Overview

York Academy & College Future Olympic and Professional Athletes Program is designed to inspire, prepare, support and cultivate elite student-athletes through their journey of becoming great Olympic athletes by utilizing all the means necessary available in Canada. This program is available to both Canadian and international students.

Mission

Our mission is to work with inspired student-athletes, provide the best platform and equally support and prioritize their education, sports career, and life skills enrichment in their journey as future Olympic athletes. At York Academy & College, we understand student-athletes’ commitment, unique challenges and demands of being elite athletes while broadening their horizons beyond sports achievements as future Olympians.

Program

To student-athletes, who inspire to excel in their pursuits to becoming future Olympic athletes and/or professional athletes, York Academy & College offers a strategically integrated well-balanced transformative curriculum pivoting towards academic, athletics, life skills development and enhancement needed to perform at their best. York Academy & College Future Olympic and Professional Athletes Program

• Allows student-athletes to balance training, competitions, and academic whenever needed by providing flexibility with teaching methods, class work, assignments, exams and testing.
• Caters for different learning requirements and various abilities, whilst maintaining the highest academic standards for future Olympic athletes, the highest athletic performances and achievements, and the highest level of integration with mainstream students.
• Has dedicated academic, athletic, and life skill professionals and adjunct team members to assist and support each future Olympic athlete.
• Offers all the same advantages available to our mainstream students, including our IB World Programme. As a result, we want to ensure York Academy & College’s student-athletes and future Olympic athletes’ completed credits are transferable to other educational institutions in Canada or internationally if needed.
• Has built and continuously building new partnerships with Canadian and international sporting communities to broaden maximum exposure to our future student-athletes, and future Olympic athletes, benefit.
• Emphasizes on future student-athletes growth and success beyond sports by offering early entrance to university courses

Facilities

• York Academy & College onsite facilities are built “Fit-For-Purpose” with regard to the training needs of our future Olympic student-athletes. We also encourage and support personal coaches’ accessibility to use our venue and facilities.
• York Academy & College has established partnerships with offsite facilities to further accommodate and complement our training requirements
• York Academy & College has onsite access to required expertises in terms of coaching and support services, including biomechanics, nutrition, sports psychology, physiotherapy, etc… Additionally, York Academy & College is well surrounded and resourceful to access complementary services which may not be available on its campus.
• York Academy & College facilities are easy to access within reasonable time, school bus, private, and public transportation options are available.
• York Academy & College is increasingly and progressively building relationships with both national and international sporting authorities from which we draw harmonizing expertise and advice.
• With our state of the art training facilities and other class “A” training centres at our availability, we guaranteed to exploit the best out of each and every future Olympic student-athlete to compete and represent Canada or their country of origin in world competitions and championships. To learn more about York Academy & College Future Olympic Athletes Program facilities, please visit York Campus Hub.

Benefits

• Increase future Olympic student-athletes’ academic and life skills opportunities in Canada.
• Develop and enhance future Olympic student-athletes’ athletic, academic and life skills abilities while surrounding with the best faculty, coaches, infrastructures, facilities, sport medicine and supports needed
• Obtain a worldwide accepted Secondary Education Diploma and/or Post Secondary Education Degree in Canada while competing on national and international stage for Canada or for your country of origin.
• Have a “lifelong experience” and broaden Olympic student-athletes’ cultural horizon.
• Earn merit-based scholarships
• Have accessibility to industry-related professionals such as sports agents and sports lawyer to assist careers path