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Support 4 Sport is a suite of ticket lottery products where 100% of the money raised goes to fund amateur sport in Nova Scotia. Created by NSGC, SNS and CSCA, Radford is among the first coaches to be hired from the new Support 4 Sport funding.

A native of Halifax and seven-year veteran of the Canadian Curling Association’s national team program, Radford’s resume crosses the globe from Calgary, Alberta to Karuizawa, Japan. As a national coach, she led Canada’s top teams at the international level, including Team Leader for Canada’s entry at the Torino Winter Games in 2006. She also contributed to Alberta’s Shannon Kleibrink squad, which won Olympic bronze. Other Olympic experience includes working as an apprentice coach at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

“At NSGC, we want to do our part to help Nova Scotians be healthy and competitive at home and on the world stage,” said Marie Mullally, President & CEO of NSGC. “The hiring of coaches like Helen Radford is so important to the development of our future athletes.”

Radford’s newly-created position as the NSCA’s Manager of High Performance Development will be focused on applying her national team experience to this province’s elite curlers and coaches. The Halifax Curling Club will be the site of the new Provincial Training Centre where Radford will be based.

The Support 4 Sport Program is expected to contribute $2 million to amateur sport in Nova Scotia through Sport Nova Scotia’s Amateur Sport Fund. Through the Fund, $810,000 will be directed towards participation programming; $270,000 towards coach employment; $270,000 towards athlete assistance; and $450,000 towards Canada Games programming. 

NSGC would like to congratulate Ms. Radford and wish her success in her new position.