On the weekend of November 30th Danny Gosselin of the Vision Volleyball Club travelled to Ottawa to complete his level 3 technical course in volleyball.
This level of designation is given to coaches that each province feels have the technical and tactical knowledge to coach Provincial, Canadian University and National level players. The province requires that all level 3 candidates are fully provincial level 2 certified with a minimum of 3 years of experience, and only take a very few candidates for this level of qualification every other year.
Danny, who was member of the coaching staff last summer when the men’s provincial team won a gold medal at the Junior Nationals was given candidate status this summer when he completed all his requirements to enter the program. Now that he has completed all his theory 3 modules and his level 3 technical course his U17 boys will have 3 practice and 3 tournament evaluations by an evaluator within the next year.
The level three technical course requires coaches to demonstrate their competencies as far as all the aspects of the sport. This includes full seasonal planning, practice planning, mental training, as well as skill development. It requires coaches to present comprehensive practice plans, then follow through with them during the course. Following this, they must answer questions about the plan during a Q&A with course evaluators. This determines whether or not you move forward to the last phase, which is team evaluation.
Danny is in the provincial coaching stream to be named one of the coaches that will be competing at the Canada games coming this summer in Sherbrooke Quebec. The coaching staff will be named shortly in the new year which will give the coaches the CIS season to recruit and invite players to the tryouts in May.
Being selected to be on the coaching staff for the Canada games team is the highest honour a coach can receive from the Ontario Volleyball Association.
There a small number of coaches qualified at this level in Northern Ontario and Vision Volleyball congratulates Danny on being one of the few selected to complete this prestigious qualification process. Our athletes and parents are fortunate to have him!
