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SIRC Newsletter on International Women’s Day - 2011
Women and girls are enjoying the benefits of getting active and participating in sport and physical activity. Studies have shown that sport helps to develop self esteem, team play and goal setting and as a result we are now seeing more women in leadership, coaching and sport. Adding to the excitement of women in sport is the recent awarding of Canada to host the 2015 Women’s World Cup for soccer. So check out some of the articles about getting girls active in sport and how the industry can benefit from encouraging women and girls to dream big and stay active. SIRC newsletter...

The Art of Coaching
In The Art of Coaching, Dr. Carolyn Savoy, head coach of the Dalhousie University women's basketball team, draws on her 30 plus years of experience to show you how to create a team environment that will lead to peak performance. Topics include everything from selecting a team to preparing for the playoffs, and from setting team and individual goals to building leaders, team communication, team chemistry, and team confidence. The book features stories and anecdotes from 16 successful coaches with 380-plus years of winning experience. more...

Athletic Strength for Women
Athletic Strength for Women presents effective exercise prescriptions to help you build a strength base and then convert that strength to speed and power in competition. The result is not only better performance but also fewer injuries. For example, exercises and programs for the lower body will improve hamstring and quadriceps strength ratios, providing enhanced takeoff power and landing strength and better protection for the knee. - September 20, 2005 ...More

Strength Training for Young Athletes-2nd Edition
Strength Training for Young Athletes provides all the answers as the authoritative guide to strength development for 7- to 18-year-old athletes. World-renowned strength and conditioning experts William Kraemer and Steven Fleck present the latest facts on the effects of strength training on growth, development, and performance. The authors then make recommendations relative to starting age, choice of exercises, frequency of training, rate of progression, and philosophical aspects of program design. - February 23, 2005 ....More

She Can Coach!
She Can Coach! is both an invaluable guide for current female coaches and a recruiting tool for the next generation of female mentors. Unlike any book before it, this collection speaks directly on the topics that determine success in coaching by using the words and experiences of 20 of the most successful female coaches in 13 different sports. - February 23, 2005 ....More

Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Coud Do Everything
"If Bobbie Rosenfeld hadn't existed, she would have to be invented." J. Lynn Fraser writes in her review of Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything for CM (Canadian Review of Materials). - September 3, 2004 ....More

The Ring Starts Here: An Illustrated History of Ringette - Kenneth Collins
Since the 1960’s Ringette has expanded across Canada with Canadian Championships for the last 25 years and World Championships since 1990. The book published by The Highway Book shop in Cobalt provides numerous photos and a well written history of the evolution of the game. $12.95. Cobalt, ON: Highway Book Shop, 2004 Paper, Coated.
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Great Girls - Profiles of Awesome Canadian Athletes
by Laura Robinson and Maija Robinson
Profiling both superstar Canadian female athletes and up-and-coming athletes, Great Girls celebrates athletes and encourages young readers to do their best in whatever sport they love. ....More

Black Tights: Women, Sport and Sexuality
Laura Robinson, HarperCollins Publishers, Toronto, 2002
"Are women's sports more about sexuality than performance? This book takes a hard look at the world of women's sports in an age when media exploitation of female athletes is growing - ironically, at the same time as interest in women's sports grows. .....More

Court Quest: Playing Women's Squash in the USA and Canada 1992-1994 By Joy Conrad, M.A.
Court Quest is about squash, the sport, and its life altering influence on a woman's life. It has been accepted by Mariah Burton for inclusion in the Frances Willard Society web site featuring books about sport written by women. ....More

Girls on the Move: An Active Living Alphabet
LeDrew & Sovak
Girls on the Move uses dynamic illustrations and descriptive text to encourage girls to lead more healthy, active lifestyles. It features inspirational examples of Canadian female athletes: Sandra Schmirler (curling), Hayley Wickenheiser (ice hockey), and Kendra Ohama (wheelchair basketball) .....More

Imodest & Sensational - Dr. M. Ann Hall
With the Canadian women’s Olympic hockey team and other high-profile female athletes in recent years drawing a healthy share of the sports media limelight, there is a perception that Canadian women are finally getting into sport in a big way. Not true. Canadian women have been playing and competing since the latter part of the nineteenth century, eager to participate and partake of the benefits that sports and physical exertion bring. ....More

The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sport in Canada - M. Ann Hall,
The Girl and the Game traces the history of women's organized sport in Canada from its early, informal roots in the late-nineteenth century through to today's tendency to market women athletes as both athletic and sexual. ....More

A new book by Ann Hall
Honoring the Legacy, by M. Ann Hall and Gertrud Pfister, is the story of the past fifty years, and the many remarkable women who have contributed to the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW). - September 10....More

Who's Who in Canadian by Bob Ferguson
This book is a collection of almost 4,500 biographies of athletes, builders, coaches and officials, be they Canadian-born or otherwise, amateur or professional, past or present, who have had an impact on the Canadian sports scene. Read about Barbara Ann Scott, Nancy Greene, Sandra Schmirler, Marilyn Bell, Marnie McBean and many more.....More

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Women in Sports" by Randi Druzin
Today, women are active at every level of competition in dozens of sports. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Women in Sports traces opposition to women in sports throughout the ages and catalogues women's trials and triumphs, sport by sport.....More

Whatever It Takes
Women on Women's Sport, the first anthology of women’s personal essays on their experiences in competitive sport, will be released in August. Fifty-three female writers break the news about what women seek and find in athletic competition.....More

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