THE GOAL IS SIMPLE. GET BETTER. EVERY. our SINGLE. DAY. FIND NEW VISION WAYS TO PUSH The Canadian Sport Institute The pressure is unrelenting: from years of economic fragility to the is a key contributor to 's COVID-19 pandemic to the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic PAST THE PAIN. world-leading Olympic and and Paralympic Games, collectively, we are facing the most challenging TO SHAVE and difficult time in a generation. Paralympic podium performances. message from the HUNDREDTHS At CSI Calgary, we are highly adaptable and resilient as we confront BOARD CHAIR these times of change, with our focus remaining squarely on supporting OF A SECOND. PRESIDENT our athletes, coaches and partners in sport. TO GAIN TENTHS and As an organization, we’ve handled many changes over time, which have OF A POINT. FIND extended an opportunity to grow, change and lead. A WAY TO BE our Through innovation, expertise and exceptional service delivery we have been leaders with impact. We have retained our values and looked out READY ON THE MISSION for people. We have been agile, and we are still delivering. That’s how DAY, AND EVERY we’ve maintained our promise in the face of change. DAY AFTER. WE To provide a world-leading Particularly, we recognize the importance of supporting mental health ARE NOT JUST multisport daily training environment and the whole person during this time of unprecedented change. This for podium pathway athletes and support is critical in a time of crisis and will equip athletes, coaches and TRAINING FOR staff with the tools they need for dealing with disruption and new ways coaches through expert leadership, of service delivery and training. SPORT. WE ARE services and programs. CSI Calgary remains extremely grateful for the support of our funding PREPARING FOR partners, performance partners, sport partners and sponsors. As we LIFE. WE ARE continue to evolve and grow, through the pandemic and beyond, we look forward to a future filled with exciting competition, togetherness RAISING THE and the experience of joy in the world of sport. BAR, PUSHING THE LIMITS. WE our ARE CLIMBING VALUES DALE HENWOOD THE PODIUM President and CEO Five core values guide our vision, shape CHERYL SANDERCOCK AND INSPIRING Chair, Board of Directors THE NATION. WE our processes and outcomes, and help to ARE CANADIAN secure our continued positive reputation nationally and internationally: Partnerships SPORT INSTITUTE Innovation CALGARY, Excellence Integrity AND WE ARE Leadership ELEVATING THE ATHLETE. we are THE ONES they turn to It’s not necessarily a position to aspire to, but one that must be filled on a frequent basis in Canadian sport: expert in crisis intervention. PREPARING ATHLETES FOR LIFE AND ENSURING THEIR It’s a difficult role to fill, but one that Frank Van den Berg, SUCCESS IS JUDGED ON MORE THAN JUST PERFORMANCE. Lead Mental Performance at CSI Calgary, has come to accept and deeply understand. When he gets the call, no matter how difficult the situation is, he knows he and his peers are ready to act. “Sometimes bad stuff happens,” he says. “We don’t want to do this, we don’t want it to happen, but it does. And when it does, we are the ones they turn to.” Being first on the line underscores the significant SUPPORT GAME PLAN contribution Van Den Berg and his colleagues across the In the face of change, showing we 486 athletes and coaches tuned in to ‘Disruption by country have made in this field. In 2013, Van den Berg helped to establish the Crisis Interventions in Sport Protocol, which care and are available to provide COVID-19 – Now What?’ – The first virtual experience serves as the framework for managing a sport tragedy. support for Canadian athletes, of a series (COPSIN Advantage Series) established in With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian coaches, and sports is critical. collaboration with Game Plan. sport system has been challenged again, this time with a scenario that is new for everyone. But Van den Berg says the call to action has been swift and effective. 914 athletes were Game Plan Advisor had “Unfortunately, in recent years, three tragic accidents have serviced by the Canadian a total of 769 interactions helped us prepare for this,” he says. “Some singular tragic Sport Institute Calgary. with 326 athletes. events have enabled a process and responsiveness to crisis that can be used in today’s situation.” The strong and existing network of stakeholders in Canadian sport was quick to establish a task force to respond to the pandemic, which enabled the rapid organization and EDUCATION alignment of key communications and activities. In the face of change, we recognize that offering an innovative That early mobilization focused on the pandemic response, $65,600 awarded in mental health, resilience and change management. Van den development pathway for sport science professionals and scholarships to students. Berg says they have also borrowed from the field of disaster coaches that is flexible, accessible, and multi-disciplinary is response psychology to understand the collective responses more important than ever. and stages that people go through during times of crisis. During difficult and unprecedented times Van den Berg says that what ultimately drives him, along with the entire 475 hours of targeted coach education including Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute (COPSI) 19 internship delivery of the Advanced Coaching Diploma to Network, is providing extensive and effective support to placements. 82 coaches from 40 different sports. athletes,coaches and sport organizations across Canada. “Everyone across the country is contributing their best efforts to help manage this extraordinary crisis in sport.”

