Program Overview

Grades Taught

6-12

About

The Parkland Student Athlete Academy (PSAA) is a program for Grades 6-12 that provides high performance student athletes with technical, theoretical and experiential opportunities, while keeping them engaged in a rich and complete school community focused on academic achievement.

Motto

Strive | Persist | Rise

Strive: To make great efforts to achieve or obtain something

Persist: To continue steadfastly in a course of action, in spite of difficulty, opposition or failure

Rise: To move from a lower position to a higher one; to experience the rewards of your efforts; to improve and be proud of your accomplishments

The Parkland Student Athlete Academy (PSAA) is a program of choice for Grades 6-12 that provides high performance student athletes with technical, theoretical and experiential opportunities while keeping them engaged in a rich and complete school community focused on academic achievement. Our aim is to provide high performance programming from local providers at an affordable cost.

PSAA is a collaboration between Parkland School Division and a number of community partners who offer high quality athletic development in their given sport. This program fosters a long-term approach to high performance athletic development, centered around the physical, mental, emotional and cognitive improvement of the student athletes.

PSAA students in Grades 6-9 attend academic programming at École Broxton Park School in Spruce Grove, while those in Grades 10-12 attend their designated Parkland School Division high school (MCHS or SGCHS). Sport programming is held at various local athletic venues, depending on each student's chosen sport(s).

Please note: PSAA is considered to be a program of choice within Parkland School Division. For this reason, Grade 6-9 bus students in the PSAA program will be subject to school-of-choice transportation fees. Please see the Parkland School Division website for more information.

Aspiration

We envision Parkland Student Athlete Academy as the premier program of its kind in Alberta. We will expand our influence by including more grades, sports, and locations over time. We will support students in their pursuits and help them become successful life long learners. Our students will be known as hard workers who pursue growth and development passionately as they strive to achieve their goals, dreams, and individual potential.

Commitments

At Parkland Student Athlete Academy, we operate within a commitment-based culture. Our staff and students each establish a series of personal behavioural standards that are shared through commitment statements. If any member of the PSAA team is failing to live up to expectations, their teachers, coaches, and peers will support them until they are back on track. Relating to each other in this way creates community by building trust.

Though PSAA staff and students' individual commitments may vary slightly, overall we commit to:

Working as a team;
Showing humility in victory and graciousness in defeat;
Leading ourselves before we lead others;
Serving others to grow our influence as leaders;
Taking calculated risks in our learning;
Being honest with ourselves and others;
Treating our peers with compassion and kindness;
Holding ourselves accountable;
Maximizing our abilities as learners;
Showing resilience in the face of adversity; and,
Pursuing excellence.

More Information

If you are interested in enroling in the Parkland Student Athlete Academy, please continue browsing this site to see if this program is right for you and/or your child. For further inquiries, please contact Connections for Learning using one of the methods below.

For more information contact:
Connections For Learning
Phone: 780-963-0507
Email: cfl@psd.ca