Doug Linklater HBPE, BEd, BScPT, Sport Med
Physiotherapy (English)
Doug attended the University of Western Ontario, where he completed his degrees in Physical Education (1992), Bachelor of Education (1993), and Physiotherapy (2003). He acquired his Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Fowler Kennedy Sports Medicine Clinic (2004).
His passion for physiotherapy stems from his time at the University of Western playing varsity football, alpine ski racing, and lacrosse, where he won the Vanier Cup and several OUAA provincial championships. He has 20 years of experience focusing on sport injuries and orthopedic physiotherapy.
Doug worked as the primary physiotherapist for the men’s Canadian Alpine Ski Team for many years, while attending 2 x Winter Olympics (Turin, Italy 2006 and Sochi, Russia 2014), 2 x World Championships.
Doug has more than 30 years of coaching experience, which gives him a platform to help athletes at both high performance and recreational levels in our community.
He continues to play tennis, mountain bike, kayak and coach ski racing on our local hill, as well as chasing his two young daughters around the hockey rink and down the ski hills.