Kelly Quipp

Kelly has worked in high performance sport for over 20 years. Her leadership at the Canadian Sport Institute Alberta involves staff and student training and mentorship, quality assurance of data collection, and advancement and development of physiological protocols for athlete testing and monitoring. Her role also requires her to liaise with a multi-disciplinary leadership team on applied sport science research and daily training environment advances.

Kelly is the Sport Physiology Advisor for Taekwondo Canada and Skate Canada (IST Lead) providing direct physiological support for national team athletes and coaches. During her time at Skate Canada, she has established an athlete intake process, a model for continued physiological testing and reporting, an athlete health reporting system and co-authored the physical capacities athlete development matrix (ADM) of Skate Canada’s updated Long Term Development (LTD) plan.

Kelly is the current Sport Scientist Canada (SSC) High Performance Advisory Council (HPAC) Performance Science Physiology Lead working with a multi-disiplinary group to lead knowledge ideation and mobilization in performance sciences that support a culture of excellence in both a daily training and competition environment.

In her spare time, Kelly is usually found at the rink, cheering for her sons, playing hockey herself or coaching power skating. She is also an instructor/examiner for the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (CSEP).