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- More than 18,000 coaches and nearly 196,000 athletes in 165 communities across the Canada have been touched by the program
OSHAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 12/07/09 -- Today, Chevrolet presented an additional 51 Canadian community sport clubs from across Canada with a grant of $2,000 each for coach training and development activities. Since inception in 2006, Chevrolet Making Dreams Possible has donated nearly $1 million to Canadian coaches at all levels of competition.
"GM has a long history of supporting Canadian athletes," said Tom Laurie, GM of Canada's Olympic Partnership Manager. "Making Dreams Possible is major grassroots commitment by Chevrolet designed to help coaches get the right kind of training that results in children having positive first experiences to encourage a lifetime love of sports."
Over the past three years, GM's direct support of coach education and development through this program has impacted over 18,000 coaches and 196,000 athletes in 165 communities across the country.
"Since the inception of Chevrolet Making Dreams Possible, the response from clubs across the country has been fantastic," commented John Bales, Chief Executive Officer of the Coaching Association of Canada. "This program provides more community and high performance coaches access to valuable training through our renowned National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP). As Vancouver 2010 will inspire more Canadians to participate in community club sports, it is very important that our athletes are trained by certified coaches.The Chevrolet Making Dreams Possible program helps make that happen."
"On behalf of the Innisfail Minor Hockey Association, I would like to take this opportunity to thank General Motors of Canada and the Coaching Association of Canada for selecting us as one of the grant recipients under the Making Dreams Possible program," says Mark Dowler, director of hockey development, Innisfail Minor Hockey Association. "The grant proceeds will be put to good use in offsetting our costs incurred in hosting a Hockey Canada Development 1 coaching clinic. Our association coaches and, in turn, our athletes will benefit greatly from the additional knowledge and training afforded by this clinic."
Chevrolet is an Official Vehicle of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
A complete list of recipients is attached.
About Chevrolet's Making Dreams Possible Program
Making Dreams Possible is a program developed by GM in partnership with the Coaching Association of Canada, the governing body of Canada's coaching education program and is designed to support coaches of Olympic and Paralympic Sports at the high performance and community club levels.
Chevrolet's Making Dreams Possible program will provide a minimum of 100 grants of $2,000 each annually for coach development in local communities, and ten grants of $10,000 each annually to high performance athletes and their coaches. These grants will be used to fund special projects that develop the skills and abilities of high performance and community level coaches. Application forms are now being accepted. Visit www.coach.ca/makingdreamspossible :
for more information.
About the Coaching Association of Canada
The Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) is a not-for-profit amateur sport organization with the mandate to improve the effectiveness of coaching across all sports and at all levels of the sport system. With a mission of enhancing the experiences of all Canadian athletes through quality coaching, the CAC and its partners deliver a leading edge coaching system that has a goal of reaching 100,000 NCCP-trained coaches who will impact 1,000,000 athletes each year by 2010. Visit www.coach.ca :
for more information about coach education and training.
Chevrolet Making Dreams Possible
Fall 2009 Community Club Coach Grant Recipients
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Club Sport City Prov
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Alpine Ski Club Alpine Ski Blue Mountains ON
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Aquatica Synchro Synchronized Swimming Winnipeg MB
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Atlantis Synchro Club Synchronized Swimming Halifax NS
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Beaver Curling Club Curling Moncton NB
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Blackjack Cross Country Ski Club Cross Country Ski Rossland BC
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Calgary Alpine Snowflyers Alpine Ski Calgary AB
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Calgary Aquabelles Synchronized
Swimming Club Synchronized Swimming Calgary AB
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Calgary West Soccer Club Soccer Calgary AB
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Club de Competition Val St-Come Alpine Ski Repentigny QC
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Club de ski de fond Monteriski Cross Country Ski Ste-Julie QC
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Club de triathlon Les Rapides Triathlon LaSalle QC
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Club Gymnamic Gymnastics Charny QC
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Cochrane Minor Hockey Hockey Cochrane
Association AB
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CPV Montreal International Speed Skating Montreal QC
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CPV Montreal-St.Michel Speed Skating Montreal QC
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CPV Sherbrooke Speed Skating Sherbrooke QC
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East Gwillimbury Soccer Club Soccer Holland Landing ON
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Equipe de Natation Elite de Swimming Longueuil
Longueuil QC
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Etobicoke Basketball Association Basketball Etobicoke ON
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FC Trois-Rivieres Soccer Trois-Rivieres QC
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Foothills Nordic Ski Club Cross Country Calgary
Ski/Biathlon AB
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Forest City Volleyball Club Volleyball London ON
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Gemini Gymnastics Gymnastics Oshawa ON
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Gloucester Skating Club Figure Skating Ottawa ON
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Grimsby Town Youth Soccer Club Soccer Grimsby ON
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Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club Alpine Ski North Vancouver BC
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Halifax Aqua Nova Synchro Club Synchronized Swimming Halifax NS
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Innisfail Minor Hockey Hockey Innisfail
Association AB
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Kamloops Long Blades Speed Speed Skating Kamloops
Skating Club BC
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Kelowna Volleyball Club Volleyball Kelowna BC
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Kimberley North Star Racers Alpine Ski Cranbrook BC
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Langley Mustangs Track and Field Athletics Langley BC
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Mount Hamilton Youth Soccer Club Soccer Hamilton ON
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NDG Soccer Association Soccer Montreal QC
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Northumberland Breakers
Volleyball Club Volleyball Cobourg ON
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Okotoks Synchronize Swim Club Synchronized Swimming Okotoks AB
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Pacific Coast Swimmers and
Parents Association Swimming Victoria BC
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Port Moody Soccer Club Soccer Port Moody BC
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Prince Albert Gymnastics Club Gymnastics Prince Albert SK
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Prince George Minor Hockey
Association Hockey Prince George BC
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Priori Epee Fencing Club Para-Fencing Calgary AB
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Royal Victoria Yacht Club Sailing Victoria BC
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Sport-etudes Lanaudiere, ARPAL Figure Skating Terrebonne QC
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Spud Valley Nordic Association Cross Country Ski Pemberton BC
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Surrey United Soccer Club Soccer Surrey BC
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Toronto Ski Club Alpine Ski Collingwood ON
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Tumblers Gymnastics Centre Gymnastics Orleans ON
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Whistler Nordics Ski Club Cross Country Skiing Whistler BC
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Yarmouth County Minor Hockey
Association (YCMHA) Hockey Yarmouth NS
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York North Basketball
Association Basketball Newmarket ON
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Zone de ski Sag Lac Alpine Ski Chicoutimi QC
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Contacts:
GM Canada
Adria Mackenzie
(905) 644-1824
Coaching Association of Canada
Michele Dion
Communications Coordinator
(613) 235-5000 x.2384
