Course Calendar
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Note sure which course is right for you? Click here to find out!
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Don't see a course you are interested in below? Submit an interest form or request to host
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Need financial assistance? See our grants and bursary page
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Become a Coach BC Athletics Memeber for discounts on NCCP courses
| Date |
Course |
Location |
Link for more info and registration |
| NCCP Athletics Courses |
| Sep 15/22 |
Foundations of Coaching |
Online |
Register Here |
| Oct. 18-20 |
BC Athletics Coach Development Weekend (Sport Coach and Club Coach) |
Kamloops |
Register Here |
| Oct. 27/Nov. 3 |
Foundations of Coaching |
Online |
Register Here |
| Nov. 23 |
FREE Run Jump Throw Wheel |
Kamloops |
Register Here |
| 2025 |
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| April 5-6 |
NCCP Club Coach |
Duncan |
Info to come |
| April 12 |
Run Jump Throw Wheel |
Powell River |
Info to come |
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| Multi-Sport Courses |
| Various |
All NCCP Multi-Sport Courses offered through viaSport |
Online |
Find schedules Here |
| Courses Available Any Time |
| Anytime |
Athletics NCCP Performance Coach Pre- Learning (Required for Performance Coach) |
e-learning online |
Click here for link
(login to locker to access) |
| Anytime |
Long Term Athlete Development for Athletics (Required for Sport/Club Coach) |
e-learning online |
Click here for link
(login to locker to access) |
| Anytime |
NCCP Emergency Action Plan
(Requried for Sport/Club Coach) |
e-learning online |
Click here for link
(login to locker to access)
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| Anytime |
NCCP Leading Drug Free Sport
(Required for Performance Coach) |
e-learning online |
Click here for link
(login to locker to access |
| Anytime |
Fundamentals of Athletics (great for parents or coaches just getting started!) |
e-learning online |
Click here for link
(login to locker to access) |
| Anytime |
Competition Management for Team Coaches at Canada Games |
e-learning online |
Click here for link
(login to locker to access) |
| Anytime |
Officals 101 and 102 |
e-learning online |
Click here for link |
| Anytime |
Professional Development Webinars |
Online |
Click here for link |
Course Interest/ Request Form
BC Athletics organizes Coaching Education courses throughout the year.
Check our Course Calendar before submitting a course interest/requset form to see if there's a course near you. See our courses descriptions to see which course is right for you.
Please complete the approprite form below to assist us in setting up the courses in areas of interest.
Hosting Guidelines
All NCCP Courses Must be Pre-approved by BC Athletics & requested a minimum of 30 days in advance.
MINIMUM NUMBERS:
- Minimum of 6 COACHES are required to host a course (exceptions may apply in remote areas).
- BC Athletics will help promote the course to help fill the additional spaces.
ROLES:
- BC Athletics will cover the cost of the Learning Faciliator (including compensation, travel, accomodation), and insurance. We will organize the Learning Facilitator, manage registration, and help promote the course.
- We ask the Host Clubs confirm facility booking.
SCHEDULES and EQUIPMENT LIST
- Our standard example schedules are below as well as suggested equipment. However, we can work with you to create a schedule to accomodate your needs and will connect you to the learning facilitator to arrange equipment.
- We will be offering Foundations of Coaching (theory modules for Sport and Club Coach) online for coaches anywhere in the province. Clubs can then host just the Techincal portions of Sport and Club.
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Run Jump Throw Wheel
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Foundations of Coaching |
Sport Coach |
Club Coach |
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Evaluation
The first step to becoming certified is taking a Coaching Course
and becoming NCCP TRAINED (Find courses here)
From there, you can be evaluated to be NCCP CERTIFIED
Certification Requirements
Being certified requires completed all of the required evaluations including both the athletics and multi-sport evaluations. Evaluations can be completed in any order.
** PERFORMANCE COACH EVALUATION: In order to complete a Performance Coach evaluation, you should be coaching a U20 or older athlete who is competing at the national level. The competition evaluation DOES NOT have to take place at nationals. It can take place at any competition that is appropriate for the athlete in question. A non-exhaustive list includes: university conference championships, provincial championships, elite invitational competitions. Email Hailey Kjaer if the meet you have in mind is appropriate.
