Cameron Carruthers

• Build a foundational team with staff and admin.
• Facilitate and coordinate recruiting strategies to ensure the most depth of talent at each ID skate and main camp. maintain relationships with existing and former staff, parents, and pier group to attract talent for the program.
• Facilitate and coordinated evaluation camp from start to finish. Camp selection, evaluator selection, on/off ice schedule and planning for drills and fitness testing. Evaluation meetings, team selection and dismissals.
• Season phase planning, skill development, team strategies, conditioning, team building events, community events, team volunteering, fund raising, and program deligations.
• Weekly practice planning and scheduling, team/player meetings. Game film review with players and staff to adjust program and practice planning.
• On/off ice competiion planning. opponent review, internal review with line combinations, goaltender selection. staff deligations ie. bench managment, equipment, player prep.
• Working hard to maintain relationships with internal program staff and affiliates. practice planning for other teams and programs. on/off ice support/planning.
• Excellent communication skills to ensure all staff, player, and parents understand the program vision and expectations through out the season as that may change phase - phase.
• Excellent technical understanding of the game and the ability to communicate in progressions that are easy for players to process and execute to enhance game play develoment.
• Excellent communications skills with on/off ice officials and league personelle.
• Practice what I preach with nutrition and fitness. Both are of vital importance to the wholistic develoment of any athlete.

• Assistant coach for GP storm 2012 Silver spring hockey team.
• Supported on/office planning and drill stations.
• Defensive coach for two showcase weekends.
• support the team/individual development
• participate in team building and sponsorship activities.
• encouraged and directed players and staff through the short term competitions. as we have some experice with the showcase format and the short term 4 game competitions.
• Nutrition, rest and recovery are vital and need to be encouraged.

• Rebels awarded the Major 2012 HC job to myself for the 24/25 season.
• Spent 3 months building, supporting relationships in the surrounding communities to recruit a deep enough team to submit a second team into the HSL major division.
• After thurough planning and evaluation process we deemed it not competitive and dismantled the team.
• This was at great loss to me as I felt personally responsible for the success or loss of this silver team. At the same time we were not prepared to endure the kids and parents to a competitive league that was beyond our talent to endure a full season.
• Upon realization of the team situation we completed the camp process and notified the families of the future plans for the program.
• I care deeply for those kids and their development as people and players. It stings to see them dismantled and defeated.
• There is an opportunity in the ashes of that program and that is at GPAC to put that energy and life into another group of kids and families the same a like.

• GPMH U9 tier 1 assistant coach
• worked with a great coaching staff headed by Nathan Bidwell / Cam Shmidt
• assisted with on-ice drills and stations.
• assisted with individual skill sessions.
• powerskating and battle camp sessions grovedale
• bench assistant.

• Assisted HC with pre camp prep and on/off ice programming.
• Lead on/off ice training and skills sessions
• Practice plans and drill selections.
• Special team fundamentals and drill planning
• player and parent assistance
• showcase competition planning.
• on/of ice individual skill and strength development.
• disciplinary assistance.
• serve the Rebels program and other teams with on ice drill/practice support.
• fund raising and corporate sponsorship.
• Supported as HC for absent weekends and practices.

• Assistant coach on the tier I U11 GPMH knights.
• assisted Craig Gramlick with on/off ice team,practice, event planning.
• participated and coordinated team building, fund raising, and tournament volunteering.
• Assisted in on ice practice sessions
• Competition evaluations and stats.
• pre/post game prep and briefing,
• individual player development.
• disciplinary assistance
• internal conflict resolutions.

• on ice player development coach
• assisted any and all U7-U9 boys hockey programs.
• skill sessions for U7 U9.
• skill sessions for U13 girls
• Supported and and all teams/programs as best I could for U7/U9 and U13 girls.
• Attended and volunteered for all board meetings fund raisers and community events.
• worked with team manager and parents to coordinate development/competition schedule.

• Individual skills coach.
• specialty is powerskating and acceleration training.
• coordinated/planned/lead on/off ice programs for FSJ/Clearview/Dawson creek minor hockey through best performance sports Training.
• Worked under Head instructor/owner Phil Hiscock.
• Developed a keen understanding of coaching individual skill sets under a progressive program that allows athletes to experience foundational principals broke down into tangible drills that developed technique, power, and speed through all aspects of the game. skating, agility, passing, shooting, angling, read/react, acceleration through transition.
• Developed and maintained good relationships and reputation throughout the community for quality instruction that kids/parents could experience game play improvements from.
• Developed myself with a more wholistic approach to the game. foundational principals of tool development through progressional learning, off ice training and nutritional education.
• Participated in off ice training sessions. working individually with athletes developmental needs.

