Safe Sport in Canada: Addressing athlete maltreatment with Anika Taylor, Erin Willson and Neville Wright

In this episode, we speak with Anika Taylor, Erin Willson, and Neville Wright about their work on addressing athlete maltreatment through Safe Sport research and advocacy. Anika is a Master's Student studying safeguarding sport at the University of Toronto Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education. Erin Willson is a PhD student studying Safe Sport at the University of Toronto Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education; president of AthletesCAN; and Olympic athlete in artistic swimming. Neville Wright is an Olympic athlete (former sprinter, turned bobsleder); performance therapist; high performance coach; public speaker; and AthletesCAN board member and chair of the Diversity and Equity Advisory Committee.

Link to Erin's article, Prevalence of Maltreatment Among Canadian National Team Athletes: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08862605211045096

Link to article, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Struggle for Child Protection in Canadian Sport: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341125605_One_Step_Forward_Two_Steps_Back_The_Struggle_for_Child_Protection_in_Canadian_Sport

Featured in this episode: Anika Taylor, Erin Willson, Neville Wright, Natan Levi, Jess Nachman. Music by: Kevin McLeod and Broke for Free via the 'Free Music Archive'. Album Artwork by: Shawn Forde.