A group of HK students toured Olympic facilities in Montreal and Lake Placid.
A group of HK students toured Olympic facilities in Montreal and Lake Placid.
Hundreds of high school girls across Windsor-Essex are discovering they can make a lifelong commitment to staying healthy by being physically active even if they don’t play sports.
“A lot of these girls don’t realize how capable they really are, so when they find out what they can do, that’s very motivating for them,” said Jenn Stefanczyk, a fourth-year kinesiology student who volunteers with the Females Using Energy for Life (FUEL) program.
A scientist with Public Health Ontario will discuss school-based health promotion, Friday in the Human Kinetics Building.
Richard Pound will deliver the free public talk “Paradigm Shift: the New Olympic Economics,” at 11 a.m. Friday in room 143, Human Kinetics Building.
Growing up in Ghana, Doug Koomson used to play soccer as much as he could. He got pretty good at it, and by the time he moved to Oakville, Ontario, his favourite sport became a great way to break down barriers that can make it difficult for new Canadians to integrate.
“When I came here, that’s how I made friends,” said Koomson, now a third-year kinesiology student. “Sports really give kids a chance to meet each other.”
For Olympic athletes who tested positive for banned substances at the Winter Olympics in Sochi last month, Dick Pound has a very simple message.
Monica Maly of McMaster University will discuss “A Role for Biomechanics in Knee Osteoarthritis” in a free public lecture Friday, February 28.
Get to know members of the Lancer women’s basketball team; today’s player: Anna Mullins.
Hypertension has been described by the World Health Organization as a global health crisis, but a trio of kinesiology researchers is aiming to change that by determining how the simple act of squeezing a small hand-held device can lower blood pressure.