News & Features
What the NBA All-Star Game means for Toronto
Posted:“Toronto is the perfect place to host the All-Star Weekend," says Mahal De La Durantaye, a guard on the women’s Varsity Blues basketball team. "I’m happy Lowry is on the All-Star Team.”
Lowry’s…
Varsity Blues Achievement Awards honour student-athletes, celebrate donors
Posted:The VBAAs are an opportunity for donors to see first-hand the impact of their generosity on the lives of the student-athletes they have supported - often meeting them for the first time. The student-…
Playing for Change - How Bruce Kidd inspired a book
Posted:The book was edited by Kidd’s former doctoral student Russell Field, who is now assistant professor at the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba. Yesterday,…
Australian Open overshadowed by allegations of match fixing
Posted:How prevalent is match fixing in sports, in tennis in particular?
Match fixing is directly related to gambling, and it seems to have increased exponentially since international online betting on…
Five ways to keep active and healthy in 2016
Posted:“I definitely use physical activity to manage stress," says undergraduate student Najiba Sardar. "Every time my course load gets a little bit overwhelming, including extracurriculars, it’s nice to go…
Research finds popular free fitness apps are inaccurate and unreliable
Posted:The evaluation was led by Professor Guy Faulkner and KPE master's student Krystn Orr and was published in the journal, BMC Research Notes.
“We know that more and more Canadians want to take their…
Students unwind with Fun Fridays sport series
Posted:Each Fun Friday features a variation on a familiar sport – like innertube water polo, pictured above, or bubble soccer, in which players wear large transparent bubbles that work like bouncy suits of…
Body image and emotion: Investigating why many adolescent girls drop out of sports
Posted:Associate Professor Catherine Sabiston is conducting a study exploring how feelings about appearance—both positive and negative—influence girls’ likelihood to stay involved in sport. Her findings…
International exploration of gym class heightens student’s skills
Posted:The opportunity came about thanks to Howe’s SSHRC grant and the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements scholarship which funded a fourth-month research exchange anywhere in the world.
Howe was…
Hands-on heart research: a new experience for a kinesiology major
Posted:Tomasi, a fourth-year kinesiology major with the Faculty, was one of five students selected for a summer program that offers upperyear students the chance to work in a laboratory while whetting their…
Simple walk to school makes kids more active and healthy
Posted:Doctoral candidate George Mammen has worked closely with Professor Guy Faulkner and conducted extensive analysis of active transportation—including his most recent publication, “Putting school travel…
PhD students share research on the international stage
Posted:Ellen MacPherson, Elaine Cook and Jenessa Banwell –all supervised by Professor Gretchen Kerr—reaped multiple benefits from the international excursion, from taking in the local sights and getting to…