Sport Scientist Canada

As a professional organization with its members committed to performance solutions in Canada and the provision and on-going professional development, Sport Scientist Canada leads an innovative structure that supports collaborative and accountable decision-making. A strong and vibrant Council structure exists in three areas of work linked to high performance sport.

Think-Tanks drive our ideation and Working Groups provide a flexible approach to deliver on objectives using experts within our high performance system and in partnership with universities and industry.

Sport Scientist Canada is governed through a Management Team that consists of representatives from national sport partners. Its purpose is to provide guidance to the High Performance Advisory Councils (HPACs) and receive recommendations regarding performance sciences’ policies and protocols, and approve new initiatives supporting practitioner pathways.

High performance sport scientists engage in a development journey involving in a number of stages characterized by experience, competencies, and qualifications.  These stages of development are supported by the High Performance Certification which provides an evaluation and development framework for competencies.

The Practitioner Pathway provides a standardized framework to track practitioner development and expertise, as well as target initiatives. We initiate, develop and promote programs that attract, develop, and retain world-leading sport scientists equipped with the competencies to work with athletes, coaches and sport organizations within a multidisciplinary team.

This Council has the mandate to engage knowledge ideation and mobilization underpinning a podium performance culture in both a daily training and competition environment.