The Alpine Canada STRIVE Program serves as a framework for the development of CANADA’S future Olympians and for ​supporting skier participation. The program ​provides a holistic approach and added value to Clubs and Coaches, offering an evidence-based and practical tool ​for coaches and instructors, while supporting parents in the education of ACA’s Long-Term Development Model, ​serving to motivate our youth in reaching their ​maximum potential.

Objective

As we know, competitive sports are exciting and fun, but they're more than just that. Through them, young athletes learn valuable life skills, like teamwork, discipline, resilience, and leadership, fostering a healthy lifestyle, positive mindset and sense of achievement. We believe this program will play an important role in enriching the lives of thousands of young Canadian athletes, and set them, and our sport, on a path to greatness.

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The Alpine Canada STRIVE app is FREE to download and use. Parents, skiers and coaches can download the app now and will be guided through the process of creating their accounts and connecting with each other.

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Program Goals

In developing the Alpine Canada STRIVE program, Alpine Canada had the following goals in mind:

1. Add value and holistic athletic direction to Clubs

  • Provide Clubs and young coaches with athletic direction in terms of assessing development through an assessment template.
  • Evaluate ski racer progress through a nationally recognized framework.
  • Facilitate sharing of ski racer progress with skiers and their parents to motivate and increase sport participation and performance. 

2. Educate Parents and support the Long Term Development of their ski racer

  • Keep parents informed of their ski racers progress.
  • Better educate parents on the rationale behind ACA’s Long Term Athlete Development framework.

3. Offer evidence based and practical tools for coaches to support ski racers in their holistic development.

  • Improve the quality and impact of the coach's support to ski racers.
  • Optimize the use of resources and technology to deliver effective learning solutions.

4. Motivate ski racers to reach their maximum potential

  • Provide a tool that enables ski racers to monitor their progression.
  • Develop intrinsic motivation thru holistic measure of success.

Key Concepts

Strive is a program that is based on human performance maturity rather than chronological age. Strive is a program that identifies key Life Skills that ski racing utilizes to develop the whole person.

Strive utilizes a ski racer Evaluation Matrix

How the Program Works

The coach starts by establishing the starting point of the ski racer. Then, by using the tasks from the level above, plan the next session and foster learning and improvement. Finally, conduct an evaluation to establish what the ski racer has achieved, so you can start the loop again. Please note that ski racer should be able to complete approximately one level a year.