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Coach Education

Coach Developer

Coach developers are trained to develop, support, and challenge coaches to go on honing and improving their knowledge and skills in order to provide positive and effective sport experiences for all participants. For more information about this program, please click here or contact your provincial cycling association.

NCCP Coaching Courses

The National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) is the Coaching Association of Canada’s flagship program, and has been identified as a world leader in coach education. The NCCP gives coaches the confidence to succeed and is designed & delivered in partnership with the government of Canada, provincial/territorial governments, and national/provincial/territorial sport organizations.

Cycling has three NCCP coaching contexts, depending on the level of coaching; Let’s Ride! Community Initiation; Ready to Race! Introduction to Competition and Performance Cycling, Competition Development.

Let’s Ride! targets coaches who will primarily work with novice and pre-competitive cyclists at the community level, including participants in the Active Start, FUNdamentals and early Learn to Train stages of Athlete Development.
*These courses are administered by your Provincial/Territorial Associations

Ready to Race! Introduction to Competition (R2R) is the context for coaches who will primarily work with new competitive cyclists at the community and club level. These athletes will likely be in the Learn to Train to Train to Train stages of LTAD, although the context could apply to any new racer of any age.
*The Ready to Race! Evaluations are administered by Cycling Canada

Performance Cycling is the training context in which coaches of athletes who are at the end of the Train to Train stage and the Train to Compete stage, i.e. athletes who participate in national competitions and starting to participate in international competitions. At this level, athletes have a very high volume of training and competition.

Performance Cycling Coaching Courses:

In-Training:

  • Performance Planning
  • Manage a Program
  • Analyzing Performance
    *Administered by Cycling Canada

Trained:

  • Managing Conflict
  • Coaching and Leading Effectively
  • Developing Athletic Ability
  • Prevention and Recovery
  • Psychology and Performance
  • Leading Drug Free Sport
    *These six multi-sport modules are administered by the Provincial/Territorial Associations

Certified:

  • Make Ethical Decisions Training
    *Administered by the Provincial/Territorial Associations
  • Leading Drug Free Sport Online Evaluation
  • Managing Conflict Online Evaluation
  • Make Ethical Decisions Evaluation
    *Completed Online through CAC Locker account
  • Plan a Project (online)
  • Manage a Program (online)
  • Portfolio
  • Training Camp Evaluation
  • In-Competition Evaluation
    *Administered by Cycling Canada

NCCP coaches are described as follows:
In Training – when they have completed some of the required training for a context
Trained – when they have completed all required training for a context;
Certified – when they have completed all evaluation requirements for a context.