Government



Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development - Sport

Sport

Participation in sport and physical activity is valued and embraced as a way of life in British Columbia, sustained by a province-wide balanced commitment to healthy, active lifestyles and the ethical pursuit of excellence.”
- B.C.’s vision for sport and physical activity

What's New

[ More news ... ]

Team BC at the Western Canada Summer Games

Kamloops is hosting the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games, August 5 to 14. This multi-sport event, which occurs every four years, brings together approximately 2,300 athletes competing in 19 sports, along with coaches, managers and officials from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut, Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory. Team BC will send 345 athletes aged 12 to 22 and 72 coaches to the 2011 Games. BC has won the Western Canada Summer Games Cup every year since the Games’ inception in 1975. To follow Team BC’s progress visit www.teambc.org.

Sport event hosting brings great legacies such as economic and tourism development, trained volunteers and new or refurbished facilities and equipment. The host province is also leaving a literacy legacy behind with Team BC’s Bright Red Bookshelf project in Kamloops – a collection of children’s books. This literacy project got a great headstart with B.C. authors - Julie Burtinshaw (www.burtinshaw.wordpress.com), Ann Chandler (www.annchandler.com), Danika Dinsmore (www.danikadinsmore.com), Angela Dorsey (www.angeladorsey.com), Nancy Hundal (www.nancyhundal.com), Heather Kellerhals-Stewart (www.kellerhalsstewart.ca), and Nikki Tate (www.nikkitate.com) - donating the first lot of books.

Sport on the Move

This program provides additional funding to help athletes train and compete in clinics and events (including school provincial championships) across the province. In 2010-11, $600,000 is being distributed to athletes and school teams, with a portion of this already allocated.   [Read more...]



PDF Format

Get Adobe Reader

Some documents on this Web site are in PDF format and require a PDF reader. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 7.0 or the most recent version of another PDF reader, you can download Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on the 'Get Acrobat Reader' icon.