Frank van den Berg Lead Mental Performance Consultant at the Canadian Sport Institute Calgary. ART, meet SCIENCE

Data is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about . Instead it’s grace, artistry, skill, and landing those spectacular jumps in front of a captivated audience. But in recent years, with the guidance and expertise of service providers at CSI Calgary, the field of sport science has made inroads in a sport where, historically, art trumps all. CREATING AN ATHLETE-CENTRIC ATMOSPHERE It all started when broke her leg in 2014 BY PLACING THE ATHLETE AT THE CENTRE OF and ended up working with Chris Osmond, former Strength and Conditioning Coach at CSI Calgary, to regain the form THE SPORT ECOSYSTEM. she needed to get back on the ice and compete again. The success of that experience – Osmond won bronze at the Olympics in 2018 – showed Mike Slipchuk, High Performance Director at , that maybe there was a place for integrating sport science into his program, even though it is decentralized, and the top athletes all have different coaches. A sample of data we’ve collected to help athletes SPORT SCIENCE “We knew the work CSI Calgary had done with speed skating get better. Every. Single. Day. and with other sports,” recalls Slipchuk. “They presented a SOLUTIONS more scientific approach that we hadn’t seen before.” Piper Gilles In the face of change, we build At first it started with a basic audit of the program, looking at Olympic Figure Skater, going through testing in the Sport Performance Laboratory. testing protocols, training camps, and yearly training plans. resilience by learning to adapt to Kelly Quipp, Sport Physiologist and Lead, Exercise Physiology, a swiftly changing environment at CSI Calgary also developed a sport-specific testing regime Team Canada being awarded the gold medal at the 2018 Olympic Games – keeping sight that a complete to help evaluate the athletes and worked with coaches to use in PyeongChang. the data to make appropriate adjustments in training. commitment to elevating the 1,506 lab tests 981 1,616 samples athletes and coaches is still key to 3,199 field tests anthropometric of in-house “My job is to make sure the athletes show up to the ice able becoming the high-performance tests blood analysis to do what is needed to train and perform,” says Quipp. “So, I work on how to use the data to help make them better.” sport partner of choice. Both Quipp and Slipchuk agree that keeping the athletes This is realized through providing healthy by addressing strength and fitness gaps, and leadership and support in the preventing injuries is key to sustaining their careers. Quipp is now working on an injury surveillance program that will development of the sport plan, identify and track injuries throughout the season, giving and ongoing support in the coaches more information to address programming needs. implementation of services in 102 Hb mass 1,183 Strength and The integration of sport science into figure skating hasn’t every aspect of the sport plan. tests Power lab tests always been easy, even though it’s effective. “It took two years for people to feel comfortable with what CSI Calgary is doing,” says Slipchuk. “We were slow to the party with sport science,” he adds. “But whatever we are looking at they are receptive and there to guide us. They want to help make skating better.” RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ATHLETE In the face of change, we remember that new ideas always HEALTH redefine excellence. In the face of change, we continue 619 athletes went through the We work to find new ways to helps athletes and coaches by our promise to help athletes Benson Concussion Institute removing barriers to performance. Investing in research allows build resilience to injuries and program. 