INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / NOVEMBER 27, 1990

 

 

 

National Coaching Award
Goes to College Instructor

SS: isn’t spoiling Tim Frick.
e Douglas College Physical
Education Instructor has won the
Longines/ Wittnauer Coaching Ex-
cellence award for the second time
in three years after guiding the Na-
tional Women’s Wheelchair Basket-
ball team to a Bronze medal in the
Gold Cup, the international Wheel-
chair Basketball tournament held
this summer in St. Etiennes,
France.

Frick received the award at a
banquet held in Ottawa on Oc-
tober 28 by the Coaching Associa-
tion of Canada. The award is given
to certified coaches who guide
their athletes to medal victories in
their chosen sport.

Frick is one of ten coaches to
win the award this year. Previous
to the bronze medal victory, the
team picked up a gold medal at a
disabled games in Assen, Holland,

by taking four of five games
against the Netherlands. At the
Gold Cup, only Germany and the
United States were stronger than
Canada’s team.

The key to his success is ver-
satility, says Frick. “I think
nowadays you have to be a holis-
tic coach,” he says.

“Apart from the individual
skills and the team strategies and
tactics, you also have to look at
your athletes and help them in
their training programs with nutri-
tion and fitness, mental training,
relaxation, goal setting. . . the
whole range of how athletes live
their lives.”

He’s not stopping at just two
awards, however. “My dream
would be to win a medal at the
Paralympics in Barcelona in 1992,”
Frick says. “We all believe that if
we train hard enough and work

 

 

 

 

 

hard enough on mental prepara-
tion, we can beat Germany and the
United States.”

Frick won the award in 1988
for coaching New Westminster na-
tive Daniel Wesley to a gold medal
in the 100 Meter Dash in the
Paralympics in Seoul, Korea.

Frick received an engraved
plaque marking his achievement,
as Well as a diamond set into his
gold watch received for his pre-
vious award.

Who Cares?

he Psychiatric Nursing depart-

ment hosted a contest for stu-
dents enrolled in their program to
come up with a slogan that would
be transcribed onto buttons for
Open House. Laurie Pauch and
Clair Wood are first year
Psychiatric Nursing students who
won the twenty-five dollar gift cer-
tificate to Red Robbin with their
slogan... “WHO CARES? We do.
Psychiatric Nursing”. @