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Originally from Calgary, Mark moved to British Columbia to pursue graduate studies at the University of British Columbia.  As a youth, Mark was involved in a number of sports growing up and played at a national and international level in squash and golf.  He turned his love of sports into his passion and completed a Master’s degree investigating the relationships between laboratory-based assessments and sport performance in youth athletes.  Mark is now completing his PhD, where his focus is on Long Term Athlete Development from a grassroots level, specifically looking at specialization versus diversification, relative age effects and perceptual-motor skills in youth athletes. 

BSc University of Calgary
MSc University of British Columbia
PhD University of British Columbia

American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS)

Exercise Physiology
Human Performance
Exercise Testing and Prescription
Research Methods

Youth Development in Sport
Human Performance
Skill Acquisition

Rice, M.S., Warburton, D.E.R., Jamnik, V. & Bredin, S.S.D. (2018) Examining the relationship between off-ice testing and on-ice performance in male youth ice hockey players. Presented at the Sport Innovation Summit, Richmond, Canada.

Schwartz J, Bredin SSD, Oh P, Hansen BC, Hives BA, Buckler EJ, Giallonardo T, Kaufman K, Lasinsky A, Rice, MS, Jeklin A, Michie T, Meanwell LE, Warburton DER. (2017). Health-related physical fitness and physical activity patterns in the workplace. Presented at the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity annual meeting, Victoria, Canada.

Rice, M.S., Warburton, D.E.R., & Bredin, S.S.D. (2019). Examining Relative Age Effects in the Canadian Sport School Hockey League. Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport, 51(1), 253. 

Bonsignore, A., Bredin, S. S., Wollmann, H., Morrison, B., Jeklin, A., Buschmann, L., Robertson, J., Burrows, J., McGuinty, D., Rice, M. S., & Warburton, D. E. (2017). The influence of race length on arterial compliance following an ultra-endurance marathon. European journal of sport science, 17(4), 441-446.

Schwartz J, Oh P, Hansen BC, Hansen BC, Hives BA, Buckler EJ, Giallonardo T, Kaufman K, Lasinsky A, Rice MS, Jeklin A, Meanwell LE, Warburton DER. (2017) Lifestyle Management Program in the Workplace. J Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Prevention, 37(6):454-455. 

Buckler, E. J., Rice, M., Lasinsky, A. M., Morrison, B. N., & Bredin, S. S. (2016). An examination of the physical literacy of 3-5 year old children attending childcare centres. Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport, 48(1), 1.

Schwartz J, Bredin SSD, Oh P, Hansen BC, Hives B, Buckler EJ, Giallonardo T, Kaufman K, Lasinsky A, Rice M, Jeklin A, Michie T, Meanwell L, Warburton DER. (2016) Physical activity levels at a sedentary workplace in Canada’s fittest province. J Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Prevention, 36(5):388.