REPRODUCTIVE AGENCY BELONGS IN SPORT

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WHY WE CREATED MOMENTUM

MOMentum began because we saw a gap that was impossible to ignore.

As elite athletes, we experienced a sport system that celebrates medals and resilience, but often falls silent when athletes want to talk about pregnancy, fertility, or raising a family while competing at the highest level. Too many athletes were quietly making career-altering decisions without adequate financial support, clear policies, or cultural understanding, or facing motherhood penalties for refusing to choose between their career and family aspirations.

We started MOMentum to push back against the idea that motherhood and high-performance sport are incompatiblem and provide Team Canada athletes with the resources they deserve.

This work is about more than returning to competition after childbirth. It’s about reproductive agency, economic security, and the right for elite Canadian athletes to plan their lives without being penalized for it. It’s about recognizing that caregiving is not a weakness, and that supporting athletes through these transitions benefits sport as a whole.