Coaches and other Bench Personnel:

In an effort to protect our athletes, the Rocky View Lacrosse Association, is now utilizing local police resources to provide screening our coaching staff and other bench personnel, such as trainers and managers.

Each season ALL bench personnel with-in the Rocky View Lacrosse Association must provide a current (completed with-in the prior 4 months) “Vulnerable Record Check” which can be obtained at your home disctrict RCMP station.

Processing takes aproximately 7-10 days, but has taken upwards of 2-months so please start the process in advance of the season. Once completed please proved an original copy by mail or in person at a pre-arranged time.

Mail to:

Rich Kilbride
c/o Rockyview Lacrosse Association
8 Redwood Meadows Court
Redwood Meadows, AB T3Z 1A3

Information will be kept confidential!

Please download a copy of the Letter to RCMP, type your name and take with you to your local station.

If you have any concerns, do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Best regards,

Rich Kilbride
Director of Coaching
Rocky View Lacrosse Association
403.831.5211
coach@rockyviewlacrosse.com

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By Steve Simmons, Toronto Sun

There was about two minutes to play in the playoff game and I was anxiously pacing behind the bench, barking out whatever instructions seemed important at that very moment. You watch the game and you watch the clock in those final seconds, sometimes precisely at the very same time. We were up by a goal, poised to advance to the next round of the playoffs, when I felt a tug on my jacket. “Ah coach,” one of my players said on the bench. “Yea,” I answered, concentrating more on the game and the clock than on him at that instance. “Is there snacks today?” “Whaaaat?” I barked exasperated. “Did anyone bring snacks today?” “Huh,” I looked away. “I hope they didn’t bring apple juice.” The young boy said. “I don’t like apple juice.” The moment froze me in all the playoff excitement, the way all special and meaningful moments should.

If somehow, I could have captured that conversation on tape, I would have had one of those special sporting moments for parents everywhere, the kind you need to play for coaches and executive and trainers and managers and all of us who take kids hockey way too seriously. It isn’t life or death, as we like to think it is. It isn’t do or die as often as we pretend it to be. In one tiny moment in one game minor hockey was reduced to what it really is about. Apple juice. OK, so it’s not apple juice. But what apple juice happens to represent in all of this. The snack. The routine. The ritual. Kids can win and lose and not even give a second’s thought about either, but don’t forget the post-game drinks. If anything will spoil a good time, that will.

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CLA Minimum Coaching Standards

New coaching standards were passed at the 2010 AGM.

Please select the dicipline of interest below for more details.

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The Rockyview Lacrosse Association is always in need of enthusiastic, energetic roll-models to coach our kids. If you are interested in joining the ranks then please take the first step and complete our coaching application.

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Rules and Regulations

Rules and regulations for the CDLA are more specific rules that apply to the management and administration of lacrosse in Calgary.  Rules and regulations provide specific guidance on such items as:

1. Use of underaged players
2. Affiliate players
3. Player transfers
4. Player suspensions

In some cases, the CDLA has modified Canadian Lacrosse Association rules to make them more ‘severe’ or specific.  For example, in 2008, the CDLA introduced the ‘repeat offender’ rule.  This rule is as follows:

For the latest version of the CDLA Rules and Regulations » Downloaded Now (PDF Format)

Coaching Certification Programs (NCCP Programs) for 2010

There are some new procedures in place for all coaches taking coach certification courses in 2010. Please review the following information before you register for a course.

** New for 2010 ** Coaching Certification Course Registration Procedures

• Email linda@sportzsoft.com with:

1. your name
2. course date and location
3. club you are with

• You will be sent a course ‘code’ and further instructions
• You must then login to the Canadian Lacrosse Association NCCP website system
• Complete the ‘pre-clinic’ assessment (this can take between 1-2 hours)
• Once your pre-clinic assessment has been completed, you must register for the course via the CLA website
• Attend the required course.
• Complete your coach’s workbook online through the CLA website.

Full details, clinic dates and other requirements please visit the CDLA Coaching Site