The 2022 Cross Canada Tour is a series of basketball player development camps that will allow players to develop their games alongside experienced and professional skills trainers and coaches from Canada and Belgium.
The fusion of North American and European perspectives of, and backgrounds in basketball skill development will offer Canadian athletes an opportunity for improvement unlike any they have been offered before. The Cross Canada Tour will make stops in 16 locations across 8 provinces, making this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for basketball players all across the nation.
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Cross Canada Tour Details
Elite Athletes (EA) is a grassroots and youth basketball academy and training facility based in Antwerp, Belgium. EA was founded by Joerik Michiels and Olivier Goetgeluck in 2010 with the goal of providing youth basketball players the chance to develop their games in a community-oriented environment; remaining with similar coaches, players and methods throughout the duration of their elementary and high-school careers. Unlike other academies, EA focused on specializing the roles of each coach and trainer; designating positions for shooting, strength and conditioning, tactical, and academic coaches, among many others. In doing so, Elite Athletes has remained innovative and detail-oriented to a degree that their competitors have not, be that locally in Europe, or globally. Today, EA’s Elite Academy encompasses 9 teams across 7 age divisions, frequently seeing their players compete for local post-secondary teams, North American colleges and universities, national programs and professional teams all around the world.
Leading us from Belgium for the Cross Canada Tour will be:
Joerik Michiels: International Pro Skills Trainer
- Trainer of over 150 Pro Clients.
- NBA Europe Skills Trainer
- NBA Basketball Without Borders Clinician
Mathieu Detiege: International Shooting Coach
- Belgium Shooting Coach
- Elite Academy Shooting Coach
Hosting the Elite Athletes team is Canada’s Tanner Brightman; Golden Ticket Sports co-founder and Elite Academy U21 Head Coach.. With 8+ years of provincial team head coaching experience in his home province of Saskatchewan, and having facilitated numerous professional-grade coaching clinics, including Best in the West and the 2021 Canada Basketball Super Clinic, Brightman brings a breadth of knowledge and understanding of basketball and player development seldom seen in Canada. Renowned by his peers for his utilization of European techniques and methodologies, Tanner has benefited greatly from working alongside Joerik, Mathieu and the entire team at EA, and is thrilled to share his knowledge with Canadian athletes.
Together, Golden Ticket Sports and Elite Athletes promise to provide each attendee with innovative, creative and effective strategies and skills gathered from a global perspective that will have an immediate impact on each athlete’s game.
Each session is for athletes in grades 7-12 and will consist of:
- Instruction from one of Europe’s premier Basketball Academy Coaching Staffs.
- 90 Minute On Court Sessions per group.
- Elite Athletes Player Platform Access Code for all Athletes.
- Limited spaces available at each camp, ensuring quality instruction for every athlete.
- Access to Photos of Camp from Basketball Belgium’s Olympic Team Photographer.
- First Access To 2022 December International Christmas Camp in Alberta.
- Discount towards Elite Summer Camp in Belgium July 2023.
Focus in each session will be on:
- Modern player development.
- Shooting technique and refinement.
- Small sided games bringing each topic together.
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