Girls - March 13 - 21, 2010 - Montevideo, Uruguay
BC GIRLS AND BOYS COMPETE FOR CANADA AT YOUTH PAN AMS
Boys - February 6-14 - Hermosillo, Mexico
BC earned the right to send two teams to represent Canada at the Pan American Youth Championships by winning the Gold Medal at both the Girls and Boys Canadian Under 16 National Championships this past summer.
The boys’ tournament is being held in Hermosillo, Mexico in February, 2010. Learn more about Canada's U17 Youth Pan Am Boys Team.
The girls in Montevideo, Uruguay in March 2010. Learn more about Canada's U17 Youth Pan Am Girls Team.
AUGUST 14th TO 26th, 2010 - SINGAPORE
TEAMS CHALLENGE FOR PLACE AT FIRST EVER YOUTH OLYMPICS
U17 Boys and Girls
Gold Medalists at the Youth Pan Am Championships qualify to compete at the first ever Youth Olympics. What an incredible opportunity.
The Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games
aims to inspire youth around the world to embrace, embody and express
the Olympic values of Excellence, Friendship and Respect. It will
create a lasting sports, culture and education legacy for Singapore and
youths from around the world, as well as enhance and elevate the
sporting culture locally and regionally.
Quoted in the Vancouver Sun, Nobel Prize laureate Jose Manuel
Ramos-Horta, the president of East Timor, had this to say at a recent
Olympics meeting.
Speaking to hundreds of delegates at the 13th Olympic Congress, Horta said he believes sport is "an effective bottom-up approach to peace and community."
More than 17 per cent of the world's population is inactive and another 41 per cent don't exercise enough, he said.
"If we want the Olympic movement to really live in society, it is time to take bolder steps. What better time than now?" Horta said.
"It is absolutely critical. The Youth Olympic Games is going to be a good vehicle to promote youth sport and ideals, and the fact that there is more to sport than just playing games," he said.
Field hockey is the second most played team sport in the world after soccer, with participation in over 100 countries.
It is a
fast, technically skilful and creative game, largely played by amateurs
that
are
passionate about the game. The sport helps form strong communities
and local pride from club to national levels.
Field hockey teams travel
the
world as ambassadors for their sport and for Canada. In 2009/10 Canadian
teams will travel to Argentina, India, Russia, Uruguay, USA and Mexico.
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