initiatives for winter sports are currently in the works.
Stay tuned for more updates and camp reports to come!
In the latest Performance Project speed skating camp, held at the end of March in Coquitlam, Thibault again took the time to work with the athletes and coaches from Abbotsford, Coquitlam, Mission, Vancouver, and Victoria on critical fundamental skills and technique. The session also helped develop a plan to target the athletes and coaches in tiers to give them more specific, focused work one-on-one with experts that will help see great changes over the next two years.
Thibault, who is giving a great deal of time to the Performance Project along with the Allinger Consulting International team, is a significant figure in the speed skating world as a former national team coach and Olympian, former Olympic Oval General Manager, and member of the Speed Skating Canada Hall of Fame. He is choosing to help SOBC athletes and coaches because he loves empowering athletes to be their very best.
“I’m involved in the Performance Project because I am always amazed at how good athletes can be when placed in the right environment,” Thibault said.
The next speed skating camp is set for May.
The Performance Project aims to give SOBC athletes and coaches a richer experience in a high-performance sport environment, growing together with more tools and techniques to help them be at their best.
Working with the world-class sport experts on the Allinger Consulting International team, SOBC athletes and coaches in the Performance Project are making use of elite sport science and sport medicine expertise and valuable new technological tools. Those who participate in Performance Project events bring home the important new lessons and technology to share with local athletes and coaches so that everyone can benefit from these ideas and resources.