81 concussions were reported, completing 133 KINARM us to better understand the demand of a sport. Our goal is to 1,435 field tests were administered for to get them back to health and robotic assessments. help sports improve efficiencies which will ultimately build the RBC Training and we are proud to performance after injury. capacity to do more and to optimize performance. have supported the first ever Final in Calgary. The program is designed We rely on cutting edge testing 245 athletes from 18 different sports Some of the innovative projects include: to uncover athletes with Olympic that is backed by scientific went through the R2P Code program to potential and provide them with the high- research. We build tailored • Studying • The examination • Optimizing performance sport resources they need help identify risk factors for injuries and rehabilitation programs to get the effect of of technique heat adaptation to achieve their podium dreams. to assess neuromuscular readiness to train. athletes back to training and cadence, body and player protocols for performance healthy and safe. position and characteristics Tokyo 2020 equipment setup involved in on- female wrestlers $382,786 invested on metabolic ice acceleration in research and innovation. efficiency and and agility in muscle activation Para-Hockey A full year off, a lot of hard work, patterns in and a bit of soul-searching is what Para Sport Hendrickson needed to find himself ready to jump again. After that first landing in Austria, he was back. Hendrickson credits Robinson and Lane and the whole team at CSI Calgary with helping him to regain his form. “They were really good at keeping me focused and on task,” he says. “I felt I owed it to them as much as myself.” constructive Back on the hill, Hendrickson unexpectedly found himself on top RECONSTRUCTIONSo, without hesitation he launched himself into the air and made of the podium, winning a gold medal a perfect landing. – his first – at a World Cup in France If Hendrickson seems young to have already endured two full ACL in January 2020. His victory gave him A broken-down T-bar at an Austrian ski hill is what gave Mark surgeries and recoveries, it’s because he is. At 15, the first ACL confidence that he could keep up with Hendrickson the push he needed to make his first big jump after recovery went well, but the second one, in 2017, was more painful the sport and that his knees were as rehabbing his second ACL reconstruction. At his first training and took longer. good as new. It also gave him gratitude camp back with the team, the 21-year old slopestyle skier, then for the team who helped him get there. 18, was ready to jump, but without a lift up the mountain there That’s when he started working with CSI Calgary’s physiotherapist, was no time for a warmup. Sarah Robinson, and strength and conditioning coach, Mike “The first thing I thought about after Lane. On the long road back, Hendrickson says they helped him that win in France was, ‘I can’t wait A little nudge from a teammate not to hesitate, to just commit to get back on track. “They took a very coordinated approach,” to see those guys’”, says Hendrickson. it, helped Hendrickson take a leap of faith. “I needed that to get he remembers. “It was cool to be looked after with focus and “I definitely would have quit skiing if back into my original mindset,” recalls Hendrickson. importance. I felt like I wanted to come back for them too.” it wasn’t for them.” Mark Hendrickson enjoying a cold tub after competing in the World Cup in Calgary 2020. ONE DAY AT at a time

FOCUSED ON MOVING ATHLETES HIGHER UP When you look up Carla Shibley’s biography on Canada’s Paralympic website you’ll see that her goal is to compete THE PODIUM AND IMPROVING RESULTS. in paracycling at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. At least it was. The global COVID-19 pandemic has shattered that dream, throwing Shibley’s life into terra incognita, rife with TOP 8 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS uncertainty. Countless other Canadian athletes are in the same boat as the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have In the face of change, we still reflect and celebrate our successes. been postponed until 2021, and even that is not a given. When Shibley, a 4-time 2019 Parapan Am Games medalist, GOLD TED-JAN