Follow the links below for more information about the evaluation process
How to Register and Complete Your Evaluation
Evaluation Timeline*Self paced but may take a minimum of a month. Click the link to learn more.
Why Become Certified? *Professional standards, lifelong learning, mentorship, team requirements
Important Notes*How to challenge the evaluation, minimum age, maintaining certification.
Maintenance of Certification
All NCCP Certified coaches in any context or sport are requried to maintan certification through ongoing learning and professional development points.
Once certified, coaches have 5 years to collect the required Pro-D Points shown below. If they do not, their status will changed to Trained until they collect the required amount.
Minimum Pro-D Points Required to Maintain Certification within a 5 year cycle
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Run, Jump, Throw Certified
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10 points
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Sport Coach Certified
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20 points
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Club Coach Certified
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20 points
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Performance Coach Certified
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30 points
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How can you earn Pro-D Points?
See the chart below on how you can earn pro-d points. Check out the our Professional Development Tab for some options, along with accessible options to earn your points!
| Type of Pro D |
Points |
How to collect points |
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NCCP Courses and Evaluations (Athletics or multi-sport)
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5 points each
e-learning modules vary 1-5 pts pending length |
Automatically added in locker |
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Non-NCCP Webinars, Conferences or Courses
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1 point per hr; maximum 3 points per session |
If advertised by organizer, automatically applied; if not, ask the organizers to have iPro-D points added |
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Active Coaching
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1 point per year |
Add your points to your locker.
Click profile > certification > self-report
Click "Record active status" to report your active coaching, or "record professional development to self-report" (see blue circles in photo below)
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Self-directed learning (course, webinar, read a book, watched a film)
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max 3 points per 5 year cycle |
How to self-report pro-d points under your profile in the locker:
How can I check how many PD points I have?
- Log in to the locker.
- Click profile > certification > maintenance (see green circle in photo above)
This will show you how many points you have out of how many you need, and when your cycle starts (year you were certified) and when it expires (how long you have to collect the required points)
Find Out More about Maintenance of Certification and PD Points:
Professional Development
Professional Development is key to life long learning and coach development
Attend pro-d events for your own development at any time,
or collect professional develompent points to maintain your certification.
This document list's some of the accessible, free or inexpensive way you can collect pro-d points.
Types of Pro D:
NCCP Multi-Sport Courses
NCCP courses (multi-sport, athletics, or evaluation) will provide you with 5 pro-d points. Multi-sport courses are offered in person or online by viaSport and the Regional Alliance (see calendar here) and in other provinces (login and visit the locker calendar).
NCCP e-Learning Courses
NCCP e-Learning courses are available as multi-sport, athletics, and other sports and can be completed on your own time. They are worth between 1 and 5 points pending length. Click here to access e-Learning courses by logging into the locker.
Non-NCCP Professional Development Webinars
The following organizations offer a variety of webinars. Some have pro-d points available automatically, others you can self-report your points on the locker (See maintenance of certification for information on how to do so)
| Organization |
Description |
Price |
| BC Athletics |
- BC Athletics Youtube Page has past webinars. Email us if you have watched our past events and we will give you pro-D points.
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Free |
| Athletics Canada |
- Athletics Canada has webinar series' and e-learning opportunities available for all coaches.
- Video resourses
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Varies |
| ALTIS Digital Courses |
- Our courses have been created by world-class coaches with a track record if success, and Performance Therapists who are revolutionizing sports medicine. Each course features hours of in-depth guided learning content, ALTIS videos, and more, which share knowledge and unique perspectives you won't find anywhere else.
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Varies |
| Coaching Association of Canada |
- The Coaching Association of Canada has many multi-sport and sport specific professional development courses that are available to you.
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Varies |
| Commit to Kids |
- C2K for Coaching online training empowers coaches and other sport leaders with practical information to help enhamce youth safety in sport.
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$12 |
| CSI Pacific |
- CSI Pacific are driven to develop competent coaches in the high performance sport pathway who are capable of delivering the highest quality athlete programming.
- There are many pro-d opportunities available through CSI Pacific, including their Speaker Series on Demand.
