Reflecting on Progress and Wanting Forward
Area Hockey Canada just lately held its Annual Basic Assembly with members from throughout the nation attending. This formal course of is strengthened by Area Hockey Canada’s dedication the month-to-month member conferences, which have been a cornerstone of aligned nationwide planning and neighborhood progress over the course of the present strategic cycle.
The group’s work continues to align intently with the just lately launched Way forward for Sport Fee Report and the Canada Sport Coverage, each of which define a daring and inclusive imaginative and prescient for the way forward for sport in Canada. These frameworks emphasize a renewed steadiness between mass participation and excessive efficiency, with a powerful deal with entry, security, and inclusion for all.
The Fee’s report proposes a transformative method to sport governance, together with the creation of an impartial entity to make sure protected supply of sport and bodily exercise throughout Canada. This suggestion resonates deeply with Area Hockey Canada’s ongoing efforts to construct a safer, extra built-in, participant-centred subject hockey system. We’re inspired by this nationwide route, which mirrors the system-level work Area Hockey Canada led within the final quadrennial and proceed to advance.
Quadrennial Evaluation Highlights
On the latest AGM, Area Hockey Canada shared its progress evaluate, highlighting key achievements from the 2020–2025 Strategic Plan:
Governance & Safeguarding: Expanded governance constructions and embedded Protected Sport as a lived worth throughout the group. Implementation of zero tolerance method to protected sport.
Pathway Growth: A complete nationwide athlete pathway from U16 to Masters degree, with nationwide groups and home competitions in any respect ranges
Occasion Progress: Prolonged nationwide pathway occasions and enhanced worldwide internet hosting at venues throughout Canada, together with first worldwide staging in Calgary and Surrey.
Neighborhood Funding: Over $1 million in funding directed into neighborhood initiatives from coast to coast to coast, assembly communities the place they’re to ship what they want.
Digital Infrastructure: Developed a nationwide database to assist system-wide integration and effectivity and standardized nationwide infrastructure in service to all.
These milestones mirror our dedication to constructing an aligned sport system that’s inclusive, resilient, and future-ready.
Strategic Alignment & Future Focus
All through the final strategic cycle, FHC has maintained a balanced deal with grassroots growth and high-performance excellence—an method that aligns seamlessly with the evolving nationwide sport panorama. As we put together to launch our new Strategic Plan within the coming weeks, our management stays dedicated to daring, future-focused motion.
FHC’s Senior Management Workforce is actively collaborating with provincial leaders to make sure nationwide alignment and a useful system that meets the wants of present and future individuals. Collectively, we’re shaping a sport surroundings that displays the very best of Canada—one that’s protected, inclusive, and aspirational.
Celebrating Affect & Acknowledging Challenges
As we shut out the 2020–2025 Strategic Plan, we’re proud to mirror of our collective progress and a celebration of what we’ve constructed collectively.
Over the previous 5 years, Area Hockey Canada has grown right into a steady, inclusive, and forward-looking group. We’ve welcomed new provincial members, expanded home internet hosting by way of U SPORTS Nationals, launched accessible schooling platforms, and delivered over $1 million in direct neighborhood funding.
Internationally, our groups have impressed us with historic milestones: the Tokyko Olympics’ in 2021, our WNT again on the world stage after 28 years within the 2022 World Cup, an inaugural junior continental championship win, and constant qualification to the biennial pinnacle occasion for junior nationwide groups, the Junior World Cup. These achievements are a testomony to the dedication of our athletes, coaches, volunteers, and employees and the energy of our system.
We acknowledge that challenges stay. Constructing long run, sustainable funding, standardized home leagues, and broader participation by way of inclusive and accessible pathways are important to our continued progress. Our objective for the approaching strategic cycle is evident: to assist our nationwide groups in reaching the world’s prime 10 and to construct a sport system that displays and fuels that ambition. A system that embodies the values of Canadian sport.
As we transfer into this thrilling subsequent section and launch the brand new strategic plan, we stay up for attaining our subsequent milestones with you, our valued neighborhood members. Maintain updated with annual reporting right here and take a look at our governance pages to entry updated data. Thanks in your continued assist and dedication to the way forward for subject hockey in Canada.
