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Breaking Ice: Connecting Indigenous Culture and Sport Through Blind Hockey 

In partnership with Canadian Blind Hockey  June is National Indigenous History Month, a time to reflect on the strength, resilience, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. It’s also a time to acknowledge the gaps that still exist, particularly in areas like sport, where Indigenous youth, especially those with disabilities, continue to face…

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Data and Analytics
High Performance
Program Design and Evaluation
Technology

Sport after Moneyball: Exploring sports analytics and the digital economy
January 23, 2023
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Brad Millington, Michael Naraine, Parissa Safai, Andrew Manley and Liz Wanless
Highlights The 2011 film Moneyball was a critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated, box office success. This is quite something, given that the movie centres on debates over baseball strategy and statistics. Moneyball dramatizes the story of the Oakland Athletics Major League...
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High Performance
Physical Health

Move over menstrual cycle: Ovulation monitoring is the new gold standard to monitor REDs in female athletes
January 23, 2023
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Jessalyn O’Donnell
Highlights Low energy availability (LEA) arises when there is not enough energy (calories) consumed to support critical body functions as well as extra physical activity, such as training Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) is a result of longstanding LEA...
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High Performance
Physical Health
Weather

Exercising outdoors in Canada: What the research tells us about exercising safely and effectively in extreme cold
January 23, 2023
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Michael D. Kennedy
Highlights Our bodies experience cold as a physiological stressor, meaning that one’s body must work hard to keep itself in thermal balance It is important for athletes and coaches to be aware of ways to mitigate the risks of cold...
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High Performance
Physical Health
Research to Practice

Exercising outdoors in Canada: What the research tells us about exercising safely and effectively in extreme heat
January 23, 2023
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Joao Falk Neto and Michael D. Kennedy
Highlights While Canadians are used to severe winter weather, 9 of the 10 warmest years on record in Canada have occurred in the last 25 years. This has real world implications for outdoor sport events. For example, even the best...
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Children and Youth
Program Design and Evaluation
Quality Sport
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Mobilizing knowledge into action:  Exploring sport administrators’ and parents’ perceptions  of the quality of youth sport programs
January 23, 2023
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Jean Côté
Introduction and context Although young athletes represent the users of youth sports programs, parents are intricately involved in the decision-making process related to their children’s enrollment and registration in such programs. As such, sport administrators must grasp the elements that...
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Athlete Development

Fostering the fierce inner fan: Self-compassion for women athletes
January 18, 2023
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Karissa Johnson and Leah Ferguson
Self-compassion can be a valuable internal resource for women athletes as they navigate the challenges of competitive sport. Self-compassion is related to greater goal progress and effective use of coping strategies, and it benefits the physiological response to stress (Ceccereli...
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Program Design and Evaluation
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Promoting health through physical activity and inter-organizational partnerships: the Montreal case
January 16, 2023
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Benjamin Branget
Introduction and context  The leading preventable causes of death worldwide (chronic diseases) are usually brought on by a lack of regular physical activity, which can lead to significant health and financial challenges for the individuals and communities. Many municipalities are...
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Program Design and Evaluation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Promoting health through physical activity and inter-organizational partnerships: the Montreal case
January 16, 2023
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Benjamin Branget
Introduction and context The leading preventable causes of death worldwide (chronic diseases) are usually induced by a lack of regular physical activity, which leads to significant health and financial challenges for the individuals and communities they afflict. In this regard,...
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Athlete Development
High Performance

How personality relates to athlete development
January 11, 2023
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Rafael Tedesqui
The development of expertise, defined as the ability to show high level performance with relative consistency, is a complex multi-determined process. In 1993, Ericsson and colleagues proposed that practice is a key piece of this puzzle, based on their seminal...
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Coaching
Para Sport
Professional Development
Sport Participation Research Initiative

The development and implementation of a mentoring program for parasport coaches
January 9, 2023
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Gordon Bloom
View the summary of this research here. Introduction and context Partnering with a provincial coaching association in Canada, we explored the experiences and perceptions of 15 mentor and 29 mentee coaches who participated in a formal virtual parasport coach mentorship...
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