Bill Othmer has been part of the Sport North Federation for more than 30 years and his new role will see him shape the course of the federation for the foreseeable future.
Othmer was named the new executive director of Sport North late last month. He had been the acting executive director since February 2021 and, before that, interim executive director following the retirement of Doug Rentmeister in October 2020.
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Othmer moved to the NWT in 1985 and served as a recreation director in multiple communities before being hired by the federation in 1991, where he served as the manager of sport programs, the same position he continued to hold in addition to being acting executive director. HeSA国际影视传媒檚 also served as chef de mission for Team NT at both the Canada Winter/Summer Games and Arctic Winter Games.
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Colin Pybus, Sport NorthSA国际影视传媒檚 president, said there was plenty of interest in the job, both domestically and internationally.
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That work includes preparing for one of the busiest times ever seen for Sport North, which runs the Team NT program. First up is the Canada Summer Games in August in Ontario, followed by the Arctic Winter Games in Wood Buffalo, Alta., in January 2023. Then comes the Canada Winter Games in Charlottetown in March 2023.
Like any new person in a supervisory role, Othmer has some ideas he wants to implement and they boil down to four RSA国际影视传媒檚: reinforcement, reimagining, reconnecting and refining.
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The reimagining part comes in terms of finding new opportunities for funding, he said.
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When it comes to reconnecting and refining, Othmer said that means seeing what the needs of the TSOs are.
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