National Training Center

After nationals were over in the summer, myself and a number of girls from the provincial team continued on with the National Training Center (NTC) in the fall. It's a training program for both boys and girls of a two year age gap. I was born in '93 so half the girls I trained with were '92 born. We trained at the same time as the boys but we didn't train with them which was good because that would've been very difficult! Training took place up at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, which was about a 45minute- 1 hour trek twice a week. A lot of my homework was done on my travels back and forth from the mountain since it felt like most of my time was spent in the car. NTC was a great program that provided a fun and competitive training environment. I really enjoyed training with older girls because they are great players and they really were supportive of us younger girls. Apart from the occasional fitness tests, which I am still horrible at to this day, I really enjoyed the program.