Mendoza, Angelo

Mendoza, Angelo

Graduating year: 2019
Degree: MHPCTL
Angelo is a High School teacher with over 21 years of experience. He has coached karate at both the provincial and national level. Angelo has competed at local and provincial level and earned his black belt 5th Degree. He has been exposed to many teaching and coaching styles that gave him the foundation to developed his own coaching style that proved to be very successful for his future students and athletes.

Kouvousis, Christina

Kouvousis, Christina

Graduating year: 2017
Degree: BKin
Christina Kouvousis is a Sport Development Coordinator at Water Polo West and coaches for the Provincial Training Centre and Team BC programs. She is a certified Competitive Coach and previously trained as a Learning Facilitator and Coach Evaluator to teach coaching courses.

2022 KIN Graduating Student Spotlight: Chanelle McPhee

2022 KIN Graduating Student Spotlight: Chanelle McPhee

Degree: 4th Year, Bachelors of Kinesiology in Interdisciplinary Studies
Graduation: May 2022

2022 KIN Graduating Student Spotlight: Jefferson Erome

2022 KIN Graduating Student Spotlight: Jefferson Erome

Degree: 4th Year, Bachelors of Kinesiology in Kinesiology Health Sciences
Graduation: May 2022

New Primary Care Teaching Clinic Is Set To Open In 2024!

New Primary Care Teaching Clinic Is Set To Open In 2024!

A new UBC Team-based Primary Care Teaching Clinic is moving forward and will be housed in the new Gateway Health Building, which was recently approved as part of the UBC Budget 2022/23. The clinic proposal has been developed by a number of individuals from health professional programs across UBC, including medicine, family practice, kinesiology, midwifery, […]

Practice scheduling in pairs

Principle Investigator: Dr. Nicola Hodges Details: The purpose of this study is to investigate the cognitive and behavioural processes involved in motor learning. Specifically, we are interested in how we learn motor skills in the presence (training in pairs) and absence of others (training alone). We will study how people practice and learn a golf […]

KIN Students Integrate Business and Kinesiology for Future Careers

KIN Students Integrate Business and Kinesiology for Future Careers

Business creation in the health and wellness space, and within the broad scope of Kinesiology, is a growing area of focus for KIN students. Today’s job market is extremely competitive. Consequently, it is important to foster innovation, resilience, and versatility. UBC Kinesiology students are so aware of these important attributes that last year, KIN students […]

Lynda Li

Lynda Li

Lynda Li is a 4th-year Kinesiology student in the interdisciplinary stream. We are very happy to announce that on March 20, 2022, Lynda won 2nd place at the UBC Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) for her virtual presentation titled From Victims to Visionaries: Representations of Older Asian Adults in Canadian News Media during COVID-19. Lynda […]

Kanagasingam, Deana

Kanagasingam, Deana

Deana Kanagasingam is a PhD candidate in Kinesiology (Socio-Cultural Studies) at the School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia. Her research explores how principles of social justice, weight-inclusiveness, and person-centredness are integrated into healthcare practice. She holds a Master of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies, with a specialization in Women’s Health, from the University […]

Michael Liu

Michael Liu

Michael Liu is a 3rd-year Kinesiology student in the neuromechanical and physiological sciences stream. He participated in the Canadian Olympic Committee mission team at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, and is an ambassador for the Richmond Olympic Experience, the first North American museum of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Museums Network. Michael has […]