Welcome coaches, trainers, and managers to the 2024-2025 season!
The coaching coordinator in your association is your main source of coaching information. Please read through the following pages to learn what you need as a coach/manager/trainer for the 2024-25 season.
Most coaching questions are answered here on this page. If you do have a question please contact Erin Gagné, GAARA Coaching Coordinator at air_in11@yahoo.ca
If you are new to coaching, you will need a National Coaching Certification Program number (NCCP#)
You should start by going to coach.ca, select “The Locker” and create an account for yourself. This will allow you to get an NCCP#, also known as your coaching number, and you will use this for the courses that you take.
If you don't know what courses you need, check out the summary of Ringette Ontario's Bench Staff Qualification Requirements..
All coaches/managers/trainers should visit this link to confirm the training that they need to coach this upcoming season. (Ringette Ontario).
For those interested in coaching in U19 and below, the following is information about courses you may need.
Anyone who is new to coaching ringette needs to take the online Coach Initiation in Sport course from the Coaching Association of Canada. You can sign up for training in "The Locker".
The course takes approximately one hour to complete.
This workshop will give you all of the tools you need to hit the ice with confidence as a first-time ringette coach. Over the course of 10 hours, this in-class and on-ice workshop will help you:
See Ringette Ontario's Coaching Clinic Registration Information.
Anyone with limited or basic ringette experience who wants to get involved at the community level to coach; parents/guardians volunteering with their child’s ringette program; coaches of recreational ringette.
This two-day workshop provides a foundation for your coaching career and introduces new coaching methods that will enhance both your coaching and your program’s effectiveness.
Through a mix of classroom and hands-on learning on the ice, this workshop focuses on:
See Ringette Ontario's Coaching Clinic Registration Information.
No. For bench staff requirements see Ringette Ontario's 18+ Bench Staff Responsibilities and Requirements.
No. For bench staff requirements see Ringette Ontario's 18+ Bench Staff Responsibilities and Requirements.
When does the five-year certification count begin?
Aside from the first cycle, which starts on January 1st, 2014: when you begin any NCCP training, the five-year count begins. For example, if you are CI certified, your clock will begin ticking on January 1st, 2014, but if you participate in a CD course in 2015, your clock will be reset. When you move from ‘in training’ or ‘trained’ to ‘certified’ status, a new five-year cycle will begin.
| Context | Minimum Professional Development Credits required for a period of five-years |
|---|---|
| Community Sport Initiation (CSI) | 10 points |
| Competition Introduction (CI) | 20 points |
| Competition Development (Comp-Dev) | 30 points |
The five-year clock is always reset on the first day of January. Therefore, if you complete new activity in a context, the clock will be reset the following first day of January. For example: if you complete certification status in March 2014 your five-year clock will reset January 1st 2015. Ringette coaches will be required to complete professional development to maintain certification in a five-year cycle. In this case, the first cycle deadline will be December 31, 2018. Any professional development activity will be calculated in "points". Each context requires a different number of points to remain certified. For a chart that indicates the number of points required for each context in Ringette please see Maintenance of Certification on Ringette Canada's Coaches site.
No, you do not need to retake a course.
Coaches will receive 1 professional development (PD) point per year for active coaching. These points need to be SELF-DECLARED.
To declare your active coaching:
Self-directed points can be earned up to a maximum of 3 points per maintenance cycle. Learning that falls into this category include:
These points need to be SELF-DECLARED.
To declare:
| Activity Category | Points | Limitations | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport-specific | Active coaching | 1 point/year for every season coached 1 point/year for learning facilitator or evaluator activity | To a maximum number of points equal to the number of years of the certification renewal period: 5 years |
| NCCP activity | 5 points/module | No maximum or minimum | |
| Non-NCCP activity* | 3 points for approx .3 hours activity | No maximum or minimum | |
| Coach self- directed activity* | 3 points for the valid certification period | Maximum of 3 points for certification renewal period | |
| Re-evaluation in context | 100% of the points required for PD credit in the context | No other PD is required if coach chooses re-evaluation | |
| Multi-sport | NCCP activity | 5 points/module | No maximum or minimum |
| Non-NCCP activity | 1 point/hour of activity up to 3 points maximum | To a maximum of 50% of required PD credit for the context in a certification renewal period | |
| *For Non-NCCP activities, and coach self-directed activities, coaches must get approval from Ringette Canada’s Coaching Development Committee to confirm that credit can be claimed. See Maintenance of Certification on Ringette Canada's Coaches site. | |||
| Approved Professional Development Activities | Units | Context | Provider | Notes/Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI module: Basic Mental Skills | 5 | CSI CI | Home Study Provincial Coaching Association | * contact your PSO to find out when they are available, or contact your provincial coaching association directly. It is recommended that CSI Coaches complete the CI modules in the following order: Teaching and Learning, Basic Mental Skills and Nutrition, | |
| CI module: Teaching and Learning | 5 | CSI CI | Home Study Provincial Coaching Association | * contact your PSO to find out when they are available, or contact your provincial coaching association directly. | |
| CI Module: Nutrition | 5 | CSI CI | Home Study Provincial Coaching Association | * contact your PSO to find out when they are available, or contact your provincial coaching association directly. | |
| Fundamental Movement Skills | 5 | ALL | Provincial Coaching Association | ||
| Prevention in Motion | 3 | ALL | Canadian Red Cross Provincial Sport Organization | ||
| Respect in Sport | 3 | ALL | Provincial Sport Organization | Respect Group | |
| Speak Out | 3 | ALL | Hockey Canada | ||
| Principles of Healthy Child Development | 3 | CSI | HIGH FIVE® | ||
| Petro-Canada Sport Leadership conference | 5 | ALL | Coaching Association of Canada | ||
| See Maintenance of Certification on Ringette Canada's Coaches site. | |||||
Failure to accumulate the required professional development credits within the specified time causes the coach’s status to be changed to Certified (Not-Renewed). A coach who completes the required Professional Development credits after the end date of the period for renewal of certification will achieve Certified (Renewed) status but the subsequent period for renewal of certification will begin on the original date by which the required Professional Development credits should have been complete.
18+ and 35+ teams are required to have a qualified bench staff member registered on their TRF and present during sanctioned events. It is strongly suggested that teams consider having a non-player coach on the bench but this is not a requirement at this time.
For “A, BB, B, C, Dev” playing levels:
Where there is a player-coach, that individual is responsible for the team and will be subject to all disciplinary actions, including ejection during the game. It is strongly recommended that teams have a non-playing member of the Bench staff on the Bench for sanctioned play.
A Designated Bench Staff is Head Coach, Assistant Coach, Trainer and Manager.
According to 4.3.1 of the coach manual of the ORA operating manual it is the head coach or assistant coach that must attend for A and AA. In the adult manual for BB teams and below it becomes the registered bench staff member when there is not a head coach identified.
They are held every second year and are mandatory for a designated bench staff member from each team to attend.
No. See Ringette Ontario's Bench Staff Qualification Requirements.
You no longer require a police check as of the 2023-24 season.