• Received the Tracker flyers HC position in 06/07.
• succeeding Scott Longstaff Scott Emslie
• immediately began regional recruitment DC, chetwynd, moberly, FJS, Ft Nelson, Yukon.
• Recruited good depth of talent to main camp. facilitated all on/of ice programming for the selection camp, evaluations, and dismissals.
• worked with team staff to secure busing for the season. WE renovated our bus for the team and had our own transportation for the Yukon trackers. No parents were allowed on the bus or around the team for these weekends. We supervised our own team and coordinated logistics, meal planning, roomates, off ice activities.
• Season planning, phase planning and execution with individual skill sessions, 3rd party instructors, extra ice times and dryland trainging.
• weekly team meeting before practice for an hour. open platform to discuss life and performance topics.
• We had a great season preparing kids for junior camps and work place.
• I really enjoyed this age group and still communicate with many of them today.

2009 dismissal.

• After a successful season in 07/08 we took a younger core and new secondary staff with alot more Dawson creek influence. I was newly married with an infant daughter and coming off 4 seasons of HC. Looking back I was completely burnt out and mid season didn't have the bandwidth to navigate a young group having a challenging season through the wilderness. I also was dealing with some internal conflict with a former NHL Assistant coach that was way more experienced then me and chose to challenge my HC instead of supporting it. I ultimately put it to the kids if they would like me to continue as HC or resign mid season. I had discussions with the manager (6 yr partnership) and he advised me best to resign so I did. taking the rest of the year to rest and be with my family.

• Based on relationship with Mark Hallam durring BC best ever he employed me to scout the north for the Westside Warriors and Surrey Eagles of the BCJHL.
• Toured the NEBC and Northern AB leagues for talent and recruiting.
• Worked with coaching and organizational staff to communicate skilled players out of the area and communicate specific skill sets and potential impacts for the team.
• Evaluated potential players based on program criteria that we were looking for and built relationships with parents and players to recruit them to spring and fall camps.
• assisted with logistics and planning for evaluations camps
• assisted with evaluations at spring and fall camp.
• Experienced the selection process and had input into the bubble/depth selections.
• participated in exit interviews and dismissals.
• kept current and consistent communications with the team.

• Selected to assistant coach team North in BC U16 boys.
• Ran on/off ice evalutations in Mackenzie for selction camp.
• worked with team staff to coordinate, schedule and execute evaluation camp, team selections, BC hockey reporting, onsite logistics and event planning.
• travelled to PG for prep camp and worked on/of ice with Trevor Sprague HC.
• Travelled to Salmon arm for tournament. supervised and chaparoned team all weekend as team leader for accomodations. executed competition planning/strategies and prep for games, opening/closing ceremonies.
• Received coach mentorship from Mark Hallam (Westside Warriors Uof C Dinos)
• Such a rich experience with such a depth of knowledge form more experienced staff.

2007 U17 Boys BC best ever.

• Same process and involvement from the year previoius.
• Tournament held in cranbrook
• Players were now WHL drafted and the intensity pace of play was high as it was a selection camp for team BC in the international competion.
• Same staff and mentorship group.

• Assistant coach for 04/05 season until part way the HC stepped down and I took the HC role.
• worked hard to manage the team through the transition and rework the vision and goal after the HC exit.
• We had a good team and took the banner that year. Kids developed a ton and prepared to transition in to U18 trackers.
• Worked with the Tracker program as the feeder to recruit, billet, and implement skill develoment to prepare players for BC U16 camp, and Tracker Flyer program.
• Followed up the next season with same group minus the graduates and we went the U15 finals again that year. Lost to fairview. Again working with tracker program as a feeder and developing kids for that program
• First season experience and learned a ton about planning/execution, U15 boys, and managing a program. player development through competition and relationships
• worked closely along side FSJ minor hockey personelle, team manager, and coaching staff.

• on ice powerskating instructor.
• assistant instructor to facilitate drills and push pucks.
• motivate and encourage all age groups of campers 9-17 yrs old.
• assist with off ice training and games.