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Argyle Secondary Eyes SafeStart

“You, and you alone, are in charge of your personal safety and performance.” With these words,  Suz Graham introduced SafeStart’s 24/7 personal safety skills to over 200 high school students at Argyle Secondary on April 7 in North Vancouver. As a professional skier, action sports athlete and member of SafeStart’s Education and Athletics team, Suz…

Optimists Scout SafeStart for Youth

On March 18-19 SafeStart was introduced to Scouts Canada as part of the The Optimist Club of Edmonton’s vision to “bring out the best in kids.” Scouts Canada has a strong culture of safety throughout their organization and SafeStart’s 24/7 safety message is a natural fit for the organization. Beaver Scouts (ages 5 to 7)…

Walking the Line Between Risk and Reward

Mike Shaw, SafeStart Director of Education and Athletics, recently delivered a rather personal keynote presentation to the North Eastern Alberta Teachers Convention. Mike has a unique story about surviving significant spinal trauma and paralysis from the neck down after a freestyle skiing accident in 2013. The convention encourages teachers to introduce new ideas into the…

WinSport and SafeStart Collaborate to Reduce Injuries

In an effort to become the world’s leading winter sport institute, WinSport has partnered with SafeStart to reduce the number of injuries at their sports academy. A pilot program has shown that SafeStart’s training program effectively protects athletes from unintentional injury. Mike Shaw, Director of Athletics for SafeStart, is a former WinSport Academy Coach. In…

The Problem with Banning After-School Sports

Summer is coming to an end and the school year is beginning again, and that means it’s time for after-school sports practice. But depending on which school children attend there might not be any teams for them to join. Certain schools have banned footballs, soccer balls, baseballs, basketballs, lacrosse balls, and even dodgeball for fear…

SafeStart Sponsorship will Sweep Competition

August marks the start of curling season and SafeStart is proud to once again be sponsoring Team Walker as well as Team McGaugh, a newly formed curling team, on the Ontario Curling Tour for 2015. Both teams host extraordinary talent with experience and success at the national and provincial levels. Team members have attended SafeStart…

SafeStart a Slam Dunk for Carleton Ravens

SafeStart can help athletes reduce the number of errors they make during play and avoid injuries while training and competing. Just ask the Carleton University Ravens men’s basketball team, which won their fifth consecutive national CIS championship in March 2015. Raven’s guard Anthony Pate said, “I would definitely recommend (SafeStart) to any athlete going forward…it’s…

SafeStart Success in Schools

For the past two years, Fort McMurray Catholic high schools have been implementing the SafeStart program in both the classrooms and within their athletic programs. Tim Kilburn has been one of the driving forces behind getting SafeStart into schools in the Fort McMurray Catholic School District. “We have been gradually certifying our teachers to deliver…