Get him out of here!
Get him out of here!
Whoa!
Get him out of here!
Get him out of here!
My name is Marc-Olivier Beauchamp.
I'm 34 years old.
I teach physical education.
At Montmorency College,
I'm also the head coach
of the basketball team
Division 1
of the Montmorency College,
which is called the Nomads.
It's my fifth year as head coach.
Before that,
I was 4 years old
as a joint coach.
So since...
Since 2007-2008,
I've been training here
at the college.
So it's been a long time.
We practice every day,
except once a week.
So the first time,
we're going to practice
from Monday to Friday,
from morning to evening
depending on the hours, the hours.
We're going to play
once a week, most of the time.
So it's going to be
about one day of training
for the boys.
It's going to be in the gym.
In addition to that,
there's going to be training,
training, 2-4 times of training,
more individual or
training sessions,
maybe twice a week.
And then video sessions,
maybe twice a week as well.
It's going to be
between 10 personal sessions.
In fact, we have between
12 and 16 players
per year with us.
And then
they come
mainly from the Montréal region,
Laval,
because that's where
we find the best level.
We have 8 teams in Quebec,
Division 1 of the College Basketball.
So the 8 teams
strongly recruit
the 2nd and 5th players.
We try to get the best
so that they come to play with us.
We offer them
many different things,
but a complementary framework
or something like that.
I would say that
there's a majority
who come from
a difficult environment.
And even 2, 3, 4
per year who come from
a very difficult environment.
If the basketball wasn't there,
it would be difficult for others.
On basketball, it's pleasant.
I work with these people,
but it's mostly about
the personalities, the individuals
that we work with.
It's the biggest work.
It's also pleasant, in the long run,
not always in the moment.
I often play
and sometimes
I would tell myself
the anecdotes.
In 1993,
she was such a player.
And it's fun.
It's shared
this culture
of the Quebec basketball
that is so beautiful
that is not really
put in front of anyone.
He's stuck on me
and he doesn't let me go.
He's stuck on me,
he doesn't want me to go with the ball.
So it's going to be
to me to create a distance,
to catch and to continue
to the centre of a strong kick,
to finish strong.
Next?
It's the question of the last year,
at the beginning of the last year,
because there are posts
that are all about
the university,
with Quebec.
Very quickly,
I told myself that I wasn't ready
and
I'm not ready yet.
I think
I have other things to do
with the programme of the year
here.
Maybe when my children
are old and at university,
I can prepare
for the next level,
but presently it's not something
that I like more than that.
It's something that I like
better than Quebec and Canada.
Presently,
the level that I'm in
is enough for me.
We all start
together
towards the journey
that is the season
and the achievement
that are the Canadian championship champions.
With Leo,
because the guys are also doing
training,
they can't work,
they don't have the time to work,
they have less time for leisure,
social life, etc.
They make a lot of sacrifices.
We're waiting for what they do,
those sacrifices
that place the school first,
basketball second,
in his daily life
in terms of volume,
time,
raise your hand when there's a problem,
which is not always easy.
Whether it's a problem in the team,
an excellent team in the classroom,
in the family,
it's often a little too late
to help in a way that it is.
We're waiting for what an athlete
is doing better.
Because when we have young players
who are doing their best,
no matter the result
at the end of the year,
it's people who have grown up.
We have several heroes,
we have administrators,
we have
people to do,
we have motivators,
we have psychologists,
we have
trainers too,
physical preparators,
bus drivers,
equipment managers.
I think the fact that a psychologist
doesn't happen a lot in a year,
I think it's very important.
There are a lot of texts
to answer,
late at night,
coach,
I can't be there tomorrow,
I can't pay my bus,
I can't take the subway, etc.
Sometimes it's going to be
to bring the box to the grocery store
or the difficulty to arrive
for the week.
Sometimes it can be to move a little
under, not the most,
to come to the practice
tomorrow morning because we play
hand in hand, it's very important.
But I'm not able to have
other people to do that.
The way he should have come
would be to jump the barrier.
We don't have to jump the barrier,
we will make sure he does it.
It's also to be a
stable person in life,
which is not always the case.
In fact,
more than half of the world
doesn't.
So it doesn't mean
far from being their father.
It's simply
to behave like a
respectable human being
in front of them, it can do the job.
And obviously,
because we are in contact with young people
of this age, it's to be
careful.
At least once a year,
we have a young
who will have a serious
or medium serious problem
in his family,
with him,
and who won't necessarily want to talk about it,
but in the end, we will have a serious problem
and we see them,
because we see them every day in a
intense way, etc.
But we are also able to draw
the attention of young people
and to talk about them.
Because it's one of the things
that I'm most proud of.
I think I helped
many young people
to progress
as a human being,
and to get to know each other
and to talk a little more,
which is not even obvious
yet.
