Who Can Join Chiefs and Champions?

Any Aboriginal athlete or anyone who coaches Aboriginal athletes can join the Chiefs and Champions community for FREE.

How Do I Join?

Signing up to Chiefs and Champions is free and easy. Click here to sign up. Fill in the fields and make sure your email is accurate. You can join either as an Athlete or Coach, so look for the box that says "User Type" at the bottom of the registration page and check the appropriate box.

How Do I Log In?

Once you register you will be sent a validation email, keep that safe for your records. Go to your inbox to activate your account and just look for the login button under the Participate Now Heading, fill in your username and password, if you forget your password select the tab "request a new password."

What Do I Do With My User Profile?

After you login you will be taken to your Athlete or Coach Profile Page. This is your home on Chiefs and Champions. You can edit your Bio and keep a Blog.

How Do I Edit My User Profile?

Select the edit tab on your profile page just above your photo or avatar. Now you will see account settings, Personal Information and User Type. You can select each and change or correct your information form emails, to your profile picture, to selecting your user type as a coach and/or athlete.

How do I upload a photo?

On your profile page, select edit, select account settings and then look for the Upload Picture field. Hit Browse and you can selct a photo from the web or your computer. Make sure the dimensions don't exceed 200x150.

What is My Circle?

"My Circle" is one way to connect and socialize with other members on Chiefs and Champions. Browse other members, read their Blog, check out their Profile and people you connect with to "My Circle," by selecting Add To My Circle on the bottom of their profile page.

What is a Blog?

A "Blog", is a personal journal on the Web. Your Blog is the place to express your opinion, share your stories, your goals, or ask questions. You can post photos or embed cool, videos from sites like YouTube and link to articles and stories from across the Web.

How Do I Blog?

Select Blog Entry and you will see a page that lets you enter a Title for your Blog, describe it through Tags, and write your story, connect to other sites and articles on the web, upload photos, grab and embed video from sites like YouTube. You do that with the easy to use icons on the Blog Entry Page.

What do some of those icons on my Blog Entry Page mean?

This avatar was assigned to you based on the type of primary sport you selected. If you want to change your avatar, simply choose the "edit my bio" option under Participate Now, and you can upload your own picture to display as your avatar.

What are Tags?

A tag is really a simple way of categorizing content such as Blog entries or video clips.

How do I Tag?

Just enter words or phrases the Tag Field. Each word or phrase must be separated by a comma. Make sure the words you pick are appropriate to the content your are describing. For example, if you post a Blog about your hockey team particpating in a tournament , some of the logical tags would be "the name of your team", the "tournament's name," the word "ice-hockey." The tags you see on the site are a quick easy way for you to find people and content. Interested in hockey, click on that tag and you will get all the hockey related listed for you.

What is RSS?

RSS or Real Simple Syndication is a file format that allows anyone with a website or Blog to freely and easily "syndicate" or distribute their content. So when users read your Blog they can slelect the orange RSS icon and subscribe to your Blog, which means every time you update your Blog your subscribers will be automatically notified.

What are Comments?

Comments are places on webistes where readers can post a reaction to a Blog entry, a video clip and other types of comment.

What are Episodes?

This is the section where you can discover the compelling stories of the athletes featured in Chiefs and Champions, the Television series. View selected highlights by clicking on video clips of past and upcoming episodes.

What is Coach's Corner?
Coach's Corner is the place for Coaches to connect with a community of peers and a place for athlete's to look for mentorship or guidance. So browse the profiles of coach.

What is the Athlete's Corner?

Athlete's Corner is the place for you to learn more about the athlete's featured on the TV series and discover the community of athletes that are part of Chiefs and Champions.

How do I use Search?

Type in a term (hockey, community) or type in a name and click the search button and you will get a list of results related to your search query. If you want to be be more precise you can search by content or by users. So if you are looking for something on the site you would click the content tab. If you are looking for someone on the site you click the Users tab. If you want to ger really fancy try the advanced search this works well if you really want to narrow your search