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 cost of youth sport This SIRCuit article offers practical tips…

Creating welcoming, equitable spaces for new Canadians in sport

March 13, 2023

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Veronica Allan

Highlights: Sport can help to promote physical and mental health, build social connections and support integration into Canadian communities among newcomers to Canada Research shows that newcomers face unique barriers to sport participation, including cost, transportation, language, access to information, racism and religious or cultural considerations In this article, newcomers…

How the sport system can best support lifelong participation in sport

March 13, 2023

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Bettina Callary and Bradley Young

Highlights The engagement and retention of adult sport participants is often overlooked within sport systems and organizations that focus predominantly on youth Despite coaches playing a key role in Masters sport, there are no clearly identified pathways into Masters coaching Masters athletes are often relegated to the worst practice times…

Taking a person-first approach to high performance sport in Canada

March 13, 2023

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Teddy Katz

Highlights Over the course of 2022, athletes and supporters have consistently raised concerns about maltreatment and lack of transparency in the Canadian sport sector In this SIRCuit article, Teddy Katz explores athlete concerns, as well as changes being made within Canadian sport to move towards a “person-first” system Katz spoke…

“They’re not yelling at you. They’re yelling at your shirt”: Canadian sport system faces officiating crisis

March 13, 2023

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Caela Fenton

Highlights The Canadian sport system is experiencing a steep decline in number of match officials due to a combination of factors including abuse, lack of support from organizations, and lack of compensation In this article, officials from various sports across the country share their perspectives on the officiating crisis, including…

Exercising outdoors in Canada: What the research tells us about exercising safely and effectively in extreme heat

January 23, 2023

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Joao Falk Neto and Michael D. Kennedy

Highlights While Canadians are used to severe winter weather, 9 of the 10 warmest years on record in Canada have occurred in the last 25 years. This has real world implications for outdoor sport events. For example, even the best triathletes in the world struggled with the extreme heat in…

Managing the competing tensions of social media as a high performance athlete

January 23, 2023

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Caela Fenton

Highlights Social media has had an enormous impact on the sport sector, economically and culturally Athletes may use social media as a platform for personal updates or activism, or as a venue to work with sponsors in a financial relationship, however, it may also be a space in which athletes…

From scarcity to abundance: How Para athlete transfer can broaden development pathways

January 23, 2023

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Caela Fenton

Highlights The Canadian Paralympic Committee and Own the Podium identified the creation of an “Athlete Transfer System” as a way to broaden Para athlete development pathways Athlete transfer is when an athlete switches sports or takes on an additional sport Currently, athlete transfer happens fairly frequently, but is predominantly athlete-directed…

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