This Coaching Guide is designed to help you become a better Snowshoeing coach.
Planning a Snowshoeing Training Season
Teaching Snowshoeing Skills
Snowshoeing Sport Rules, Protocol and Etiquette
Acknowledgements
Special Olympics wishes to thank the professionals, volunteers, coaches and athletes who helped in the production of the Snowshoeing Coaching Guide. They have helped fulfill the mission of Special Olympics: to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for people eight years of age and older with Intellectual Disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
Special Olympics snowshoeing welcomes your ideas and comments for future revisions of this guide. We apologize, if, for any reason, an acknowledgement has been inadvertently omitted.
Contributing Authors:
Doug Castor, Special Olympics Canada
Ryan Murphy, Special Olympics, Inc.
Tom Sobal, Special Olympics, Inc. Technical Delegate
Kelly Zackodnik, Special Olympics Canada
Special Thanks To the Following for All of Your Help and Support:
Canada Olympic Development Association
Canada Olympic Park
Brenda Hill, Special Olympics Canada
Dave Lenox, Special Olympics, Inc.
Paul Whichard, Special Olympics, Inc.
Lance Zackodnik, Special Olympics Canada
Video Featuring Athletes from Special Olympics Canada:
Fern Bremault
Chris Doty
Sarah McCarthy
Jennifer Riddell