About 90 young athletes attended an open audition for potential Olympic competitors at the Langley Events Centre on Sunday. The Langley event was the first of five regional qualifiers in B.C. that aim to uncover young, untapped athletic talent. Kurt Innes, director of talent development at Canadian Sport Institute Pacific, described the RBC Training Ground…
VANCOUVER – Five RBC Training Ground local qualifiers are set to take place across British Columbia in 2017, in the hopes of finding Canada’s next great Olympic athletes. RBC Training Ground is a program designed to help sport officials uncover athletes with Olympic podium potential, in sports they may not have considered. Athletes between the…
Victoria, BC – For the first time in program history, Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (CSI Pacific), in partnership with Cycling Canada, announced a Cycling NextGen roster made entirely of cross-country mountain bike athletes. These riders are set to train in Victoria this season, starting this coming weekend. Victoria’s Cycling NextGen program will bring together 10…
Victoria, BC – Following a summer of inspiring performances by Canadian athletes at the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (CSI Pacific) is offering British Columbians the opportunity to test their capacity for sport performance through PODIUM SEARCH™. PODIUM SEARCH™ is a set of free one-day athlete identification camps for…
VICTORIA, BC – The Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (CSI Pacific) is proud to recognize the Canadian Sport School (CSS) graduating class of 2016, including eleven student-athletes who will be pursuing their post-secondary education next fall. The Canadian Sport School is a CSI Pacific initiative. The 2015-16 school year saw CSS bring in the most competitive…
Canadian Sport Institute Pacific Has Open Call For Canada’s Next Generation Of Sporting Elite VICTORIA, BC – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific invites athletes to test their capacity for sport performance at PODIUM SEARCH on Saturday, April 9 at 11:30am at UVic’s new Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities (CARSA). The age restrictions for these…
When Georgia Simmerling crouches at the start of a ski race, and stares down the menacing track, she knows the memory of countless hours of training and racing is stored in her muscles. She knows her body will carry her. She knows she’s good at it. When the 26-year-old walked into a cycling velodrome, however,…
OTTAWA – When the NextGen program (previously known as the Talent Development Program) was introduced by Own the Podium, the sport of cycling was identified as one of the few summer and winter sports to be given the opportunity to access funds that would contribute to building future champions that were positively trending towards Olympic…
VICTORIA, BC – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (CSI Pacific) and Swimming Canada are pleased to announce Brad Dingey as the new Swimming NextGen Coach in Victoria, effective August 17. Dingey will take the reins from Ryan Mallette, who assumed the role of Head Coach of the High Performance Centre – Victoria last month after the…
Canadian Sport Institute Pacific Talent Development Coach Ryan Mallette will assume the lead role of HPC – Victoria as Interim Head Coach immediately. Mallette has been coaching the top centre athletes since late January due to the late Randy Bennett’s battle with cancer. In the meantime Swimming Canada will also be undertaking a process of…