What is LTAD?

  LTAD supports the four goals of the Canadian Sport Policy:

  • Enhanced participation
  • Enhanced excellence
  • Enhanced capacity
  • Enhanced interaction

 LTAD reflects a commitment to contribute to the achievement of these goals. LTAD has been successfully adopted by numerous Canadian and international sport organizations. It is participant-centred, coach-driven and administration, sport science and sponsor supported. Athletes who progress through the stages of LTAD experience instruction, training and competition in programs that have been developed in consideration of their specific biological and developmental needs.

 Long Term Athlete Development:

  • Is based on the physical, mental, emotional and cognitive development of children and adolescents, Each of the stages of LTAD reflects a different point in athlete development.
  • Ensures physical literacy upon which excellence can be built and
  • Builds literacy in all children, from early childhood to late adolescence by promoting quality daily physical activity in the schools and a common approach to developing physical abilities through community recreation and elite sport programs.
  • Recognizes the need to involve all Canadians in LTAD, including athletes with a disability.
  • Promotes a healthy, physically literate nation whose citizens participate in lifelong physical activity.
  • Ensures that optimal training, competition and recovery programs are provided throughout an athlete’s career.
  • Provides an optimal competition structure for the various stages of an athlete’s development.
  • Has an impact on the entire sport continuum, including participants, parents, coaches, schools, clubs, community recreation programs, provincial sport organizations (PSOs) national sport organizations (NSOs), sport science specialists, municipalities and several government ministries and departments (including health and education) at the provincial/territorial and federal levels.
  • Integrates elite sport, community sport and recreation, scholastic sport and physical education in schools.
  • Is ‘Made in Canada”, recognizing international best practices, research and normative data

     

What are we doing about LTAD in the ERRA?

·         We are putting together a local working committee whose proposals will be taken to the ORA working committee on LTAD. That committee met on November 25, 2009. Click here to read the minutes of that meeting.

·         We will be hosting a public Question and Answer session on LTAD.  Date TBA.

·         We are currently involved in a U-12 Skills-testing pilot, the results from which will be taken to the ORA LTAD working committee to advise on which  areas of LTAD work, and which don’t. Here is the January Schedule for the U-12 Skills_testing pilot.

Some helpful links for more information:

Eight Stages of Development:

http://www.ringette.ca/Content/LTAD/The%208%20Stages.asp?langid=1

Skills Matrix:

http://www.ringette.ca/Images/LTAD/Pics/LTAD%20Technical%20SkillsENG.pdf

RC LTAD Brochure

http://www.ringette.ca/Images/LTAD/ringette_brochureEN_LR.pdf

Ontario Ringette

http://ontario-ringette.ca/ltad/index.php