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Welcome to SportsXpress, a magazine all about local sports — the players, teams, families, volunteers and fans. We publish real life stories on the full range of community sports and include all ages and skill levels. Every fan, parent, and sports enthusiast can participate by sharing his/her experiences with other fans.
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health&fitness Informative articles on sports health & fitness.
05 | South Windsor Skaters Qualify and Earn Seven spots to advance
08 | We are not your typical massage therapy clinic … Pursuit
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10 | The Next Level Athletics Fitness Blueprint
Profiling community sports in words and photographs.
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04 | Dancers — PURE Academy Lakeshore is open!
Highlighting articles on all school sports and athletes.
06 | Valiants go 10 – 0 at Blessed Sacrament Invitational and bring home 2 golds!
7 | Lancer Men’s track & field team claims silver at national championships
14 | WMHA finale for this season
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Dancers — PURE Academy Lakeshore is open! PURE Academy staff will endeavour to inspire and educate these imaginative minds while honouring a priority commitment to making the dancers feel safe, comfortable and confident in the educational setting of the dance studio. PURE prides itself on its ability to create environments that are nurturing and positive so that learning and growing can develop and the dance process can begin.
PURE Academy is excited to announce they have opened a fourth location in the Lakeshore/ Tecumseh area. You’ll find it at 486 Advance Blvd in the Lakeshore Oasis Plaza on the corner of Patillo Rd. and E.C. Row. PURE dancers in Lakeshore are currently working hard at the new studio and having fun as they prepare for their yearend recital.
What else does PURE have to offer? • Dance instructors of the highest caliber accompanied by trained assistants and demonstrators. These educators act as both role models and teachers. • Small class sizes that promote camaraderie among dancers and instructors, nurturance in the teaching-learning process and the time and space for everyone to smile and enjoy the class.
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Mar/Apr 2017 PUBLISHERS Linda Miklas
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Registration is coming soon! Brand new, one-of-a-kind, pure early-years program PURE is also very excited to announce a totally new and improved creative dance program for early-years dancers. This new undertaking, being implemented for the fall dance season, is designed to stimulate and meet the needs of very young dancers, aged 18 months to 6 years. The program will utilize a vast array of artistic, imaginative and novel ways to achieve this through a variety of props and age-appropriate music.
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South Windsor Skaters Qualify And Earn Seven Spots To Advance The South Windsor Skating Club (SWSC) once again had huge success at the Western Ontario STARSkate Championships held in Aylmer, February 17 to 19. Approximately 400 skaters competed in multiple events. Designated categories advance the top skaters, determined by points, to the Skate Ontario Provincial Championships being held in Port Colborne, March 17 to 19.
(l – r) Kieran Thrasher (1st STAR Men U13), Amanda MacNeil (3rd Bronze Triathlon), Hailey McKay (2nd STAR 10 Women), Elizabeth Elliott (1st STAR 8 Women & 1st Bronze Triathlon), Michael Huang (1st STAR 8 Men & 2nd STAR 9 Men)
Non-qualifying events and results Eline Chen, 7th STAR 5 Women U10 Alexandra Stoilova, 1st STAR 5 Women U13
JAKE ELLIS
Jake Ellis won a silver medal in Pre-Novice Men at the 2017 Western Ontario Sectional Championships, which allowed him to advance to Skate Canada Challenge held in Pierrefonds, QC. Congratulations on representing SWSC at a national level!
Come skate with us now, we offer programs all year round! Please visit www.swskatingclub.ca or call Maria 519-995-6609 for more information on Pre-CanSkate, CanSkate, STARSkate, CanPowerSkate, AdultSkate, and Adult PowerSkate.
Averie Garant, 5th STAR 6 Women & 4th Bronze Interpretive Rachel Chevalier, 2nd STAR 6 Women & 1st Bronze Interpretive Hailey McKay, 10th STAR 9 Women Maia Iannetta, 1st STAR 10 Solo Dance, 1st Open Solo Dance, & 1st Silver Interpretive Karina Slobozanu, 13th Pre-Juvenile Women U11
KRISTEN MOERCHEN
Kristen Moerchen was chosen, for the second year in a row, as a Windsor/Essex Sports Person of the Year (WESPY) finalist and is the winner of the 2017 figure skating award. Kristen is a longtime member of SWSC and has recently begun coaching all levels. Congratulations Kristen!
Cathy Lynd, 3rd Silver Adult Women FreeSkate, 2nd Open Adult Couples, 5th Silver Adult Interpretive Kimberly Anthony, 1st Gold Adult Interpretive Congratulations to all SWSC Skaters!
