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Cold weather doesn’t have to mean an end to outside exercise. Kinesiology professor Kevin Milne and PhD student Kurt Downes offer advice on how to run safely outdoors in winter in a recent article published in The Conversation. Photo by Julia Larson (Pexels).

Jump-start your new year with cold-weather running, say researchers

Jan 16th, 2024

Kinesiology professor Kevin Milne and PhD student Kurt Downes offer advice on how to run safely outdoors in winter in a recent article published in The Conversation.

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Spotlight on Graduate Research

Kurt Downes is sharing what he learned as a coach at the Tokyo Olympics to benefit his students and athletes back home.

Kurt Downes (right) poses with Lancer Olympians Noelle Montcalm, Melissa Bishop-Nriagu, and Sarah Mitton in Tokyo.

Educator and coach using Olympic experience to do good

Aug 31st, 2021

Kurt Downes (BA 2003, B.Ed 2005) always wanted to go to Japan, but the best part of his experience as an Olympic coach is sharing what he learned to benefit his students and athletes back home.

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Athletics Canada named five Lancer track and field alumni to represent the country at the Tokyo Olympics.

Canada to send five Lancer grads to Tokyo Olympics

Jul 6th, 2021

Athletics Canada named five Lancer track and field alumni to represent the country at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Brett Lumley, head coach of Lancer track and field, will fill the same role for Canada at the 2016 IAAF World Junior Championships.

Lancer track coaches named to Team Canada staff

Dec 16th, 2015

Brett Lumley, head coach of Lancer track and field, will fill the same role for Canada at the 2016 IAAF World Junior Championships.

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