The Okotoks Recreation Center was the host for the town's Fitness and Wellness Symposium on Saturday.

Around 75 people attended the event to hear from people like keynote speaker John O'Sullivan.

Tracy Church, representative from the town, says that O'Sullivan is the author of the book "Changing the Game", and that is what his talk focused around.

"He was speaking to coaches, parents, fitness professionals and teachers.Anyone that wanted to learn more about coaching as a whole, and how we can change the nature of sports for youth."

Church believes the people who attended the event were excited to get back to their respective organizations, and implement the ideas they had learned.

"I think everyone was very excited to learn what he had to say in terms of how we can more positively impact children in sport."

The day held multiple different group activities and sessions for people to attend, as well as a Health and Wellness expo.

"John did three key sessions today, and than we had several other break out sessions from other speakers from around the community and Calgary," Church says.

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