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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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The effects of adolescent physical growth and maturation on selection into sport and the long-term effects on sports participation

March 15, 2021
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Adam Baxter-Jones
Project summary Sport Canada’s Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model acknowledges that there are limitations to ensuring appropriate development of team sports, especially with regards to selecting into chronological age (CA) bands. Adolescent of the same CA can be 4...

Understanding deselection in competitive female youth sport

February 22, 2021
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Kacey Neely
View the summary of this research here. Project summary Deselection (or being “cut”) is the elimination of an athlete from a competitive sport team based on the decisions of a coach. Given the competitive sport structure in Canada, it is...

Extracurricular activity involvement in Canada: Relationships with youth development and variations by age, gender and context

February 1, 2021
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Anne Bowker
Project summary The purpose of this research was to study extra-curricular activity (ECA) involvement in a broad range of Canadian youth, and to examine how this might vary by age, gender and geographical context (e.g. rural vs. urban settings). Of...

Imagery use in children’s leisure time physical activities

January 25, 2021
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Krista Chandler
Project summary Given the rate of children’s physical inactivity, it is important to identify strategies that assist individuals in self-regulating their physical activity behaviors. Imagery is one such strategy. Children’s use of imagery has been investigated in sport, but not...

Assessing youth sport programs’ facilitation of positive youth development

January 18, 2021
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Jessica Fraser-Thomas
Background / Context / Objective With growing societal concern for youths’ healthy development, extensive literature suggests organized leisure activities serve as optimal contexts to foster positive youth development (Larson, 2000), and sport has consistently been found to be the most...

Building meaningful programs for indigenous youth

January 4, 2021
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Alexandra Arellano
Project summary The main purpose of this research program was to help build more meaningful and relevant sport and recreation-based programs for Indigenous youth through the examination of a series of multidisciplinary analyses and case studies (mainly the Promoting Life-skills...

Trickle down effect? Exploring the influence of the Olympic Games on preschooler sport participation and development

December 28, 2020
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Jessica Fraser-Thomas
Background / Context / Objective The benefits of sport participation among youth are well recognized, yet little work has focused on understanding sport participation among very young children, despite growing participation at increasingly early ages. The first objective of this...

Survey on participation in amateur soccer in Canada

December 14, 2020
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Martin Gendron
Project abstract In general, sport is seen as a powerful contributor to social and personal development (Sport Canada, 2002). The benefits of physical activity and sport have been the subject of numerous studies (Gendron et al., 2005; Parfitt & Eston,...

The Role of Group Norms in the Underreporting of Concussions in Youth Sport

October 27, 2020
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Claire Swarbrick, Student, Queen's University
This blog is the fourth installment in a series in collaboration with Queen’s University. As an assignment to build knowledge mobilization skills, Dr. Luc Martin, Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, tasked students in his third year team...

Successful experiences for overweight children in sport (SOS) 

October 12, 2020
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Laurene Rehman
Project Summary  Located in the Almaguin Highlands Region in the District of Parry Sound, Powassan is a rural municipality of approximately 3,400 residents. For this research, we engaged in a participatory action research (PAR) project with the Municipality of Powassan...

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