SPORTS
GET A JUMP START ON YOUR CAREER:
A Specialist High Skills Major allows you to focus on a career area that interests you while you earn your high school diploma. If you want to build your career in Canada’s growing sports industry, then the sports major will appeal to you. No matter what education you plan to pursue after high school—apprenticeship, college, university or workplace training—a sports major can help you focus on a future career.
A SPECIALIST HIGH SKILLS MAJOR IN SPORTS OFFERS:
- High school courses in grade 11 and 12 tailored to the career you want to pursue
- the chance to work with industry leaders and experience cutting-edge training in sports
- experience working in the sector you're interested in, while you're still in high school
- skills and work habits that are required in the sports sector, using tools connected with the Ontario Skills Passport
- recognition on your high school diploma
AS PART OF THE SPORTS MAJOR, YOU WILL EARN 7 CERTIFICATIONS, INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING 4 WHICH ARE COMPULSORY:
- standard first aid
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Level C
- Automated External Defibrillation (AED)
- generic instruction about the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)