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Valiants go 10 – 0 at Blessed Sacrament Invitational and bring home 2 golds! Submitted by the Windsor Valiants Basketball Association
The Windsor Valiants Bantam (U13) girls’ team travelled to Hamilton for the Blessed Sacrament basketball tournament to compete in the D2 bracket. Under the coaching of Chuck Robson and Rob Biasutto, the team cruised through the roundrobin games undefeated with wins over YNBA (33 – 15), Newman (46 – 17) and Brantford CYO (40 – 24). By virtue of their 41 – 33 victory over the North Toronto Huskies in their semifinal, the girls advanced to the gold-medal game and completed the sweep with a 43 – 24 win over the Guelph Gryphons. The team received all-star performances from guard T’Sarah Langlois-Cook and Alisha Murra.
Second-year player Emma Pillon had a breakout weekend, as did rookie Kamina Jing who worked herself into the starting rotation. The team’s next big event is the OBA Cup championships the weekend of April 5 – 7 in Niagara Region. The Windsor Valiants Major Bantam girls’ team also competed in the Blessed Sacrament tournament but at the D1 level for their age group (U14). They also went undefeated (4 – 0) in pool play by knocking off the #5, #7, #8 and #10 teams in the province! Their feat lead them to the gold-medal game against Stoney Creek, ranked the #2 team in the province — also undefeated in pool play. In a hard fought battle that was close right to the end, the Windsor Valiants were able to sneak away with a 44 – 40 win to claim gold! It was a great weekend for both our bantam teams!
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Lancer Men’s track & field team claims silver at national championships By Brett Hedges Photos courtesy of Windsor Lancers
The Windsor Lancers track and field team combined to bring home six individual medals from the U SPORTS Indoor Track and Field championships in Edmonton. The meet featured multiple personal bests, team records and nearpodium finishes for the Lancers.
a time of 7:30.39. He also placed sixth in the 600 metre with a time of 1:19.46. Silver medals also went to Sarah Mitton in the women’s shot put for her fifth-round toss of 15.55 metres and to Chris Waugh in the men’s pole vault with a top height of 4.92 metres. Eli Pawliw won the bronze medal in men’s shot put with a toss of 16.74 metres and graduating senior Jill VanDamme won bronze in the women’s weight throw with her personal best throw of 17.58 metres on her final toss as a Lancer. The relay team of Tyler Hopkins, Chris Kramer, Matt McKeegan, and Jaiden Brown also brought home a bronze medal in the men’s 4x200 metre relay with a time of 1:29.15.
The Lancer men’s team placed second overall, edging out Laval with 68 points for the silver medal while the Lancer women’s team placed seventh out of 21 teams with 34 points. Bringing home the lone U SPORTS gold medal for Windsor was Corey Bellemore in the men’s 1,000 metre. The fifth-year senior pulled away in the home stretch of the race to claim gold in his final meet as a Lancer with a time of 2:24.64. Bellmore also won bronze in the men’s 1,500 metre and anchored Windsor’s silver medal 4x800 metre relay team alongside his teammates Taylor McArthur, Joe Kagumba and Nick MacMackin with
the men’s shot put with his toss of 16.37 metres. Nick MacMackin was also fifth in the men’s 600 metre with a personal best time of 1:18.82. Sarah Mitton was fifth in women’s weight throw (16.78 metres) while Eli Pawliw’s school-record toss of 17.34 metres placed him fifth in men’s weight throw. Placing sixth in the nation were Emily Omahen in women’s long jump (5.68 metres) and Stefanie Smith in the women’s 3-kilometre run (9:30.54).
Finishing just off the podium in fourth place was the women’s 4x200 relay team. Courtney Rivait, Stephanie Shaw, Kristy Hodgins and Emily Omahen all ran their hearts out in achieving a time of 1:39.08. The women’s 4x400 metre relay team (Courtney Rivait, Stephanie Shaw, Kristy Hodgins and Alexia Lamothe) came back to the track a few hours later and emerged with another fourth-place finish with a time of 4:48.78. Pole vault specialist Rachel Wolfs finished fourth with a top height of 3.92 metres while Milos Savic also placed fourth in the men’s pole vault with a height of 4.82 metres. Nick MacMackin was fourth in the men’s 1,000 metres (2:26.09) while Brett Boersma placed fourth in
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We are not your typical massage therapy clinic ‌ By Laura Ryan
exercise and being able to maintain their healthy lifestyles. Therefore, my approach to treating my clients needed to change to reflect this progression and the concept of the Pursuit Sport Recovery Centre was born.