BLOEMEN ANTOINE GÉLINAS-BEAULIEU CAELI McKAY ALANNA GOLDIE learned that the rest of her racing season was cancelled, she Speed Skating, 10000m, WC Speed Skating, Mass Start Diving, 10m Platform Fencing, Team Foil, WC was devastated. The Paralympic hopeful hadn’t yet qualified TED-JAN BLOEMEN Coach: Bart Schouten 16 Laps, WC Synchro, WC Coaches: Paul Apsimon, for the Games and was gearing up for a chance to earn her Speed Skating, 5000m, WC Coach: Gregor Jelonek Coach: Yihua Li Vladimir Nazlymov Coach: Bart Schouten ticket. “I was crushed when I couldn’t race, it was a total BRIANNE JENNER VALÉRIE MALTAIS letdown,” she recalls. “I felt a lot of anxiety. I felt like I lost my IVANIE BLONDIN , Doubles, WC REBECCA JOHNSTON FIFTH Speed Skating, Mass Start chance to prove myself.” Speed Skating, Mass Start Coaches: Scott Pfeifer, BRIGETTE LACQUETTE 16 Laps, WC JORDAN BELCHOS This isn’t the first big setback Shibley, now 29, has faced. 16 Laps, WC Jeff Stoughton BLAYRE TURNBULL Speed Skating, 5000m, WC Coach: Remmelt Eldering Coach: Remmelt Eldering At age 10 she was diagnosed with Stargardt’s disease, which Ice Hockey, Team, WC Coach: Bart Schouten ISABELLE WEIDEMANN BRONZE Coaches: Matt Desrosiers, left her visually impaired. The young athlete had been active STEFAN DANIEL IVANIE BLONDIN Speed Skating, 5000m, WC in many sports and the diagnosis turned her world turned Para Triathlon, PTS5, WC Caroline Ouellette, Coach: Remmelt Eldering IVANIE BLONDIN Speed Skating, 5000m, WC upside down. But she found a way to turn it right side up – Coach: Carolyn Murray Perry Pearn, Troy Ryan VALÉRIE MALTAIS Coach: Remmelt Eldering on a bike. ROSS WILSON SEVENTH GRAEME FISH ISABELLE WEIDEMANN ALAINE CHARTRAND Speed Skating, 10000m, WC Speed Skating, Team Pursuit Para Cycling, C1 - Time Trial, WC “At first I was angry about my vision loss and finding cycling Coach: Richard Wooles IVANIE BLONDIN has been like therapy to me,” says Shibley, who started Coaches: Bart Schouten, 6 Laps, WC Speed Skating, 1500m, WC MICHAEL MARINARO cycling in 2015. “I still see it that way and it helps me Todd McClements Coach: Remmelt Eldering Coach: Remmelt Eldering FOURTH KEEGAN MESSING mentally deal with this situation a lot better.” SILVER CHRISTINE DE BRUIN KIRSTEN MOORE-TOWERS ANTOINE GÉLINAS-BEAULIEU KRISTEN BUJNOWSKI JORDAN BELCHOS NAM NGUYEN Speed Skating, 1500m, WC CSI Calgary’s Director of Mental Performance, Frank van Den TED APPELMAN Bobsleigh, 2-Man TED-JAN BLOEMEN ANDREW POJE Coach: Gregor Jelonek Berg, says that athletes across Canada and around the world COLTON FLASCH Competition, WC TYSON LANGELAAR KAITLYN WEAVER are grappling with the postponement of the 2020 Games Coach: Todd Hays Speed Skating, Team Pursuit Figure Skating, Team, CAELI MCKAY and it’s a different experience for everyone. 8 Laps, WC World Team Trophy Diving, 10m Platform, WC LAURENT DUBREUIL Coach: Todd McClements, Coach: Yihua Li “Many athletes are feeling uncertainty, upset, frustration, BRENDAN NEUFELD Speed Skating, 1000m, WC Bart Schouten boredom, and pondering what will happen,” says van Den Curling, Team, WC Coach: Gregor Jelonek SIXTH Berg. “For some there is anxiety and trepidation about the Coach: John Dunn EIGHTH ALLISON BEVERIDGE IVANIE BLONDIN delay, and some who might not feel ready there is even a GRAEME FISH GEORGIA SIMMERLING JORDAN BELCHOS Speed Skating, 5000m, WC Speed Skating, 3000m, WC JANE CHANNELL sense of relief.” Cycling - Track, Speed Skating, Mass Start Coaches: Bart Schouten, Coach: Remmelt Eldering Skeleton, Individual, WC Team Pursuit, WC 16 Laps, WC Todd McClements Coach: John Farrow Shibley says her initial disappointment has turned into a Coach: Bart Schouten Coach: Matt Shallcrass LAURENT DUBREUIL new opportunity. “I’m working on getting super strong and Speed Skating, 500m, WC training hard,” she says. “I have another year to get stronger Coach: Gregor Jelonek to try and make the Tokyo Paralympics.” Carla Shibley and pilot Meghan Lemiski racing for gold at the 2019 Pan Am Games in Lima. 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