Sport and Recreation
How Team BC is Selected

In the years leading to the Games, BC's finest young athletes are chosen by their Provincial Sport Organization using selection criteria and competition playdowns. As the best in their respective age groups in the Training to Compete phase of Canadian Sport for Life Model, (also known as the Long-Term Athlete Development Model), these competitors come to the Games having trained long and hard to be among those chosen to represent their respective province or territory and compete for medals, and the Canada Games Flag. Team BC is also about providing sport science and medicine support to round out an athlete's preparation to compete, challenging coaches to create optimal training environments, and building leadership excellence by selecting and training mission staff with skills and knowledge to support Team BC athletes and coaches. And above all, Team BC is about getting to know other Canadians from a lifetime of memories for participants in Canada's greatest celebration of sport and culture.

The Team BC program is more than British Columbia's best; it's also about building excellence. For some athletes, the Canada Games are a goal along the way to what they hope will be success in sport at the Olympic or Paralympic Games. For others, the Canada Games are the goal, their personal dream. Jaimie Borisoff competed for Team BC in wheelchair basketball at the 1995 Canada Winter Games and went on to win a Paralympic gold medal for Canada at the 2004 Games in Athens; swimmer Brent Hayden swam for British Columbia at the 2001 Canada Summer Games and competed at the 2004 Olympic Games; Speed skater Alanna Kraus has competed in both the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Winter Games and she competed for Team BC in 1991; and two-time National Basketball Association MVP Steve Nash graced the courts for Team BC at the 1993 Canada Summer Games in Kamloops.

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