Sasha Gollish, a former Canadian cross-country running champion, remembers her university’s welcome dinner — and later the forced shot-drinking that team members considered their real rite of passage.

They called it bonding, but “it was rookie hazing night and you had to do it to find a sense of belonging,” says Gollish, who now works in sports research and coach mentoring, recalling her first season at the University of Toronto in 2000.

“We’d like to think sport culture has changed. It hasn’t.”

A report released Tuesday, based on the experiences and views of athletes and parents in the Ontario sports system, details the extent of hazing today, most often in school sports among athletes ages 13 to 24.

The 2025 Ontario coaching report finds that athletes and parents see all types of h

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