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03/01/2024

.spitfires.baseball is working to build a U14 Girls Baseball team for the 2024 season. Come join us on January 14th if you’re interested.

13/12/2023

Visit the Baseball Alberta link below for details on the 2024 Alberta Girls Baseball League!

2024 Alberta Girls Baseball League December 8th, 2023 14:57 Baseball Alberta is proud to build on the success of the inaugural season of the Alberta Girls Baseball League in 2023. The objective of Baseball Alberta's Alberta Girls Baseball League is to provide a competitive and devel

26/11/2023

Olds Minor Baseball is working towards forming a U14 Female team for the 2024 season. This will be one of several sessions we hold over the next few months.

28/03/2023

Last week to register for soccer!!
Visit oldsminorsoccer.ca to register.
Registration closes April 1st!

14/03/2023

My parents are amazing people.

They are humble, hard working and have made a lasting impact to the community of Rocky Mountain House.

I am proud of my folks and appreciate the Rocky Chamber of Commerce for recognizing them.

17/01/2023

Posted • I have some very exciting news — we just launched a FREE new happiness course for teenagers. It’s called “The Science of Well-being for Teens.” Debuting today on Coursera, the 6-week course is designed to provide teens with a set of science-based strategies they can use to reduce stress and feel happier. Preview the course on Coursera! Link in bio.

30/12/2022

As coaches we can often misdirect frustration towards our athletes when we really need to look 👀 in the mirror and challenge ourselves.

Keep learning friends!!

24/11/2022

Putting your values in action can mean many different things.

For these fans, the action of picking up the trash in their section is respect, honour, national pride, teamwork in action.

Being aware of your values and then aligning your behaviours and action to these values, builds confidence and strengthens character.

What is something you have done today that aligns with your values?

Posted • After Japan’s upset victory, the Japanese fans stuck around to help clean up the stadium!👏

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13/11/2022

The act of connecting to your breath is a powerful tool to focus your attention on the present moment.

I’ve been working with our athletes to establish prompts that support their behaviours and build specific performance habits.

How the athlete will respond to the prompt is unique to them, but the idea is:

1) when they return to the bench, they see the prompt
2) they shift their focus from the previous shift to their breath (aka - the present moment).

In doing this the athlete positions themselves for the next shift.

They can focus on the performance demands in front of them and enhance recovery.

Ideally, this awareness training takes place on a daily basis, in various scenarios (on and off the fields of play) and the prompts become less obvious, but with us being early in the learning curve we are leveraging all the tools.

01/11/2022

Part of our body’s acute stress response (fight or flight) is that our pupils dilate and our peripheral vision is reduced.

When we focus on screens for long periods of time we are dilating our pupils and reducing our peripheral vision engagement.

Look around.

Observe the broader environment, as we journey through our day and as we compete.

Posted • This is another reason that prolonged screen time can leave us feeling fatigued; the nervous system has been using a lot of resources to keep us alert, which can leave us feeling wired and tired and the eyes feeling exhausted.

The eyes are doing a lot of work when we engage in prolonged screen time behaviors. We aren’t aware of this work, but it is still physically (and mentally) fatiguing. This work involves blink and near triad reflexes and everything needed for high visual acuity foveal vision. It also involves dealing with glare, making sense of confusing focus and depth cues, and greater visual workloads. But that's not all; screens also place extra demands on eye defenses from blue light.

27/10/2022

Fired🔥 up to be back to work with the

Thanks to the crew for having me.

Let’s go!!