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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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Climate Change
Coaching
Olympic & Paralympic Games
Sport Ecology
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Climate change and the future of the Winter Olympic Games: Athlete and coach perspectives
April 3, 2023
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Natalie Knowles
Project summary The International Olympic Committee recognizes the risks climate change pose to the Games and its responsibility to lead on climate action. Winter is changing at the past Olympic Winter Games (OWG) locations and an important perspective to understand...
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Coaching
Mental Health

Supporting injured athletes and their team: How to use a group dynamics model to protect social cohesion
March 29, 2023
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Jason Clare, Thomas Leaf and Jordan D. Herbison
When helping an athlete recover from injury, it is common for those in supporting roles (such as, coaches, practitioners or parents and guardians) to separate the needs of the injured athlete from the larger team. This makes sense, considering the...
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Climate Change
Coaching
Physical Health
Sport Participation

Sport Information Resource Centre, Coaching Association of Canada and Health Canada Launch Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) E-learning Module
March 21, 2023
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Canada’s most trusted partner in advancing sport knowledge is raising awareness of the importance of the AQHI as it relates to athlete health and empowering sport leaders to make informed decisions about air quality. March 21, 2023 Ottawa – The...
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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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Coaching

Barriers and facilitators to coaching certification in Canada
November 9, 2022
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Caela Fenton, PhD and Joseph Gurgis, PhD
Joseph Gurgis is an Assistant Professor at Nipissing University. He completed his doctorate at the University of Toronto, where he explored Canadian stakeholders’ interpretations, experiences, and recommendations for advancing Safe Sport. His findings suggest the Safe Sport movement would be...
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Athlete Development
Coaching
Para Sport

Collaborative coaching is key to successful Para athlete transfer
October 19, 2022
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Caela Fenton, SIRC
This blog is a part of a series created in collaboration with the Canadian Paralympic Committee and the Paralympic Athlete Transfer Task Force, spotlighting the opportunities and challenges of Para athlete transfer and multi-sport participation. When COVID-19 hit, like the rest of us, Alexandre...
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Athlete Development
Coaching
Communications

Actions speak louder than words: Non-verbal communication in sport
August 3, 2022
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Lexi Gottlieb and Luc Martin, Queen’s University
Communication is most associated with purposeful, verbal interactions. However, a big part of how we communicate in life, and sport, is non-verbal (Mehrabian, 2017). For example, simple acts of eye contact or body language are just as important than the...
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Abuse-Free Sport
Coaching
Safe Sport
Safe Sport Environments
Sport Participation

How coaches and sport organizations can create a better experience for LGBTQ+ youth
June 29, 2022
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Dawn E. Trussell, Kyle Rich and Jake Quinton
Participating in sport can have many benefits for lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGBTQ+) youth. Sport has the potential to bring joy, distraction and mindfulness that frees LGBTQ+ youth from worry and fear in other domains of their lives. Sport can...
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Anti-Racism
Coaching
Gender Equity
Girls and Women
Professional Development
Recruitment and Retention
Sponsorship

Mentoring Black women coaches: Developing confidence through relationships and learning
April 22, 2022
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Alex I McKenzie and Janelle Joseph, University of Toronto
Photo credit: Conestoga College Condors Athletics Highlights Some coaches are the “only” in their organization: the only woman, only racialized person or only racialized woman. Being the “only” relates to feelings of otherness and isolation, threatening coaches’ confidence. Social support...
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Coaching
Community Sport
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Engaging Black community coaches
March 30, 2022
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Annabel Chan and Marina Khonina, SIRC
This blog post provides a recap of the third webinar in the 4‑part mini-series Engaging Girls and Women in Sport. SIRC and Canadian Women & Sport co-hosted the mini-series, which you can access or learn more about by visiting our...
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