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The bounce-back illusion: Why real postpartum bodies deserve the spotlight

Let’s begin with a familiar image. A woman, newly postpartum, stands in her living room. Her baby is nestled in a sling across her chest, and she’s attempting something between a squat and a stretch while simultaneously rescuing a plush giraffe from under the couch. She is not wearing Lululemon. She has not “bounced back.”…

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Athlete Development
High Performance
Sport Participation

Team Canada athletes share the best advice they’ve received
May 13, 2024
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Caela Fenton
All athletes know that participating in sport is a learning process, no matter what level you play at. We asked some of Team Canada’s top athletes across a variety of sports for the best advice they’d ever been given–and almost...
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Abuse-Free Sport
Athlete Development
Health and Wellbeing
Nutrition and Hydration
Safe Sport

Balancing Act: Navigating weight cutting in sports for athlete well-being  
March 27, 2024
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Kai Harada
Weight cutting in sport sounds harsh because it is. As a U19 national champion wrestler with international experience and a mixed martial artist, I have first-hand experience losing weight in a short amount of time to compete in my desired...
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Athlete Development
Gender Equity
Girls and Women
Sport Participation
Varsity Sport

Ski like a girl: Researchers reveal hidden histories of women in Nordic sport
March 18, 2024
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Oumar Salifou
From a U of A varsity ski club to the Canadian Birkebeiner and the Olympics, women have always been part of the landscape of winter sport. When Lyndsay Conrad dove into her archival research on early 20th-century ski history in...
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Athlete Development
Physical Health
Sport Participation

“It means so much for Canadian tennis”: How Marina Stakusic’s post-BJK Cup claim predicted a rise for tennis in Canada
January 31, 2024
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Tennis Canada
A Canadian flag draped around her shoulders, a beaming, then-18-year-old Marina Stakusic is flanked by captain Heidi El Tabakh and Gabriela Dabrowski on the hard courts of Estadio de la Cartuja. Just minutes earlier, Leylah Annie Fernandez flung her racquet...
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Athlete Development
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Gender Equity
Girls and Women

The power of mentoring in sports: Who, what, and how? 
January 17, 2024
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Gabrielle Cadotte & Veronica Allan
Mentorship is a powerful resource with the potential to positively influence the growth and success of people in sport. Mentoring is a relationship where one or multiple mentors (i.e., a senior person in age or experience) provide guidance and support...
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Athlete Development
Coaching
Sport Participation Research Initiative
Team Culture

Effects of a learning game through understanding strategy on tactical skills and performance in team sports
July 10, 2023
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Luc
Project summary   Teaching and learning tactical skills in team sport is essential to improve performances (Grehaigne & Godbout, 2014). Player’s understanding of the game is a good indication of the learning of these skills (Memmert & Perl, 2005). Unfortunately,...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Parenting styles and practices: Promoting exemplary parenting in youth sport
July 3, 2023
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Nick Holt
Project summary  Our research question was: How do exemplary youth sport parents support their daughters in competitive team sport? To answer this question, we interviewed 8 coaches and asked them to discuss the best parents they had ever worked with....
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Athlete Development
Long-Term Development

Using motor learning concepts to enhance athlete skill development
June 28, 2023
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Matt Krueger
Motor learning is the process of acquiring and refining skills, such as movements or strategies, through practice and experience. It is an important concept in sport because it helps coaches create effective training programs to help athletes improve performance. Coaches...
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Athlete Development
Coaching

How to harness the power of team cohesion in sport
June 21, 2023
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Erika Degabriele and Cailie McGuire
In sport, we often hear athletes and coaches talking about how “united” their team is and the great “chemistry” that they have. Broadly, these terms reflect the concept of cohesion. Cohesion is frequently described as the glue that holds a...
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Athlete Development
Life Skills
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Exploring the life skills transfer process from sport to life
May 15, 2023
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Kelsey Kendellen
Project summary  In recent years, researchers and practitioners have paid increasing attention to understanding how the life skills (e.g., leadership, emotional regulation) learned in sport can transfer and be applied beyond sport. The overall purpose of this project was to...
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