CORNWALL, Ont. – Durham College women’s soccer
coaches Dave Staley and Julia Prohaska have been selected as
candidates for the 2010 Canadian Colleges Athletic Association
(CCAA) female apprentice coach program. This season, the CCAA will
be offering this unique opportunity to 20 apprentice coaches.
Funded by Sport Canada, a branch of the Department of Canadian
Heritage, the CCAA Female Apprentice Coach Program is a national
project conducted in partnership with the Atlantic Colleges
Athletic Association (ACAA), the Réseau du sport
étudiant du Québec (RSEQ), the Ontario Colleges
Athletic Association (OCAA), the Alberta Colleges Athletic
Conference (ACAC) and the British Columbia Colleges Athletic
Association (BCCAA).
Apprentice Coach
Julia Prohaska is a former collegiate player with Durham
College’s women’s soccer program and twice was able to
lead her Lords team to the National Championship. Upon her
graduation from Durham with honours, she attended Graceland
University in Iowa and immediately helped that program to a
National Championship berth in her first season. She has since
graduated from the US and returned home with a desire to coach
college soccer in the CCAA. Julia is the kind of high caliber
person we want to develop, stay engaged and benefit from a program
like this offered by the CCAA.
Mentor Coach
David Staley captured the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association
silver medal in his first year as head coach at Durham in 2009.
Coach Staley is committed to the requirements of being a mentor
coach to Prohaska during the fall season and building on her
development during the OCAA indoor soccer. He attests that Prohaska
has the attitude, intelligence and soccer skill set to be a strong
coach in the future.
The Female Apprentice Coach Program is aimed at targeting the rich
source of potential female coaches in the ranks of graduating
student-athletes and creating a new coaching position, the
apprentice coach. The CCAA is working towards the goal of having at
least one female member on the coaching staff of each women’s
sports program. Incentives are offered to institutions that offer
apprentice coach positions within the CCAA sports of soccer,
volleyball, basketball, badminton, golf and cross country running.
The grant is identified for professional development opportunities
in either NCCP or related coach education, and for operational
costs associated with the apprentice coach.
The Canadian Colleges Athletic Association is a national sports
organization that enriches the lives of student- athletes through
intercollegiate competition.
Source: Durham College with files from CCAA
Communications
DURHAM COACHES SELECTED FOR APPRENTICE PROGRAM
Posted: Dec 16, 2010