Every four years the Province of British Columbia assembles a team of athletes, coaches, managers and mission staff to represent the province at Canada’s premiere multi-sport events – the Canada Winter Games and Canada Summer Games. They represent the best in BC and are known as Team BC...
The Canada Games are a national multi-sport competition with participation from every province and territory in Canada and take place on an alternating summer/winter cycle every four years.
The Province of British Columbia also assembles a team of athletes, coaches, managers and mission staff to represent the province at the Western Canada Summer Games. The Western Canada Summer Games bisect the Canada Summer Games cycle (the Technical Packages are aligned two years younger than the Canada Summer Games ages) and provide an opportunity for BC’s top age-class athletes to test their athletic talent against the best in the West.
The Team BC program is more than British Columbia’s best; it is also about building excellence. For some athletes, the Canada Games are a goal along the way to what they hope will be success in sport at major multi-sport Games including Olympic and Paralympic Games.
For others, the Canada Games are the goal, their personal dream. Team BC represents the best athletes, BC’s collective sport system and the contribution to healthy, active lifestyles. And Team BC is about getting to know other Canadians to form a lifetime of memories for participants in one of Canada’s greatest celebrations of sport.
Beyond the actual sport competition, each edition of the Western Canada Summer Games and Canada Games is unique because of the host communities who, for five years or more prior to the actual Games, design an event that will make their particular community proud and their visitors feel at home.
For more information about Team BC visit teambc.org or refer to the Team BC Resource Manual