Let me introduce myself — my name is Laura Ryan. I am a Registered Massage Therapist and owner of Pursuit Sport Recovery Centre. I have had the privilege of treating clients in Windsor-Essex for over 18 years during which the ideas of massage therapy have changed. In my early years, massage therapy was seen as a luxury, a place to relax and unwind after a long week. Candle light and aromatherapy filled the treatment room and soft music played while the client received a very general relaxation treatment. This still goes on today, which is perfectly fine and required from time to time, but when you are looking for injury relief and injury prevention, a new course of action is required.
My focus as a massage therapist has always been, and always will be, the upmost care of my clients. Over the last several years, my client base has changed to a more active clientele with a focus on
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My research began with the goal of learning the most up-to-date injury recovery techniques. Once trained in deep tissue, trigger point work and sport massage, I started to incorporate these new techniques into my daily practice and started to see very different results. My clients
reported faster healing times and relief from chronic injuries that had plagued them for years. This was very exciting to me! Further research brought me to an unexpected place as I learned more about the state of the art equipment professional athletes use to recover from intense training and competition. My next step was to place my order and see first-hand what all the hype was about. The results were fantastic! I brought together a group of clients to test the equipment and quickly realized there was something truly missing from our surrounding area. Pursuit Sport Recovery Centre brought the missing pieces together. Our massage therapists and manual therapy practitioners focus
on deep tissue, trigger point work, myofascial release and manual therapy to decrease the healing time of injuries and prevent them from reoccurring. We are a unique group of health practitioners having an immeasurable amount of passion for client care. We have perfected our skills to bring the best massage therapy techniques to our clients. In addition to me, Deborah Koumoutsidis, Lindsay Cole and Shelby Curran, our Pursuit Massage Therapy team includes Myofascial Release Therapist, Jolene MacDougall (also certified in acupuncture) and Manual Therapist (Student of Osteopathy) Colby Broeckel. Together, this team has brought highly effective
health&fitness complimentary modalities to Pursuit, which has made us a highly sought after facility to help clients at all injury levels recover from muscular pain. Alongside our exceptionally skilled massage and manual therapists is our Sport Recovery Centre, home of the most up-todate professional injury recovery equipment available. Pursuit Sport
Recovery Centre is set up as a walkin facility with knowledgeable staff to assist you every step of the way. We have diligently researched each piece of equipment to ensure we are working with the absolute best. Our Centre features NormaTec Compression Boots, the same ones used by every major professional athletic team to flush out lactic acid and stagnant fluid. Use of the boots speeds up the healing process by increasing circulation thereby
bringing fresh oxygenated blood into injured or over-worked areas enabling athletes to get back to training and competition quickly. The boots incorporate compression and massage to enhance your body’s natural ability to heal itself.
We see many cases of muscle sprain, strain and even bone fracture. One of the other tools we have at Pursuit is Cold Laser Therapy. This is a unique technology that utilizes laser light to stimulate muscles, ligaments, nerves, bones, joints and soft tissue that have been injured or damaged to re-grow by regenerating injured cells and tissue. The laser penetrates deep into the tissue and stimulates the cells to decrease the firing of pain fibers and reinitiate healing. Sweating is a great way to burn calories and rid your body of unwanted toxins, but how do you sweat when you’re injured or unable to exercise? We also have an Infrared Sauna to heat the body directly resulting in the healing of muscle and joint pain, increasing circulation, improving sleep and the burning of calories. Compared to other saunas, this technique eliminates seven times more toxins including heavy metals, lead, mercury and environmental chemicals. You can rest and relax, stretch, do yoga or even ride the bike, all while absorbing the endless benefits of infrared heat.
Pursuit Sport Recovery Centre houses many more pieces of muscular recovery equipment proven to enhance the body’s natural healing process and help prevent further injury from occurring. We are pleased to have already helped numerous amazing athletes in the Windsor-Essex area and would love the opportunity to help you. Call Pursuit Sport Recovery Centre to schedule a treatment with one of our amazing therapists, or book an assessment in our state of the art Sport Recovery Centre. Let Pursuit help you on your way to healing and pursuing your goals of wellness and healthy active living.
