"Parkour Phenom" Looks to Leap Into Olympics

The RBC Training Ground program aims to find young athletes across the country and give them the best opportunity to become Olympians. “It’s such an amazing opportunity for these athletes, personally, it’s been so exciting to see the next generation of athletes that are, hopefully, going to be our next Olympians, and to see what…

High Performance Tweets with CSI Pacific & CSEP

Members of Canadian Sport Institute Pacific’s physiology team took part in Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology‘s Twitter chat, “#CSEPGoldChat”, on Thursday morning, discussing high performance athletes and integrated support teams. Check out the questions asked and the answers given by James Brotherhood, Stacey Hutton, Paula McFadyen*, Wendy Pethick*, and Trent Stellingwerff. * Paula McFadyen and…

Olympic Tryouts at Langley Events Centre

About 90 young athletes attended an open audition for potential Olympic competitors at the Langley Events Centre on Sunday. The Langley event was the first of five regional qualifiers in B.C. that aim to uncover young, untapped athletic talent. Kurt Innes, director of talent development at Canadian Sport Institute Pacific, described the RBC Training Ground…

Cool Idea Could Strike Gold

A Kwantlen Polytechnic University product design graduate might be a key to success for Canada’s wheelchair rugby team at the upcoming Paralympic Games. Tsawwassen’s Jaymes Williams and fashion and technology graduate Laura Hutchison from Victoria have been commissioned by the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific to make eight cooling vests for team members to use when…