The Team Ontario program is a training environment where Ontario’s identified athletes learn and compete while representing Ontario. During the different camps, the athletes will have an opportunity to experience high-intensity on-court training and sports science sessions with experts in the field. Various guest coaches from the OUA/OCAA are invited to work with the selected athletes for further skill development.

This process allows the athlete to be evaluated in a match environment. This gives the evaluator more time to observe and evaluate an athlete compared to an open tryout on two or three courts with numerous other athletes that also need to be evaluated. This format gives the athlete a chance to create their best application to put forth to the coaches.

The OVA is committed to providing all athletes with a fair evaluation. Here are the steps that will be taken:

Evaluators involved with a club will not be allowed to evaluate athletes from their clubs.

The same evaluation grid with the same evaluation criteria will be used by all evaluators across Ontario

Evaluators will notify the Athlete Development Director if they are not able to make a proper evaluation of an athlete. Athletes who need further assessment will be evaluated again by the Identification Committee at the Ontario Championships.