Sport Scientist Canada

Chair: Jorie Janzen, Canadian Sport Centre Manitoba
Mandate:  The High Performance Certification (HPC) for Sport Scientists comprise the qualifications and competencies required to uphold standards and enhance the daily training environment (DTE) of high performance sport in Canada. The certification is designed to ensure that the system employs skillful, qualified practitioners who deliver safe and effective service to athletes and coaches. A central goal of the Certification is to develop, attract, and retain exceptional practitioners in Canada.

Members:

• Dr. Brian Benson – Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
• Dr. Jane Labreche – Own the Podium
• Dr. Nick Clarke – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
• Leo Thornley – Canadian Sport Institute Atlantic
• Dr. Dave Clarke – Simon Fraser University, Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
• Alex Hodgins – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
• Erik Sesbrano – Institut national du sport du Québec
• Meghan Buttle – Canadian Sport Institute Ontario

Chair: Jorie Janzen, Canadian Sport Centre Manitoba
Mandate: Deliver a world-leading leadership program for high performance sport scientists in Canada.

Instructor: Eva Havaris

Members:

• Alison Nagata, Athletics Canada
• Genevieve Mason, Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
• Graeme Challis, Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
• Jeremie Chase, Canadian Sport Centre Manitoba
• Sylvain Gaudet, Institut national du sport du Québec
• Will George, Canadian Sport Institute Ontario

Chair: Bryan Yu, Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
Mandate: Canadian sport scientists working in high performance sport with the knowledge, attributes and skills to optimally support Paralympic sport athletes and staff.

Members:

• Dr. Andy Marshall – Canadian Paralympic Committee
• Tessa Gallinger – Canadian Paralympic Committee
• Dr. Sommer Christie – Wheelchair Rugby Canada
• Michelle Killins – Canadian Paralympic Committee
• Dr. François Prince – University of Montreal
• Patricia Roney – Athletics Canada
• Dr. Steve Dilkas – Canadian Sport Institute Ontario
• Heather Hynes – Canadian Sport Institute Saskatchewan
• Melissa Lacroix – Canadian Sport Institute Ontario

Chair: Ryan Brodie, Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
Mandate: Develop a practitioner pathway for the field data science, inclusive of competencies and qualifications, and aligned with the national practitioner pathway.

Members: 

• Ryan Atkison – Canadian Sport Institute Ontario
• Jodi Hawley – Own the Podium
• Dr. Erik Groves – Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
• Dr. Tim Chan – University of Toronto

Chair: Lauren Vickery, Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
Mandate: Provide female sport scientists, particularly in sport science & medicine disciplines where there is currently a lack of gender equity, the opportunity to engage with mentors in order to advance their career development and gain industry knowledge that will contribute to the high-performance sport environment.

Members:

• Elizabeth (Liz) Johnson – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
• Alayne Hing – Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
• Seth Lenetsky – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific

Chair: Dr. Ming Tsai, Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
Mandate: Create common structure & content for standardization and data aggregation. A National Data Sciences Framework is developed through collaboration of relevant stakeholders and distributed with supporting language definitions. A structured and supported assessment of ‘readiness’ regarding data competency and infrastructure is developed and made available to NSOs to identify areas of strength and weaknesses.

Members:

• Paul Dorotich – Own the Podium
• ​Dr. Marc Klimstra – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
• Mathieu Charbonneau – Institut national du sport du Québec
• Justin Detlor – Canadian Tire Financial Services

Chair(s): Jodi Hawley, Dr. Andy Van Neutegem, Own the Podium
Mandate: A comprehensive national health monitoring program employed for targeted Olympic & Paralympic and NextGen athletes initiated with an athlete intake process and pursued via best-practice monitoring guidelines that enable on-going awareness and tracking of health information relevant to athlete performance capacity and health care in the daily training and competition environments.

Members:

• Dr. Charles Samuels – University of Calgary
• Meghan Buttle – Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
• Jeremiah Barnert – Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
• Liz Johnson – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
• Dr. Veronique Boudreault – UdeS, Institut national du sport du Québec
• Mathieu Charbonneau – Institut national du sport du Québec

Chair: Frank van den Berg, Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
Mandate: Leadership training in the area of culture development is provided to NSO technical leaders through proactive professional development opportunities.  A clear and engaging Culture of Excellence Framework (inclusive of defined terms and concepts) is developed and made available as guidelines to all NSOs. Provide training to mental performance consultants (MPCs) to become ‘culture consultants’ with the intent to provide NSOs with available experts to support the intentional, quadrennial focus on a NSO-led culture of excellence. A collaborative group of experts catalogue best practices of culture training and development in Canada to build a repository of knowledge available to NSOs.

Members:

• Dr. Andy Van Neutegem – Own the Podium
• Dr. Penny Werthner – University of Calgary
• Dr. Peter Jensen – Third Factor Consulting
• Dr. Kyle Paquette – University of Ottawa/Marble Labs Consulting
• Dr. Jeremy Sheppard – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific

Chair: Dr. Matt Jordan, Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
Mandate: Defined rehabilitation stages and milestones based on evidence-informed best practice. Mentorship and succession planning with ongoing education and professional development.  Ongoing IST communication supported by consistently conducted high-impact meetings and frequent organic touchpoints in the daily training environment (DTE) between the involved practitioners to improve best practice and enhance knowledge translation strategies. An established set of protocols and guidelines that support the RTS Framework and establishes best practices in high risk sport profiling and athlete intake management.  Create best practice for data collection, data storage, data analysis and data reporting.

Members:

• Dr. Brian Benson – Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
• Jeremiah Barnert – Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
• Kelly Drager – Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
• Frank Van Den Berg – Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
• Kelly VanDerBeek – Olympic Athlete