Aboriginal Sport and Recreation New Brunswick

ASRNB is happy to spread awareness and offer our support to all of those affected by a rare disease, in trying times it is incredible what support can do for moral and minder. We support our staff member Adam Matchett

Amazing article in the Telegraph Journal featuring Desiree Isaac-Pictou! Desiree Isaac-Pictou 'I might as well enjoy my life to the fullest' Thursday, February 25, 2021...Continue reading

ASRNB is pleased to introduce our 2021 Bullying Ambassadors! Join us in congratulating our 3 finalist for a job well done! First Place - Harlow and Maverick Pictou from St. Mary's First Nation won the attention of the ASRNB team with their smiles of confidence and empathy! Keep smiling!!... Second place is Tamika Gideon from Listuguj Mikmaq Nation, and her submission included: My name is Tamika Gideon and I am in grade eight. The picture below is my family bubble all wearing pink to support anti-bullying day. My write up about what I do if I encounter bullying: If I encounter bullying, with me or someone else, I have always been able to discretely tell a trusted adult. Bullying is definitely NOT ok! As hard as it is, you have to believe in yourself and don’t stoop down to the bullies level; try to stand strong in your beliefs! Well done Tamika!! Our third place finishers are Keaton and Parker Simonson from Eel River Bar who share that their family motto is to "always treat others how they want to be treated"! Excellent advise boys!! Harlow and Maverick will be receiving our snowshoe package which includes ASRNB swag, gift cards etc, Tamika is the winner of $100 Chapters Gift Card and Keaton and Parker are both receiving gift cards from Sport Chek!

An interesting article to read from Canadian Women & Sport if you want! Thought we would share

Happy National Caregiver Day! And of course Happy Friday!!!

ASRNB would like to welcome Andrea Creer to our team!!!! Please see below a biography she provided for you to get to know her! Andrea will be based out of the Fredericton office!! Hello, my name is Andrea Creer. I was born and raised in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia where I played a variety of sports including gymnastics, volleyball, soccer, archery, ultimate frisbee, running and competitive swimming. My passion throughout my youth was with swimming so much so that I have been c...oaching the sport for the last 7 years after ending my swimming career in 2016. In 2016 I moved to Fredericton to start my undergraduate degree in Kinesiology before switching to the Recreation and Sport Studies program with a minor in business. Through the university, I have had the opportunity to do some work for local organizations such as RingetteNB, 1st Marysville Scouts Group, and Fredericton Fusion Basketball Club. My time in Fredericton has opened up opportunities to coach the competitive swim team FAST, develop my NCCP and work with organizations like CoachNB which has been my summer job for the last 3 years. I'm looking forward to working with ASRNB throughout my internship and being able to learn with and about the team! See more

Happy Holidays from the ASRNB Staff and Board. Please be advised that our offices in Metepenagiag and Fredericton will be closed from December 18th, 2020 at 12pm and will reopen on Monday, January 4th, 2021. Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season. We look forward to seeing everyone and working with you in 2021!

Congratulations goes out to ASRNB award recipients from last nights Sport NB Awards Banquet! Community Leader Award: Willow Francis Willow Francis... Esgenoopetity First Nations Female Athlete of the Year Award: Madison Wilson Maddy Wilson St. Mary’s First Nation Male Athlete of the Year Award: Brayden Ernest Sappier Brayden Sappier Woodstock First Nations

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!! Scroll to the 18:50 mark to see the start of the three awards we presented!! Community Leader of the Year Award, and Male and Female Athlete of the Year!!

CLOSING DATE is this Friday, November 20th! Please share!

ASRNB would like to take a moment to thank, remember and honor all the men and women who have fallen in the service of our country and to acknowledge those who continue to give and serve. Both of our offices will be closed tomorrow. Thank you

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It is with great pleasure we announce our winners of Your Zone is Not Alone on the eve of your return to the YELLOW PHASE! We are so happy to hear that for Zone 5! You did it! Ebby Labillois did an amazing job with our Spook-fest challenge with her amazing paintings!!! The hard work she put into this paid off!!! Mallory and Georgia Labillois did an EGG-cellent job on the egg-cellent challenge! ONE HANDED at that!!! WOW Jillian LaBillois... And Tamika Gideon put together an amazing collage for our Mental Health challenge!!! Cline Gideon All four winners actually participated in all of the challenges and sent other information as well! We appreciate your efforts!!! We loved receiving every one of them!!! Our new favourite colour is YELLOW tonight!!!

