EMPLOYMENT
At Island Elite, our coaches are a handpicked group of knowledgeable and caring people who have experienced cheerleading at the collegiate, national, or worlds levels. In addition to their own experience in cheer, we hire our staff based off of their professional experience working with children in a variety of settings. Our coaches experiences range from previous cheerleading coaching, gymnastics coaching, summer camp leading or childcare settings. Each of our carefully selected staff members bring diversity and value to our program from their own unique background.
coaching pathway
Although coaches enter the program with valuable past experience, it is required that every prospective coach go through a volunteer period with us ranging from 6-40 weeks. Once our coaches have completed their volunteer period where they learn our gyms coaching philosophy's and techniques they must complete a list of requirements including online courses and face to face skill testing to ensure they are qualified to coach the sport of cheerleading. Our coaches must meet all of the following requirements set out by our Provincial Sport Organization, BC Sport Cheer and our program to ensure that our athletes are lead and mentored by skilled and qualified coaches.
We also have a "Junior Coach" program for younger athletes within the program that are interested in becoming a coach in the future and gaining volunteer hours! If you are interested in becoming a coach or junior coach at Island Elite Cheerleading please email us at islandelitecheerleading@gmail.com
Coaching requirements
One Time Required NCCP Courses
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Planning a Practice
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Understanding the Rule of Two
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Emergency Action Plan
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Making Headway in Sport
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Safe Sport Training
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Making Ethical Decisions
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Planning a Practice
Register for the courses or find a course hosted in BC
Note if you are Level 1 NCCP certified in any sport please submit your NCCP number for verification
Other Requirements
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Cheer specific level credentialing through BC Sport Cheer (every 3 years)
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Valid Emergency First Aid & CPR training (every 3 years)
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Criminal record check (every 2 years)
Further information on the BC Cheerleading Association coaching requirements and credentialing can be found here: