SDR Academy

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TRAINING TO SET OUR PLAYERS APART

We build confidence through sport.
At SDR Academy, our athletes learn that being powerful is more than being strong.
Knowledge is power. Best effort is power. Resilience is power. Leadership is power.
Confidence is power

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THE SDR DIFFERENCE

Based in Calgary, Alberta, SDR Academy is a unique program that focuses on physical literacy and hockey skills. Kids enrolled in the program train with our team of highly-acclaimed coaches – all with the goal of improving their sports literacy, enthusiasm for the game, physical competence, hockey IQ and skill.

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Hockey Development Programs

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Dryland Training

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Coach / Association Mentorship

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Player/Coach Development

We believe that athletic development isn’t about natural talent. It’s about hard work and purposeful practice. We can work with your team or association to build the right practice plans and show your coaches how to implement them.
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2020 Dryland Training

Whether you play hockey, soccer, baseball, or any other sport, dryland training is critical as it’s where our young athletes develop the fundamental movement skills that all children need. Think of it as one-stop shopping for sports development.
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2020 Spring Hockey Programs

We’ve created three levels of Spring programming, all offering progressively more development time — on and off the ice – with our SDR coaching team.
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What’s new at SDR Academy?

We’ve developed our Spring Programs to be the right blend of training to physically and mentally prepare and rejuvenate kids. A lot of Spring hockey programs focus on game outcomes. At SDR, we are focused on the process, and learning and repeating behaviours that enable confidence and skill improvement.
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Testimonials

Our daughter’s first year with SDR Academy has been an overall positive experience. Coach Becky and her team are excellent instructors, who provide lots of on ice and dry land training and skill development. They adapt their instruction in a manner that resonates hockey players of all skill levels. Their energy, attention to detail, passion for the game and commitment to their athletes is extraordinary. Our daughter’s overall improvements are evidence that SDR Academy is the “Gold Standard” for hockey development.

Jeff Brewer

SDR Academy has been an excellent experience for our two kids – and to our surprise, they both love the dryland training sessions. SDR’s unique and versatile training pushes them in such a fun, supportive environment through a combination of diverse training methods, individualized exercise programs and challenging yet achievable goal setting. Their fundamental hockey skills have improved so much, but more importantly, they have learned the importance of putting in the work and being committed to excellence every day. And that’s thanks to Coach Becky and her team.
Shonn Hilliard

The Coach

Becky McGee

Coach Becky brings a strong vision for the game of hockey, and as a certified Dale Carnegie trainer, she knows a thing or two about the importance of just-in-time coaching.
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Danielle Goyette

Danielle Goyette likely needs to no introduction. She was Canada’s Opening Ceremonies flag bearer at the Turin Winter Olympics in 2006, and has a reputation for rising above the odds.
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Our goal is to set our players apart while building confidence through sport.
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We build confidence through sport.

From hockey to soccer to lacrosse to every sport in between, our SDR Academy young athletes learn that being powerful is more than being strong. Knowledge is power. Best effort is power. Resilience is power. Leadership is power. Confidence is power.

Spring Hockey. Re-imagined.

We’ve developed our Spring Programs to be the right blend of training to physically and mentally prepare and rejuvenate kids. A lot of Spring hockey programs focus on game outcomes. At SDR, we are focused on the process, and learning and repeating behaviours that enable confidence and skill improvement.
Register Now

SDR Academy welcomes Hockey Hall of Famer and Olympic champion Danielle Goyette to our coaching family.

Player/Coach Development

We believe that athletic development isn’t about natural talent. It’s about hard work and purposeful practice. We can work with your team or association to build the right practice plans and show your coaches how to implement them.
Learn More

2020 Dryland Training

Whether you play hockey, soccer, baseball, or any other sport, dryland training is critical as it’s where our young athletes develop the fundamental movement skills that all children need. Think of it as one-stop shopping for sports development.
Register Now

2020 Spring Hockey Programs

We’ve created three levels of Spring programming, all offering progressively more development time — on and off the ice – with our SDR coaching team.
Register Now

What’s new at SDR Academy?

Learn More

Testimonials

Our daughter’s first year with SDR Academy has been an overall positive experience. Coach Becky and her team are excellent instructors, who provide lots of on ice and dry land training and skill development. They adapt their instruction in a manner that resonates hockey players of all skill levels. Their energy, attention to detail, passion for the game and commitment to their athletes is extraordinary. Our daughter’s overall improvements are evidence that SDR Academy is the “Gold Standard” for hockey development.

Jeff Brewer

SDR Academy has been an excellent experience for our two kids – and to our surprise, they both love the dryland training sessions. SDR’s unique and versatile training pushes them in such a fun, supportive environment through a combination of diverse training methods, individualized exercise programs and challenging yet achievable goal setting. Their fundamental hockey skills have improved so much, but more importantly, they have learned the importance of putting in the work and being committed to excellence every day. And that’s thanks to Coach Becky and her team.
Shonn Hilliard

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In her own playing career, Coach Becky played high performance hockey for the Oval Xtreme in Calgary, competed in several national championships and was a member of the national junior team. She coached Midget AAA for 10 years, even winning coach of the year. She is currently a minor hockey coach with Girls Hockey Calgary, where her oldest daughter Tess plays. And for Coach Becky, sport is indeed a family affair – with her husband, mom and sisters frequently in the stands cheering on her team. In fact, she draws inspiration from her mom and her way of seeing everything as an opportunity.

Coach Becky believes in lifelong learning, and with a unique ability to communicate with young athletes, her goal is to pass on her passion for physical literacy. Being involved in sports as a kid gave her the gift of confidence, and she hopes all SDR athletes walk away with the conviction that anything is possible – if you put the work in. And hard work is something Coach Becky has never shied away from, even as a teen logging long, hot days of manual labour working for her dad’s swimming pool business.

But there are a couple of things she is afraid of: snakes and rink mice. And if you want to really rile up Coach Becky, simply point out that thin strip of ice that the Zamboni missed.

Few athletes in any sport can match Danielle’s accomplishments at the international stage. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2002, 2006) and captured a silver medal in 1998 in addition to eight World Championship titles – the most recent coming in Winnipeg in 2007. She has represented Canada at international competitions more than any other hockey player in history – male or female – and has more than 100 goals to her credit in international play.

Her Olympic accomplishments extend outside medals – she was the leading goal scorer in the 1998 tournament in Nagano, ranking second overall in points. The smooth-skating forward also won three gold medals each with Team Alberta and Team Quebec at the Esso Women’s Nationals.

Danielle is an accomplished skills coach, having worked with numerous bantam and midget teams in skill and skating development as well as with a variety of NHLers including Brayden Point, Braydon Coburn, and Vegas Golden Knight prospect Reid Duke. In 2012, she was named as an assistant coach for Team Canada at the world championships and reprised that role at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, where Canada went on to win the gold medal. 

In 2017 Danielle received the ultimate honour in hockey when she was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.