ASRNB would like to send out our sincerest thoughts to those in Zone 5 affected by the Covid Regulations. ASRNB is sending prayers and well wishes your way. Our team wanted to show our support and offer Zone 5 a contest! Check out the details below!!! Can’t wait to see all of the entries! Let’s go Zone 5!

It is with great excitement we post this video to showcase our Paddles Up Program our youth participated in this summer!

ASRNB office is closed for the day to celebrate Treaty Day!!! How are you celebrating?? Tag us in a photo in the comments showing how you are celebrating Treaty Day and we will enter your name into a draw to win a gift card!!!! Have a wonderful day everyone!!

We want to thank SMFN and Shelley Polchies for the invite to their ceremony celebrating Orange Shirt Day!!! Keep your eyes open to see where we are next!!! Stay tuned! Was great to see a wonderful turnout!! Well done SMFN!!

A reminder to wear your Orange T-shirt tomorrow!!! I’ve just tried mine on and am allll set to go!! Every year on September 30th, we wear orange shirts to honour residential school survivors. Orange Shirt Day grew out of Phyllis Webstad’s story of having her shiny new orange shirt taken away on her first day of residential school, told for the first time in May 2013. It has become an opportunity to keep the discussion on all aspects of residential schools happening annually.... Orange Shirt Day is also an opportunity for First Nations, local governments, schools and communities to come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope for generations of children to come. Phyllis published her first children’s book called The Orange Shirt Story which aims to bring communities together. ASRNB can’t wait to wear our Orange Shirts proudly tomorrow! Stay tuned for more photos and maybe a video or two!!!

Good morning everyone!!! To finish off #CoachesWeek and thanking all of our coaches we have one more video from Team NB athlete Shelby Paul to share! Woliwon Coaches!! Now below tag a coach that has impacted you!!! If we get more than 30 entries maybe Creighton Fillmore-Sanipass Mathew Dedam and I can convince Cathy Ward to maybe draw a name and give out a prize?? Come on everyone let’s do it! #ThanksCoach! Coach NB / entraîneur NB

Comment down below!!! Let us know

Team NB would like to shout out to their coaches today saying #ThanksCoach #CoachesWeek ‘WoliwonCoaches’ Thankyou to Athlete Maddy Wilson taking time out of her busy schedule to help ASRNB with this video!Coach NB / entraîneur NB

Today we want to take this opportunity to say thanks to all of our past and present coaches who have made an impact on our youth! With CoVid and the cancellations of many events, our coaches have been challenged with many obstacles. We know they have all of our youth in their daily thoughts! Please Know we appreciate you and all of your hard work to keep our athletes engaged in these challenging times!! #ThanksCoach #coachesweek

#coachesweek continues and we wish to acknowledge these three rockstars!!! Program coordinatorsJazna Ward Creighton Fillmore-Sanipass and Mathew Dedam! All three are amazing multi-sport athletes who are now giving back to their communities coaching youth thru their various sports/asrnb programs like this Paddles up Program!!!!! #ThanksCoach #paddlesup #sportnb #sportcanada #coachnb Sport New-Nouveau Brunswick Coach NB / entraîneur NB

INDIGENOUS ATHLETE FUNDING AVAILABLE!!! APPLY APPLY APPLY!! If you have any questions contact one of our coordinators to give you a hand!!! Creighton Fillmore-SanipassMathew DedamCher Schriver

Attention Hockey Athletes & Fans ASRNB is sadden to share that NAHC 2021 has been cancelled.

#thankscoaches #coachesweek take a moment today to reach out to a coach who has made an impact on your life! They will appreciate it! These coaches volunteer many hours and love seeing how you grow off the court/field/Ice surface/track than any results on!! These Ice Warriors participants wanted to take the time to thank their coaches after our weekend clinic!!! What a great time that was!!

