Joyce, Jennifer

Jennifer Joyce is a Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific. Jennifer states that the UBC MHPCTL program allowed her to pursue and advance her career, while providing quality education from both an academic and practical standpoint. “The aspect of being able to do an online Masters program while still continuing to work was essential for me. While the program holds students to the rigorous academic standards of UBC, we are also connected with key networks within the sport sector in Canada and learn current trends and best-practices within high performance sport,” reflects Jennifer.

“The graduate certificate component was an extremely practical and applied program, which helps coaches learn to be better coaches and ease into the academic environment. While the Masters component dug more into academic theory and the research process. Joyce says “as a Strength and Conditioning coach, being able to critically read research and publish research of my own is important to me, and this program gave me the tools to do both. This program helped me to be a better coach, ask better questions, and make better decisions to help my athletes and teams win Olympic medals. ”