Launched in 1974, the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) provides standardized, inclusive, and safe sport education to coaches and coach developers across 65 sports. The Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) manages and delivers NCCP training through its partner network of 65 National Sport Organizations and Provincial/Territorial Sport Organizations, including Olympic weightlifting.
Through Weightlifting Federation Halterophile (WCH), we offer a competency-based certification program for weightlifting coaches to ensure coaches develop skills specific to their coaching environment, whether working with beginners or international competitors. Our certification process recognizes excellence at each level of coaching specialization:
Our current NCCP Certification replaces the old NCCP model which ranged coaches in levels from 1 through 5.
Advantages of the new format:
To become Certified in a coaching context, coaches must be evaluated on their demonstrated ability to perform within that context in areas such as program design, practice planning, performance analysis, program management, ethical coaching, support to participants during training, and support to participants in competition.
There are two NCCP pathways for Olympic weightlifting:
Pathway 1 (Comp Intro): to be able to take athletes to competition at AWA-sanctioned events.
Pathway 2 (Comp Dev): to be able to take athletes to nationals.
Designed to be presented to athletes and coaches from other sports and participants from the health and fitness sector wishing to use Olympic weightlifting skills to improve their performance, this 2-day workshop can be tailored to any age range, and is offered in both a weightlifting training hall and classroom setting. Participants will ultimately learn proper weightlifting skills and techniques, as well as learn how to assist athletes in their lifts.
This is the first step to being certified to be able to coach athletes at AWA-sanctioned events.
Coaches will leave this course feeling confident about developing their weightlifting athletes’ performance and will be equipped to steer them toward a progressive competitive environment. Designed for people who have an Olympic weightlifting background as an athlete, assistant coach, or trainer, this 2-day workshop will enable coaches to gain the skills and knowledge to confidently present their athletes in competitions.
All coaches wishing to be evaluated must be actively coaching a minimum of one new athlete to the sport of weightlifting. Athletes who have competed before will not be accepted as the new coach’s athlete as part of the practical evaluation process.
All athletes and coaches participating in the evaluation process must have a current membership and in good standing with the AWA. Evaluations take place at AWA-sanctioned competitions; therefore, athletes must be registered in the competition.
Coaches are required to complete all of the following prerequisites. No exceptions will be made.
This course is intended for coaches who want to coach at the national level in the sport of Olympic Weightlifting.
Prerequisites:
Note: There are extensive requirements to be completed after taking this course before you can be “Competition Development Certified.”
All coaches wishing to be evaluated MUST be actively coaching for a minimum of 1 year after completing the Competition Development Analyze Technical and Tactical Performance workshop. In addition, coaches must have prepared and monitored their athlete(s) through the yearly training and preparation cycle towards Nationals.
Prerequisites:
AWA and Coaching Association of Canada recognize the value of having certified NCCP coaches that are engaged in Professional Development programs which reinforce the values of lifelong learning and sharing amongst the coaching community.
Professional Development (PD) points are needed in order for coaches to maintain their trained or certified status. Alberta Weightlifting Association provides its coaches with a period of 5 years to collect their PD points from the date of certification.
To obtain PD points, coaches must engage in Professional Development programs which can be acquired through a variety of ways:
All coaches must have an NCCP number, which is your coach education profile, in order to take an NCCP module or to access The Locker, an online database developed by the CAC, and is used by the AWA and WCH to confirm coaching certification and is where coaches can track their progress and development.
To register for an NCCP # or to check your current NCCP coaching credentials, please visit The Locker.
If you have already been assigned an NCCP #, please do not register again.
If unsure if you have an NCCP #, please contact of our VP Technical at vptech@albertaweightlifting.com.
