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Basketball
SPORTS, February 2010, by Karen Demers BASKETBALL History Canadian inventor Dr. James Naismith created basketball in 1891 after being asked to invent a new indoor sports activity that can be played during the winter months. The original game was played with only 13 rules with a peach basket hung 10 feet in the air. Not less then a year later women’s basketball entered the scene with some surprising differences. ...
Read more »Bobsledding - The Extreme Toboggan
HIGH FIVES, December 2009, by Karen Demers Bobsledding The Extreme Toboggan As a little girl while I watched the Olympics, I was always fascinated with the bobsleigh event. People wore these tiny suits and fought to get their sled down the track the fastest. It was exciting and dangerous – are they going to slip, I wondered? Will the sled make it down the track without crashing? Even 'just' tobogganing down the icy ...
Read more »Cheerleading
HIGH FIVES, November 2009, by Karen Demers C H E E R L E A D I N G ! Come on ladies let’s yell loud and proud! THE PINK AND WHITE WILL PROVE WE ARE THE BEST, WE'RE READY AND DETERMINED TO RISE ABOVE THE REST. SO GIRLS LET'S HEAR IT SHOW US YOUR SPIRIT, YELL G-C-D-A!!!!!!!! History Cheerleading started as “pep clubs” at ...
Read more »Walking - Start Your Own Walking Club
HIGH FIVES, July 2009, by Karen Demers WALKING For exercise and catching up with your BFFs Hey Girls! I know we all love chatting with our BFFs online and of course it’s a great way to stay in touch over the summer months. However, I am here to offer an alternative way to chat with your friends, stay on top of the latest gossip, get some exercise and get outside! Not too long ago when I was a teen, ...
Read more »Hockey
HIGH FIVES, December 2008, by Karen Demers HOCKEY For Canadians, hockey is a traditional sport identified by many as a symbol of our country. Generally a male sport, I wanted to know how it resonates with girls. I decided to take a stroll down the street to talk to some women on the University Of Ontario Institute Of Technology’s (UOIT) Women’s Varsity Hockey team and find out how hockey has impacted their ...
Read more »Karate
HIGH FIVES, November 2008, by Jenifer Merifield KARATE For this issue, I met up with ‘Sensei’ Carl Stedmond of the Harmony Center in Pickering, Ontario, and one of his brown belt students: 12 year old Mariah . Brief History: Martial arts is a form of self defense without weapons. ‘Karate’, meaning ‘empty hand’, and ‘do’, meaning ‘the way’ (karate-do) ...
Read more »Sports: Curling
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