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Concussions and Confidence: Why Mental Readiness Matters in Recovery 

For most of her career, Jen Kish was known as one of the best and most fearless female players in rugby sevens. She captained Canada’s women’s team to an Olympic bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. And, she also endured more than 30 concussions with only five of them formally diagnosed.  “Your brain health…

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Newcomers to Canada
Program Design and Evaluation
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Immigration, integration, and intersectoral partnership: A critical examination of introductory winter sport programmes for newcomers to Canada
March 20, 2023
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Simon Barrick
View the summary of this research here. Project summary The objectives of this project were threefold: This project was based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I co-designed the WNP with intersectoral community partners from WinSport (a community-based sport facility) and Center...
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Children and Youth
Recreation
Sport Participation

What parents and guardians need to know to create positive youth sport experiences
March 13, 2023
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Alex Murata
Highlights Parental behaviour has the potential to either positively or negatively impact youth athletes Current sporting contexts that frequently foster negative parental behaviour include parents “living vicariously” through their kids, the rise of youth sport professionalization and the high financial...
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Anti-Racism
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
Newcomers to Canada
Sport Participation

Creating welcoming, equitable spaces for new Canadians in sport
March 13, 2023
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Veronica Allan
Highlights: Sport can help to promote physical and mental health, build social connections and support integration into Canadian communities among newcomers to Canada Research shows that newcomers face unique barriers to sport participation, including cost, transportation, language, access to information,...
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Health & Lifestyle
Masters Sport
Sport Participation

How the sport system can best support lifelong participation in sport
March 13, 2023
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Bettina Callary and Bradley Young
Highlights The engagement and retention of adult sport participants is often overlooked within sport systems and organizations that focus predominantly on youth Despite coaches playing a key role in Masters sport, there are no clearly identified pathways into Masters coaching...
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High Performance
Maltreatment
Mental Health
Program Design and Evaluation
Safe Sport Environments

Taking a person-first approach to high performance sport in Canada
March 13, 2023
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Teddy Katz
Highlights Over the course of 2022, athletes and supporters have consistently raised concerns about maltreatment and lack of transparency in the Canadian sport sector In this SIRCuit article, Teddy Katz explores athlete concerns, as well as changes being made within...
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Anti-Racism
Officials and Referees
Safe Sport

“They’re not yelling at you. They’re yelling at your shirt”: Canadian sport system faces officiating crisis
March 13, 2023
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Caela Fenton
Highlights “They’re not yelling at you. They’re yelling at your shirt,” is the refrain that Nicole Pagliaro, a Harassment Officer for the Huronia District Soccer Association, repeats to her young referees, so that they’re armed with mental defenses for dealing...
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Gender Equity
Girls and Women

Spotlighting women in sport: Research and practice
March 8, 2023
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Caela Fenton
The Government of Canada has committed to reaching gender equity in sport (at all levels) by 2035. Right now, we have a long way to go. Over 90% of Canadian sport media coverage is focused solely on men’s sport (Pegoraro...
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Athlete Development
Sleep and Recovery
Sport Participation Research Initiative

The psychology of recovery among endurance athletes
March 6, 2023
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Stuart G. Wilson and Bradley W. Young
View the summary of this research here. The development of sport performance takes a lot of hard training, and all that training also takes equal amounts of recovery. Recovery is about restoring performance capability after facing stress in various ways,...
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Accessibility
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Financial Management
Life Skills
Sport Participation

The intersectional cost of youth sport participation
March 1, 2023
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Bryan Heal, Marika Warner, Quazance Boissoneau and Kendra Kerr
The increasing cost of youth sport participation has long been a concern for parents and policymakers alike. How issues of affordability show up varies depending upon intersectional realities of income, geography, ability, accessibility of appropriate spaces and more. The Maple...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
School Sport
Sport Participation Research Initiative

The prospective contribution of sport and active leisure to student academic and psycho-social success from kindergarten to high school 
February 27, 2023
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Linda Pagani
Introduction and context Only 8% of school age Canadian students meet the recommended daily goal of ≥ 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Youth mental health problems have doubled over the past two decades. As family life represents a primary vehicle...
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