2024-2025 Coach and Technical Staff Immersion Opportunities

2024-2025 Coach and Technical Staff Immersion Opportunities

Nordiq Canada is committed to creating meaningful development opportunities for coaches and wax technicians within the Development and High Performance Systems. We are pleased to offer the following development opportunities for the 2024-25 season. Coaching Wax Technician and Race Service Opportunities (click to view)   Application process (Click to View) Interested applicants are asked to complete the following application form. The deadline for applications...
Olympic High Performance Staffing Update

Olympic High Performance Staffing Update

Nordiq Canada is proud to introduce the staff who will lead the National High Performance Program (Olympic Stream) under HPD Chris Jeffries. Several roles shift from “coach” to “lead.” This shift better aligns with the decentralized model we’ve been building toward since the 2016 high performance review. It recognizes the role of exceptional coaches and daily training environments (DTE) across the country in supporting Canada’s amazing national athletes.  ...
Nordiq Canada is recruiting a Para Nordic Development Coach

Nordiq Canada is recruiting a Para Nordic Development Coach

Ready to share your love of skiing and grow Canada’s Para Nordic program across the country? Nordiq Canada is seeking an enthusiastic coach with proven skills in recruiting and developing athletes, coaches, and wax technicians. If you are committed to learning, building trust, and growing our sport, we want to hear from you. Submit your cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references to Julie Beaulieu, Sport Development Director. Deadline to...
2025 Nordiq Canada Ski Nationals Returns to Olympic, and World Cup Venue at the Canmore Nordic Centre

2025 Nordiq Canada Ski Nationals Returns to Olympic, and World Cup Venue at the Canmore Nordic Centre

Canmore, Alta- The premier event on the domestic race calendar returns to Canmore after eight years. The best cross country skiers in the nation will compete for the title of National Champion next March at the Canmore Nordic Centre.    More than 800 senior, junior and Para nordic skiers will compete in sprints, distance races and team events on the famous trails, which hosted a FIS Cross Country and IBU Biathlon World Cup this past season.    “The...
The Ski Playground: An Introduction to Sport for Life for All Canadians

The Ski Playground: An Introduction to Sport for Life for All Canadians

For Jesse Cockney, the experience helped him drift back more than three decades, to a time when he was a young, unsteady novice just beginning a love affair with a sport.   “When people get on skis, any skis, for the first time,’’ says the two-time Canadian Olympian, “there’s always that moment of apprehension – they’re really focused, so dialed-in, paying extra special attention.   “But then – as always – after a while, there’s this...