Alpine Canada’s Marielle Thompson claimed the Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup Cross Alps Tour women’s title, finishing as the overall tour leader following six races over 14 days. The tour wrapped up on Thursday with the second of two races held at the Innichen track in Italy. In the final day of competition, Thompson…
Victoria, BC – Following a successful season that saw program athletes reach the podium on the international stage, the NextGen Swimming program in Victoria will undergo a facelift with the introduction of a younger 2016-17 roster. NextGen Coach and CSI Pacific staff member Brad Dingey enters his second year with the program and leads one…
As a 19-year-old aspiring track cyclist, Jay Lamoureux could have never imagined one coach helping him make the national team program, not just once but twice. But due to an unforeseen injury, that is essentially what happened to the Victoria, BC product. In the fall of 2014, Jeff Ain was in his second year as…
VANCOUVER – Canada Snowboard, in partnership with Canadian Sport Institute Pacific, is proud to introduce Dr. Jeremy Sheppard as Sport Science & Medicine Lead for Canada Snowboard’s targeted High performance programs. Dr. Sheppard will work closely with Canada Snowboard’s national teams and CSI Pacific experts to help ensure Canadian snowboarders are prepared for this year’s busy…
TORONTO – Today, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), the Canadian Paralympic Committee, the Government of Canada (Sport Canada), and the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute Network announced a new initiative in collaboration with nine universities across the country to offer Canadian National Team athletes more flexible education opportunities while they are training and competing.…
Victoria, BC – For the first time in program history, Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (CSI Pacific), in partnership with Cycling Canada, announced a Cycling NextGen roster made entirely of cross-country mountain bike athletes. These riders are set to train in Victoria this season, starting this coming weekend. Victoria’s Cycling NextGen program will bring together 10…
VANCOUVER – The Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (CSI Pacific) is proud to recognize Cameron Gee and Ming-Chang Tsai on their research achievements and being recipients of the Dr. Gord Sleivert Young Investigator Awards at the SPort INnovation (SPIN) Summit in Calgary last week. The SPIN Summit is Canada’s leading edge symposium for professional development and…
Victoria, BC – Seeing a student start the day in the Canadian Sport School classroom and end it in a Rugby Canada training session has become a regular occurrence in recent years at the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific’s Victoria campus. Operating out of the same facility at Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence, the connection between…
VANCOUVER – As the leaves fall and the autumn rain becomes more persistent, the past summer can start to feel like a long time ago for many of us. This is doubly so for the Olympians and Paralympians who competed in Rio 2016. These athletes need to return to everyday concerns of school or jobs…
On the heels of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games, Triathlon Canada has turned to Eugene Liang to rebuild and guide its high-performance program. A quiet, yet confident, leader who is passionate and driven, the new high-performance director’s goals are completely clear – to get Canadian triathletes back on the Olympic podium by 2024,…