David Paskevich
Associate Professor, Associate Dean (Academic)
Faculty of Kinesiology
PhD - Kinesiology
University of Waterloo, 2000
MA - Interdisciplinary
New Mexico State University
BPE
University of Calgary
Contact information
Location
Kinesiology
: KNB140B
Courses
Research and teaching
Psychosocial Aspects of Health & Sport
- Sport Psychology
Research interests
Dr. David Paskevich, PhD, is the associate dean (academic) and a sport psychologist who examines mental skills, mental toughness, psychological hardiness, coping effectiveness and group cohesions, and their relationship to performance and performance outcomes in high performance coaches and athletes.
Biography
Paskevich works with professional and high performance athletes in hockey, football, water skiing, freestyle skiing, squash, soccer, lacrosse, golf, rodeo and volleyball. He's worked with athletes in Olympics at Salt Lake 2002; Torino 2006; Beijing 2008; Vancouver 2010; Sochi 2014; and PyeongChang 2018.
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