Group Partnership helps sustainable home sport system
This weekend at Tamanawis Park in Surrey, BC, the Ladies’s Nationwide Staff and Males’s Nationwide Staff are taking to the sphere as a part of the Sikh Video games Canada. In coming into this home multi-sport occasion, nationwide groups are leveraging the chance of house home video games as a key a part of the preparation for the upcoming Pan American Cup from July 24-August 3 in Uruguay. Equally essential, they’re additionally serving to rejoice and assist key work being finished for group, in group and by group.
Such group development and funding align completely to Area Hockey Canada’s strategic intent of home system constructing. It speaks to activation of the system in any respect ranges, from golf equipment, communities, by means of provinces to the nationwide and worldwide physique, all in assist of a stronger sport which delivers an athlete centred strategy.
Sikh Video games Canada (SGC) is a multi-sport group which hosts an annual multi-sport and cultural occasion for a global discipline of rivals. Located out of the quickly to be three discipline facility in Surrey, BC, the sports activities included within the occasion lengthen to wrestling, kabaddi, soccer, volleyball, and basketball. Amongst these nonetheless, it’s discipline hockey which continues to be the showcase occasion of the Video games. Hundreds flip as much as assist the occasion over the weekend and benefit from the cultural and culinary experiences placed on by SGC for the group to collect round and revel in. It’s greater than a contest — it’s a celebration of identification, variety, and the values rooted in Seva (selfless service). A spokesperson from Sikh Video games Canada stated:
“Annually, over an exhilarating four-day weekend, households collect at Tamanawis Park in Surrey, British Columbia, to witness 5 dynamic sports activities, take pleasure in free cultural showcases, and share meals ready with love and care. There are not any gates, no limitations — simply open hearts and open fields.”
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Area Hockey Canada stays deeply dedicated to constructing a sustainable home sport system and deliberately integrating community-based partnerships into our long-term imaginative and prescient. We imagine that aligning nationwide group targets with grassroots and group initiatives isn’t solely strategically necessary but in addition profoundly significant in strengthening the game throughout all ranges.
As work continues in direction of the completion of the third discipline on the Tamanawis advanced later this 12 months, Area Hockey Canada is happy to announce the creation of a partnership between Area Hockey Canada and SGC. This dedication extends to 2032 and can see the annual occasion remodel from a global membership degree occasion into a global invitational to serve Canada’s Nationwide Groups. A dedication to Canada’s nationwide groups to assist Area Hockey Canada’s aim of constructing sustainable success for MNT and WNT as world high 10 groups.
Home transformation takes time, however with each one in every of these steps to construct home energy, Canada’s long-term objectives grow to be extra attainable. The partnership with SGC now ensures three house worldwide video games every year and Area Hockey Canada doesn’t intent to cease there as CEO Susan Ahrens explains.
“We’re grateful of the assist of SGC and sit up for working with them to achieve our shared targets. An annual worldwide occasion is a large endeavor, and we admire and admire the endeavour of SGC in making this a actuality for discipline hockey in Canada. As we launch this partnership, we proceed to emphasise that, as we search to construct an annual worldwide aggressive calendar again to pre-pandemic ranges whereas adjusting to rising prices, Area Hockey Canada is actively searching for comparable partnerships in communities throughout Canada.”
Area Hockey Canada may also construct on the success of current house internet hosting of continental occasions as we proceed to activate on the occasion internet hosting technique and produce PAHF and FIH occasions to Canada. As we do, this era from 2026-2032 ought to see Canada obtain 8-10 worldwide tournaments on house soil.
Area Hockey Canada is pleased with this community-based partnership. It displays our robust perception that Area Hockey Canada is our group, and our group is Area Hockey Canada. The group stays dedicated to working in alignment and partnership with our stakeholders to assist the expansion and improvement of the sport all of us are so enthusiastic about.
