{"id":18995,"date":"2022-05-11T19:07:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/?p=18995"},"modified":"2022-05-11T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:08:28","slug":"long-term-development-resource-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/long-term-development-resource-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Term Development Resource Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the past several months we have been doing important work on long term development in our sport. The outcome is a new&nbsp;<em>Long-Term Development<\/em>&nbsp;framework which represents current best practice in attracting athletes to the sport, retaining them, and helping them reach their full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To accomplish this, we undertook an in-depth analysis of the skills and capabilities to reach full potential, created the Badge Program to help athletes progress and reviewed the competition structure and rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Long-Term Development<\/em><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>framework lays out how Racquetball Canada will develop athletes in the coming years as it strives to help Canada achieve its twin goals of creating a healthier, more active population while increasing Canada\u2019s racquetball success on the world stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this means moving from a focus on athlete development to a focus on all elements of quality sport \u2013 not just athletes, but also coaches, officials, and volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Racquetball Canada is grateful for the work of the following people who developed our new&nbsp;<em>Long-Term Development<\/em>&nbsp;framework and completed the competition review:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Dr. Colin Higgs<\/li><li>Mitch Brayley<\/li><li>Kathy Brook<\/li><li>Kurtis Cullen<\/li><li>Darrell Davis<\/li><li>Cheryl McKeeman<\/li><li>Terry Nelson<\/li><li>Evan Pritchard<\/li><li>Jen Saunders&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will find the new&nbsp;<em>Long-Term Development<\/em>&nbsp;framework on our website. We encourage you to use it when planning programs at the provincial and club level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are also welcome to print personal copies for use but please always check our website to ensure the version you are using is the latest information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com\/racquetball-canada\/2021\/07\/Racquetball-Athlete-Development-Framework.27-July.2021.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:6px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to view the Long-Term Development framework<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past several months we have been doing important work on long term development in our sport. The outcome is a new&nbsp;Long-Term Development&nbsp;framework which represents current best practice in attracting athletes to the sport, retaining them, and helping them reach their full potential. To accomplish this, we undertook an in-depth analysis of the skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[180,178,179],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19010,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions\/19010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}