This year, in order to reach more Indigenous youth at every level of play, ISWO is introducing the 2019 Sport Development Tour: On the Road to NAIG.
The Sport Development Tour is a pathway to NAIG and beyond, aimed at building capacity, developing skills and providing more opportunities for young Indigenous athletes. Using the Sport Development Tour approach, ISWO’s goal is to build a stronger Team Ontario for the 2020 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) and other national level sporting competitions.
The 2019 Sport Development Tour features sport clinics and multi-sport camps to help develop sport-specific skills for athletes, as well as tryouts, competitions and tournaments for those already at the competitive level, and an athlete identification program, which identifies athletes at partner and community sport events, who have the potential to represent Team Ontario at the upcoming 2020 NAIG scheduled to take place from July 12-19 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.