Degrees and Scholarships:
University of Western Ontario
Social Science BA
Canadian Olympic Academy (Annual week-long school that studies issues and philosophy of sport).
International Olympic Academy (three week-long school that studies issues and philosophy of sport. Four Canadians are selected annually to attend.
Scholarship to the Banff Centre of the Arts, Cultural Journalism Programme.
Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme; Writer in Residence, University of Calgary 2000-2001.
Career History 1990 to Present:
Journalism:
Free-lance journalist in electronic and print media: Regular contributor to the Commentary Page, The Globe and Mail, Br-weekly sports columnist, NOW Magazine from 1994-95. Contributor to Ms. Magazine, Canadian Living, Saturday Nights, Calgary Herald, Toronto Life, Toronto Star, Canadian Forum, Chatelaine, The Village Voice, The Georgia and Calgary Straight, The Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish Daily),, Alberta Views, and Olympic Review.
Books:
She Shoots, She Scores: Canadian Perspectives on Women in Sport. (Thompson Educational Publishing, Toronto 1997)
Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canadas National Sport. (McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1998)
Black Tights: Women, Sport and Sexuality (Harper-Collins, Toronto, spring 2002)
Grrreat Grrrls: Great Canadian Athletes Who Just Happen to be Girls (Harper-Collins, Toronto, spring 2003)
Also included in several Canadian anthologies, including Why Are You Telling Me This?, Banff Centre Press, 1997.
Electronic Media:
Writer/Researcher for the following media outlets:
CBC Radio Sports, CBC Radio Infotape, CBC Radio Morningside, CBC TV, the fifth estate, Prime Time News, Adrienne Clarkson Presents, TSN Inside Sports, National Film Board, Baseball Girls, The Game of Her Life
Co-producer, Director, and Writer:
Vision TV documentary series for Skylight entitled: Sports Unlevel Playing Field.
Journalism Awards and Recognitions:
1991: Reprint of Breaking the Pink Ribbon Syndrome from the Globe and Mail Commentary Page (Aug. 18, 1990) in World Press Review Magazine, January 1991
1992: Awarded Robertine Barry Prize for English language print medium by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) for Starving for the Gold, (April 8, 1992, Globe and Mail Focus Section) on women athletes and eating disorders.
1993: IRE Award (Investigative Researchers and Editors Award) from the United States for Crossing the Line, documentary produced with the fifth estate, on sexual abuse of female athletes by male coaches. Documentary broke a ten year ratings record.
1994: Essay used by the Ontario Ministry of Education for province-wide testing for grade-nine students. Originally published as, The Unsinkable Silken Laumann, May 25, 1992, Commentary Page, The Toronto Star.
1995: Arts Journalism Scholarship: The Banff Centre for the Arts.
1999: "Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canadas National Sport" selected by University of Windsor as winner of the Human-Kinetics Faculty Book Award.
1999: Delivered the Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture for the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario
2000-2001: Markin-Flanagan Writers Residency, University of Calgary, as part of the Distinguished Writers Programme.
Major Games Coverage:
1993: North American Indigenous Games, Prince Albert, Sask.
Canada Games, Kamloops, B.C.
Student World Games, Buffalo, NY.
Arctic Winter Games, Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta.
1994: Commonwealth Games, Victoria, B.C.
Womens tour de France, France
1996: Atlanta Olympics, Atlanta, GA.
1997: North American Indigenous Games, Victoria B.C.
1999: Pan-Am Games, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Arctic Circle Race, Sisimuit, Greenland
Birkebeinerrettit Race, Lillehammer, Norway
2000: Sydney Olympics, Sydney, Australia
2002: North American Indigenous Games, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Guest Lecturer:
Queen's University, Kingston
Carleton University, Ottawa
University of Toronto, Toronto
York University, Toronto
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
University of Western Ontario, London
Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener-Waterloo
University of Guelph, Guelph
University of Windsor, Windsor
University of Manitoba, Manitoba
University of Winnipeg, Manitoba
University of Calgary, Calgary
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge
Alberta Institute of Art and Design, Calgary
Mount Royal College, Calgary
Red Deer College, Red Deer
University of Alberta, Edmonton
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
University of California, Berkeley
Tufts University, Boston Mass.
Norwegian University of Sport, Oslo
University of Brighton, Britain
Gloucester-Cheltenham College of Higher Education, Britain
Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta
Athletics:
Ontario Cycling Team: 1976-77, 1982-83
Canadian Cycling Team: 1982-83
Ontario Cycling Champion: 1975, 1976, 1981
Ontario and Canadian Rowing Champion (Women's pair) 1979
Still like to compete in cycling, Nordic skiing, and running events.
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