The Canadian Scottish Athletic Federation (CSAF) is chartered to preserve the traditional athletic heritage of Scottish culture through Highland Games in Canada in the form of the Heavy Events. We seek to respect the diversity of the Games in Canada, while providing support and opportunities for national unity through dialogue, education, and championships.

CSAF will support regional Heavy Events associations, athletes and individual Games by:

• Maintains results of games across Canada
• Message board for Heavy Events participants in Canada
• Recording Canadian records and past champions
• Recognizes the contributions of athletes in a “Hall of Fame”
• Canadian Heavy Events Championships

Announcements

CSAF Annual General Meeting

The AGM for the 2020 season will be held on Sunday December 1st, 2019 at 7 PM eastern. Phone-in details forthcoming. Please consider taking part.

2020 CSAF Board Nominations

There are 6 spots on the CSAF board that are up for nomination:
Open Representative (Rob Young) odd
Athlete East Representative (Danny Frame) odd
Athlete Central Representative (Padraic Moore) odd
Athlete West Representative (Norm Little) odd
Lightweight Representative (New) odd
Supporter at Large (Kyle E. MacDonald) odd

Please note that reps can be women, men, masters throwers, with the only exception being the Women's rep. 

This is a two year term position.

Please have any nominees to me by November 17, 2019 @ 7pm EST. 

Anyone after this date will not be considered. 

Nominations can be submitted via email to me at csafruss@gmail.com.

I will be checking with all nominees after the deadline to see if they are willing to stand for election.

AGM Motions for consideration:

Motions can be submitted via email to me at csafruss@gmail.com

Please note, how you phrase the motion is exactly how it will be presented at the AGM, there will be no amendments to the wording during the AGM.

All motions will require someone to speak on their behalf at the AGM for them to be considered.

The deadline is November 17, 2019 @ 7pm EST.

This is your chance to get involved and help grow Heavy Events in Canada!

More information is available on our CSAF Facebook page.

CSAF Championship Bids

The Canadian Scottish Athletic Federation is now actively seeking Championship bid proposals from Games organizers for the 2020 CSAF Men's Open Championships, Women's Championships and Lightweight Championships. Questions and bid proposals can be submitted in confidence to CSAF President, Robert Young via email to robertlionelyoung@hotmail.com. All Championship bids will be reviewed for their eligibility and winners will be chosen after a review by the CSAF board. 

Thanks and happy training!
Robert Young
CSAF President

Scoring Policy Change

Please note the following policy changes to the database for the 2018 season.

Implement weights and measurements must be verified prior to competition and after any changes to the implement are complete. This includes, but is not limited to, cutting the caber, replacing hammer handles and changing links on the weights.

And

Caber weights must be based on actual measurements taken and represent the caber entered into the database, not field-side guesses as offered for the audience’s entertainment. This must be done with a calibrated scale and must be done at the competition site on the day of competition. Significant scrutiny will be applied to cabers thrown outside of Canada

Any questions can be forwarded to me. Thanks!

Rob Young,
CSAF President