Researchers

National Coaches Week

It's National Coaches Week! National Coaches Week (September 18 to 26) celebrates the positive impact coaches have on athletes and communities across Canada. It’s an opportunity to recognize coaches for the integral role they play by simply saying #ThanksCoach. From...

• Coaching

Ask the experts: Q&A with Chris Penrose about learning from and communicating evaluation findings

September 8, 2021

You’ve carefully planned your evaluation, collected data and compiled results. Now what? Brock University’s Corliss Bean and Caroline Hummell spoke with Chris Penrose of Lay-Up Youth Basketball for SIRC’s Experts in the House mini-series on Mastering the Art of Evaluation,...

• Leadership and Governance
• Program Design and Evaluation

Mental health at the Games

“We’ve never been so focused on mental health and wellness at the Games.” In the SIRCuit, Stephanie Dixon, the Canadian Paralympic Committee’s Tokyo 2020 Chef de Mission, shares insight on the mental health strategies designed to support Canada’s Olympic teams...

• High Performance
• Mental Health
• Paralympic Games

Para sport research

The Canadian Paralympic Committee’s Paralympian Search Program provides an important platform for research on quality Para sport experiences, patterns in Para athlete development trajectories, and the engagement of underserved populations, such as girls and women, in the Para sport system. Learn more.  

• Athlete Development
• Disability
• High Performance
• Para Sport
• Participation

High performance health monitoring

Since 2011, Norwegian high-performance athletes have filled out weekly health surveys in the 12-18 months before every Olympic and Paralympic Games. From London 2012 to Tokyo 2020, researchers found that 32% of Olympic athletes and 37% of Paralympic athletes were...

• Coaching
• High Performance
• Injury

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

Did you know that Tokyo is the first city to host the Paralympic Games for a second time? Tokyo first hosted the Paralympic Games in 1964, where 378 Paralympic athletes competed for 419 medals. Now, 57 years later, 4,237 athletes will...

• High Performance
• Major Games
• Paralympic Games

Sport Canada Research Initiative (SCRI) Conference

October 28-29, 2021
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Format: The conference will consist of four, 2-hour sessions spread out between the morning and afternoon. Canada's leading sport participation conference, hosted by SIRC. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect with Canada’s top researchers, leverage their expertise and create...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games officially open today and continue through Sunday, August 8. With 370 athletes and 131 coaches attending, this is the largest contingent of Canadian athletes at an Olympic Games since Los Angeles 1984.

• Major Games
• Olympic Games

Flashback

Tokyo last hosted the Olympic Games in 1964. At that edition of the Games, Canada’s only gold-medalists were men’s pair rowers Roger Jackson and George Hungerford. As Canada’s largest rowing team in 25 years gears up for Tokyo 2020, Kai...

• High Performance
• Major Games
• Olympic Games

Summer 2021 SIRCuit

The Summer 2021 SIRCuit is now available!  The SIRCuit is designed to highlight important research and insights to advance the Canadian sport system. With the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo on the horizon and the winter Games in Beijing just...

• Athlete Development
• High Performance
• Leadership and Governance
• Major Games
• Olympic Games
• Paralympic Games
• Safe Sport
• Technology