If you've got good basic athletic skills you could be part of Canada's team at the Olympics in the future.

The first step comes Saturday April 1, when the RBC Training Ground hits the Crescent Point Field House near Aldersyde.

Skeleton racer, Cassie Hawrysh will be there to cheer on the participants and says this is no publicity stunt.

"There's eleven national sports organizations that will be looking over all of these results and essentially picking out some athletes who are either meeting or exceeding some of their sport parameters," Hawrysh says.

She says participant may surprise themselves along the way and could end up taking part in a sport they'd never considered before.

"Like myself, I didn't grow up hoping to be a national team skeleton racer by any means, or professional tobogganer as I like to call myself, but I started as a volleyball players and had a track and field element in my university day and then ended up here so, that's what we want to see," she says. We want to bring these kids out and say 'ok, here's a bunch of tests, they're fun, there's no pressure, we just want to see what you might be good and and maybe they might surprise themselves."

It's open for young people between 14 and 25 years of age and to register go to rbctrainingground.ca.

The top finishers will go to the finals May 6 in Calgary with the winners of each of the five finals across the country getting a trip to the 2018 winter Olympics in South Korea to get a taste of what it could be like if they do become and Olympic athlete.

Forty participants will get money from national sports organizations that identifies them as possible Olympians.

Hawrysh will be at the Crescent Point Field House Saturday April 1, 2017 cheering on the participants from 10 a.m. until about 2 p.m..