In 1994, Rachel Corbett wrote a handbook on Harassment in Sport that was distributed to NSOs and other amateur sport organizations around the country. As part of our 20th anniversary of service to the Canadian amateur sport industry, we thought it might be interesting to post the handbook and ask Rachel about the evolutionary changes [...]
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What We’re Watching in 2012
This year marks our 20th Anniversary of service in the Canadian sport industry. We have been advising sport organizations since 1992! We’ll soon have a couple of formal announcements but we first wanted to outline some of the trends, issues, and developments that we’ll be watching in the new year. Rachel: I continue to assist [...]
Reflections from Two Years with the Sport Law & Strategy Group
by Kevin Lawrie. Two years ago, in July 2009, I started my first contract with the Sport Law & Strategy Group. We were working for a coalition of team sport NSOs to develop a position paper explaining the unique value of team sports. The majority of the project was led by Rachel Corbett and Dina [...]
Olympic Success – when 24 athletes = 1 medal
By Kevin Lawrie One of the goals of Canada’s Own the Podium funding program was to ‘Place first in the total medal count at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games’. Canada received some criticism for baldly stating that goal. But it is common for host countries to increase their sport funding in advance of the Olympic [...]
Full Team Ahead: The Benefits of Team Sport to Canadian Sport
We know that sport and physical activity produce positive health effects in individuals. However, until now the particular value of team sports to Canadian sport has not been explored. The first order of business of the Canadian Team Sport Coalition (made up of the organizing bodies of 19 Canadian team sports) was to complete this [...]
Book Review – The Great Traits of Champions: Fundamentals for Achievers, Leaders and Legacy Leavers (2008)
Readers of this website will likely know of both Mark Tewksbury and Debbie Muir, authors of the recently released book, The Great Traits of Champions: Fundamentals for Achievers, Leaders and Legacy Leavers. Mark is a former swimmer, winner of three Olympic medals and holder of seven world records, while Debbie is a former synchronized swimming [...]
Keynote Address – Royal Canadian Golf Association
by Rachel Corbett. Thank you very much Scott. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Directors and Governors, members of the Provincial Council, members of Committees, voting delegates, Branch representatives, staff of Branches and of the RCGA, and invited guests. When I was first invited to be your speaker this evening, I immediately had three concerns: one, [...]