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The Next Level Athletics Fitness Blueprint Submitted by Shane Topalovic, owner of Next Level Athletics
It’s March 1st; you’ve been training for two months. Every day you work as hard as possible but you’re not seeing the results you expected to see. Now you’re getting frustrated and feel like you’re climbing a mountain with a peak higher than the clouds. If you feel like that describes you, don’t be discouraged. Most people hit the barrier, not because they aren’t determined to complete the mission of getting fit, but because they have not been taught or trained how to plan the attack on their muscles. They are overwhelmed by the abundance
of information that is complex, confusing and contradictory, to say the least. So, with all that information out there, I’m going to show you how I set up all my sessions with my clients and teams and outline the basic structure I use to build a session. I hope that, with this information, you will be able to plug in the desired exercises that are specific to you and your goals. At Next Level Athletics, we like to keep all sessions between 45 and 65 minutes. We like to devote about five to 10 minutes to a warm
up, between 20 to 30 minutes for the resistance portion, between 10 to 20 minutes for the conditioning portion and then some time for a light cool down. Stretching and foam rolling are two great options here. However, all this depends on your time and goals. The minutes in each area may change but the structure should stay the same. You need to find a routine that works for you; maybe it’s a five-minute warm up, 50 minutes for resistance and five for cardio. If you are spending more than an hour in the gym, you are probably doing more talking than working out!
Workout structure: Warm up During the warm up, I like to go through four phases. 1. Raise: Raise the body temperature and make the muscles more pliable by using light movements such as stationary bike, treadmill, or jumping jacks. Be creative but keep the intensity low. 2. Activate: Use specific exercises to warm up the key muscles you will be using that day. 3. Mobilize: Use mobility exercises for the specific joints you will be using for the training session. 4. Potentiate: This portion is the bridge to the first exercise. Now you will begin using a lighter weight to get the body prepared for the heavier working sets you will be doing.
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Shane Topalovic is the Owner of Next Level Athletics and the head strength and conditioning coach of the Windsor Express. Next Level Athletics, in partnership with Andrea Docherty Nutrition, will begin a
12-week small group total body wellness program on April 3rd, 2017. Spaces are limited. Call 519-984-6607 or email shane@nxlathletics.com for more information.
health&fitness Resistance phase I believe that resistance should come before cardio for a variety of reasons:
order but I find great results with clients and teams doing resistance first. Cardio tends to tire you out, so if done first, leaves you with less energy to perform (and complete) the resistance exercises.
• You get the excess post-exercise oxygen consumption effect that means the body could be burning calories for up to 48 hours after exercise with strength training. • Your body burns off muscle glycogen effectively with anaerobic exercises. • You will have a favourable blood PH level to begin the cardio segment. • You will have a good hormonal balance between testosterone and cortisol. • It is possible you may be too fatigued to complete resistance portion. Technically, you could do cardio or resistance in either
Conditioning Phase I tend to use short bouts of high-intensity cardio activities to help preserve lean muscle and add to the excess post-exercise oxygen consumption effect. If you have just completed a very intensive strengthtraining session, you might be very fatigued but give your best effort and know that some days will be better than others. If you just did heavy squats, you may not have the energy to do bike sprints however, you might have enough gas left in the tank to try 20-second bouts with the battle ropes or 20 seconds of heavy bag punches.
Cool down phase During this phase, try to calm your body down with simple stretches, foam rolling, or deep-breathing techniques. Use whatever method you like, or all three! You can do this longer than the allotted five to 10 minutes if you wish. I sometimes stay up to 20 minutes after a tough workout because the stretching makes me relax. Having a good framework is the basis for you to have a great workout session. You can then design organized, efficient, and fun workouts to help you reach your fitness summit. Cheers to a great and fit 2017!
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WMHA finale for this season Submitted by the Windsor Minor Hockey Association
It’s hard to believe another hockey season has come to an end. Without all the volunteers, none of this would be possible. Board members, coaching
staffs, timekeepers, convenors, referees, and yes — the parents, all play an important role. Give yourselves a well-deserved pat on the back.
We extend a special thankyou to all those who sponsored the Windsor Minor Hockey Association (WMHA), our teams and events throughout the 20162017 season.
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WMHA’s Day of Champions
Embrace and absorb this day, its laughter and smiles, the faces of competition, the friendships made. Today we all win!
Congratulations to the participants of this year’s Day of Champions: Novice Minor Valente Travel 8 – National Sports 6 Novice Major Tier 1 Winmar 4 – WFCU 3 Novice Major Tier 2 Windsor Essex Crimestoppers 2 – Accurate Creations 0 Atom Jiffy Lube 7 – Collins Barrow 6 Peewee Tier 1 Windsor Firefighter Benefit Fund 4 – Carstar Express 3 Peewee Tier 2 Kettle Corn Guys 4 – Wincon Construction 3 Bantam Wincon Construction 8 – National Sports 2 Midget Tier 1 SFERA Architects 5 – Motor City Chrysler 4 Midget Tier 2 Bridgeview Custom Brokers 5 – Bob Reaume Sports 3
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