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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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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...

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...

How youth athletes can support their own life skill development through sport

February 22, 2023
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Mandisa Lau, Corliss Bean and Caroline Hummell
Sports help to develop crucial skills on and off the court, field, or ice. Participating in sports can help youth athletes stay physically healthy, build positive relationships with coaches and other players and learn valuable skills.  While coaches often play...

Supporting positive parental decision-making in youth sport

February 8, 2023
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Heather Larson
Parents and guardians have significant influence on their children’s sporting experiences, as well as broader sport culture. They serve as interpreters, role models, and providers of childhood sport experiences (Fredricks & Eccles, 2004). As such, their decisions can have long-lasting...

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...

Sport participation through the transition from adolescence to adulthood

January 2, 2023
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Mathieu Bélanger
View the summary of this research here. Introduction and context Studying factors that contribute to sport participation maintenance in a context where so many people drop out of sports will help develop better strategies and interventions aimed at increasing the...

How to write a quality grant application

November 17, 2022
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Eric Cartlidge
For many charitable or not-for-profit sport organizations, funding is the main topic of discussion on most days. As they look to continue their missions or potentially create new, innovative, and inclusive programming, two questions regularly come up:  How much money...

Cultivating a mastery climate in youth sport

August 10, 2022
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Noah Lipin and Luc Martin, Queen’s University
When children are asked about why they play sports, having fun is consistently ranked as the number one reason. Trying their best, being treated with respect and getting playing time are reasons that fall close behind. Winning, on the other...

Current perspectives on multi-sport participation

July 25, 2022
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Paul Jurbala, Sport for Life
Highlights What’s the best path to the podium? That’s the question behind the debate between early specialization and early diversification. Drawing on the example of some well-known champions like Tiger Woods or the Williams sisters, the early specialization camp argues...

Everywhere, all the time, anywhere: Why physical literacy matters

May 18, 2022
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Jackie Robinson, Marika Warner and Bryan Heal, MLSE LaunchPad
The loosening of COVID‑19 pandemic restrictions on sport and physical activity presents a unique opportunity to dramatically change how we engage young people in sport and physical activity. Pre-pandemic sport participation was marred by high dropout rates among girls and...

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