Team BC & The Provincial Team Program

What is Team BC?

All athletes selected for the Provincial Team Program, and their club coaches, are automatically members of Judo BC’s Team BC for the entire season (Sept to August). Athletes that are not part of the Provincial Team Program can travel with the team to out of province events and to Open Nationals.

TEAM BC (BC Government) is also the name of separate provincially funded organization that coordinates the trips to Canada Games for all BC athletes and coaches from all the different sports.

Judo Canada High Performance Mandate

Judo Canada’s mandate is to produce sustainable podium performances at Olympic Games, Senior World Championships, Junior World Championships and Cadet World Championships

Judo BC Provincial High‐Performance Definition

High Performance (HP) in BC is the pursuit and achievement of excellence at the Train to Train and Train to Compete stages of the Judo Canada Long Term Development Model. Judo BC has determined the following Provincial Team Program levels:

Elite A Team
The Elite A Team is the highest level of HP in BC. Athletes selected to the Elite team will be tracking towards the Judo Canada HP program and must train at the at the National Training Centre (NTC) in Montreal.
Elite B Team
The Elite B Team is for athletes tracking towards the Elite A Team but have not yet relocated to the National Training Centre in Montreal. These athletes must train full time at the Provincial Training Centre (PTC) in Abbotsford.
Provincial A Team
The Provincial A Team will be made up of athletes tracking towards the Elite A and B Teams and will be training full time at the PTC in Abbotsford, if this isn’t possible, they must train at least once a month at the Provincial Training Center AND train full time at a BC Regional training Centre (BC RTC).
Provincial B Team
The Provincial B Team will be made up of athletes tracking towards the Provincial A team and must train full time at a BC RTC.
Provincial C Team
The Provincial C Team will be made up athletes tracking towards to the Provincial B Team and training full time at a BC RTC or if this isn’t possible, they must train at least once a month at BC RTC.