National Academy

Wheelchair Basketball Canada’s Next Gen program – the National Academy  – is a ground-breaking program providing a world-class daily training environment (DTE) to accelerate the development of targeted Next Gen Canadian wheelchair basketball athletes and coaches that will represent Canada in the future. The program helps create sustained podium success and contributes to Canada’s international gold medal performances.

The Next Gen program strengthens Canada’s athlete development pathway and accelerates the development of athletes with National Team potential. It is a homegrown solution that broadens the high performance talent pool and empowers Canadian athletes to reach their utmost potential in their pursuit of the podium.

The Next Gen program brings together a handpicked selection of elite Canadian athletes and personnel. Athletes have access to optimized coaching, competition, training, mentorship and support services at a centralized location as part of the program. The program provides a full-time training environment from September to April, in addition to opportunities for targeted Next Gen athletes to train from May to July alongside Canada’s senior National Teams.

The Next Gen program operates at Wheelchair Basketball Canada’s National Training Centre (NTC), located at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre in Scarborough, Ontario. Next Gen athletes train in a centralized DTE setting based at the NTC. Decentralized Next Gen athletes train in their personal DTEs with monitoring systems in place.

The National Academy is made possible thanks to the support of the Government of Canada, Own the Podium, the Canadian Paralympic Committee, the Government of Ontario and the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario.

National Academy Roster

The following athletes are attending the National Academy in 2021.

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