I'm one of seven provincial regional coach mentors at the Saskatchewan Hockey Association. These positions were created just in the last two years. We're volunteers who get honorarium expenses to be a liaison between the Saskatchewan Hockey Association, our provincial governing body for hockey, and all the hundreds of minor hockey associations in this province.
All of the coaches in our province are volunteers running minor hockey, and we wanted to try to support them in ways that they weren't previously being supported. If there's someone out there who coaches who's feeling that they're disconnected, they now have someone they can contact who can provide mentorship.
As the seven mentors working within this province, we report to the Saskatchewan Hockey Association manager of coach development. We work throughout the year on coach training, coach support, coach mentorship.
We're a liaison and actively try to provide the coaches in this province with more skills so that the young players who are joining hockey in Saskatchewan are getting a fun and skill-development experience.