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Fall 2017
The purpose of this study was to produce a conceptualization of good parenting in female youth sport. A two-phase approach was used. In phase one, individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight coaches (3 females, 5 males, M age= 40.1 years, SD = 15.1 years) with at least five...
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Transitioning from Separate to Community Physical Activity Contexts for Youth with Impairments: The Parental Experience
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Moving from separate to inclusive community physical activity for youth with impairments can be a difficult transition for all involved. While research on the barriers for youth undergoing these transitions exists, little attention has been focused on the role and experiences of parents. The...
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Under New Governance? Examining the Role of Canadian Sport for Life in Sport Policy and Governance
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This investigation examined the role of Canadian Sport for Life (CS4L) as a newly emerging phenomenon within Canadian sport. In drawing upon the notions of governance theory or the so-called ‘governance narrative,’ the inquiry sought to answer the question: What is the role of CS4L within sport...
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Spring 2017
The overall purpose of this dissertation research was to gain a better understanding of deselection in competitive female youth sport by examining coaches’, athletes’, and parents’ experiences of deselection. Three studies were conducted, each focused on a different aspect of deselection. The...
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Fall 2014
The purpose of this experiment was to study breathing pattern, operational lung volume and respiratory muscle strength during 45 minutes of exercise with a heavy backpack (25 kg). Fifteen males completed randomly ordered graded exercise tests on a treadmill with (L) and without (U) a correctly...
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Spring 2013
Daily locomotor tasks require gait adaptations in order to match various environmental challenges. Healthy individuals rely on vision in order to make proactive gait changes as vision is the sensory modality best suited to provide accurate information about distant environmental constraints. This...
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Weaving Christian Spirituality into Women’s Wellness: Narratives from the African Diaspora in Canada
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This research highlights the significant role spirituality plays in how a group of African diasporic women in Canada understand and experience wellness in their daily lives. The central research question that I pose is: How do Christian African diasporic women in Canada make sense of and...
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What are people doing in our parks? Understanding, comparing, and predicting the low-impact camping practices of Canadian Provincial Park over-night visitors
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Canadian provincial parks attract millions of visitors every year; and while these visitors come to parks to enjoy their natural beauty, experience cultural and natural heritage, and participate in outdoor recreation they are also simultaneously having a negative impact on the park ecosystems....
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What can Foucault tell us about Fun in Sport? A Foucauldian Critical Examination of the Discursive Production and Deployment of Fun within Varsity Coaching Contexts
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Fun is a concept of growing importance in sport and in sport coaching research (e.g., Bigelow et al. 2001; Mastrich, 2002; Small, 2002; Smoll et al., 1988; Thompson, 1997; 2003). Fun, and especially fun in sport, is generally understood not only as being unproblematic but also as being inherently...
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Where electrical stimulation is delivered affects how contractions are generated in the tibialis anterior muscle
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This thesis describes experiments designed to investigate how motor units in tibialis anterior (TA) were recruited when electrical stimulation was applied over the TA muscle belly versus the common peroneal nerve trunk. The data from the first study (Chapter 2) showed that contractions were...