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Free |
| EvalTrackSport |
- EvalTrackSport offers courses in many coaching areas including sprints, endurance, jumps, throws, strength, and youth development.
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Varies |
| Respect Group Inc |
- The Respect in Sport Activity Leader/Coach Program educates youth leaders, coaches, and officials to recognize, understand, and respond to issues of bullying, abuse, harassment, and discrimination.
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| School Sport |
- This organization hosts several interactive online educational courses for couches. These courses were designed specifically for coaches in a school-sport setting and cover everything from the philosophies of school sport, growth and development, nutrition, injury management, planning a practice, and much more.
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Free |
| Sport for Life |
- Sport for Life strives to reshape how we support sport and train athletes at all levels in Canada – from children to adults, from towns to cities, from provinces and regions through to the national level.
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Varies |
| PHE Canada |
- Promotes and advances quality physical and health education and healthy learning environments.
- Specific physical literacy courses can be found here
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Varies
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Grants and Bursaries
At BC Athletics we recognize that attending coaching courses may not be financially assessible for all coaches. The grants below are available to help support your needs.
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Grant
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Organization
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Description
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Amount
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| FOR FEMALE COACHES: |
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Bob Bearpark Equity & Access Coaching Bursary Awards
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ViaSport BC
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- For coaches completing an NCCP multi-sport or sport-specific coach training course or certification evaluation
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$250
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| LeadForward Grant: Advancing Balanced Representation in Sport |
ViaSport BC |
- This grant aims to strengthen balanced leadership for female coaches, officials, and organizational staff throughout BC.
- Supports training, certification, and policiy development opportunities.
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$2000 |
| WISE Fund Grant |
Canadian Women & Sport |
- For women and girls to participate and lead in the sport system
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$2500 |
| FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COACHES: |
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Bob Bearpark High Performance Coach Education Bursary Awards
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ViaSport BC
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- For coaches undertaking NCCP Competition Development modules/evaluations or Advanced Coaching Diploma modules
- Must be a BC resident
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$250
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| NCCP Gameplan Coach Education Grants |
GamePlan |
- Supports athletes who are looking to coach in the Competition-Development Stream (Comp-Dev) or the Advanced Coaching Diploma (ACD) program as part of the NCCP.
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Up to $1000
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| ACD/Team BC Canada Games Bursary |
Canadian Sport Institute
Pacific |
- Have completed the Advanced Coaching Diploma at Canadian Sport Institute Pacific.
- Be verified as a Team BC selected coach
- Provide evidence of completing Diploma requirements
- Be a current member in good standing of Coaches of Canada
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$500 |
| ZONE SPECIFIC: |
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| Northern BC Coaching and Officiating Development Fund |
ViaSport BC |
- Individual or group who permanently reside in zones 7 or 8 OR
- PSO who hosts a coaching/officiating course in zones 7 or 8
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Individuals: $1500
PSO: $2500 |
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Coaches BC Legacy Grants
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ViaSport BC
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- Aims to encourage more community level coaches to become involved, to further their education, and to receive training/certification.
- Four coach grants are available.
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$100-$600
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| OTHER GRANTS: |
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BC Ferries Sport Experience Program
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ViaSport BC
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- Vouchers may be used for travelling to a recognized certfication or professional development opportunity
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Advanced Coaching Diploma – Travel Bursary
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Canadian Sport Institute
Pacific
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- Be endorsed by a NSO with min. level 3 certification or equivalent
- Be activley coaching athletes
- Pay designated tuition for ACD program
- Completes all ACD requirements
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Max. $100/event
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UBC Graduate Certificate in High Performance Coaching and Technical Sport Leadership Scholarship
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Canadian Sport Institute
Pacific
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- Endorsed by National Sport Organization (Letter of Endorsement)
- Successfully admitted into the Graduate Certificate in High Performance Coaching and Technical Sport Leadership.
- Current member in good standing of Coaches of Canada
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$500/course
Max. $2000
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| ViaSport Grants & Links to Other Grants |
ViaSport BC |
- ViaSport offers many different grants for coaches and has published an extensive list of other grants
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| BC Athletics In-Province Travel Grants |
BC Athletics |
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BC Athletics will be providing grants of up to $250.00 for coaches from outside the course area to attend the necessary NCCP courses offered elsewhere.
