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June 7, 2023

Safe sport jobs increase as Canadian sport sector responds to community

Safe sport and safeguarding in sport have become top priorities for the Canadian sport sector. Prevalence studies have revealed that athletes across different levels of sport frequently experience maltreatment (Alexander et coll., 2011; Vertommen et coll., 2016; US Center for SafeSport, 2021; Willson et coll., 2022). Equity deserving athletes experience more harm in sport (Burdsey, 2011; Kaskan and Ho, 2014; Willson et coll., 2022), hence cultivating a safe sport environment is intrinsically connected to equity, diversity and inclusion work. In […]

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Managing the Risk of Athlete Burnout With or Without Early Specialization

April 25, 2019

Parents who dream of their children becoming professional athletes, and coaches who believe that single-minded dedication is the only way to reach the top of their sport, have contributed to...

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Changing the Culture of Hazing in Canada

January 22, 2019

Allegations emerging in media reports from Toronto’s St. Michael’s College in the fall of 2018 have made hazing top of mind for athletic staff at Canada’s secondary and post-secondary education...

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Coming of Age With Relative Age Research: Origins, Consequences, and Potential Solutions

January 22, 2019

On October 17, 2018, Relative Age Effects: An International Conference was hosted at York University where leading international scholars gathered to discuss the implications of athletes’ dates of birth on...

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Issues in Athlete Identification and Selection: Are We Compromising Talent?

October 10, 2018

Despite some important ethical and developmental concerns, early identification and selection is the modus operandi of high performance sport. Most sport systems internationally have limited resources for high performance athlete...

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Taking Athlete Development to a New Level: Understanding the Value of a Trauma-Informed Approach

October 10, 2018

Increasing attention in research and practice has focused on the physical and psychological impacts of trauma and violence, for example from living in conflict zones or experiencing family violence. In...

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Marginal Gains Reconsidered: How Sport Organizations Hold the Key to Boosting Sport Performance

July 11, 2018

The “aggregation of marginal gains” has become such a catchphrase that people have stopped questioning what it means. Science is meant to question, not to follow, and to look for...

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Fostering Leadership in Youth Sport through a Tri-Level Mentoring Model

July 11, 2018

Many coaches in youth sport understand the positive benefits of sport participation, in helping youth adopt social relationships, perseverance, and building life skills. However, it isn’t enough to simply thrust...

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Concussions in sport — we can do better

April 17, 2018

In his teens, Eric Mihalovic was a promising young hockey player. He was tough, a solid player with good hands. “I don’t think we even called the first one a...

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IN BRIEF: Bio-Banding and Developmental Age

January 8, 2018

You’ve probably heard of the Relative Age Effect – the concept that when children are placed into groups such as school classes or sports based on their chronological age, those...

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Sport Participation Research Initiative: 10 years in review

October 3, 2017

The purpose of this presentation by Sport Canada was to provide an overview of the retrospective analysis of the first 10 years of the program encouraging sport participation research in...