CSS Victoria is up and running with twenty-seven student-athletes from the Greater Victoria area Canadian Sport School Victoria (CSS Victoria) is pleased to announce that it will be returning for the 2020-21 school year with 27 student-athletes attending. The Canadian Sport School, which is a program of Canadian Sport Institute Pacific, will be entering its…
PENTICTON, BC – Potential athletes, parents, teachers and coaches are welcome to attend an Information Session for a new Canadian Sport School – Penticton (CSS – Penticton), opening in Penticton, BC in School District 67, slated for opening in September 2020. Following in the footsteps of the successful Kelowna-based “Canadian Sport School – Kelowna” model,…
Post Courtesy Cycling Canada as “Team Canada Ready to Tackle Last Track World Cup of the Season” NOTE: Two Canadian Sport School Graduates, Erin Attwell & Riley Pickrell, have made the senior national team. It is Riley’s first time hitting this amazing milestone. Milton, Ontario (January 14, 2020) – Team Canada will close out the…
Canada’s rising star student-athletes to meet media to discuss their seasons and future plans With its eighth year of operation nearly completed, Canadian Sport School Victoria (CSS Victoria) is hosting its annual Media Day on Thursday, May 23rd between 11:30am and 12:30pm. CSS Victoria Media Day is an opportunity for the 29 students from the…
Mel Pemble cried when she first stood on skis as a nine-year old immigrant from the United Kingdom. In a few days, the 17-year-old Saanich resident will be representing Canada as a skier in the 2018 Winter Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, running March 9-18. Pemble, who left for Pyeongchang Tuesday, will be…
That is the opportunity offered by the Canadian Sports School in Victoria, where elite young athletes spend the afternoons in both academic and physical training, following mornings at their respective high schools. The five-year-old program, with 30 students from Grade 10-12, is under the auspices of School District 62 and operated by the Canadian Sport…
The Canadian Sport School (CSS) graduates seven high school student-athletes this year, and all of them are planning an exciting future in their respective sports. The school splits time evenly between academics and athletics. It’s a system that graduating student-athlete Sophie de Goede called ‘life changing’. De Goede will be attending Queens University next fall…
Jeane Lassen competes in the women’s 75kg weightlifting final at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. She originally finished eighth, but has since been bumped up to fifth place. (Paul Chiasson/CP) Yukon’s Jeane Lassen says she was “pretty proud” to finish in eighth place in the women’s 75-kilogram weightlifting at the Beijing Games in 2008. Since then, her…
Victoria, BC – For the first time in program history, Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (CSI Pacific), in partnership with Cycling Canada, announced a Cycling NextGen roster made entirely of cross-country mountain bike athletes. These riders are set to train in Victoria this season, starting this coming weekend. Victoria’s Cycling NextGen program will bring together 10 of…
Victoria, BC – Seeing a student start the day in the Canadian Sport School classroom and end it in a Rugby Canada training session has become a regular occurrence in recent years at the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific’s Victoria campus. Operating out of the same facility at Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence, the connection between CSI…