For your reading at your leisure is a wonderful Nutrition Cookbook provided to ASRNB by Natasha McLaughlin-Chaisson https://drive.google.com//1nmjlWcSX7On7GtN7tZ1FNJ9WUd/view ASRNB has had the privilege of working with Natasha McLaughlin-Chaisson from NMC Nutrition on various initiatives recently that focused on educating and supporting improved nutution across Turtle Island. We are excited to share with everyone these valuable reference guides.... Both the Performance Nutrition Cookbook and the Sport Nutrition Hockey Guide are available! ENJOY

https://drive.google.com//1fXI6iLGunM-RAZVtaRdBncU9x/view Please take the time to read the amazing Hockey Nutrition guide Natasha McLaughlin-Chaisson worked so hard at for our athletes. These were provided to all of our Ice Warriors at our clinic we hosted. ASRNB has had the privilege of working with Natasha McLaughlin-Chaisson from NMC Nutrition on various initiatives recently that focussed on educating and supporting improved nutution across Turtle Island. We are excited... to share with everyone these valuable reference guides. Both the Performance Nutrition Cookbook and the Sport Nutrition Hockey Guide are available for free ENJOY

Join ASRNB in saying #ThanksCoach to an important coach in your life!! #CoachesWeek

Let’s kick off the weekend with the first day of National Coaches Week!!! Stay tuned on site throughout the week for some announcements! For the coaches out there please check out http://thelocker .coach.ca for the following free courses if you haven’t already completed NCCP Coaching Athletes with a Disability NCCP Making Headway in Sport ... NCCP Emergency Action Plan NCCP Coach Initiation in Sport Safe Sport Training #thankscoach #coachesweek #asrnb

From the moment we won the bid in March 2017, we have been working tirelessly with many volunteers to plan a phenomenal Canada Games for 5,000 participants from... across Canada. Today, and together with the Canada Games Council, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the Niagara 2021 Canada Summer Games until the summer of 2022 to better protect the health and safety of Games participants, the Niagara community, and visitors from across the country. Although postponed a year, we will continue to move forward with the same passion and excitement as we prepare to host the nation in 2022. We can’t wait to deliver the Games we promised and the Games you deserve Let the NEW countdown begin! More information about the postponement: http://bit.ly/N21-Postponed À partir du moment où nous avons remporté l’offre en mars 2017, nous n’avons cessé de travailler inlassablement avec de nombreux bénévoles à la planification d’une édition spectaculaire des Jeux du Canada pour 5000 participants venus de partout au Canada. Aujourd’hui, en collaboration avec le Conseil des Jeux du Canada, nous avons pris la décision difficile de reporter les Jeux d’été du Canada Niagara 2021 à l’été 2022 afin de mieux protéger la santé et la sécurité des participants, des membres de la communauté de Niagara et des visiteurs de partout au pays. Malgré ce contretemps, nous irons de l’avant avec passion et enthousiasme pour accueillir la nation en 2022. Vous méritez bien des Jeux spectaculaires et nous avons très hâte de vous les présenter, tel que promis. Alors, que le NOUVEAU compte à rebours commence ! Pour en savoir davantage : https://bit.ly/N21-Postponement-FR Canada Games | Sport Canada | Ontario Government | Niagara Region

And that’s a WRAP!! Thankyou to all of the athletes who took part, the coaches who mentored and motivated the athletes and most importantly those who brought these athletes to our event! Many hands help guide these young athletes to becoming the best they can be!!! Creighton Fillmore-SanipassAdam MatchettMathew Dedam Please feel free to tag and share!! With the tremendous feedback we have received so far we are hoping we can do something again sooner than later,,,Cathy Ward Stay tuned!!! And next time for those who missed it we want to provide you the opportunity for this to be YOU!

Day 2 morning session was a success!! These athletes worked extremely hard and we couldn’t be more proud!! Mathew DedamCreighton Fillmore-SanipassAdam Matchett

Day 2 is about to begin in just a couple of hours!!! So while the athletes are on the ice we are putting a bit of ASRNB swag on their seats in the hallway!! Surprise!!!! When they come out during the first ice flood!!! Natasha McLaughlin-Chaisson Thankyou for the amazing work! River Signs as always amazing swag and water bottles! Pleasure to work with you both for this event!!

Session 2 is almost done! Coaches are wrapping up a drill then Day 1 is in the books! Lots of hard working athletes on the ice!! Stay tuned for some photos of the ASRNB swag each athlete leaves with and maybe a few prize winners???