August 14/13 12:09 pm - National Team Elects Athletes Council

Posted by Editoress on 08/14/13
 

Through an internal election, the following athletes have been elected to sit in as athletes council members up to the 2014 Cycling Canada Annual General Meeting. Present National Team listed athletes were asked to vote for athletes council members.

Para-cycling:
Matthieu Parent (re-elected)
Robbi Weldon

Road:
Leah Kirchmann
Vacant

Track:
Stephanie Roorda
Joachim Albert

MTB:
Amanda Sin (Re-elected)
Geoff Kabush (Re-elected)

BMX:
Amelia Walsh
Mischa Partridge

The mandate of the newly appointed members of the athletes council is to promote the views and interests to Cycling Canada on all issues which directly or indirectly affect national team athletes, high performance athletes and/or any national caliber athlete.

In the coming weeks the new council will elect their chair and co-chair, who will respectively represent athletes interests at the Cycling Canada Board of Directors level and the High Performance Committee levels.

Any athlete wishing to raise concerns, comments or suggestions can do so by e-mailing the council at athletescouncil@cyclingcanada.ca.