The Ottawa Sport Council is pleased to introduce Rick Watkins as our latest Community Sport Hero! Rick has served as a volunteer track-and-field official for the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club since 2007, taking on leadership roles and enabling opportunities for athletes to compete in settings from grassroots to high-performance. First drawn in when […]

The Ottawa Sport Council, in partnership with Ottawa Public Health, is launching an innovative project called Ottawa Quality Sport Pilot Initiative to support coaching standards across community sport. Through this project, two selected community sport organizations receive five (5) Quality Sport Leader – Level 1 (QSL1) certification and each organization will receive a 1-year subscription to PLAYBuilder by Sport for Life [...]

The Ottawa Sport Council is pleased to introduce our latest Community Sport Heroes – the Community Sport Hosts for ‘Sports 200: Two Days. Everyone Plays.’! The OSC was once again reminded of the tremendous spirit and dedication of our local sports organizations, which welcomed 1,200+ registered participants for free sports events across the city on […]

The Ottawa Sport Council, in partnership with City of Ottawa Recreation, Cultural and Facilities Services and Ottawa 200 hosted a massive citywide initiative to encourage residents to participate in free sports activities on the weekend of June 6 and 7. Participants discovered sports available in their neighbourhoods, many families experienced new activities together, and others came away with entirely new perspectives on what Ottawa represents. [...]

They may not always get the love they deserve in the heat of the action, but sports officials got a tip of the cap for all their exceptional efforts at City Hall as the Ottawa Sport Council co-hosted a breakfast celebrating National Officials Day on April 17. “We all very much believe that sport is […]