Lancer alumna Nicole Sassine was one of 19 female scholar-athletes from across the province honoured by Ontario University Athletics as “Women of Influence” at a luncheon held Tuesday, May 7. The award honours female student-athletes who have excelled in their chosen sports and fields of study.
Sassine says she is proud to have won recognition both for academic and athletic accomplishment.
Children who tend to snack in the evening spend more time watching television and playing video games and their portion sizes get larger with the more screen time they get, according to a master’s student in kinesiology.
Lancer men’s soccer players Massimo Megna and Mike Pio will suit up for Ontario University Athletics’ inaugural soccer showcase, this weekend in Vaughan, north of Toronto.
Megna, a fourth-year human kinetics major, and Pio, a second-year science student, will play on the West team in an East-West match-up on Sunday, May 5. The event is designed to showcase Ontario university soccer to prospective student-athletes.
A group of graduate students in kinesiology recently got an inside look at the highly secretive facilities used to train top U.S. Olympic athletes.
“They’re fairly guarded about who they allow at their training centres,” said Michael Ayotte, a master’s student in sport management who recently travelled to the Olympic Training Centre in Lake Placid, New York.
In his book Last Child in the Woods, author Richard Louv links a lack of experience of nature in the lives of wired youngsters with disturbing childhood trends such as rising obesity and depression.
It’s a worry that seems far from a student like Giulia Barile of St. Anne Catholic High School.
On the honour roll through her high school career, she has won city and regional championships in soccer, and coaches and referees the sport. She hopes to qualify for the Lancer varsity team when she starts studies in kinesiology at the University of Windsor in September.
The Faculty of Human Kinetics invites applications for a three-year limited-term faculty position at the rank of assistant professor or lecturer in the area of kinesiology (movement science - motor control and learning), to begin July 1.
This position is subject to final budgetary approval. To ensure full consideration, applications should be submitted by April 15.
The Faculty of Human Kinetics invites applications for a one-year limited-term faculty position in the area of kinesiology (movement science), at the rank of assistant professor or lecturer, commencing July 1.
This position is subject to final budgetary approval. To ensure full consideration, applications should be submitted by April 15.
Katrina Krawec knows what it means to go the extra yard for the sake of her research.
A graduate student in the university’s kinesiology department, she’s studying the differences between two Canadian women’s tackle football leagues – one which requires its players to wear full uniforms, the other in which they play in bikinis.
Last year, she actually tried out for the Toronto Triumph, one of four Canadian teams in what until recently was known as the Lingerie Football League.
Behind every great elite athlete, there’s a team of researchers taking the guess work out of all their training and preparation.
A lunch-hour lecture Friday on campus will encourage an active, healthy lifestyle for Canadian adults as a way to enhance the dignity of the aging process.
Clara Fitzgerald is program director of the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging at Western University.
In her talk, entitled “Physical Activity and Aging – Research to Action,” she will promote physical activity opportunities for older adults across the spectrum of age and mobility. The event is free and open to the public. It begins at noon in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.