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$250 |
| BC Athletics Out-Of-Province Travel Grants |
BC Athletics |
- BC Athletics will be providing grants of up to $700.00 for a maximum of 5 coaches from BC to attend out-of-province national-level coach education workshops. The grant can be applied to any of the national coaching events including Performance Coach, summits, and mentorship. May be applicable to other national events upon request.
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$700 |
Minimum Standards for Coach Membership
All coaches must take the Safe Sport training through The Locker.
Step 1: Get an NCCP Number
Step 2: Take an NCCP Coaching Course (In-Training)
Step 3: Complete Additional Requirements (Trained)
Still have Questions or Need More Information?
Below are some links to provide you with all the details of BC Athletics New Minimum Standards for Coach Membership.
Link to the initial email sent from BCA President and BCA CEO:
Making Sense of the New BCA Minimum Coach Standards (FAQ and Solutions):
3 Simple Steps to Becoming Trained:
Graphic Explanation of Athletic Canada's NCCP Coaching Pathway:
http://www.bcathletics.org/admin/js/elfinder/files/Coaching/AthleticsCoachingPathwaySportCoachClubCoach.pdf
FAQ
What is an NCCP Number?
- An NCCP number gives you access to the Locker, which is the Coaching Association of Canada's database system for all sports. All your coach education will be tracked on the Locker.
- You can login to the Locker to view your coach education transcript, course history, professional development points, as well as take online courses and multi-sport evaluations
- Sign up for an NCCP number or look up your number here. It's free and takes two minutes!
What is NCCP In-Training vs Trained vs Certified?
- There are three levels of NCCP certification for any pathway:
- In-Training: Taken partial course requirements.
- Trained: Taken all course requirements (ex. athletics courses & multi-sport courses)
- Certified: Completed all evaluations required (ex. athletics evaluations & multi-sport evaluations)
How do I find our what Trainings or Certifications I have?
- Click here to login to the locker with your NCCP Number
- Click on the "Certification" tab at the top
- You will see all the courses and certificaitons that you have as well as your NCCP Status (in-training, trained, or certified)
- OR click the "history" tab to see a timeline of when you have taken your trainings
What are the age requirements?
- The minimum age to obtain a Coach Membership with BC Athletics is 15
- However, coaches can start their NCCP training (i.e., take a course) in preparation for coaching at 14
- The minimum age to be NCCP Certified (i.e., take an evaluation) is 16
Do I need a BC Athletics coach membership for courses?
- No, you do not need to have a coach membership to enrol in courses. However, being a BC Athletics member will grant you discounts for many of the coaching courses available.
How do I access course manuals?
- Electronic Copies
- The NCCP Course Manuals are accessible for free online to all coach members and course participants under the "Documents" tab at https://athletics.ca/coach/
- Coaches will need their BCA Coach Membership Number (this is the same as your Athletics Canada number) to sign up or log in. You can look up your BCA number here.
How can I receive financial assistance?
Where do I find evaluation rubrics?
- The evaluation rubrics provide you with a check list of what is required for your portfolio and observations.
- Login to Atheltics Canada. You can sign in with your Atheltics Canada number (same as your BC Athletics number - found here)
- Click on "Documents", then select your context from the drop down menu and download the "Marking Rubric"
Do I need to take athletics courses before the evaluation?
- No, the evaluation assesses the coaches knowledge and competency. You can obtain this compentncy from the course, on your own, and take the evaluation when you feel ready.
- However,
- If you take the athletics course first, you have unlimited attemptes to pass. If you skip the course and go straight to the evaluation, you have one attempt to pass and if you don't, you will need to take the course first before attempting the evaluation again.
Do I need to take the multi-sport courses before the evaluation?
- No, however:
- If you take the multi-sport course first, the evaluations are free with unlimited attemptes to pass with 75% of higher.
- If you skip the course and go straight to the evaluation, the cost is $85.00 with 3 attempts to pass with 75% or higher.
- To take the multi-sport evaluation, login to the locker and click the e-learning tab to find your respective evaluation (all are online).
